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Hi everyone!!

Wow what a week! It definitely felt like longer than just one week but it was great. We met with some cool people, had some great experiences and lots of funny moments.

A few updates on investigators:
We met with Ági a few times this week. What was super cool is her 15 year old daughter came over before we started and just started kind of glancing through her mom's Book of Mormon. We were about to start so she put it back on the table but we asked if she wanted her own copy. She was really happy and accepted it! She carefully opened it and looked through the pictures at the beginning. We taught them about the Plan of Salvation which Ági loved. Her attitude is so incredible to me. She has a really hard life and she is just so happy. She told us that we all have hard things in life, we just have to learn to love them. She said, "I wouldn't have asked for my kids to be sick but they are. You just have to love the situation." I am so impressed by her. We invited her to church but she couldn't come this week. We invited Kriszta who really wanted to come but her dad wouldn't let her. Hopefully his heart will be softened and he will let her come next week.

We have a new investigator named Ilona that we started meeting with this week. She is a super nice, soft-spoken lady. She has met with the missionaries before. She has a cousin who is a member in another city. She is so sweet. I am excited to start teaching her again.


Adventure
So we had an adventure this week. There was a blizzard on Friday. We had a program about a half hour bus ride away with an inactive lady and her son. We got on the bus and started heading that way. The bus was packed. And it kept sliding whenever it stopped because the roads were so bad. We were a little nervous. But about 20 minutes out, the bus stopped at a bus stop and everyone had to get off because it was dangerous. I had NO idea where we were. And it was snowing. So we walked across the street to the other bus stop to go back home. But the people there told us that the bus wasn't coming. So we just looked at each other and started walking the direction everyone else was walking. We got to the next bus stop and hoped that there the bus would be coming. But the whole bus system shut down. So we started walking again. As we called the Elders, not knowing what to do, we thought we recognized some of the buildings next to us. When we were able to look around a little we realized those were the buildings that we go to tract in! That was relieving that we sort of knew where we were. Although we were still a good 20 minute bus ride out. So we started walking the way we knew the bus always goes. On our way, we saw cars, buses and trucks pulled over on the sides of the roads. One car was trying to go...the guy was standing outside trying to push it. So we ran over and helped him push his car. We walked through this little ghetto and along the side of the train tracks. After about an hour and a half, we made it home! There were so many miracles about this experience! First of all, that we got off at the stop we did. If we had gotten off one stop further, I don't think we would have found the buildings we tracted to know the general direction to go home. Another miracle, that we were able to navigate home at all! We had never walked that way before...only taken the bus. And it was a good 4 or 5 miles out. Another miracle, we weren't even cold. It was cold out. And snowing. My hair was literally frozen by the time we made it to the branch house. But somehow, while we were walking we felt just fine! And the best part is the whole time we were laughing! We made it to the branch house and the Elders were there and just couldn't believe what we looked like haha once we made it there and inside we kind of crashed and felt the cold and were absolutely exhausted. But it was a cool experience! We were so blessed!! I know that it wasn't because of us that we made it home so well!


Budapest

On Sunday night, we traveled to Budapest for New Missionary Training and Interviews with President Smith. It was fun. I love riding trains! Its about a 3 hour train ride from Pécs to Budapest. We got there and hung out a little with Sister Smith before the other Sisters arrived. When they did, we all had dinner and then went to bed. It was fun to see some of my friends who are also training (in the picture...Sister Shnoor, Sister Sellers, me and Sister Erlandsson). On Monday morning, I had my interview with President which was great. I always love meeting with and talking to him. Once all four of us had our interviews, we went over to the mall to get some lunch and look around. It was fun to exchange stories and talk about how training is going. It was also just fun to catch up with each other. After lunch, we went to the New Missionary training which was good. After that, we headed back to the train station and back to Pécs! We stopped in one city on the way back for a while though. It was pretty snowy out and I was afraid there was something wrong with the train or the tracks and they were going to make us get off. Luckily the train started again and we made it home safely! :)


I love my companion! She makes training so easy. We are so similar and get along great. I feel like a proud mom whenever she speaks or reads! I love seeing how much she is trying and improving, even over just a few weeks! I am so excited for this transfer with her. Its going to be awesome.


Well, it was a great week here, despite the weather which I am not a fan of! I am excited for this next week. Tomorrow we get to go to Dunaújváros for Zone Training so that will be fun. Lots of traveling this week!!!


I hope you all have a great week! Happy Valentines day! :)

Sok szeretettel,

Simons Nővér xx