October 13, 2014

Hi Everyone!!

Hope you all had a great week! We had a good week here in Érd. First, we had a program with Ilona that went so well. We brought Aniko with us and they hit it off right away! We taught her about the Plan of Salvation. She is so sweet. She loved hearing about how this gospel really helped Aniko. Aniko was baptized about two years ago and has such a strong testimony. Elder Gonzales (Ilona's grandson who was in the MTC with me) called us the next day and said that he had talked to her on the phone. He told us that she LOVES meeting with us. He said that she told him all about the "Mormon Convention" that she went to with the girls! (By Mormon Convention, she meant General Conference ;)). I am so excited. I hope that she continues to progress. She is very interested in everything that we teach and does read from the Book of Mormon! We'll see! I'll keep you all updated with how it goes! :)

This week we went over to dinner at the Palmer family's house. They are an American family that just moved into the Branch! The mom is Hungarian and the dad is American. It was so nice of them to have us all over. It was really interesting because I could remember all the times when my family would have the missionaries over. And this time, I was one of the missionaries! I could see myself sitting where the 15 year old daughter was sitting. We could feel such a good spirit in their home. They will be such a great strength to this branch.

I learned a really good lesson this week. Sister Erlandsson and I really wanted to get Standard of Excellence this week. Although a worthy goal, I think that I focused a little to much on just getting standard. We came pretty close but yesterday I was a little discouraged because we weren't going get it. We went out tracting for a few hours yesterday and had a few interesting conversations at doors but most people were just not interested. We got to the last door and I was still feeling a little discouraged. A néni came out and we started trying to talk to her but her dogs were barking too loudly...so she told us to come in! I was so surprised. But we went in and started asking her some of the survey questions. She seemed really sad but was really nice talking to us. We asked her if she could ask God one question, what it would be. She thought for a minute and as she started talking, she started to cry. She said she had had a baby that died and started telling us about it. It was an interesting experience for me as I listened to her, I could feel the love that the Savior had for her. I had just me this néni and yet I just felt so much love and compassion for her. I just wanted to hug her and tell her how much her Heavenly Father loves her and teach her everything right then. At that moment, I remembered the real reason I am here. Of course I would love to get Standard again :) but, I am here to help bring others unto Christ and to help them come to know their Heavenly Father and their Savior. We gave her a Book of Mormon and told her we had a message that could bring her peace and happiness. She was so excited to receive a Book of Mormon and we set up to go back the coming week!

Hungarian words for the week :)
kém - spy
láthatatlan - invisible
szemöldök - eyebrow

Also, I discovered a song on my iPod (thanks to Mckell #shoutout :)) that I had never heard before. It's called, "Come See the Light" by Freddie Ashby. Everyone should go listen to it!! I have had it on repeat for like a week now haha it is so good!

Hope you all have a great week! :)

Sok szeretettel,

Simons Nővér xx