Well, this week went pretty well! On Tuesday we zone training in
Buda and got to learn some ways that we can be more bold in our finding
attempts! Sister Evans and I are doing our best to try and talk to
everybody that we see from now on!
On Wednesday we went tracting and found a lady who told us that now
was not a good time. I asked her if we could quickly just give her a
Book of Mormon and explain it, and come back some other time to talk
more. She told us to come back this evening and
we will talk, and turns out that she actually already has a Book of
Mormon that elders had given her 3-4 years ago she said. So we are
looking forward to being able to meet with her tonight! That same day we
met with our investigator "M", and talked a little
bit about baptism. She has had 4 different baptismal dates in the past
and from what I have been able to observe she has a testimony and knows
it is true, but she still isn't doing it for herself for some reason. She
very much likes to please people, so it seems
that she never really chose a date and got confirmation from the spirit,
but rather just agreed to dates to make the missionaries happy. We
talked alot about the sacredness of those covenants and why it is
important to make them for ourselves rather than just
doing to please somebody, or not doing it in fear of displeasing
somebody. She seemed to really ponder what we had to say! Also it turns
out that she has not been reading the Book of Mormon in a long time, the
previous missionaries just had assumed she was,
but she admitted that she has only been reading from the Bible. We
committed her to read the Book of Mormon every single day and to seek
out a date that would be the right time for her to be baptized and to
pray and ask for a confirmation that that is the
right thing to do! We hope that she will be able to get her answer
soon!
On Thursday we met with a young man named "R" and had a teaching
appointment. He is very friendly, but seems kind of hesitant right now.
He said that next time he will explain more about his beliefs, so I am
excited to see how that goes, and how we can
help him build upon his previous beliefs to a full knowledge of the
truth!
Friday we went on splits with the Sister Training Leaders from
Buda, Sister Giullian and Ssiter Withers! I was able to go with Ssiter
Withers and it was such a neat experience! We had been in the MTC
together, so it was neat to be able to do some real
missionary work together and I feel like I was able to humble myself and
truly learned alot from her, she is an excellent missionary! We had the
opportunity to go visit a less active named G Néni. She would be
active, but she had a stroke a few years ago,
and the one side of her body is still left paralyzed, and so it is very
hard for her to attend church. However, this week she came for the first
time in about a year! It was such an amazing experience! She had tears
rolling down her face when she made it into
the building, and there was such a sweet spirit in the meetings with her
there! We also had the opportunity to wheel her home in her wheelchair
and talk to her along the way, and she was so appreciative of our
efforts to help her be able to attend church! She
is such a sweet lady, i am honored that we were able to help her to be
able to attend church and take the sacrament there, the sweet bliss on
her face is what keeps me going when something in the work gets hard. It
is that opportunity to help someone feel the
spirit and Gods love for them, that motivates me to keep looking for
those people regardless of the thousands of rejections that it takes to
find the one!
Also in church I was able to meet a lady named Gyöngyi who is the
grandma of my favorite kids in probably the whole wide world, so that
was fun! She was super sweet, I hope that I will have the chance to get
to know her better during my time here in Veszprém!
We did some area book work this week and found a few former
investigators who are willing to let us come over and visit them, so I
hope that we will be able to have good teaching appointments with them,
and that they will still be interested in learning
more about Gods plan for them! I think this week is going to be a great
one!
Sok Szeretettel,
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