Halloween és Halóttak Napja

Bummer there isnt halloween here, but we carved some pumpkins last P-day with the elders so that was fun! 

 (Elder Wilcox and Márk a little boy/ recent convert in our ward whose sister we are currently teaching!)

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Tuesday we had greenie training, so that was super fun, we took a little trip up to Budapest!

In one of my trainers first areas she served with Sister Kovács a native from here in Hungary and she got married on Friday, so we got special permission to go to the wedding up in Kecskemét (AKA goat town in English)! It was super fun and Sister Kovács was super pretty in her wedding dress! She is super sassy and her wedding was not your typical wedding, but it was definitely a blast!

Our mission president was at the wedding also, so him and his wife drove us home to Szeged and Saturday morning they made our distric some breakfast and we had a little program with them! It was super sweet of them and the food was delicious! Saturday we had another wedding in our branch so we got to go to their reception, it was fun!

Last night we had a really cool experience while we were tracting! This week in District meeting we were talking about involving the Lord in your planning and letting him know where you will be throughout the day so that he can put people in your path. So last night as we were walking down the road that I had chosen to tract, a man was outside in his yard and he yelled hello to us from across the street, which let me be the first to say that that normally does not happen in Hungary. The people here are very kind, but they are also very reserved to themselves. So we jump on the opportunity to talk to this man and we went up to his gate and introduced ourselves as missionaries. He invited us inside his home to get warm and when we sat down at the table he told us that he would listen to whatever we had to say! AKA another miracle, because that never happens! We ended up teaching him the whole restoration and when we got to the Book of Mormon he told us he actually had one that he had recieved years ago, and it ended up being one of the super old translations into Hungarian from 1991. It was super neat! He was the sweetest guy that I have probably ever met! He brought us out some water and two chocolate candy bars for me and my companion. As we got talking he told us that his wife had passed away, and yesterday was Halóttak Napja (day of the dead) so it was something that had obviously been on his mind before we came. We told him that we believe that God has created a plan for us so we can return to live with him and our families for forever! He wanted to know more so we scheduled to meet with him again! It was a super awesome experience and a definitely testimony builder to me of planning with the Lord and relying on Him, not just on our own ideas!

One cool thing about Halóttak Napja is that everybody takes flowers to the cemetery and they light candles all around the burials, so it is super pretty! Last night Sister Dohm and I went to the cemetery to look at it! It was a really neat experience!

That was basically our week in a wrap, I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Sok Szeretettel,

LeBaron Nővér

 Sis Dohm and I trying something new again in Hungary!

Hungarians Celebrating "Halottak Napja"   

 

(Sorry, missing eight additional Pic's to go along with this post that never downloaded properly)

LEBRON SISTA?

So turns out nobody in Hungary can pronounce my name, even though like hi, its not that crazy of a name... but anyways the members insisted that I give myself a nickname so that they dont have to call me just "sista". So the other missionaries have gifted me with the name of LEBRON, and the members love it, so Lebron it is!

Best news ever, the sun FINALLY came out! It has been overcast since the day we arrived so I was starting to think that perhaps the sun just didnt exist in Hungary! But now it is sunny!!! Szeged was super pretty even when it was overcast, but now that it is sunny it just got like 21 million times better in my books!

This week has been alot of finding again. We had 4 programs scheduled that all fell through at the last moment, so that was a bummer. Luckily we were able to reschedule with them for this week though! Other than that we have been meeting with this guy name Zsolt! He is literally one of the sweetest guys that I have ever met! Everytime we meet he brings us some homegrown fruits or vegetables from his garden, he is so great! The sisters here before us taught him most of the lessons and he wants to be baptized, but his family is very against it unfortunately. They tell him that our church is a cult and he should have nothing to do with us. Luckily though he has a pretty strong testimony already, so I think he just needs some time! Right now he is praying about picking a baptismal date, so I'm excited to see what happens with him!

Besides the work, Sister Dohm and I have been keeping things pretty real here in Szeged! Last night we tricked our lovely elders into making a deal with us... the deal was that we would make them brownies if they would simply provide just some flour, sugar, cocoa, butter, and eggs, so in otherwords all of the ingredients! Luckily they love us, so they played along with our mischevious scheming and brought the ingredients over to our place! Half way through the process I had the random urge to just smear some batter all over my companions forehead...It eventually turned in to my companion having my name written on her forehead in chocolate brownie batter, and of course she had to return the favor... so enjoy our weirdness with these lovely pictures!

