Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Last One...
Sziasztok!
Well we had a great last week here! Here are some highlights...
Oliver
We started meeting with Oliver, the 16 year old kid we met playing soccer. Our first program with him was SO good. We talked about the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty spiritual program. But being as how this past week I have been a little emotionally unstable...I started crying haha. I was bearing my testimony to him about the Book of Mormon and just lost it. Sister Smith had tears in her eyes too and I think Oliver even felt something because he had some tears in his eyes too :) We met with him again after that and taught him the Restoration. Then last night we taught him the Plan of Salvation. I was telling him how that was our last program and he was like "what about tomorrow?!" So we are meeting with him again after Game Night tonight! :) So excited to hear about how things progress with him. He's a great kid.
Gizi Néni
I had to say goodbye to Gizi Néni yesterday which was so sad. We went to visit her and read a few scriptures with her. I told her we could email each other and keep in contact. She just started crying. She pulled me over to her bed and just hugged me while she cried. It broke my heart. Being able to go visit her the past few weeks was such a blessing! She is such a sweet, strong lady.
Áron
I dont know if you all remember me talking about Áron in Buda that we started meeting with. Super cool guy that would come to Angolóra. I talked to Sister VanDenBerghe last night and he just accepted a bap date! He is getting baptized on October 30th. I am SO excited for him!!! :)
This is it...
I can't believe this is my last email. I'm going to be honest...I have completely mixed feelings right now. Part of me is super excited to come home, to see my family and friends and to start the next phase of my life. The other part of me is not ready to be done, not ready to leave this place and to be done with this phase of my life. I will miss the purpose I have felt every day as a missionary. I will miss being able to see people's lives change. I will miss doing this work. But I know that my time has come. I am just trying to deal now with all the different emotions :). I want to thank everyone that has emailed me over the last year and a half. Getting those emails each week kept me going. They gave me strength from week to week. Thank you for all of the prayers, support and encouragement. This is the best thing I have ever done. It was also the hardest thing I have ever done. It was harder in ways that I did not expect. But it was also better in ways I couldn't have even imagined. I feel like I was given more and learned more than I ever gave or taught. This gospel is true. I am so grateful that I got to spend the last year and a half of my life here teacing people about it. God is our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is our Savior. They both know us perfectly. They are always with us.
Alma 26:12 - Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
Well we had a great last week here! Here are some highlights...
Oliver
We started meeting with Oliver, the 16 year old kid we met playing soccer. Our first program with him was SO good. We talked about the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty spiritual program. But being as how this past week I have been a little emotionally unstable...I started crying haha. I was bearing my testimony to him about the Book of Mormon and just lost it. Sister Smith had tears in her eyes too and I think Oliver even felt something because he had some tears in his eyes too :) We met with him again after that and taught him the Restoration. Then last night we taught him the Plan of Salvation. I was telling him how that was our last program and he was like "what about tomorrow?!" So we are meeting with him again after Game Night tonight! :) So excited to hear about how things progress with him. He's a great kid.
Gizi Néni
I had to say goodbye to Gizi Néni yesterday which was so sad. We went to visit her and read a few scriptures with her. I told her we could email each other and keep in contact. She just started crying. She pulled me over to her bed and just hugged me while she cried. It broke my heart. Being able to go visit her the past few weeks was such a blessing! She is such a sweet, strong lady.
Áron
I dont know if you all remember me talking about Áron in Buda that we started meeting with. Super cool guy that would come to Angolóra. I talked to Sister VanDenBerghe last night and he just accepted a bap date! He is getting baptized on October 30th. I am SO excited for him!!! :)
This is it...
I can't believe this is my last email. I'm going to be honest...I have completely mixed feelings right now. Part of me is super excited to come home, to see my family and friends and to start the next phase of my life. The other part of me is not ready to be done, not ready to leave this place and to be done with this phase of my life. I will miss the purpose I have felt every day as a missionary. I will miss being able to see people's lives change. I will miss doing this work. But I know that my time has come. I am just trying to deal now with all the different emotions :). I want to thank everyone that has emailed me over the last year and a half. Getting those emails each week kept me going. They gave me strength from week to week. Thank you for all of the prayers, support and encouragement. This is the best thing I have ever done. It was also the hardest thing I have ever done. It was harder in ways that I did not expect. But it was also better in ways I couldn't have even imagined. I feel like I was given more and learned more than I ever gave or taught. This gospel is true. I am so grateful that I got to spend the last year and a half of my life here teacing people about it. God is our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is our Savior. They both know us perfectly. They are always with us.
