The Gift of Tongues???‏

Well well well, another week done! Time keeps on flying like crazy!

 This week has been another successful week here in Békéscsaba! We had quite a few teaching        appointments cancel on us, so that was sad to see, but despite that we still had some really good appointments this week! We were able to teach a new investigator about the restoration and Book of Mormon and challenge her to pray about it and asked her to commit to be baptized if she found these things to be true, and she accepted our invitation! It was a good reminder to me of the importance of good commitments, and how much that can influence how well our investigators progress! I am excited to be able to follow up on her reading and praying this next week, and see how her commitment went! A Little bit of a side story with her, her mother believes that she can speak in tongues and has apparently talked to God many times in visions, as well as other significant religious figures. I dint know this however, until after I asked her to offer us an opening prayer! Things started out great, she was doing a normal prayer in Hungarian and seemed very genuine and then next thing I knew, she said "Jesus Christ" in English! I opened my eyes and no one else seemed to notice it so I closed my eyes again and continued to listen...lets just say that I didn't hear a word of Hungarian after that. The other 5 minutes of the prayer was quite interesting...... I have no clue what language she was speaking! At the end she finished with a bunch of hallelujahs and some shouting. The lesson went really well and I decided  to ask Sister Grogan to offer the closing prayer! 

 

 

Our tracting has been going pretty well here in Békés! While not a lot of people are quite willing to commit to meeting with us yet, we have at least been able to talk to quite a few people and they have been very kind and we were at least able to plant that little seed of knowledge in their hearts that will hopefully be able to flourish into something bigger one day! 

Sunday we got to watch the Sunday afternoon session of conference, it was so good! It was exactly everything that I needed to hear, the talks were so amazing, I would definitely recommend that everyone watch it if they haven't already seen it!! 

I must go now, but I send my love to all of you and hope that you have a great week full of adventures! 

Sok Szeretettel, 

LeBaron Nőver

~Welcome to Békés~

Hey, I hope you are all doing great and had a great week! It feels like just yesterday that i emailed last. Transfers were Wednesday, it was sad seeing Sister Jeppson leave, but I am so happy for her and so glad she got to have her family come and meet her! I met my new companion Sister Grogan and we headed back to Békéscsaba!

For those of you that know Jacksonville, Florida take away the actual city and downtown of Jacksonville, and that's what I think of every time I step out of the apartment. It is a cute little city, with tree lined streets, little fountains, and ice cream stands all around! I absolutely love it! It is alot different than the other cities I've served in, AKA it is pretty small, but it is great, and I feel a bit at home! The branch here is really small, we only had like 20 people at church on Sunday, but it is super cute, and we are super involved in the branch, so it is fun! I am actually the ward chorister, I cant lead to save my life, but I try my best at just waving my arm haha! 

Sister Grogan is great, I love her to death! She is a super hard worker and super obedient, just what I wanted in a companion, so I am looking forward to these next 2 months together! 

Sorry that the email is so short, we are headed to the professional volleyball championships to support one of our American members here in Békés! I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Sok Szeretettel,

LeBaron Nővér

 

There's no way we are going to be able to put this away in one sitting!!

Hey, they insisted we each have our own!!!

4/12/16~~ 8+ months...Where has the time gone?‏

Well, I have officially been a missionary for 8 months, and in the country for 6, it seriously blows my mind just thinking about it! This time we have to serve is seriously so short and precious, we literally have to milk it for all its worth while we can!
To celebrate 6 months in country, Sister Jeppson went to Budapest!!! Just kidding that isnt why we went, but hey, added benefits, right? We had a couple appointments and had a 4 hour break in between so we decided to take a trip up to Buda Castle! Seriously Buda is the prettiest city that I have ever seen, it just has so much history! We had the opportunity to go to the Dracula caves and go around in them. Turns out Dracula is actually a real person, I felt a little stupid when I realized that he wasn't just a cartoon vampire! Turns out he was a ruler that was then sentenced to prison for 10 years in a cave system underneath the Buda Castle where he was tortured. Once he was released he went around impaling anybody that associated themselves with the guy who imprisoned him, which is how he got the legend of being a vampire! Maybe you guys already knew that, but it was new info for me! So that was a super cool experience that we had this week! That and some freshly made pistachio ice cream made for quite the celebration!

Henrik finally let us cut some twigs! He said we couldn't cut wood cause

"That is men's work" I think we showed him with the twigs though!!

