Tokaj

Sziasztok everybody!

This past week was absolutely packed.  On Tuesday, we headed to Miskolc (meesh-kohl-ts) for interviews with President Szabadkai.  The town had become quite striking since spring arrived.  During the non-winter months, Hungary goes crazy with outdoor seating at restaurants, which gives cities a much more livelier feel.

We went tracting with Kata again (we still can't get her to stop throwin up gang signs when we take selfies), and afterward we attempted to bike to our lesson all the way across town.  We found this little short cut through the wilderness which ended up being the long cut and making us miss our lesson.  We ended up biking through the forest for about 3 hours, even passing the Nyíregyháza dump!  We eventually reached a highway that wasn't even really on our map, but then found a sign that told us we had only managed to work our way 10.5 kilometers outside of Nyíregyháza.

On P-Day, we went to Tokaj mountain and successfully climbed all the way to the top! We followed the vineyards, and then sort of plunged into the forest (literally, we were not using any particular path) in the general direction of the giant radio tower. By some miracle, we made it there (also thanks to Norris elder's superior orienteering skills). The views from the top were incredible! Probably the best P-Day that I've had so far.

We have been finishing up conference, and I especially liked Elder Christofferson's talk about raising a warning voice.  Sometimes it can feel uncomfortable to be bold as a missionary, but when he said that the motivation for a warning voice is love, that comforted me.  Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing myself from just any other street evangelist, but I am so grateful for righteous parents who helped me cultivate my own testimony of the gospel and helped me anchor my hope steadfastly in life eternal with my Savior, Jesus Christ.

Love you all!

Adam

Spring is here

Evangelical church in Nyíregyháza

This is a csengő - an intercom bell system for the entire building through which we give many door approaches, receive many rejections, and have a few good conversations

The county house

"God is our strong fortress"

Jelena's birthday gathering

Jelena's birthday party! She is the branch president's Ukrainian mother

"We believe in the resurrection of Hungary!" apparently Hungary used to be bigger

Train station at Miskolc

The sky looked really cool!

Miskolc - we go on splits here with the Zone Leaders and have interviews with President once a transfer

Miskolc - everyone out and about.

Greek Orthodox church in Miskolc

View from our apartment when we got back from interviews

a Hungarian

An outdoor bath at a bathhouse in which one of the Sisters' investigators was baptized!

a Hungarian

Tracting with Kata - Round 4

Hungary experiences some heavy thunderstorms just like the Middle West

The sky also seems really big here

abandoned village (?) we ran into after we got lost in the wilderness

...still lost

Only missed it by 10.5 kilometers

Lutheran church at dusk

We made it to Tokaj!

Forest expedition

P-day with the district

We went down this road and it totally led us in the opposite direction that we wanted to go

Little town 

Giant statue of Jesus

Really pretty white lutheran church

We climbed up to that

Where do babies come from?

We waited at this little train station

The train had Hogwarts express compartments!