Alma 26:12 - Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
Monday, September 28, 2015
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Hi Everyone!
One week to go. I can't believe this is my last full week as a missionary. The emotions are all over the place, thats for sure! I feel a little emotionally unstable right now to be honest, haha. We had a good week last week.
Zone Conference
I had my last Zone Conference this past week, which was pretty weird. It was good though. Although I knew I had to give my departing testimony so I was thinking about that pretty much the whole time. I started crying before I even got up to give it haha. I basically talked about remembering when I got my mission call. I was really stressed haha I drove over to my friends McKenzie and McKell's house to open it. I called up my parents to wake them up and have them get on skype. I was bawling. McKenzie and McKell were trying to comfort me. They told me that I would feel peace once I knew where I was going. I pulled myself together and opened it. I remember seeing an "H" and immediately thought it was Honduras because I spoke Spanish. But I started reading and read "Hungary Budapest Mission." That was such a surprise! But as soon as I read it and knew where I was going, I did feel that peace that my friends were talking about. It took me a little while to decide to come on a mission (a few years ;)). But I know that I was supposed to come to Hungary at this time. I have no doubt about that. This has been the hardest thing I have ever done. But it has also been the most rewarding thing I have ever done. I wouldn't trade it for anything. This is the best work anyone can do. As excited as I am to come home and see family and friends, I am so sad to leave this country and the people here! Its been a great 18 months!
Meet the Mormons
I finally got to see Meet the Mormons! Well...almost all of it. The Zone Leaders came for splits with the elders this past week and got permission to let us all watch it. Sadly though, it got too late and we didn't get to finish it. It was so good. Totally had me in tears haha I for sure will have to watch the whole thing when I get home!
Church
So this week we had three investigators in church!! Marcsi, who is the young girl that we meet with came. She stayed all three hours and loved it! :) Then this lady in the branch brought her friend. The member invited us over for lunch this week and invited her friend too who will be there. We gave her a Book of Mormon and got to know her a little so lunch should be fun! :) And the third person who came was Oliver (the kid we play soccer with)! He comes to like everything now. I've been joking with him for a few weeks that he needs to com to church. He always said he would come if he woke up ;) So on Saturday, I told him I could call him in the morning to help him wake up ;) haha i was partially joking but he said okay! So Sunday morning, I called him and he answered and said he was coming! It was the best thing ever to see him walking up to church! :)
Well...this is it. I'll probably send one more quick email next week but then I'm home. So weird. I hope you all have a great week! Thank you all for the love, prayers and support. Its greatly appreciated! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
One week to go. I can't believe this is my last full week as a missionary. The emotions are all over the place, thats for sure! I feel a little emotionally unstable right now to be honest, haha. We had a good week last week.
Zone Conference
I had my last Zone Conference this past week, which was pretty weird. It was good though. Although I knew I had to give my departing testimony so I was thinking about that pretty much the whole time. I started crying before I even got up to give it haha. I basically talked about remembering when I got my mission call. I was really stressed haha I drove over to my friends McKenzie and McKell's house to open it. I called up my parents to wake them up and have them get on skype. I was bawling. McKenzie and McKell were trying to comfort me. They told me that I would feel peace once I knew where I was going. I pulled myself together and opened it. I remember seeing an "H" and immediately thought it was Honduras because I spoke Spanish. But I started reading and read "Hungary Budapest Mission." That was such a surprise! But as soon as I read it and knew where I was going, I did feel that peace that my friends were talking about. It took me a little while to decide to come on a mission (a few years ;)). But I know that I was supposed to come to Hungary at this time. I have no doubt about that. This has been the hardest thing I have ever done. But it has also been the most rewarding thing I have ever done. I wouldn't trade it for anything. This is the best work anyone can do. As excited as I am to come home and see family and friends, I am so sad to leave this country and the people here! Its been a great 18 months!
Meet the Mormons
I finally got to see Meet the Mormons! Well...almost all of it. The Zone Leaders came for splits with the elders this past week and got permission to let us all watch it. Sadly though, it got too late and we didn't get to finish it. It was so good. Totally had me in tears haha I for sure will have to watch the whole thing when I get home!
