Sunday, January 8, 2017

Week 20: 2017...The Year I Was Just a Missionary

Boldog új évet!

I hope you all had a safe and fantastic New Year's! Hungarians love their New Years! There were so many fireworks that it reminded me of the Fourth of July! Since I live in the jungle of 10 stories it was tough for me to see all of them but I sure did hear all of them! 

On Monday we kind of did a tour of old Buda for P-Day! Super cool! We went to a Labyrinth underneath Buda and apparently Dracula is super famous down there. There were stories and myths about him and all. Then we went to the Houdini museum which was super cool as well! We talked to a magician and he did some cool tricks for us! 

This week was a finding week and we found 3 potential investigators and 1 new investigator! Two of the potential investigators we found on New Year's Eve! One we found by streeting and the other tracting. The potential we found by streeting was a néni who has children that have been asking which church is true! Me and my comp bore testimony of this restored gospel and Joseph Smith! We gave her a Book of Mormon and we exchanged numbers! We will be calling her today! 

Our bapt date, Lili, may need to postpone her baptism until the end of this transfer but we are meeting with her twice this week so it should be good! Ilona, our other investigator was sick so we couldn't meet with her but we did meet with our new investigator Misi from English Class! He brought his dad with him and his dad fought in the 1956 revolution against the Soviets!!! He showed us his 1956 card and told us how he was in jail with Nagy Imre because of the revolution! He also spoke English super well! What a cool guy!! Times like these cause me to reflect how blessed I am to be here and get to know these people!

I am so blessed as a missionary! Thank you for all your prayers! Use this time as the new year begins to find ways to grow closer to Christ and His atonement. I know his atonement not only cleanses but strengthens us! I wish you all a great week and a Happy New Year!!!

Sok Szeretettel,
Elder Ballard

Labyrinth pictures.








Elder Dixon was teaching the magician how to do things. 





Squad strolling to Buda Castle.

Buda Castle


We found some Sparkler's in the apartment so we lit them off.




Happy New Year!




A family gave us this super large pomegranate so we decided to eat it on New Year's. I still haven't finished it!

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