MTC WK#7

        Sisar Cardon's sister got married so her 
  mom sent us a little "Wedding in a box"............

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Kutyák a Véceben(don't google it, cause it won't make sense)‏

 Boy oh boy has the time flown here at the MTC! Tomorrow we get our FLIGHT PLANS!!!! It still doesn't even seem real! It's crazy cause everybody told me the MTC was horrible before I got here, but I actually am really going to miss this place!

On Tuesday the Lithuanians all left! They had a solo sister who was companions with  Sister Kaleopa, another solo sister who is going to Indonesia, but since the other sister is now gone, Sister Kaleopa is now one of my companions! So we are in like a quadship kind of deal! It is definitely different but it has been super fun! Sister Kal is Samoan, but she is from Brisbane, Australia, and she has the coolest accent ever!

This week has been a pretty typical week for the MTC, not too much new has happened other than that! We are currently teaching 2 investigators, 1 inactive, and then on Tuesdays we teach each other! I got paired up with my teacher as my companion for when we teach each other so that is always a little nerve racking cause I'm pretty sure that I normally just slaughter whatever I'm trying to say in Hungarian! We have had some pretty cool lessons though, and it's crazy how fast you come to love your investigators when you have only known them for a few days! 

This past Sunday we had a special devotional and Lloyd Newell, from Music and the Spoken word, came and did an MTC version of it! It was crazy awesome! At the beginning of it he asked how many of us knew who he was and not many people did, so then he said "What about this.." and started saying "We welcome you to the 187th Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!" I literally had no clue it was him who did the announcing for General Conference, but as soon as he had said 187th everyone just busted up laughing cause it totally clicked! He gave an amazing devotional all about the Savior! 

The MTC is great for many reasons, but the best part is that I have personally come to know my Savior better! It's funny cause I've always believed that Heavenly Father and Jesus love me, but it wasn't until I was in the middle of a lesson with an investigator who doesn't believe that God loves her and I had to think of the words to explain to her how I know that he does love her, that it finally clicked that I truly do know that God loves me! And not only that, but I also know that He loves each and every one of you guys! I am so thankful for this gospel in my life and for my Savior who suffered so that it would be possible to return to live with Him one day and to be with my family forever! 

I hope all of you have a great week, you are all in my prayers!

Szeretlek Titeket,

LeBaron Nővér

> ​Our old Zone with the Albanians, Fins, Estonians, and us Hungarians

<  Sister Gordon and I just getting 
       our workout in for the day!

Old selfie's with the Fins and Estonian>

<Last temple walk with the Fins.

Az a jó Kerdés‏

The sista in the blue is Sister Huszti, a native Hungarian who is serving in Canada!

              

Temple walk selfie with the new Finnish Sisaret! And Elder Wilson in the back with the photobomb

Hey friends and family! I hope that everything is going good for y'all!

This week has been full of some crazy adventures! Tuesday night we had the General Primary President come and speak to us for the devotional! It was awesome! She is seriously the cutest lady ever, and her talk was really awesome! One thing she said that really stood out to me is that Nephi and his 3 brothers all went on the same mission, they were all return missionaries in a sense, yet, they all got something totally different out of it. While Nephi grew through his trials and became this amazing prophet, his brothers Laman and Lemuel decided to murmur the whole trip and got nothing out of their missions. The same principle applies to all of us. We are all here on this earth living this thing called life. Each of us will have trials and tribulations, but we choose how we react to them. We can either feel sorry for ourselves, or we can turn to the Lord and rely on Him and GROW through our trials rather than just GO through them!

We got to do our first Skype session with a native Hungarian! His name was Lacko (pronounced Lotsko), I can't say I've ever seen that one before! I had to teach him a 30 minutes lesson and I totally thought that i slaughtered the language, but he said that my Hungarian was really well for only 6 weeks, so that was exciting! 

Last night we had the opportunity to help out with a training for the new missionaries that came in yesterday called "People & Your Purpose". Basically there was an investigator and we went in as the missionaries and did the getting to know the investigator part and then the group of 50 new missionaries finished teaching the lesson together. The first "house" we go to is this little Japanese man name Junichi. So we knock on the door and he invites us inside and the first thing he says is that his Mormon friend told him that we were really good singers, and he asked me and my companions to sing a song for him. We didn't know what to do cause we only had like 5 minutes to get to know him so we kind of just laughed it off as he begged us to sing for him. Then we ask him to tell us about himself and he says "Well I have 3 sons and they all attend the U. Are you girls single?" Of course the group of missionaries busted up laughing and me and my companions were hardcore blushing cause we didn't know how to respond. Finally one of my companions, Sister Cribbs, answered "Well we are missionaries, so we just aren't interested in your sons like that." And then we all just bust up laughing and he asked if our missions were for our whole lives and I told him only 18 months after which he replied by saying "Oh, that's not too long, they can wait!" After that it was just a whole bunch of awkward laughing and luckily the new missionaries got to take over soon after so we could hurry out of his "house"! We got to do it again with another investigator named Sharon and that time it went a lot better thank heavens! 

