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| This week was such a great week! Great teachings, great words from the apostles during the Worldwide missionary broadcast, and the greatest surprise ever... Look who showed up at church.. |
Hello there folks! Hope that your guys' week was just as great as ours was!
I want to start the email this week with a spiritual thought from
Young Woman's this week. It is based on a talk by Elder Oakes called
"Jézus Tanításai" (or "teachings of Jesus" or something of that sort in
English). He shares a story of a woman who was invited to come back to
church after many years of being inactive in the church, and she couldn't
see why she should. Elder Oakes reminded that Christ had done so much
for her, asking "Don't you have many reasons to come back and serve Him?"
Her 5 word response caught Elder Oakes off guard, as it would most
Christians I assume as she asked back "What's He done for me?" We can
all answer that question with a list of things that Christ has done, but
I would challenge you all to think more specifically and reflect more
on exactly what he has done for you individually! Here is the list of
attributes that Elder Oakes listed:
1) Life of the World
2) Light of the World
3) Doing the Will of the Father
4) The Great Exemplar
5) Priesthood Power
6) Guidance by the Holy Ghost
7) Guidance by His Commandments
8) Focus on Eternal Life
9) The Atonement
I loved all of these so much and it was hard to choose a favorite
point because they are all so interconnected, but we were asked to
choose one to talk about in Young Woman's so I chose the Light of the
World! With that being the focus of the Christmas campaign this year, it
has made a huge impact on my mission and the way I see things. We know
that Christ is the light of the World, but what does that mean for me,
and what can it mean for you? For me it means that He came to the world
bringing peace and hope and lived a perfect life, teaching us, or rather
showing us, what exactly we must do to return to our Father in Heaven
after this life to live with Him and our families forever! Like I light
in a dark tunnel, if we will let Him be our light, He will guide us home
to eternal life! To me, there is no better news, and yet that is still
just a sliver of what Christ has done for me! I am so thankful for my
Savior, and for the opportunity that I have had to truly come to know
Him throughout the course of my mission. My time here in Hungary is
slowly coming to an end unfortunately, but the lessons I have learned
and the relationship I have built with Christ and God will continue to
bless me and my family for the rest of eternity! I would recommend reading this talk cause it is amazing, but at least take the time to
think about each of the actions of Christ listed above and how Christ
has filled that role in YOUR life! And then you will be brought to a
remembrance of just how much Christ HAS done for you!
Janka drew me a million pictures and wrote me little notes! She told me that we are best friends! #score
Meet the new Sister Towne...Janka was really sad to have to leave
when church ended, so she stole my companions name tag, telling her
parents that she will stay and be my companion and Sister Towne can go
home to Győr with her parents! They said no, so she tried again, this
time with a "pretty please"! Unfortunately they didn't buy it, but
insisted on getting a picture of it! She's adorable! Ahhh I just love
that family so much!
On Monday for Pday we went with the elders to an escape room, it was super fun, and we made it out of the room with only 20 seconds left on the clock! It was a close one, but we had a great time!
As far as the work is going, we were able to receive a new investigator this week, her name is "E" and I love her already! We tracted into her and she said that then wasn't good, but that we could come back the next day to meet! So we went over there and had a really good teaching in which we introduced the Book of Mormon to her! She told us that the day before when she closed the door her husband reminded her that she is catholic and asked why she had told us we could come back. She told me that she honestly wasn't sure why she said yes, she just agreed without even thinking twice! Which I am super glad, and know was most likely due to the fact that she felt something as we spoke to her on her doorstep that day. We talked a lot about the Book of Mormon, how it helps us to know Christ more intimately, and how it can personally bless her in her life! She took her copy we gave her and told us that she is going to read the whole thing!!! She just got out of the hospital this week, so she wont be able to come to church for awhile, but she said that as soon as she is feeling better she wants to come to our church! I am sooo excited to meet with her tomorrow! Also she has the cutest giggle and it just makes my whole day!
On Tuesday we met with Márt and were able to teach the
restoration! It went really well, and he had a lot of great questions!
At the end we talked about how he can receive answers to his prayers
also, just like Joseph Smith did, and challenged him to pray each day!
As we were finishing the lesson he asked if he could try saying the
closing prayer! It was super neat! And his prayer was super sincere,
asking God to help him know if these things are true and to help him
find the answers to his questions! We are super stoked for our lesson
with him on Wednesday!
We also met with our other new investigator from last week, Marg
and we were able to find a member to come this time too! Just so happens
that they used to work together too! Coincident? I think not! We talked
about the Restoration and she ended up bringing up some of the trials
that she has faced in her life. We talked more about Christ's role in
comforting us and helping us through our trials!
We had some other good lessons too, as well as finding a few solid
potentials that we will be looking up this week! We were also able to
schedule with some people for this week that we haven't been able to get a hold of in awhile, so I am really looking forward to meeting with all
of them and trying to help them progress towards baptism!
This weekend we were in Sopron for splits!! I was with Sister
Brantley and we were focusing on being able to recognize the promptings
of the spirit and acting upon them! In one of our teachings we were
talking to a really catholic Néni and I felt prompted to ask her how she
felt about her relationship with God. She responded by saying that she
absolutely does not have one, which was a surprise to hear from a
practicing catholic. She went on to tell us about her daughter dying
really young right after having a baby, and how ever since then she hasn't had a relationship with God. We were able to tie in the Plan of
Salvation and the role of prayer really well, and the spirit there was
so strong! It was really neat!
The Bagozzi's treated me to a dying dinner at Vapiano's, the greatest restaurant ever! I stinkin love them! Senior couples rock!
Overall I would have to say this week was really great! I hope that
you all have a great week upcoming week and I will see you all soon!!
Sok Szeretettel,
LeBaron Nővér
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