Church
So this week we had three investigators in church!! Marcsi, who is the young girl that we meet with came. She stayed all three hours and loved it! :) Then this lady in the branch brought her friend. The member invited us over for lunch this week and invited her friend too who will be there. We gave her a Book of Mormon and got to know her a little so lunch should be fun! :) And the third person who came was Oliver (the kid we play soccer with)! He comes to like everything now. I've been joking with him for a few weeks that he needs to com to church. He always said he would come if he woke up ;) So on Saturday, I told him I could call him in the morning to help him wake up ;) haha i was partially joking but he said okay! So Sunday morning, I called him and he answered and said he was coming! It was the best thing ever to see him walking up to church! :)
Well...this is it. I'll probably send one more quick email next week but then I'm home. So weird. I hope you all have a great week! Thank you all for the love, prayers and support. Its greatly appreciated! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
Monday, September 21, 2015
2
Hi Everyone!
Well...the countdown continues. Just 2 weeks left and I can't believe it. We had a good week here though!
Young Womens
So we taught Young Women's yesterday! I'm not going to lie...I love going to Young Women's every week here haha Relief Society is great but its so fun to have a change and go be with the young girls every week. We taught about fasting which is a topic I love. I hate fasting haha hardest thing for me to do. But because it's so hard for me, I have seen so many blessings come from it. I wasn't a great faster before my mission. But fasting on my mission, I have seen so many miracles. Especially when my companion and I were fasting for other people or for one purpose. So it was a fun topic to teach about, especially in with the Young Women! There are technically 3 Young Women in the ward but only two come regularly. So we had those to, plus our investigator Marcsi so ti was a fun little group! :)
Gizi Néni
So there is an old lady in our branch who almost a year ago had a stroke. Apparently, she had been super active and everything before her stroke. Now she is in a wheel chair and has a hard time speaking and I think one of her arms is paralyzed? I'm not totally sure. We have wanted to go and visit her but her phone number doesn't work and we had been told her daughter who lives with her and takes care of her didn't want people coming over anymore. But we were walking to go tracting on Friday morning and we walked past a building and saw her sitting outside! We ran over to chat with her and her daughter. She is so cute her face just lit up and she held her hand out to ours! Her daughter was there too and was actually super nice! We sat and chatted for a little bit and she was just like, "you guys can come over whenever to visit!" So we set up to go the next morning and visit her. It was such a good visit. Her face just lit up when we walked int he room. She showed us a bunch of pictures of past missionaries that had taught her that I knew. Then we read some of her favorite verses from the Book of Mormon out loud to her. We read Alma 7:11-12 about the Atonement and she just started crying. It was amazing how I had hardly spent any time with this woman and I just felt so much love for her! She could hardly even speak to us and when she tired she didn't know how to say things. It was just so nice to be able to spend time with her and help brighten her day a little. Love that lady!!
P-Day Adventure Park
This morning we went to an Adventure Park for pday. It was so much fun! We did this 1km zip line that was sick. Then, Sister Smith and I went to do this bungee trampoline thing. It was fun but pretty uncomfortable haha so we didn't last that long. As we were getting off, the guy that was helping us asked us if we were going to go and do bob sledding. We told him no because we didn't have that much money. As I got off the trampoline he handed me two of our tickets back and said, "here is one for each of you! Go and try the bob sledding!" I couldn't believe how freaking nice he was! So we go to go and do some bob sledding for free and it was SO much fun! Will definitely be feeling tired and sore tomorrow.
Well that's about it for the week. Time is running out pretty quickly here. Which is the weirdest feeling. Hope you all have a great week! :)
Simons Nővér xx
Well...the countdown continues. Just 2 weeks left and I can't believe it. We had a good week here though!