Other than our few awkward teaching moments it was a really good week! I continue to learn so much about the gospel everyday! It is awesome! I am literally so thankful for this awesome experience I have to share the gospel! If any of you out there have even questioned the idea of possibly serving, I would just say to not even let it be a question! A mission is hands down the best thing that you could ever do with your life, and the blessings that come in return are literally unending!

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Me and my two companions Sister Cribbs and Sister Gordon ​

This is Elder Bowen, he likes to take creepy stalker pictures of us while we are studying!

 

                Seamons Elder, we call him our grandpa cause he is just the sweetest guy ever!

              Here's an extremely awkward picture with Sister Huszti, Sister Gordon & I   

           

Halfway to Hungary!‏

​Holy cow, I can't believe we've already hit the halfway mark! Things at the MTC have changed a lot this last week! One of our teachers, Fresh Nővér, is getting married next week, so Friday was her last day here at the MTC. She was our very first teacher so it was sad to see her leave, but we are super happy for her! The whole time here she only spoke Hungarian to us, but on Friday she was speaking English, so that was pretty trippy! We had what is considered a party and the MTC and she told us all 

about her mission in Hungary and about the people there! Apparently Hungarians are very superstitious, so that provides for a lot of quality stories!                                                                                                                           

  Gordon Nővér, Cribbs Nővér, Fresh Nővér, and I

                                                                          

 

                                                                                           Our District with Fresh Nővér​

  Fountain View of the Provo Temple

Yesterday we also got a new batch of Fins in! We were super shocked, but there are 11 of them: 2 sisters and 9 elders! We haven't met them all yet, but we are super ecstatic to have some more people in our zone cause the Estonians leave on Monday and we won't be getting any new ones before we leave! We also met a Hungarian this week named Sister Huszti! She is going on her mission to Canada and she is literally the sweetest thing ever! She knew one of the girls in our district through Facebook so she bought us postcards in Hungary before she left and gave them to us!

Our devotional this week was Gerald Causse, the first counselor in the presiding bishopric! His talk was amazing! Him and his wife both talked alot about the reasons that we are on our missions. Ultimately it all comes back to Christ! Missions aren't easy, and it is hard to leave your life when your life is just starting, but we are doing it for the Lord, and there is no other experience that will ever compare to the one that I have right now! I love my family, and I love my friends, but I love my Savior more and that is the reason that I have chosen to take the time out of my life to serve Him! It's a miraculous work, we literally see miracles here at the MTC everyday! But then again, life in and of itself is a miracle, and I know that you will see the miracles in your life if you choose to look for them!

I love all of you, have a great week!

Szertettel,

LeBaron Nővér

MTC WK#4

    SEPT. 3, 2015

Sziastok! I can't believe we've been here for a month already! The time just keeps flying! The MTC is basically just the same old thing as usual! Class all day, followed by not quite enough sleep, and then repeat that 20 million times! 

This week all of our Finnish friends left, so that was a little sad, but we are super excited for all of them! Sisar Cardon, our sister training leader, was like our little mom here at the MTC and she was literally the cutest/best human being i've ever met, so we are sad she had to leave! Being her normal adorable self though she left us a box with little gifts for each of the sisters, so that was fun!

For our Tuesday devotion we had the opportunity to have Elder Dallin H. Oaks come and speak to us... talk about AMAZING! He talked a lot about teaching by the Spirit and the importance of the Plan of Salvation as the foundation of our teachings! It was super inspirational!

I don't have a lot of time today, but I just want to leave you guys with my testimony of the Plan of Salvation! God is real, He loves, and there is nothing He wants more than for every one of us to be happy and to return to live with Him, and He has made this possible through the Atonement of His son, Jesus Christ! One thing that Elder Oaks said that really stood out to me, speaking of the Plan of Salvation, was that "Your investigators might not understand how important it is, BUT YOU DO!" There are multiple reasons that I chose to serve a mission, but in the end it all comes down to the fact that I love my family and I am so grateful to have the knowledge that if I live worthily and choose to follow Jesus Christ, I can return to my Father in Heaven and I can live forever with my family as an eternal family, and I want more than anything for the people of Hungary to come to this knowledge also! I love this gospel, and I know that there is nothing that can bring more joy into our lives than if we choose to take advantage of the savior's Atonement and follow Him! 

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Szeretlek Titiket, 

LeBaron Nővér

MTC WK#3

This week has by far been the best thing ever!

