10 Months!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a great week! Today I hit my 10 month mark. Which is crazy. I can't believe I only have 8 months left. It's going by too fast.

We had a good week this week! I had a cold for a couple of days but I'm doing better now which is nice. We had some good programs this week. We have set up with a lot of people from English class which has been cool. We help them with English for half an hour and then the second half an hour we teach them about the gospel. One girl, Ági, asked us a grammar question and we talked about that for like 10 minutes and then she was like, "Well I have kind of an awkward question. But could you tell me about your church?" We were like, "umm...yeah!!" So then she just asked a bunch of questions about what we believe. It was pretty cool!

I had to teach the beginner English Class this week! That was the first time I've done that. It was pretty hard. I had planned to go over some easy vocabulary and things but every time I suggested something, they had already learned it. It was fun though. And good practice for my Hungarian.

On Friday, we went to Dunaújváros (a city about 3 hours away) for Zone Training. It was good. I got to see some missionary friends and we got great training from our Zone Leaders. They taught us a lot on being diligent. One of my favorite things they said was a quote which says, "Be a missionary. Don't just be on a mission." That is a good self-check!

Last night we had dinner at the Szabadkai's house. Brother Szabadkai is going to be the new mission president in July! They are such a nice family. I am so excited that I will be able to have him as my mission president for at least one transfer. Right now, he is the mission leader in the branch here in Pécs so we meet with him every week. It is also really cool to be able to serve around him now and get to know him before he becomes the mission president. I think they will do so great.

On Tuesday we had Family Night for the branch. I had to do the little lesson. I did it based on Elder Richard G. Scott's talk from General Conference, "Make the Exercise of Faith Your First Priority." He lists 4 ways to help strengthen your faith. I just focused on prayer and scripture study. I have gained such a testimony of the importance of doing the little things such as prayer and scripture study. One of my favorite parts in the talk is about prayer. He says, "Choose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him. Tell Him everything that concerns you. He is interested in the most important as well as the most mundane facets of our life. Share with Him the full range of feelings and experiences." I love that. I am so grateful for prayer and that it really is a way to talk with Heavenly Father. I am grateful that I can pray anywhere and anytime. There are lots of times where I am stressed or just don't know what to do and I don't feel like I have anyone to talk to. But, I can always pray. I love how he says that Heavenly Father wants to know the most important things and the most mundane things. I know that Heavenly Father is always there and will always listen to our prayers. We are never alone!

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful week. We have transfers next week so I won't be on until Tuesday.

Sok szeretettel,

Simons Nővér xx