 

~~ Making wishes and flying planes down
     10 stories~~

Elder Paul (Sister Paul and her lovely earrings)

20th B-Day

My Mother sent a B-day Care Pkg so my Companions & I 
Celebrated My Big 20th Birthday a little early in the MTC .

I'm pictured here with Sister Gordon On my actual birthday, Oct. 6, 2015.We actually Flew into Germany around 8:00 AM and then around 10am we were off to Hungary where we spent the rest of the day in the Mission Home in Budapest!

OCT.19, 2015:

"Fish soup...don't eat it even if someone pays you 20 million dollars"                 First things first, last pday the elders in our zone convinced us to go get some fish soup with them...let me just say that I love fish and it was still the worst thing that I have ever eaten. It is basically just chunks of the fish belly in water that is spiced with paprika even though the elders tried to convince us that it was no such thing. Anyways, if you are ever given the opportunity to try it I would advise saving your money!

Other then some very disturbing food, this week has been great! We have done alot of tabling and tracting and we finally found one investigator! We have only taught him one lesson so far, but he seems to be doing really well! Other than that we got "nénisag-ed" like 20 times this week, which is basically when a little old lady just sits there and tells you all about her life for like an hour and never even lets you say anything, so that is always fun!

It has rained every day since i got here in Szeged, so that obviously means a lot of hot cocoa while we watch the infamous District videos at night for training! Also they dont have Halloween, so thats a bummer, but they do have some cool day of the dead thing, so we still found some creepy masks to be weird in!

As far as the actual work goes, it has been pretty slow, but we have been giving out alot of BOM's and getting some phone numbers so hopefully it will start picking up soon! Regardless though, we have been working hard and having fun, so that's all that really matters!

 Sister Dohm, Me, Elder Paul

Elder Oakes,  Elder Wilcox,  and

                                Elder Tillamin-dick

 Just drinking some "bird milk". Im not sure why they call it that, but it tastes pretty good, so its whatevs!

  Last night I forgot my bus ticket, and of course it was the one time that they checked... and it only cost like 40 bucks so that so that was fun haha

Funny story real quick... Yesterday when we were tracting, we knocked on this door and as soon as we knocked a man from inside knocked at us and then proceeded to tell us that nobody was home...I cant say that Ive ever seen that one before!

 

Some pictures from Buda my second day in the country!

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This is my bedroom hahah





Some weird snail thing we found...why not take a picture with it?​

PICTUE'S WITH MY NEW TRAINER DOHM, NOVER

I promise I'm not THAT conceited, but I do have to say that Germany and Hungary made for a pretty great way to spend my 20th birthday! I can't believe I'm already that old, it is crazy how fast the time flies!

Let me first off just say that Hungary is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! I've only seen a few towns so far, but it's enough to saz that I love it! When we got here the mission president, his wife, and the AP's picked us up at the airport and took us back to the mission home where we spent most of the day trying to not fall asleep after 36 hours of no sleep! The sister training leaders took us out for our first time streeting, that was quite an adventure and definitely an eye opener on just how little of the language I actually know! The AP's also took us to the Pékség (bakery) and got us our first Hungarian pastry, honestly I wasn't too impressed, but it was still good! Our mission president is amazing, he is a convert himself, and his wife is the sweetest lady ever! She cooked us our first Hungarian meal for dinner and bought me and Chips Ahoy Milka bar for my birthday!

On Wednesday we got assigned our trainers and our areas! My trainers name is sister Dohm! She is super cute and has been out here for about 14 months, so this will be her last transfer! We are serving in a city called Szeged, it is in the South, down by the Serbian border! I LOVE IT HERE! It is a little University town so there are a lot of younger people here! We lucked out with a super nice apartment, it is HUGE, but unfortunately that means we usually freeze in our apartment, so that's fun! Hahah we do our morning studies wrapped inside fitted sheets...they were the only things that we could find in the cupboard!

Unfortunately, they whitewashed Szeged, so we currently have no investigators, but that just provides for a lot of time spent streeting and tracting! It makes for long days, but we have alot of fun doing it! The little néni(grandmas) always make it quite entertaining! I know that there are people out there just waiting to hear the gospel though, so it is our turn to go find them! I don't have much time, but I will send some pictures and I hope you guys have a wonderful week!

