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This week has been the greatest week ever! Definitely super hard but good.

We got to play squash last week for P-day and it was so much fun! It is just like raquet ball but the ball isnt as bouncy. It is a really fun game that Hungarians like to play here. The ward mission leader took us and showed us how to play. The people love the missionaries here and want to do everything with us! Especially the young single adults!

Also, last p-day, we were just walking down the street and all the sudden a guy stopped US and asked us what we were doing here and what we do. He had a lot of questions and so luckily we were right close by the branch house and ended up going with him over to the branch house and teaching him. He is in the Hungarian army and was only on vacation for a week. We ended up meeting with him twice while he was here and had some really good programs! He lives in szeged though but he said he will meet with the missionaries there. People really do recognize that we are different, especially with our name tags on. It was a really cool experience!

We also got to go have a family night with one of the families in the branch. The mother/grandmother just found out that she has breast cancer and they dont know if she will live or not. Her grandson has been baptized and he knows a ton about the church. He is a really good example to his parents. His mom is one of our investigators and is on bap date for December - her name is K. They are the coolest family! We went over there to teach a lesson and at first it was just going horrible. There are 6 people in their family living in 1 room and they have just had a lot of stress put onto their family. But it was amazing to see as we taught them about the most important things in life, the calmness that came over the whole family. It turned out to be a great lesson and the spirit was so strong! We then decided to teach them how to play spoons and we had so much fun! The family just started laughing and came so much closer! Family night is so important! I love the gospel and the happiness that it can bring to families even when it seems like everything around them is falling apart. The gospel helps family stay strong even when they are going through such hard trials! The dad has also been kinda against the church and wouldn't really talk to us but when we started playing the game and he heard the laughing he came and played with us. By the end he said that he would maybe come to church. It was awesome!

We unfortuanately only have 3 baptisimal dates now. That is great but we had to drop 3 people today. It is so hard!! Our investigators are doing awesome though! We have been teaching like crazy and just seeing so many miracles this week! We have gotten into multiple apartments this week and have just been teaching tons of people! It is so great!

Yesterday, one of our investigators I came to church. When he first started coming to church, he came in just his street clothes. Each week he has continued coming, he dresses a little nicer. Yesterday he walked in and he had gone and BOUGHT a suit just for church. That was huge because he doesn't have a lot of money. He said that he felt like he needed to feel his best if he was going to learn about God during church. We had an awesome program with us! He wants to know what he can do to help after he is baptized (he is still thinking about being baptized). He really loves the sacrament too. He wants to be able to help pass the sacrament and serve the members. He is just a super nice and humble guy. He was also asked to say a closing prayer in sunday school and we were a little worried because he sometimes doesn't feel comfortable saying prayers in our programs. But he said the prayer and he just said how grateful he was to feel that now he knows that God exists and that He loves him. He was the simplest prayer but one of the best I have ever heard (well at least from what I understood of it haha)

We also went to go visit a less active family that really doesn't know very much about the church. When we got into the house, everything just felt really weird. Come to find out the mom and her son had just gotten into a really big fight. After a few minutes they started fighting again. Sister Burdick and I looked at each other because we had no idea what to do. We understood absolutely nothing they were fighting about and they were looking to us to have us pick who was right. We had no idea what to say or what to do, so we just bore our testimonies of the Savior and how it can strengthen family relationships. By the end of our lesson they were both calmed down and you could feel peace again in the home. Both of them thanked us. It is just amazing to see the affects that the Gospel can have on family relationships no matter what hardships families are going through!

Well, we have seen tons of miracles and been doing lots of work. It was super hot last week! It got up to 46 degrees celcius. I think that is like 115 degrees or something. It was so hot, outside literally looked like a sauna and it was all foggy because it was so wet and foggy. It was a huge blessing we had lots of lessons to teach because luckily the branch house has AC :) Anyways, I love you all! I know that this gospel is true and that is does help through any trial, hardship, or weakness you are going through. This week I have been reading in Alma about the stripling warriors and how strong and courageous they were even when it seemed like the tasks before them were impossible. They went forward with faith and trusted that God would provide a way. That has been such a great comfort to me this week. Life is hard, but God provides a way. I love being a missionary! Even though it is incredibly hard. I love you all!

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