Hello everyone!
I hope
everyone had a wonderful Christmas- I sure did! We had a great
Christmas dinner at the Colledge's consisting of ham, mashed potatos,
and lots of cake! Yummy! Super grateful for a super cool senior couple,
gotta love the Colledges!
Skype was a super fun time! Super weird seeing
everybody after nine months (since when did Vincent's voice change?!)
but I loved it! Following Christmas, a couple days later Elder Gould and
I went out to M's house for lunch. She said that she made some fish for
us. It was really good, and I asked her, jokingly, if she liked to
fish. "Of course", she replied, "I was a professional sports fisherwoman."
This, my friends, is why I love hanging out with this lady. She never
ceases to amaze me. After our lunch, we went into her living room. Turns
out it was her mother's birthday, who had recently just passed away.
She asked us all if we could say a prayer "within ourselves" for her
mother. She was sad, but there was a difference: she was hopeful. She
knew that her mother still lived, just not with a body. A month or two
ago, she would've been a wreck on this day, and now she just sat in her
big Lazy boy chair and smiled. She knows it will be ok.
Best feeling ever. (I know I say that a lot, but this one really was the best).
Now, let's talk about Sunday. Oh. My. Gosh. SUNDAY.
First
off, we have three investigators at church that day, including both our
bapdates, that's awesome! After a short program with M, we make our way
to the chapel, where there is a LOT of commotion. Turns out that 41 people
showed up to church. You guys, that's INSANE. Not normal AT ALL for
Kapos. That's huge! The room was PACKED. You think this is the end?
Nope. So, there is this couple in the branch that are originally from
Germany, and the husband only speaks German, so he can't really do a
whole lot within the branch without his wife's help, and she speaks only
German and English, so the guy needs his wife, and then a missionary to
translate if he wants to speak to a Hungarian. You following me? Super
crazy. Anyway, he wanted to bless the sacrament. So, he totally did it.
In a thick German accent, he read the blessing in Hungarian. Incredible
spirit. It was a super special moment for that family, who hadn't really
been able to contribute much because of the language barrier. Awesome.
Next thing, there was an actual baby blessing in
the Kaposvár branch! A return missionary that now lives in the city did
the blessing, and it was beautiful! Afterward, he came and sat by me
and he just said over and over to his brand new baby boy: "We did it,
buddy. We did it!" Super great Spirit! And THEN, there was a total of
like 15 kids there because some of the families came back, and it was
actually a LOUD Sacrament meeting! Weird to say, but I've been used to
dead quiet meetings with just adults for the past little bit, and this
past meeting actually reminded me of Utah! Good times.
So yeah, that was MY Sunday. Absolutely crazy! I loved it.
Well,
that's about it from my side of the woods. It's been like super warm
lately, and all the Hungarian's are saying it's super weird. I'm ok with
it. Transfers are less than two weeks. Ew...I wanna stay here, but
we'll see what happens.
I
hope you have a great new year! Make awesome goals, and STICK with
them! My goal is to read all the Standard Works by December 31st, 2014. I
think I can do it! Motivating emails and letters will hope though ;)
I love you all SO much! Have a great week! :D
Sok Szeretettel és Boldog Új Évet Kívánok nektek!
Elder Giacalone
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