Young Womens
So we taught Young Women's yesterday! I'm not going to lie...I love going to Young Women's every week here haha Relief Society is great but its so fun to have a change and go be with the young girls every week. We taught about fasting which is a topic I love. I hate fasting haha hardest thing for me to do. But because it's so hard for me, I have seen so many blessings come from it. I wasn't a great faster before my mission. But fasting on my mission, I have seen so many miracles. Especially when my companion and I were fasting for other people or for one purpose. So it was a fun topic to teach about, especially in with the Young Women! There are technically 3 Young Women in the ward but only two come regularly. So we had those to, plus our investigator Marcsi so ti was a fun little group! :)
Gizi Néni
So there is an old lady in our branch who almost a year ago had a stroke. Apparently, she had been super active and everything before her stroke. Now she is in a wheel chair and has a hard time speaking and I think one of her arms is paralyzed? I'm not totally sure. We have wanted to go and visit her but her phone number doesn't work and we had been told her daughter who lives with her and takes care of her didn't want people coming over anymore. But we were walking to go tracting on Friday morning and we walked past a building and saw her sitting outside! We ran over to chat with her and her daughter. She is so cute her face just lit up and she held her hand out to ours! Her daughter was there too and was actually super nice! We sat and chatted for a little bit and she was just like, "you guys can come over whenever to visit!" So we set up to go the next morning and visit her. It was such a good visit. Her face just lit up when we walked int he room. She showed us a bunch of pictures of past missionaries that had taught her that I knew. Then we read some of her favorite verses from the Book of Mormon out loud to her. We read Alma 7:11-12 about the Atonement and she just started crying. It was amazing how I had hardly spent any time with this woman and I just felt so much love for her! She could hardly even speak to us and when she tired she didn't know how to say things. It was just so nice to be able to spend time with her and help brighten her day a little. Love that lady!!
P-Day Adventure Park
This morning we went to an Adventure Park for pday. It was so much fun! We did this 1km zip line that was sick. Then, Sister Smith and I went to do this bungee trampoline thing. It was fun but pretty uncomfortable haha so we didn't last that long. As we were getting off, the guy that was helping us asked us if we were going to go and do bob sledding. We told him no because we didn't have that much money. As I got off the trampoline he handed me two of our tickets back and said, "here is one for each of you! Go and try the bob sledding!" I couldn't believe how freaking nice he was! So we go to go and do some bob sledding for free and it was SO much fun! Will definitely be feeling tired and sore tomorrow.
Well that's about it for the week. Time is running out pretty quickly here. Which is the weirdest feeling. Hope you all have a great week! :)
Simons Nővér xx
Sunday, September 20, 2015
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Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a great week.
Marcsi
So last week for fast Sunday, one of the things that I fasted for was to get some work going here in Veszprém. Sister Smith fasted for that also (although neither of us had talked about it beforehand). But, our fasts seemed to work! On Tuesday, we were out tracting. We were going to try and get into this one building but we ended up passing it and going to the next building. Luckily, the door was open so we were able to just go right in. Sadly, no luck though haha. But we were walking back to the building that we were going to do before. We went to the doorbell box thing (the csengő box for the Hungarian speakers ;)). We were about to start ringing doors but this girl comes to the front and opens the door to let us in. We thank her and she tells us she doesn't live there but she was just waiting for someone. We started talking to her and she told us that she used to meet with the missionaries but was just on a little break right now. We got her phone number and set up to meet with her that week. So on Saturday we met with her. She wanted to show us her favorite verses in the Book of Mormon. We got to know her a little and aksed her if she had ever talked to the missionaries about baptism. She said that she had prayed about it but didn't feel like she had received a clear answer. So we asked her to pray about it again and she said she would! She also came to church yesterday and really enjoyed it! Hopefully things will continue to go well with her. It was definitely not a coincidence that we ran into her in a random building that she didn't even live in. Fasting totally works! :)
Oliver
Oliver is the cool kid we met playing soccer a few weeks ago! He has become our little buddy and comes to like everything! His friends don't really come on Saturday nights to Sport Nap anymore because school has started. But he is always there without a doubt. And he has started coming to our English Class too and last week after English Class he stayed and watched a fireside that was being broadcasted from Pest. He also came to Game Night this week. He came about 20 minutes early so we were just hanging out a little before everyone else showed up. We ended up giving him a Book of Mormon! He told us his mom has seen us at the grocery store where we go shopping. We have tried to go back and find her a couple times but she has never been working when we've gone. Would be so cool to be able to teach all of them!
Well those are the cool little miracles for the week! Can't believe how close to the end I am getting.
Hope you all have an amazing week! Thanks for all of your prayers and support. :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
ps. here is a great video :) My dad sent me this talk a few months ago and it has helped me a lot throughout my mission!http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages/come-what-may-and-love-it-2
Hope you all had a great week.
