Will I ever learn this language?
For the first time, I really feel like the answer to that question is a booming, resounding YES!I spoke in church last week, which is actually traditional for new missionaries but for some reason they didnt get to me for a month, and it went so well! So short but so very well!
I told them this, and I was able to just roll it right out without stopping for thirty seconds to think up a word even once!
"Nem akarok beszelni rólám, mert aki vagyok nem fontos. De amit tudom azt nagyon, nagyon fontos."
"I dont want to talk about me, because who I am isnt important. But what I know is very, very important."
It was so neat! And then I just bore a simple testimony of the things that I know, not that I believe but that I know. And thats why Im here. Afterward I told them how happy I was to be not just in Hungary but in Szeged. Then I told them, "Annyira szeretlek bennetettek!" And I want to tell all yall the same thing because it means, "I Love you all so much!" It is such a beautiful language!
Its crazy, my first transfer is over! ALL of our Elders either shipped home or were transfered out so Sister Kubricky and I are smack dab in the middle of a white-washed district. It was wonderful though to see some familiar faces at the train station! Our district was nearly half composed of people going home, and now it is literally half Greenies, so we are all going to learn so much this transfer. She has announced that her goal is for me to become the best speaker in mission...I dont know about that, but it is nice to just see a noticeable improvment in speaking and understanding since I arrived in the country.
My companion and I are working so hard-after we turned in our numbers last night we got a phone call from the Zone Leader to congradulate us. We wanted to hit mission standard, and we came SOOO close, but we just didnt quite make it. However, in Preach My Gospel it reads that your success as a missionary is measured by your level of commitment, and lets just say that Kubricky and Pollock felt like very successful missionaries last night.
I love these people, and I love this language...there are 30,000 odd missionaries in the world at any given time and only 100 or so get to say they are in Hungary. What an incredible blessing!
But, yes, in short:
1. Things are awesome.
2. I really truly am learning what is described by many as the most difficult language for native English speakers to learn.
3. Everyone told me so, but I am seeing for myself just what they meant when they said that a mission truly is a miracle.
I miss you all and love you even more!
-Pollock Nővér
posted by Ashley @ 12:18 AM
