Sziasztok!
I hope you all had a great week! We had an awesome week in Érd. Things are finally starting to feel like they are picking up. There is still a ways to go of course but it is exciting to see stuff slowly starting to happen. We had some pretty great things happen this week.
On Monday, Ilona came to Family Night again! We were SO surprised to see her!!! She brought her boyfriend again too. That was so fun to have them there. I think they really enjoyed it. She was so cute. I snuck a cookie before we started (not so sneekily) and she pointed at me and told me to repent! I laughed SO hard!!! Then she went on and told Elder Whiting the 5 steps to the gospel of Jesus Christ. She said she had been studying. She is so cute I love her so stinking much.
On Tuesday, we had a really great day. We went out streeting and stopped to talked to this old couple. I started talking to the old guy and Sister Erlandsson was talking to his wife. We chatted for a bit and I was able to give him a Book of Mormon and share one of my favorite scriptures with him. We got their phone number and hopefully can set up a time to go over and meet with them. They were so sweet. After that, we headed over to a program. That program wasn't the best but that's okay. As we were walking back, we had some time before our next program. We decided we would stop by and see this lady we met a few weeks ago and then ended up tracting into her. We had gone over a few times but the time was never good for her and she always told us to come back later. We were walking by and saw her walking out with her bike and thought "ugh seriously again!" but as we walked by we waved at her and she asked us where we were going. She asked us if we had time and if we wanted to come in and chat! We thought "...wait. seriously?!" So we went in and chatted with her and her husband. They were both so sweet! Her husband was such a nice happy old guy. Sadly, he has Alzheimer's and I think that the wife, Marika, is really lonely because they have the same conversations over and over again. It was nice to finally be able to chat with her. We talked about our families and had a good time. We are going to try and go back again some time because she said that we were welcome to come over whenever! :) Later that night, we had another program. This was with a couple who Sister E and Sister Jensen (Sister Training Leader) met while we were on splits last week. We went over and gave them each a Book of Mormon which they were excited to get. We then taught them the restoration lesson. The Spirit was so strong in the room. They seemed to accept it all well. They are such a nice, kind couple. They have strong faith already and such a great feeling in their home. We are going back tonight to see them again so that is exciting! :) Then Tuesday night, we got packages from our families that the Elders brought back from Buda. That was amazing. I literally cried :) Aaaaaaand no judgements but I am totally listening to Christmas music already!
On Friday, Sister E and I got to go to Buda for interviews with President Smith. That was fun. I always love going into Buda (I love Buda and I LOVE riding trains :)) and I love President Smith so it was great to be able to chat with him for a little bit.
The rest of the week was pretty good too. Last night was really great. We had a program with András, Éva and Tibor (new investigators). We met András while tracting a few weeks ago and got his phone number. We have tried to meet with them a few times and it never worked out. We went over on Saturday for the 3 rescheduled time and he asked if we could come back on Sunday. As we were walking back on Sunday, I am not going to lie I was not totally sure we would meet with them. But when we got there, he let us in! We met his girlfriend and her son and got to know them a little bit. We taught them about the restoration. The spirit was so strong. It was such a testimony builder to me that the spirit does all the teaching, we just provide the information. I felt like my Hungarian wasn't the best and I was probably a little spazzy, but somehow the Spirit was strong and they were able to feel it. We gave them each a Book of Mormon (well, András and Éva...we had only brought two that night). We bore our testimonies about it. I told them how i Know this Book is true. Éva responded that she knew it was true too! It was amazing. Sister E and I came home pretty pumped last night! I will keep you all updated on them!! So exciting! :)
So this week for the Christ-like attribute we studied hope. At the beginning, I was trying really hard to think of the differences between faith and hope because a lot of the things I read and studied, their explanations were very similar. What I learned was that faith and hope, though different, work completely together. In Preach My Gospel it says that hope is "optimism, enthusiasm and patient perseverance." Faith, is the reason we do something. It is what moves us forward. Hope, is what keeps us optimistic and positive. It is what helps us to keep perspective.
