The sista in the blue is Sister Huszti, a native Hungarian who is serving in Canada!
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| Temple walk selfie with the new Finnish Sisaret! And Elder Wilson in the back with the photobomb |
Hey friends and family! I hope that everything is going good for y'all!
This week has been full of some crazy adventures! Tuesday night we
had the General Primary President come and speak to us for the
devotional! It was awesome! She is seriously the cutest lady ever, and
her talk was really awesome! One thing she said that
really stood out to me is that Nephi and his 3 brothers all went on the
same mission, they were all return missionaries in a sense, yet, they
all got something totally different out of it. While Nephi grew through
his trials and became this amazing prophet,
his brothers Laman and Lemuel decided to murmur the whole trip and got
nothing out of their missions. The same principle applies to all of us.
We are all here on this earth living this thing called life. Each of us
will have trials and tribulations, but we
choose how we react to them. We can either feel sorry for ourselves, or
we can turn to the Lord and rely on Him and GROW through our trials
rather than just GO through them!
We got to do our first Skype session with a native Hungarian! His
name was Lacko (pronounced Lotsko), I can't say I've ever seen that one
before! I had to teach him a 30 minutes lesson and I totally thought
that i slaughtered the language, but he said
that my Hungarian was really well for only 6 weeks, so that was
exciting!
Last night we had the opportunity to help out with a training for
the new missionaries that came in yesterday called "People & Your
Purpose". Basically there was an investigator and we went in as the
missionaries and did the getting to know the investigator
part and then the group of 50 new missionaries finished teaching the
lesson together. The first "house" we go to is this little Japanese man
name Junichi. So we knock on the door and he invites us inside and the
first thing he says is that his Mormon friend
told him that we were really good singers, and he asked me and my
companions to sing a song for him. We didn't know what to do cause we
only had like 5 minutes to get to know him so we kind of just laughed it
off as he begged us to sing for him. Then we ask
him to tell us about himself and he says "Well I have 3 sons and they
all attend the U. Are you girls single?" Of course the group of
missionaries busted up laughing and me and my companions were hardcore
blushing cause we didn't know how to respond. Finally
one of my companions, Sister Cribbs, answered "Well we are missionaries,
so we just aren't interested in your sons like that." And then we all
just bust up laughing and he asked if our missions were for our whole
lives and I told him only 18 months after which
he replied by saying "Oh, that's not too long, they can wait!" After
that it was just a whole bunch of awkward laughing and luckily the new
missionaries got to take over soon after so we could hurry out of his
"house"! We got to do it again with another investigator
named Sharon and that time it went a lot better thank heavens!
Other than our few awkward teaching moments it was a really good
week! I continue to learn so much about the gospel everyday! It is
awesome! I am literally so thankful for this awesome experience I have
to share the gospel! If any of you out there have
even questioned the idea of possibly serving, I would just say to not
even let it be a question! A mission is hands down the best thing that
you could ever do with your life, and the blessings that come in return
are literally unending!
This is Elder Bowen, he likes to take creepy stalker pictures of us while we are
studying!
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