First story goes to Kim Elder, the dinosaur! Last P-day we met this kid from Korea and he was playing with a toy dinosaur! We stopped to talk to him and he told us he would draw us a picture of a dinosaur, which I'm still basically 3 years old, so that was like the greatest news ever! The next day at lunch my companions ran into him and he ended up just giving the little dinosaur to them! We were ecstatic! We ran into him again and he told us the story behind the dinosaur... apparently he is a convert, and when he was looking into the church he struggled with some addictions such as smoking, so the missionaries teaching him gave him a toy dinosaur and told him every time he felt tempted to give in to his addictions that he should just play with the dinosaur instead! Anyways, he now buys dinosaurs and occasionally gives them out to people, so we thought that was super cool! The dinosaur is now our class pet and we named him Kim Elder after the missionary!

Then there are the Malays... The first day we got here one of the malays told our teacher that we hated her so we have never been super big fans of them! Then two weeks ago, we met two of the Malay elders cause they kept stealing our study room,and after that literally everywhere we went, these two elders were there, and they were always looking at us too. It was somewhat creepy! But somehow we ended up becoming good friends with them and they are super nice guys! Last Thursday we went into the doctors office with one of my companions and lo and behold there were these two Malay elders. So Elder Ngatikaura came and sat down by me and taught me how to pray in Malay. The next morning when we walked into the classroom there was a card on my desk that said "Praying For You" with a picture of Jesus and inside the card was printed "Just as Jesus prayed for you, so do we. May he walk with you at this time in your life" and there was no writing and no signature! So of course we assumed it was just the Malays, but they swear it wasn't them! It was just a little creepy! The Malays flew out on Monday headed for Singapore though, so now we have to make some new friends to hang out with!

Gym time has been interesting this week! Friday when we were playing volleyball me and this elder swung at the same time and he ended up jamming his finger into my arm, so now everytime his companions see me they just ask me if I have seen Elder Hassel's finger haha. Then on Tuesday when we were playing volleyball I decided that I wanted to jump up and spike the ball and some guy on the other team just jumped right into me, so we both got quite a few bruises, but it was super funny and made for a fun game! 

Hahaha gym time is probably the only thing keeping me sane right now! Our typical day consists of 10 hours in the classroom learning Hungarian, so gym time is literally like living in the desert and drinking water for the first time in a year (or like 3 days, but you get the point)!

Sorry this weeks email isn't super spiritual, but we had to get out some of the stories first! Next week I will be better! Last thing for today is introductions of the district members! I definitely got blessed to have these goofballs!

~Welcome to the MTC- Week 2~

{Welcome to the MTC - Week 2}

First off, sorry that you get two emails today, the computers here are weird and just randomly send my emails before I can even type anything! This week has been crazy busy! All but two of the sister in my district have come down with colds so that's been not fun, but we are all pushing through it anyways!

 Last Saturday we had an elder from our zone run away during the night. I didn't really know him, but that was super crazy and everyone was talking about it! But honestly the MTC is kind of hard at times hahah so i can't say that running away isn't tempting every now and then, but if you turn to the Lord it makes it sooo much easier! He literally knows everything you are going through and knows exactly how you feel! 

I talked a little bit about the MTC food in my last email, but our district leader came upon a scripture that pretty accurately describes it, so if you still need to read a scripture for the day, check out Jeremiah 4:19. If you don't laugh the first time, then you probably need to read it again, cause it's a good one! 

We have had some pretty great devotions this week! That is what we look forward to every Tuesday and Sunday! On Sunday we had a band called Nashville Tribute come and play and they were super awesome! Me and my companions came in right when it was starting and because we have a trio it messes up the seating arrangement so they let us go sit on the row behind the MTC Presidency and we got to talk to them, so that was super neat! Anyways, the band played a song about Joseph Smith's wife, Emma, and it is one of the best songs I've ever heard! You guys should all look it up some time, I promise you will love it! It is super sad but it just shows what she was willing to go through to support her husband in restoring the gospel! On Tuesday we had a general authority come and speak to us and they put us on the second row this time! We must be doing something right, cause we just keep lucking out! 

One thing that I wanted to share with you guys this week is about our spiritual progression. The world we live in is crazy! And we are all far from perfect! Heavenly Father and Christ know that though, and that is why Christ suffered and died for us! I think we sometimes don't take advantage of the Atonement as much as we should! We shouldn't waste our time getting overwhelmed with our imperfections though! What really matters isn't where we are at on the path of coming unto Christ, but rather which way we are facing! If we are looking towards God and striving to do our best to gain eternal life, than that is all that matters! Life is hard, don't get discouraged though! Heavenly Father is always there to help us and there is nothing He would rather do! I know this gospel is true, and I am so thankful for the opportunity to serve the Lord! You are all in my prayers! SZERETLEK!!!

LeBaron Nővér

Szeretlek!