Aside from the fun, we had a few good/interesting teaching appointments this week. The first one was with our investigator T. He is a super kind man who has been investigating the church for like 4 years now. He reads the scriptures and he loves the missionaries, but he hasn't really been progressing. We finally sat him down this week and asked him about his priorities so we could figure out if we should continue meeting with him or not. We got into a discussion about the Book of Mormon and it was really interesting because during the teaching we ended up dropping him, but I have never felt the spirit so strong in a lesson. T is really is trying his best to do what we ask him.. Sister Jeppson and I both just kindly bore our testimony to him about the Book of Mormon and the sacredness of that book. I think sometimes even us members forget how precious the Book of Mormon is and we forget exactly why it is that we read it. In-fact, the most important things to learn from reading the Book of Mormon are not even written on the pages of the book. The best way to learn when we read the Book of Mormon is through the spirit.  We can sit and read pages on end from the Book of Mormon, but if we don't have the spirit with us, then we are still missing the point. The spirit is the key, it takes the things that we read, and interprets them into something that we can understand and apply specifically to our personal lives. So our goal is to always live to be worthy of the spirit and strive to have it with us so that we can truly get from the Book of Mormon what our Father in Heaven would have us learn! I have such a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon, I am so thankful for the opportunity I have to read and learn from it every single morning! I know that the best way to be happy in this life is to take the impressions we get while reading from the scriptures and to apply them in our lives and live by them as best as we can!

As far as other things go, TRANSFERS ARE TOMORROW!!! Unfortunately I will be leaving Kecskemét, they are shutting down sisters here, so I will be going to Békéscsaba! It is a little bittersweet leaving this place, I have truly grown to love all of the members here in Kecskemét and they have all had such a great influence on me! I am so thankful for the opportunity i have had to serve here and get to know all of them, but know my time is up and I must move on! I am super excited to be headed to Békés! I will be serving with Sister Grogan, and I am so happy! We have talked quite a bit and I absolutely adore her! It is going to be a blast! I am going to go pack now, but I will talk to you guys next week from Békés! I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Sok Szeretettel,

LeBaron Nővér        
                                                             (I may or may not have crashed my bike 3 times in the last 2 days, 
                                                      sometimes we all struggle a little, or maybe its just me, who knows haha)   

 

My Last week serving with Sis Jepp! She's completed her mission and her parents are coming to Tour and take her HOME!!

  

LOVING HUNGARY~~

The Mecseriék!

View from the Lion Bridge

Sister Jeppson & I with the Ábrokék! Kira served with my trainer, so it has been fun serving around her in her hometown! Ábrok is our ward missionary leader

 

Hey folks! This week has been another great week here in Hungary!

This week Sister Jeppson and I had the opportunity to go on splits with the Sister Training Leaders up in Buda! They were both so sweet, and missionaries that I look up to! Sister Hafen and I had the chance to go teach a less active and for the first time in forever she had actually read the scriptures! It was super neat! And when we invited her to conference she accepted the invitation! And then we got to go tracting for a couple of hours, and we met so many sweet people! There was an elderly woman who answered the door and said she knew us. We thought that she was going to get mad at us and tell us everything that is wrong with mormons, but when we asked her what she had heard/ knew about us she said only the best! She said she had met some missionaries like 20 years ago when they tracted into her, and they were so sweet and she has always loved the missionaries since! She wasnt interested in learning more, but just that simple knocking on her door 20 years ago gave the missionaries a good reputation in her eyes and she will now share that with other people when our church's name is brought up. And if nothing else, we were able to bring a smile to her face, which is a great form of service! We may not always see it, but looking at the big picture just those little things make such a difference! Success may not always seem so evident, but in the end we determine ourselves what we consider success, so it is up to us to make each day a success! The little things do matter!

​I loved having General Conference this past weekend, I learned alot! I seriously love conference so much! We were only able to watch the Sautrday sessions this week, but it had alot of the answers that I have been needing to hear, and a lot of reassurances of the things that I already knew and have been trying to apply in my life! It reminded me that missionary work is a very unselfish thing and if we want to be the best missionaries we can be we have to forget about ourselves. Yes, we do need to have our testimony super strong and be in that spiritual position to help other people, but the best way to be happy is truly to get lost in the service of our fellow beings, especially with such a wonderful opportunity as it is to share the gospel with others, that is the best kind of service that we can ever do!

MRI fun! They stabbed me like a million times!

It was gross, but had to photograph it for the memory haha

Our favorite street!

SUSHI!!!

"D" one of the investigators that we meet with weekly! 

"Lion's Bridge"