Monday, October 3, 2016

Week 61- Betegség



 
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 4:01 PM HUNGARY TIME

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!  



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Piroska & Klaus
  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!

Klaus and Piroska fed us steak with grilled onions on top, it was the closest thing ive eaten to home since I've been in Hungary! Klaus only speaks German and very minimal English and Hungarian so we have fun trying to converse. I asked him if it was steak and he said "No this not steak. Steak rosy inside, Piroska cook too long and is brown. ez nem steak!" Hes cute, we love him!




 
 
 

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
Orias Csigák!!! These things were literally 8 inches long! It was disgusting/ cool at the same time
View from the train window!






 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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