I hope you all have a great week. Thank you for all of your love and support and prayers! Talk to you all next week! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
I hope you all had a great week! We had an awesome week in Érd. Things are finally starting to feel like they are picking up. There is still a ways to go of course but it is exciting to see stuff slowly starting to happen. We had some pretty great things happen this week.
On Monday, Ilona came to Family Night again! We were SO surprised to see her!!! She brought her boyfriend again too. That was so fun to have them there. I think they really enjoyed it. She was so cute. I snuck a cookie before we started (not so sneekily) and she pointed at me and told me to repent! I laughed SO hard!!! Then she went on and told Elder Whiting the 5 steps to the gospel of Jesus Christ. She said she had been studying. She is so cute I love her so stinking much.
On Tuesday, we had a really great day. We went out streeting and stopped to talked to this old couple. I started talking to the old guy and Sister Erlandsson was talking to his wife. We chatted for a bit and I was able to give him a Book of Mormon and share one of my favorite scriptures with him. We got their phone number and hopefully can set up a time to go over and meet with them. They were so sweet. After that, we headed over to a program. That program wasn't the best but that's okay. As we were walking back, we had some time before our next program. We decided we would stop by and see this lady we met a few weeks ago and then ended up tracting into her. We had gone over a few times but the time was never good for her and she always told us to come back later. We were walking by and saw her walking out with her bike and thought "ugh seriously again!" but as we walked by we waved at her and she asked us where we were going. She asked us if we had time and if we wanted to come in and chat! We thought "...wait. seriously?!" So we went in and chatted with her and her husband. They were both so sweet! Her husband was such a nice happy old guy. Sadly, he has Alzheimer's and I think that the wife, Marika, is really lonely because they have the same conversations over and over again. It was nice to finally be able to chat with her. We talked about our families and had a good time. We are going to try and go back again some time because she said that we were welcome to come over whenever! :) Later that night, we had another program. This was with a couple who Sister E and Sister Jensen (Sister Training Leader) met while we were on splits last week. We went over and gave them each a Book of Mormon which they were excited to get. We then taught them the restoration lesson. The Spirit was so strong in the room. They seemed to accept it all well. They are such a nice, kind couple. They have strong faith already and such a great feeling in their home. We are going back tonight to see them again so that is exciting! :) Then Tuesday night, we got packages from our families that the Elders brought back from Buda. That was amazing. I literally cried :) Aaaaaaand no judgements but I am totally listening to Christmas music already!
On Friday, Sister E and I got to go to Buda for interviews with President Smith. That was fun. I always love going into Buda (I love Buda and I LOVE riding trains :)) and I love President Smith so it was great to be able to chat with him for a little bit.
The rest of the week was pretty good too. Last night was really great. We had a program with András, Éva and Tibor (new investigators). We met András while tracting a few weeks ago and got his phone number. We have tried to meet with them a few times and it never worked out. We went over on Saturday for the 3 rescheduled time and he asked if we could come back on Sunday. As we were walking back on Sunday, I am not going to lie I was not totally sure we would meet with them. But when we got there, he let us in! We met his girlfriend and her son and got to know them a little bit. We taught them about the restoration. The spirit was so strong. It was such a testimony builder to me that the spirit does all the teaching, we just provide the information. I felt like my Hungarian wasn't the best and I was probably a little spazzy, but somehow the Spirit was strong and they were able to feel it. We gave them each a Book of Mormon (well, András and Éva...we had only brought two that night). We bore our testimonies about it. I told them how i Know this Book is true. Éva responded that she knew it was true too! It was amazing. Sister E and I came home pretty pumped last night! I will keep you all updated on them!! So exciting! :)
So this week for the Christ-like attribute we studied hope. At the beginning, I was trying really hard to think of the differences between faith and hope because a lot of the things I read and studied, their explanations were very similar. What I learned was that faith and hope, though different, work completely together. In Preach My Gospel it says that hope is "optimism, enthusiasm and patient perseverance." Faith, is the reason we do something. It is what moves us forward. Hope, is what keeps us optimistic and positive. It is what helps us to keep perspective.
I hope you all have a great week. Thank you for all of your love and support and prayers! Talk to you all next week! :)
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
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