Marcsi
So last week for fast Sunday, one of the things that I fasted for was to get some work going here in Veszprém. Sister Smith fasted for that also (although neither of us had talked about it beforehand). But, our fasts seemed to work! On Tuesday, we were out tracting. We were going to try and get into this one building but we ended up passing it and going to the next building. Luckily, the door was open so we were able to just go right in. Sadly, no luck though haha. But we were walking back to the building that we were going to do before. We went to the doorbell box thing (the csengő box for the Hungarian speakers ;)). We were about to start ringing doors but this girl comes to the front and opens the door to let us in. We thank her and she tells us she doesn't live there but she was just waiting for someone. We started talking to her and she told us that she used to meet with the missionaries but was just on a little break right now. We got her phone number and set up to meet with her that week. So on Saturday we met with her. She wanted to show us her favorite verses in the Book of Mormon. We got to know her a little and aksed her if she had ever talked to the missionaries about baptism. She said that she had prayed about it but didn't feel like she had received a clear answer. So we asked her to pray about it again and she said she would! She also came to church yesterday and really enjoyed it! Hopefully things will continue to go well with her. It was definitely not a coincidence that we ran into her in a random building that she didn't even live in. Fasting totally works! :)
Oliver
Oliver is the cool kid we met playing soccer a few weeks ago! He has become our little buddy and comes to like everything! His friends don't really come on Saturday nights to Sport Nap anymore because school has started. But he is always there without a doubt. And he has started coming to our English Class too and last week after English Class he stayed and watched a fireside that was being broadcasted from Pest. He also came to Game Night this week. He came about 20 minutes early so we were just hanging out a little before everyone else showed up. We ended up giving him a Book of Mormon! He told us his mom has seen us at the grocery store where we go shopping. We have tried to go back and find her a couple times but she has never been working when we've gone. Would be so cool to be able to teach all of them!
Well those are the cool little miracles for the week! Can't believe how close to the end I am getting.
Hope you all have an amazing week! Thanks for all of your prayers and support. :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
ps. here is a great video :) My dad sent me this talk a few months ago and it has helped me a lot throughout my mission!http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages/come-what-may-and-love-it-2
Thursday, September 10, 2015
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Hi everyone!
I hope you all had a great week. This week went by fast.
Andrea
So my friend Elder Beaumont who served here called me a few weeks ago and told us about this lady that they had met with. So we tried and called her several times with no answer. So this past week we decided to go over and visit. She had actually just gotten home from work when we went over so she let us in. Her son tragically died about a year and a half ago and she is still struggling with that, understandably. She has another son too and a boyfriend. She is super nice but really sad. It was pretty loud and hectic the first time we went over.We were able to go back and visit her again last night. It was a small miracle too because last night, all the boys went into another room and we were able to just quietly talk with Andrea. Hopefully we can help her to feel some more happiness in her life!
Fast Sunday
Well, Sunday was my last fast Sunday in the country. Which was a weird thought. I knew it was my last chance to bear my testimony in Hungarian so I planned to get up. But of course as the time came I got nervous because I hate speaking in front of people! I was praying for the courage to just get up. Then, one of the young woman in the branch turned around and looked at me and kind of motioned that I should go up there. I am really glad she did that! It helped me to just not be afraid and get up. So I was able to bear my testimony for the last time in Hungarian.
Funny Story
So one night while we were tracting, we knocked on a door and this old lady opened it. She couldn't hear very well so she spoke really loudly. We told her we were missionaries and she said she wasn't interested but she respected us for what we were doing! She then preceded to talk for 20 minutes straight without taking a break haha I'm not going to lie...after about 10 minutes I lost track of what she was even talking about anymore. Then all of a sudden, she pulled down her pants. Yeah...pulled down her pants.... She showed us this...ball hanging off the side of her leg. It was so nasty haha I felt bad for her but I had no idea what she was talking about and it took everything in me not to smile and start laughing.
