Hello folks, I hope this email comes to all of you in great spirits and health!
This week was a LONG week! It literally feels like it has been
forever! It started on Tuesday with Zone conference up in Buda. That was
fun! We got to hear dying testimonies from Elder Bunker and Elder Paul
that I served around. It is so weird that they
are both already headed home! Our Bcsabs round 1 district was also
reunited and we got to take some family photos, so that was fun! And to
top it all off, I GOT A PACKAGE FROM HOME!!!! Seriously, packages as a
missionary are like gold to a poor man! My mom
is the sweetestever , and sent me a box of all my American favorites! It
was beautiful! That night for Játék Est, the members taught us how to
play Texas Hold 'em using fruit tea bags...It shed even more light on
why we don't believe in gambling in our church.
Luckily I don't like fruit tea anyways! 
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On Wednesday we were able to go help our branch mission leader and
his wife as they were preparing to move back to Germany. They live right
on the Balaton, which was amazingly beautiful so of course I had to
snap a few pics and even got a jumping picture
in memory of mine and Sister Dorny's jumping photo a week!!! We were
able to get a lot of work done, and packed up all of their belongings
into a trailer. It was great being able to serve together with them here
in Veszprém and we are going to miss them, and
their efforts to help us in the missionary work!
That evening we also had the chance to go meet with a less active.
Monday night, I felt prompted to call one of the members off of the list
and she informed us that she is actually in the hospital, that she has a
lot of medical problems and is just awaiting
surgery. When we first got to the hospital, she did not look good. She
has been receiving food through tubes and just laying all day in bed for
the last 2 weeks. We were able to pray with her and share some of my
favorite scriptures from Moroni 7 about faith,
hope, and charity! By the time we left she had managed to at least put a
smile on her face, which given the pain she is in, is a big deal! I
think thats one thing that missionary work has taught me the most, is
the importance of appreciating the little things!
Wednesday night I came down with a really bad cold, and Sister
Evans had already been a little bit sick, but hers also got much worse,
so we unfortunately were not able to get much work done during that
time, which was a real bummer. But I bought some
medicine that Sister Szabadkai recommended and although I'm not
completely better yet, I am well enough to get out and do some work
again! Which is good, because Sister Evans and I have a lot of working
to do!
While I was sick, we had to cancel our lesson with our investigator
Marcsi, but she promised that we would meet at general conference, and
would talk about her baptismal date. Well, she didn't show up to
conference. I called her afterwards, and she said
that she had more important things to do, and that she doesn't want to be
baptized. She also informed me that she has been meeting with her
ex-boyfriend again, which is not a good sign. I talked to Marcsi for
quite awhile, and asked her how we can help her to
get ready for baptism, given that she already believes everything and
said she knows she needs to be baptized. She said she doesn't know. After
talking a little more and praying later that night, we have decided
that we are going to give her some time to figure
things out and come to the true desire to put her will in line with
God's, and are not going to be meeting with her as often. It was
somewhat of a hard decision to make, especially given that we dont have
much work to begin with, but we feel there is not much
else we can do for her until she is willing to act upon her faith and
beliefs.
Our only other investigator, Piroska, has not been answering the
phone, so we were not able to meet with her last week, but we hope that
we will be able to get a hold of her, or stop by her house this next week
sometime, because she is progressing so well
in her testimony, and I have a lot of hope for her!
So that leaves Sister Evans and I with a lot of finding time for
this upcoming week, which we plan to utilize to its fullest and find some
people who are waiting for the gospel! We also have a good list of
potential investigators to work with, so hopefully
we can contact them and see which ones are interested and which ones are
not!
General Conference was AMAZING, as always! We only saw the first
three sessions, but it was so great! If you didn't get the chance to
watch any of it, I would definitely recommend going back and watching!
It is always so neat to be able to watch it and
hear the words of the prophet and his Apostles. Being a missionary, and
having the opportunity to teach to people the importance of prophets and
share the message of having a living prophet on the earth today really
gives conference a whole new perspective
and brings a whole other level of gratitude to my heart! I loved Elder
Nelsons talk that was centered completely on the aspect of finding joy!
Yes sometimes life gets hard, or for current applicability, missionary
work gets hard, but we have so many reasons
to continue to have joy, despite the hard times, and that joy in its
purest form comes from our Savior. Because even when we are at the
lowest of lows, the scriptures remind us that he has descended below all
suffering and that because of it, he can empathize
with us, and succor us, and lift us up to higher grounds through the
power of His Atonement! If for no other reason, we can at least find joy
in that! I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be serving a
mission, specifically here in Hungary, I know
that the Lord sent me here for a reason, and that reason is to spread
His joy with the people of Hungary! And I have come to learn on my
mission, that this joy is infinite and unlimited! Sharing it only
multiplies our own joy, rather than depleting it! I am
grateful for the knowledge I have OF Christ, and His atonement, as well
as my own personal relationship WITH Christ! I truly know that there is
no greater joy, than the joy He not only CAN offer us, but has
promised us that He WILL offer us as we do our best
to place our will inline with the will of our loving Father in Heaven.
Well, I hope that y'all are doing well! I love you all and will see you before we know it! Have a great week!
Sok Szeretettel,
LeBaron Nővér
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Orias Csigák!!! These things were literally 8 inches long! It was disgusting/ cool at the same time
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View from the train window!
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