This week had a lot of changes in it!
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
We had a little going away party for Sister Broadhead on Tuesday. It was so fun. Us four missionaries shared our favorite scriptures, then we had some sutti and games. We ended the night with Sister Broadhead's last program with Ádám. That was so sad. We all got kind of emotional!
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
We got up super early on Wednesday to catch the train to Buda! We got there and met up with all of the missionaries at the train station! It was SO much fun to see a lot of my friends from the MTC! Some of them I hadn't even seen since we've been in the country. Then a couple of us hopped on the metro to go get some lunch and then headed to the mission home. There, we attended the meeting where the new missionaries get put with their trainers. I am now with Sister Geröly from Hungary and Sister Whittaker who just got to Hungary last week. I think it will be a great transfer!
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Today we did some tracting. No real success but we were able to talk to a few people. We also had Angulóra (English class) that night and that was fun!
Friday, July 25, 2014
We had a cool tracting story on Friday! We knocked on the door and a little old néni named Edit opened it. We told her who we were and about our message. At first she did not seem to be very interested and I thought she was going to close the door. But, instead she opened her door and let us come in. We talked with her for a little while. She told us how her husband had died, her parents had died and her daughter died. She has been alone for 12 years. We asked her if there was anything we could do for her (she struggles walking a little). She got a little emotional as she told us that us just being there and talking to her was a big help because she felt so alone. Sister Whittaker and I both ended up a little emotional after that! She was the sweetest lady and graciously accepted the Book of Mormon that we gave her. I am excited to go back and see her again this week! It was a really special experience. I could feel part of the love that the Savior has for her!
Saturday, July 27, 2014
We did some more tracting on Saturday in the same building where Edit Néni lives. We met a really cool lady named Marcsi. She was busy cooking for her daughters bday party. She let us in and we chatted for a bit! She had two really cute kids who were very polite and sweet! You could see how much they all loved each other - it was so sweet! We gave her a Book of Mormon and asked if we could come back and she said yes! She was so nice. I am excited to go back and see her again this week as well!
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Sunday was good. We went to church, as usual. We also went out and tracted for about 3 hours. By the end of the night our feet were killing us! We didn't have much luck...but we can't have great success everyday, right? ;) We then were able to go over to our investigator Edit's house and talk with her a little bit. Afterwards, we had dinner at the Smith's house. They were so kind to cook us a delicious meal! It was nice to spend a little bit of time as a district together and get to know each other a little better.
Things with the language are going pretty well! I still don't understand everything and I can speak even less. But it seems almost like a switch was just flipped and all of a sudden I can understand a lot more than before. I was able to talk to a lot of people on Sunday by myself, understand a lot of what is going on in lessons, and talk a little more to people when we are on the street. I still have a LONG way to go but it is exciting when you start to feel like you are improving. I just want to be able to really communicate with the people here. I know that it is not on my own either that I am able to speak this language at all. It is hard. But I know that the Lord is blessing me so much to be able to start improving! Two scriptures come to mind when I think about this. The first is Mark 9:23 which says "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." The other is Ether 12. That chapter talks a lot about faith. It goes through lots of the amazing things that people did in the Book of Mormon and how they were able to do all of those things because of their faith in Christ. I know that if I continue to develop my faith and do my part, the Lord will help me with the rest. Not just with the language but just with being a missionary in general!
Well that's about it for this week! I hope you all have a great week! :)
Simons Nővér xx
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