Sziasztok!!
I hope you all had a great week and a great Halloween! :) Things are good here in Érd. Last week we had the Sister Training Leaders come for a day and that was fun. The Sister Training Leaders right now are Sister Jensen and Sister Daniels. They are such good missionaries. I hope I can be half as good as they are when I get to that point in my mission! :) (They go home in January!) I had the chance to go tracting for a few hours on Tuesday night with Sister Daniels. It was great. We were able to talk to a few people and give away a Book of Mormon. I then got to go streeting on Wednesday for a bit with Sister Jensen. It was really cool to be able to spend a little time learning from each of them.
On Saturday there was another Holiday - Day of the Dead. On that day, everyone goes to the cemeteries to visit the graves of their loved ones. I think it is so cool that they have a day that is dedicated to the memories of their loved ones who have already passed on.
On Sunday night, we had the opportunity to go to Budapest again for another baptism! A little girl in our branch got baptized. It was so great! There were so many people there. They had great talks and a BEAUTIFUL musical number. (Made me really grateful that they hadn't asked us missionaries to do another Musical Number. It wouldn't have been half as good as this one was ;)).
This week, as a mission we studied the Christ-Like Attribute Faith. I wish I had remembered my study journal to tell you all what I learned. But...I forgot it at home haha so I'll just tell you a few things that I remember about it. One thing that really stuck out to me was (not worded exactly like this) faith is kindled by hearing the testimony of those who have faith. I thought that was so interesting! I reread that a couple of times. As I read it, I thought about how the things that we are teaching people are sometimes completely new and foreign to them. But as we teach it to them, they can start to develop their own faith. When we bear our testimonies, that is when the Holy Ghost can really bear witness to them, allowing them to establish and strengthen their own faith. I could go on and on about what I learned but that was one of the things that stuck out to me the most! I also love that faith is a principle of action. It takes effort on our part to strengthen our own faith. We can just have faith once and then leave it to let it grow itself. It's like we read in Alma 32 about the seed. You have to strengthen it and nourish it for it to grow. It is also a principle of action on the sense that, if it is Heavenly Father's will, we can do anything according to our faith. If you haven't read about faith in True to the Faith, I would recommend it! It is really cool! :) I have also been attempting to read Jesus the Christ (wow does that man use big words!!). It is really interesting in there too to read examples of faith in Christ's life too.
I hope you all have a great week. I am getting way too into the Christmas spirit too early haha they don't really celebrate Halloween here and the Christmas stuff is out already. So I am feeling really Christmassy haha but I always start too early on the Christmas music so I guess that's nothing too new ;)
Thanks to all of you who email me! It really means so much to hear from family and friends. I love hearing how you are all doing! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
I hope you all had a great week and a great Halloween! :) Things are good here in Érd. Last week we had the Sister Training Leaders come for a day and that was fun. The Sister Training Leaders right now are Sister Jensen and Sister Daniels. They are such good missionaries. I hope I can be half as good as they are when I get to that point in my mission! :) (They go home in January!) I had the chance to go tracting for a few hours on Tuesday night with Sister Daniels. It was great. We were able to talk to a few people and give away a Book of Mormon. I then got to go streeting on Wednesday for a bit with Sister Jensen. It was really cool to be able to spend a little time learning from each of them.
On Saturday there was another Holiday - Day of the Dead. On that day, everyone goes to the cemeteries to visit the graves of their loved ones. I think it is so cool that they have a day that is dedicated to the memories of their loved ones who have already passed on.
On Sunday night, we had the opportunity to go to Budapest again for another baptism! A little girl in our branch got baptized. It was so great! There were so many people there. They had great talks and a BEAUTIFUL musical number. (Made me really grateful that they hadn't asked us missionaries to do another Musical Number. It wouldn't have been half as good as this one was ;)).
This week, as a mission we studied the Christ-Like Attribute Faith. I wish I had remembered my study journal to tell you all what I learned. But...I forgot it at home haha so I'll just tell you a few things that I remember about it. One thing that really stuck out to me was (not worded exactly like this) faith is kindled by hearing the testimony of those who have faith. I thought that was so interesting! I reread that a couple of times. As I read it, I thought about how the things that we are teaching people are sometimes completely new and foreign to them. But as we teach it to them, they can start to develop their own faith. When we bear our testimonies, that is when the Holy Ghost can really bear witness to them, allowing them to establish and strengthen their own faith. I could go on and on about what I learned but that was one of the things that stuck out to me the most! I also love that faith is a principle of action. It takes effort on our part to strengthen our own faith. We can just have faith once and then leave it to let it grow itself. It's like we read in Alma 32 about the seed. You have to strengthen it and nourish it for it to grow. It is also a principle of action on the sense that, if it is Heavenly Father's will, we can do anything according to our faith. If you haven't read about faith in True to the Faith, I would recommend it! It is really cool! :) I have also been attempting to read Jesus the Christ (wow does that man use big words!!). It is really interesting in there too to read examples of faith in Christ's life too.
I hope you all have a great week. I am getting way too into the Christmas spirit too early haha they don't really celebrate Halloween here and the Christmas stuff is out already. So I am feeling really Christmassy haha but I always start too early on the Christmas music so I guess that's nothing too new ;)
Thanks to all of you who email me! It really means so much to hear from family and friends. I love hearing how you are all doing! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
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