I hope you all had a great week! :)
There is not a ton to report this week to be perfectly honest. As a mission, we were studying the Christlike Attribute patience. And I think here in Érd we definitely experience a week of studying patience! Sister Cox and I did 30 hours of finding and only had 3 lessons with investigators the whole week. But, it was still a good week! I felt as though I could apply my study of patience every day. We had a few streaks where no one would answer the door, and some other times where we could hardly finish our introduction before we were turned away. However, in Preach My Gospel I read that patience is "having the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated or anxious" and to be "accepting of God"s will and timing." I tried to keep this in mind throughout the week. Sister Cox and I were able to stay positive throughout the week and have faith that we would get some let-in's or at least be able to talk to a few more people each day. Every day we were able to still laugh, have fun and find the good moments! I am really grateful to be serving with Sister Cox and that we were able to both remain positive throughout the week. We were pretty exhausted by Sunday though and went to bed pretty early ;).
So here in Hungary, Santa comes on the 6th (kids leave their shoes out by the window and Santa comes and puts candy and things in the shoes of the kids who were good). In church on Sunday, we heard that Santa would be coming to primary. We were sitting in Sunday School and someone came in and pulled out all of the missionaries. We were led to the primary room where Télapó (Santa) was with all the kids. He pulled out individual goodie bags for each of us missionaries as well as the kids in primary! It was such a sweet surprise!
Also, Sister Cox and I decided we wanted to make our house a little more Christmas-y. We cut out a small Christmas tree from wrapping paper and taped it up to our wall! We also used some other wrapping paper and made little ornaments that we stuck to it. It was so fun. And its just an itty bitty thing but its so nice to have a little Christmas in our house! :) I love this time of year. I love the Christmas lights, the Christmas music, the Christmas traditions. Everything. And it is so special to be a missionary around the Christmas season. I am really grateful to focus on the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of our Lord and Savior. I am grateful for Him. I know He lives. I know that He died for each and every one of our sins, trials, pains and everything. He loves us more than we can even imagine! As it is the Christmas season and a tradition is to give gifts, we should remember John 3:16 that our Heavenly Father gave us the greatest gift of all: His son, Jesus Christ!
Well, I hope you all have a great week. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas season. Thank you for all of your emails and prayers. They are so greatly appreciated!
Sok szeretettel,
Simons Nővér xx
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