Friday Tabling
So on Fridays we go tabling with the members. This past Friday, someone started talking to this woman who was just sitting down. I hear my name being called over so I go over to them and Elder King was like, "she only speaks Spanish!" So I started trying to talk to her in Spanish. I struggled a little so I gave her a flyer and then walked away a little discouraged. After a minute I realized I was being dumb. She was still just sitting there by herself so I decided to go over and try to talk to her a little more. I sat down with her and we talked for about an hour! It was so cool! I understood everything she said, I just struggled a little to switch my brain from Hungarian to Spanish. But we were able to communicate just fine! Then some of the members came over to talk to her and then I translated from Spanish to Hungarian and back. That really tripped out my mind haha but it was really cool!
That morning I had been reading in Ether 12 about faith and all of the different things that the people in the Book of Mormon were able to do with faith. I know that with faith and with God's help, we can do anything. For example, only with faith and God's help could I learn Hungarian and be here teaching these people. And just with faith and Heavenly Father's help, could I somehow communicate with that lady in Spanish when I have lost a lot of my speaking ability. I have mentioned this before as about a year ago I realized I had lost a lot of my Spanish. But that is another test of my faith. Heavenly Father knows how much speaking Spanish means to me and I know that after my mission, He will help me get it back. :) I know that if we just trust in Him and have faith, we can do miracles!
I hope you all have a wonderful week. Thank you all for your support and prayers! See you in a month!
Simons Nővér xx
I hope you all had a great week. This week went by fast.
Andrea
So my friend Elder Beaumont who served here called me a few weeks ago and told us about this lady that they had met with. So we tried and called her several times with no answer. So this past week we decided to go over and visit. She had actually just gotten home from work when we went over so she let us in. Her son tragically died about a year and a half ago and she is still struggling with that, understandably. She has another son too and a boyfriend. She is super nice but really sad. It was pretty loud and hectic the first time we went over.We were able to go back and visit her again last night. It was a small miracle too because last night, all the boys went into another room and we were able to just quietly talk with Andrea. Hopefully we can help her to feel some more happiness in her life!
Fast Sunday
Well, Sunday was my last fast Sunday in the country. Which was a weird thought. I knew it was my last chance to bear my testimony in Hungarian so I planned to get up. But of course as the time came I got nervous because I hate speaking in front of people! I was praying for the courage to just get up. Then, one of the young woman in the branch turned around and looked at me and kind of motioned that I should go up there. I am really glad she did that! It helped me to just not be afraid and get up. So I was able to bear my testimony for the last time in Hungarian.
Funny Story
So one night while we were tracting, we knocked on a door and this old lady opened it. She couldn't hear very well so she spoke really loudly. We told her we were missionaries and she said she wasn't interested but she respected us for what we were doing! She then preceded to talk for 20 minutes straight without taking a break haha I'm not going to lie...after about 10 minutes I lost track of what she was even talking about anymore. Then all of a sudden, she pulled down her pants. Yeah...pulled down her pants.... She showed us this...ball hanging off the side of her leg. It was so nasty haha I felt bad for her but I had no idea what she was talking about and it took everything in me not to smile and start laughing.
Friday Tabling
So on Fridays we go tabling with the members. This past Friday, someone started talking to this woman who was just sitting down. I hear my name being called over so I go over to them and Elder King was like, "she only speaks Spanish!" So I started trying to talk to her in Spanish. I struggled a little so I gave her a flyer and then walked away a little discouraged. After a minute I realized I was being dumb. She was still just sitting there by herself so I decided to go over and try to talk to her a little more. I sat down with her and we talked for about an hour! It was so cool! I understood everything she said, I just struggled a little to switch my brain from Hungarian to Spanish. But we were able to communicate just fine! Then some of the members came over to talk to her and then I translated from Spanish to Hungarian and back. That really tripped out my mind haha but it was really cool!
That morning I had been reading in Ether 12 about faith and all of the different things that the people in the Book of Mormon were able to do with faith. I know that with faith and with God's help, we can do anything. For example, only with faith and God's help could I learn Hungarian and be here teaching these people. And just with faith and Heavenly Father's help, could I somehow communicate with that lady in Spanish when I have lost a lot of my speaking ability. I have mentioned this before as about a year ago I realized I had lost a lot of my Spanish. But that is another test of my faith. Heavenly Father knows how much speaking Spanish means to me and I know that after my mission, He will help me get it back. :) I know that if we just trust in Him and have faith, we can do miracles!
I hope you all have a wonderful week. Thank you all for your support and prayers! See you in a month!
Simons Nővér xx
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