I hope you all had a great week!
We had a good week here in Érd. We had Zone Conference on Wednesday which was so fun. We got to go to Buda for a few hours and receive some trainings and guidance on how we can improve as missionaries. We learned how to strive to be "Master Teachers." They focused a lot on loving the people here. Because we aren't here just to get numbers and baptize for the sake of baptizing. We are here to help others come unto Christ. We are here to help and love these people!
We also had General Conference this week! Woohoo! It was so good. We got to watch all of it except for Sunday Afternoon session and the Women's Meeting and Saturday Morning we watched in Hungarian so I didn't honestly understand a lot of what was going on. But I still had some really great experiences during the Hungarian sessions. As we were waiting for the Women's conference, I was sitting out in the hall. All of a sudden I hear someone come in and I look up...and it was ILONA!!! AH I was so excited to see her come in!!!! I got up to go greet her and then a man came in. She said it was her boyfriend and asked if it was okay if she had brought him. We said "of course!!!" So ILONA CAME! And she brought her boyfriend! OH my gosh it was so great. They stayed for the whole Women's conference and I think she really liked it. We are meeting with her this week with one of the branch members so we can see what she really thought of it.
Right after, we watched the Saturday Morning session live in Hungarian. I was a little bummed I didn't get to watch it in English but I learned a lesson pretty quickly. The Hungarian connection started having some difficulties. After a few minutes, they ended up putting it up in English. Elder Whiting started translating for a little bit (and did a great job!) but we could tell how difficult it was and how quickly he had to do it. I just felt so guilty. I couldn't even focus on what was being said, to be honest. I just felt so bad that I couldn't help Elder Whiting translate. I felt so bad that the people of the branch couldn't understand anything that was being said. I just felt so awful. I remember saying a prayer and just asking Heavenly Father to let the Hungarian one work instead. Sure enough, I few minutes later the English connection started cutting out. They went back and tried the Hungarian connection again and it worked! And not only that, it had no problems for the rest of the conference. The second that it came back on in Hungarian, I felt the Spirit again. I was so grateful that the people in the branch could hear and understand the words that the people were saying. My testimony of prayer grew so much that night! :)
We did have the opportunity to watch the next two sessions in English the next day which was a blessing. I loved Elder Holland's talk about loving and serving those around you. I felt like he had written that talk for me. It was interesting because as I was listening, I wrote down a question in my journal of how i can better help people? At the time, I specifically wanted to know how I could help people when I get home from my mission. But the answer I received a few minutes later answered that question and how I can better help people now. Just a few minutes after I had written down the question Elder Holland said something like, "God knows how you can help. He will guide you." Things would be so much better in this world if we were all just a little kinder and loving to the people around us. We should all be striving to help each other and to lift each others burdens. Another thing I loved about conference was how two talks (at least that I saw) were given in the person's native language. How cool was that?!?!?!?!?! It was interesting because the first one was in Chinese so that had been translated into English and then into Hungarian. I just thought that was so cool. It shows how world wide our church is! I hope they do that more in the future!!
Anyways those are my few insights from this past week! I hope you all had a great conference weekend. To those of you who are not members of the church, I would encourage you to go and listen to some of these talks that were given this weekend! They are so wonderful. The people who give them are really called of God. I know that Thomas S. Monson is a true prophet of God today and that through him, Christ guides and directs this church.
I thought it would be fun to start sending home a few fun words that I learn each week!
varázspálca - magic wand
kaloz - pirate
kihallgatni - to eavesdrop
Általános Konferencia - General Conference
Love you all! Hope you all have a great week! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
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