Kaylee in Budapest

We ran a mile to the lookout in skirts in place of our dinner break just to capture this picture of the sunset, so y'all better enjoy it hahah

First things first, I just love missionary work! And I just love these people here in Hungary! I dont know how, but every single day I manage to find myself loving Hungary and being a missionary more and more! It is kind of crazy to look back on my mission and see how far I have come in the year I have been a missionary, but this experience is one I would never trade for anything in the world! Of course we know the scriptures are true, but it is even more amazing when we can see the principles playing out in our lives. As I have lost myself in the service of these people, forgetting my own worries and going to work, putting my whole heart in it, I have been able to find myself. I spent alot of my mission focused on being what I thought I needed to be in order to get people to be baptized, but it wasn't until I finally remembered why I came on a mission originally, and acted with that motivation in mind, to truly help these people not only come to the knowledge of Christ, but to personally come to know Christ as their savior and redeemer, that I was able to truly find who my Father in Heaven wants me to be! And ever since that day, the days just continue to get better every day!

Things in Veszprém are going great! We have done some weeding out with our investigators this week, to be able to dedicate more time to finding those people who are waiting and ready to hear and act on the message of the gospel that we have to share with them! We are hoping to be able to find a few new investigators this week, and pray that as we place our trust in the Lord, He will lead us to them, or them to us!

Welfare and Self reliance day = Lunch with our amazing members!

In the meantime, we still have two investigators, Piroska and Marcsi, who are both progressing really well! We met with Piroska this week and were able to take a member, Vasváry Judit, with us! Judit is amazing, she is actually the stake relief society president here in Hungary, and was a huge help! We got into the appointment, and judit and Piroska hit it off right at the very start! We followed up on her commitment to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and she said that she did it! She is still just praying until she gets her answer, she said. This week we taught the Plan of Salvation, which is really big for her, because her husband passed away 7 years ago. Judit was able to really help personalize the lesson, and ended up sharing with us that our beliefs on the Fall of Adam and Eve is what finally helped things click for her 7 years after meeting with the missionaries for the first time! She also bore a very strong testimony at the end of eternal families and how the Plan of Salvation can bless our lives. The spirit was very strong in that lesson! We invited her to church, but she told us that she was out of town, so we are hoping that we will be able to get her to come watch conference this next weekend with us! As we got out of the lesson, we thanked Judit for all of her help, and she told us that she hoped she was normal, because as she was preparing to come to the lesson with us her RM son told her to "please just be natural"! We told her that she definitely was normal and we all got a good laugh out of it! She gave us a ride home and gave us some chocolate! 15 minutes later, we were changing into our PJs when we got a call from Judit. She said that she just forgot to tell us how amazing we are and that we taught so well, and that I speak really well, and she was impressed with the whole lesson! It was super cute of her to call! It made mine and Sister Evans week!

Our lesson with Marcsi was really good this week. We went through the baptismal interview questions with her, which she passed with flying colors, and we read the chapter 2 Nefi 31 with her, which lays out very clearly the importance of baptism. At the end, she admitted that she believes it all, and is ready to be baptized, she just doesn't know when. Sister Evans and I had already prayed alot about it, and extended the date October 8th to her. She was very nervous at first, but we offered to kneel down with her right then and pray about it. She said the pray, and Sister Evans and I made eye contact afterwards and we both knew that we had all felt the spirit very strongly during the prayer. Marcsi said that she wanted more time to pray about it though. We met with her once more, and she said that she doesn't know, she doesn't feel good or bad about it. We read a bunch of scriptures with her about recognizing answers to our prayers through the Holy Ghost, as well as talking about the role of Faith and placing our trust in God to step forward in the dark, even when we cant necessarily see the light at the end of the tunnel. After church yesterday, I asked marcsi how the praying has been going. She said that she feels really good, and knows that it is the correct decision! She said we will talk about it more when we meet this week, but I fasted for her on Friday, and I am just placing my own trust in God that he will help her to take this step and get baptized in order to make those covenants that will allow her to receive all the blessings God has in store for her!

We also had a really good lesson with a man from English class, his only knowledge of our church is from South Park, but he wanted to know more! He asked if we could talk more about our church, so we taught him the Restoration! At the end he asked for a tour of the Branch house which was really neat! He said that he thinks we have a very peaceful religion, which is true! We are hoping to be able to meet with him again in this upcoming week!

As far as our companionship is going, Sister Evans and I are doing really well! I am loving being able to work with her, and have been able to learn alot from her, she is a very hard worker! It has been great being her companion and trainer!

So that's Hungary for y'all this week! How are all of you doing though? I would love to here from you all about your adventures in America! Have a great week!

Sok Szeretettel,

LeBaron Nővér