Secondly, we had a great week! Lots of fun moments finding, coupled with
some great programs! And on top of it all, Szeged is experiencing some
seriously beautiful Spring weather! So good.
I
guess I'll just start out with our finding stories. I feel like this is
where the fun experiences come from in missionary work. To spice things
up a bit, I'm going to do it in list form! Woo!
Monday: Ok, so on this day nothing really exciting happened. I think it rained?
Tuesday: This
is the funny day! First of all, we went streeting in the morning. We
usually hangout around the center of the city, where all the people are
bustling around and being cool. Elder Shoop stopped a girl around our
age and did three funny things: 1) He accidentally formalized her. For
those of you who don't know what this means, in the Hungarian language
you have two forms of communication: one for an older person whom you've
never met before, and another for people your own age. In America, the
closest thing I can think of is saying "Good Morning!"and "What's up".
It's really just totally different. Anyway, so he did that. It was
pretty funny, and the girl was all confused. Immediately following that,
2) He said that we were Catholics. That made things even better. And to
top it all off 3) he realized his mistake and just started
apologizing...in English, though. NOW the girl was totally lost. It was
hilarious, and I was on the ground laughing!
Also on this day, I chatted with a kid around our
age. He was a university student (shocker) and was studying physics. As a
response to my question "If you could ask God any question, what would
it be?" he said that he was an atheist. Ok, cool. Next question, "How do
you find happiness in life?" Response was that he didn't know. Then, he
started to get really frustrated with himself, he said that he hated
his life. He hated living in Hungary (<==== we get this statement a
lot, actually), his family didn't like him, he hated school. Rough
response to come back from, but I asked him if he wanted to be happy. He
said of course, who doesn't want to be happy. Then I said "Ok, what
about real happiness?". He looked at me for a second, and he said he'd give this "God thing" a chance. Lol. Cool kid.
Rest of week: I realized half-way through
this that I forgot which days things happened on. Wow...that sentence
made no sense. Anyway, Elder Vanderpool and I went on splits on
Saturday, and I was able to go to the city of Hódmezővásárhely. Directly
translated, the city's name is "Beaver Field Shopping Place". Yeah, I
have no idea. It's the Szeged elder's responsiblity to go to this city,
because at one point it was open to missionary work and had a branch.
Then, it was shut down. I don't know why. So there is like twenty
members out there that go to Szeged every week for church, and the
elders go on Saturday to check up on them. Fun time! I saw a wild
turkey! Woo!
Also, last thing: it was like 8:30 at night and we
were streeting right before going home. We didn't really have a lot of
success, and so we decided to make one last round through the city
center before walking home. As we were crossing the street, we noticed a
younger lady pushing one of those double-child stroller things. It was
really bulky and awkward, and she wasn't that big. One of the two twins
inside was shrieking her head off, and the lady was looking quite
flustered. We walked past her, and then the weirdest thing happened. It
was like a mental slap in the face of "Hey, you need to go help that
lady. Right now." Well, I've learned that you don't ignore these types
of things after a year of being out here, so we went back. Of course she
was pretty hesitant about it all, with us being some weird Americans
coming up to her in the night. But she let me push the stroller while
she held her daughter. Elder Shoop chatted with her, while I used my
best baby pleasing faces and noises to calm the other twin down in the
carriage. It was probably a really funny sight to look at. When we got
her to the tram, she was grateful for our help, but before we could say
anything else, she just got on and left. It didn't really phase us,
though, we were beaming from ear to ear :)
Well, I still can't believe how long I've been out. I
feel like we get cooler and cooler things every week, and I'm learning
how to be patient with myself. It's been a good week, and I'm excited
for this upcoming week!
I love you all! :) Smile!
Sok Szeretettel,
Elder Giacalone
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