Szeretettel,

LeBaron Nővér

 

MY COMPANION'S AND I ALONG WITH THE OTHER SIX MISSIONARIES IN MY DISTRICT EXCITED TO BE LEAVING
(PROVO UTAH MTC) THE USA FOR HUNGARY ON 10/5/2015.

WE ALL ARRIVED SAFELY TO HUNGARY AND WAS MEET BY OUR MISSION PRES & HIS WIFE
10/6/2015.

FIRST DAY IN HUNGARY AT THE MISSION HOME

After meeting MY NEW  TRAINER FOR THE FIRST TIME
DOHM, NOVER K.   She's really Sweet!! This is her last transfer, she will be going home in December.

HUNGARY OCT. 7, 2015

" I LOVE IT~IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL"

Well my last week at the MTC has proved to be a pretty eventful one!

GOOD NEWS... WE GOT OUR FLIGHT PLANS LAST FRIDAY! We will be headed out bright and early Monday morning! We fly from Salt Lake to Chicago, and then to Germany, and then we end up in Budapest Tuesday at about 10AM their time! It blows my mind that the time is finally here! I am so stoked!

Saturday we took our last learning assessment! I still don't know everything I need to know, but it was amazing to listen to the recordings afterwards and see how much we really have learned in our short time here at the MTC!

Sunday was our last normal Sunday since we have General Conference this weekend. Which by the way, are you guys stoked for it, cause I know I am! Growing up I definitely never took advantage of General Conference as much as I should have, but I regret that now! General Conference is such an amazing experience that we are privileged to hear from God's chosen apostles and to hear the guidance they have for us! I would challenge each of you, whether you are a member of this church or not, to write down a couple questions that you have in your life and listen to conference! Even if it is just for one session, I know that if you pray to Heavenly Father and ask Him to help you find your answer and then you truly listen to the counsel of the Prophet and his apostles, you will receive answers; I promise! Anyways, this last Sunday we took our last temple walk as a branch! While we were sitting at the temple I looked over and saw this girl and I told my companion, I was like "That girl looks a lot like my friend Aubrey, but I'm pretty sure I'm just hallucinating it because I just haven't seen my friends in forever and I really want it to be my friend." But then the girl looked up from reading her scriptures right then and we made eye contact AND IT REALLY WAS HER, IT WAS AUBREY! So she like stood up and ran over to me and just gave me this big huge hug! So that was super cool that I got to see her! 

Monday was our last day with the Albanians, they flew out Tuesday morning. It's funny cause at first we thought they were kind of crazy, but we became pretty good friends with them and it has been a lot different this past week since they left! Saturday night we had one last sand volleyball game with them and it was a blast! At one point my team kept missing the ball, so totally joking around I was like "Hey guys, can we stop sucking?" Right after that, the other team served and the ball flew straight to me and I wasn't paying attention and it just hit me and went out of bounds. I honestly didn't think it was that funny, but Elder Anderson of the Albanians started laughing so hard he was crying, so apparently it must have been pretty funny to him! On Monday we also had the opportunity to watch Richard G. Scott's funeral! Funerals are generally kind of sad, but he had such a beautiful service and everyone had only the best things to say about him. People like that truly are an inspiration to me and make me want to be a better person, so that one day people can say the same things about me! I know that I am by no means perfect, in fact I'm pretty far away from it, but it's the people we meet and the  little things that happen to us that constantly remind us to keep on trying to be better!

Yesterday was our last day of class with our teachers! How is that even real! For the first time ever they finally spoke some English to us! They shared with us some personal stories about their missions and some of the joys and the hard times that they experienced. Honestly I am somewhat scared and I have no clue what lies ahead of me in Hungary, but I am so excited to be able to go! Missions aren't easy, I've come to find that out for myself. But I've also come to gain a stronger testimony of my Father in Heaven and of our Savior Jesus Christ. And with that knowledge I also know that the future is bright for all of us! I am excited to embark on this new journey in Hungary serving the Lord and I wish you all the best until I see you again! 

Szeretettel,

LeBaron Nővér

 Our district and the branch presidency

 Our district with our teachers Rupard Nővér and Huey Nővér​

 

Elder Jayden Long from Hurricane and I and both of our companions! He leaves Monday morning also- headed to Korea!

Oh and yeah, I chopped 4 inches of my hair off on Tuesday, so there's that!

 Our district on our last temple walk!

Aubrey & I  (Never know who you're going to run into on the Provo Temple Grounds 
~She was one of my good friends @ BYU).

My companions and I with our teachers Rupard Nővér and Huey Nővér​ on our last day in the class!