A trip to the ER and a crab walking bácsi

HI HI HI HI HI!!!!

I am so excited for it to be EMAIL day again! They keep coming quicker and quicker and I feel like I just have more and more to say in every single one! So thank you to anyone who still actually reads these crazy long stream of consciousness emails I spit out week after week 🙂 you guys rock.

So this week we and seven lessons cancel AGAIN so it was a long week of finding again without a ton of success… but we still made it really really fun 🙂 of course!

Tuesday: We had interviews! I wasn’t as stressed out as usual, and my interview went well! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. We also went to Gézas for lunch and he is the best cook ever and you never leave his house feeling hungry… mmm… the best.

Wednesday: We had a let in while tracting and he was the most racist man I have ever met. It was absolutely ridiculous!! So that was entertaining and then we had a lesson with someone from our area book… which was interesting… he was a creepy guy. We sat down and started some small get to know you talk before we started with a prayer and he asked me if I was the one he had been talking with on the phone. I said yes, and he was like oh, I recognized your pleasing voice. And then I was horrified to speak for the rest of the lesson hahaha!

Thursday: District meeting and angol óra, the usual.

Friday: A member, Viki, moved to Poland this weekend so we spent the morning at her house helping her finish up her packing and she fed us some yummy snacks. And then we got to go on splits again with my mom!! I love going with my trainer, Sister Withers. We had a lot of fun catching up and reminiscing on when I was a baby missionary when we served together almost a year ago! We had a Relief Society baking activity which was a ton of fun too! We prepared gingerbread cookies for the Christmas party.

Saturday: The most adventurous day. Also probably the weirdest day of my life. We ended splits a little early because I actually had to go to the emergency room… which was unpleasant to say the least. Hospitals are not my most favorite place…and when its a Hungarian hospital its even better 🙂 I’m okay though, no one worry about me please! I had a lot of tests done and blood taken and I didn’t even freak out. Pre-mission Kate would have been crying her eyes out but when I walked out my companion was like worried because I had the hugest smile on my face haha! I have really changed and gotten a lot more brave I think! After like 5 hours in the ER we were finally able to leave… and they left the stinking IV valve thing in my arm!! So we got home and had to pull it out ourselves. Miracle!! I did it with minimal anxiety hahaha I really can do hard things I think. When we were leaving the hospital there was a drunk homeless man crab walking towards us asking for help, but we didn’t do anything because we didn’t know what to do. He ended up climbing into our bus and then he got kicked off by the bus driver… and we were feeling horrible because we didn’t help this man! So we repented. Then at the end of our bus ride, my companion got a huge fine because she didn’t realize her bus pass expired almost a month ago… haha! But the delay from the fine was just enough time for us to run into another drunk man on the floor and this time we decided to stop and help. A lady came to help us and she called an ambulance for him and we were trying to lift him up. He was HEAVY!! And I didn’t have a coat on because I still had the IV in my arm and I was freezing and my arm hurt so bad from the valve in it and I kind of felt like a hero. We pulled his legs out of the middle of the street and helped him stand but he was too drunk to stand so we just held him up until the ambulance came. Basically we saved the day. Also feeling so grateful for second chances.

Sunday: Normal day. Just church and some finding.

Sorry I really don’t have a lot of spiritually uplifting content again for this email… I promise I’m a missionary hehe 🙂

I know that there are always miracles in every single day. If there’s one thing I have learned it is that God places things in our paths for a reason. Even on days when you are in a nasty emergency room with weird things stuck to you having to pull out your own IV there are things to laugh about and people to be helped around you. I have been really trying to get over myself lately. That sounds a little harsh, but I know that as we learn to focus on others instead of ourselves we will be immeasurably happier. I have felt the blessings of developing these relationships with people standing as a representative of my Savior, Jesus Christ. I have made a fun game out of finding the miracle in every single day. Some days you have to look a little harder, but I promise they really are there! 🙂

Have the best week!!

xoxo
Mason Nővér