Greetings from Miskolc! I am back :) Coming back to Miskolc was definately an adventure, haha. Our elders (Elder Vandormark and Elder Jackson) were able to bring 1/2 of our luggage to Miskolc for us in the car, so Sister Orme and I still had to take one of our own bags with us on the train. What a day! We hiked through the falling snow to one of the train stations in Budapest, just to learn that we had been misguided and that we were at the wrong station! So we then hiked to another train station, with 5 minutes to find our train after purchasing our tickets! Once on the train, we searched for our seats, being misguided by a train assistant guy and we ended up in the wrong section of the train. But there was this sweet old woman that let us join her in her little train box room. After a nice 2 hour ride, we arrived in Miskolc at about 6pm. Our elders couldn't come pick us up because they had to teach English, so we found a vilamos (kind of like 'tracks' in SLC) and used the best photographic memories I could summon in the dark evening to find our home. We made it! The Lord blessed us a along the way with friendly strangers and arriving places with barely enough time and so on. What a day :)
My new companion, Sister Orme, is really sweet. She is from Nephi, UT, and she comes from a family of 10 kids! (She is located in the middle, haha). She is really sweet and smiles a lot and is always trying to serve in little ways. She was companions with Barhart nővér and Papritz nővér in the MTC, so now I will have served with all three of them :) This is her 4th area in the mission, and so far she likes it. It was like of a stressful thing for her coming out here with me because even though I was here before, I didn't ever really get to know the city, so it has been kind of like "white-washing" (starting fresh basically). But luckily, our Elders are really nice and patient with us as we call them every day with questions, haha. But yeah, Orme nővér and I are getting along really well and we are sure to laugh multiple times each day :) She knows the language pretty well, and she likes to teach with visual aids, so I think this is going to be a great transfer. Chances are we will be together next transfer too, but there is no way to really know, haha.
Things are a little different now than they were before. However, we have been able to pick up all the same investigators that I had before, which has been a great blessing. We have also be able to visit a lot of less actives and innactives so that has been good to. We did a bit of streeting last week, gave about 4 Books of Mormon, and recieved about 3 peoples information so we can contact them (unfortunately, 2 of them gave us email addresses, so hopefully we can write them today, and tell them to call us, haha).
We will be in the process of changing some things here in the next few weeks. In about 2 weeks, we will be taking a break from teaching English and go crazy with advertising English classes (hopefully bringing in a new back of investigators). And we will be starting up the music night again in a few weeks, and really work hard and trying to get the members to start helping with Family Night and Game night. So there is a lot of work ahead of us, but I think it is going to really help the work here in Miskolc :)
Before coming back to Miskolc, I had some mixed feelings about it-- good and bad. While I won't go into detail about what caused specific feelings, I was sure to keep a prayer in my heart and to stay in contact with Heavenly Father about my feelings and about my plans to overcome certain challenges. I can definately feel the Lords hand in my life. I am grateful to be here, and my relationship with Heavenly Father is definately growing. Even though times can get hard, the Lord very lovingly places tender mercies on my path and sends me the Holy Ghost with feelings of peace and love. I love being a missionary. I love being here. I love my companion. I love the work.
I wish everyone the best for this coming week!
Sok szeretettel,
Kimball nővér
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