This week there wasn’t many interesting things happening to us but we had many programs, practically skipping from one to another, day after day. Elder Szuch is leaving home on Wednesday, so we went with him to say goodbye to many people, and in the process ate a lot of food. One sister in the church, Kati, taught us how to make stew. We bought the ingredients in the market, cooked together, and ate a nice pork stew.
Our investigators develop nicely. The zone leaders came on Saturday to interview Laci and everything is ready for his baptism on the 21st. It will be a big day. We also taught about the general conference, repentance, and the atonement of Christ for which we used an orange in water. On Sunday many came to church: 33 people in total, and many shared their testimonies. It's nice to see the meeting house slowly filling up. But it will be weird for me to be in church in Toronto with 133 people!
We have now a nice spring weather here. Yesterday the temperature was 22°C, today it is 25°C and I'm wearing short sleeves. The sun is shining and we had ice cream here in Békéscsaba and in Gyula too. I hope that the cold weather in Toronto will be gone by the time I return.
On Thursday, at a district meeting, we watched the Sunday afternoon session of conference. The talks were very good (maybe because I was listening to them in English: P) and the big topic was service and unity. I really liked Bishop Caussé’s talk: "It Is All about the People." He shared the story when he was a stake president and set great goals like creating new wards, building new meeting houses, and even a temple, etc., but they did not materialize. But on his last day as stake president, he observed the people in his congregation and saw the changes they had made, and thought of the experiences he shared with them. Now that my branch presidency is about to end, I see that I have not achieved great objectives. We did not get our own building, the number of people attending sacrament on Sunday did not double, and masses did not join the church. But I see a lot of changes and progress in the church members in Békéscsaba, and I am happy to help them on their way.
Well, we'll meet in a month!
Elder Gonzalez
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| At Gyula on pday |
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| The remodelled house we did service in |
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| Me and Viktor |
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| Me wearing néni glasses |
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| Elder Rohner wearing néni glasses |
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