Monday, August 26, 2013

Time flies by so fast! Not much has happened I feel like since I emailed just on Wednesday. This week has kinda been a weird week for us and our investigators. We went to Budapest on Thursday for our interviews with President Smith. He is a great man! It was good to talk with him. He told me when my release date is...that was a little  crazy. I feel like I just got here....I cant know when I leave! It may change quickly though. Right now it is set for July 24th. Crazy how fast time flies!

On Friday we had district meeting and then one of the senior couples took all of us missionaries out to dinner because we all got standard week for numbers. We were sitting at this really nice restaurant and talking about how good home cooked meals are and then we started saying what we had to do for the rest of the day. We were all going tracting and so we decided to make it a little funner and do a competition with the elder. The loosers had to make a homemade, Hungarian feast and the winners got to choose what the loosers made. It was the best 2 hours of tracting ever!!! Not only for the competition but we really met some amazing people and had an awesome experience. We had so much fun talking to people and really just talking to them. People noticed that and they were more likely to let us in their homes. We got 2 let-ins, 2 new investigators, and 3 other people who were really interested in our message! It was awesome! And of course....the sister KILLED it! We got 102 points! One set of elders made it close but not close enough. It was so much fun! Missionary work is so much fun! We were definitely exhausted that night though that is for sure. We havent decided quite yet what our Hungarian feast is going to be yet!

Also on Friday we got to have an awesome program with a young kid named T. He has been studying different religions and he said he just feels like there is something out there or someone trying to help him or something that he needs to find, he just hasn't found it yet. He is such a cool kid!! We had an awesome program with him and then he stayed for the young single adult activity and he loved it. He said he felt really good and that he wanted to come to the next weeks activity. And he even came and did some tabling with us after the activity was over. He was asking us so many questions about what we do and our believes. Unfortunately though, he lives in a city about an hour away that isn't in our area. He has been coming to Pécs a lot for work and other things but he will be going to school in the other city. He says he still wants to meet with us on the weekends but we will see what happens.

I have been learning a lot about love lately. I was reading a talk by Elder Ballard about honeybee's. He said something that I have been thinking about a lot this week. 'How do we ingrain the love of Christ into our hearts? The answer is simple: In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. Then go throughout the day with your heart full of faith and love, looking for someone to help. Stay focused, just like the honeybees focus on the flowers from which to gather nectar and pollen. If you do this, your spiritual sensitivities will be enlarged and you will discover opportunities to serve that you never before realized were possible.' I love this and this is exactly what I needed this week. We have so many opportunities to share the gospel, just by simple acts of service to others. Or even just to help stregthen others when they are going through a rough time. Christ will work through us, even when we do have weaknesses and make mistakes, to help lift up His children. He will work through us to help others see and experience miracles in their lives. I am so grateful for the Savior and for the miracles that I get to see every day on my mission. It really is the small and simple things every day - that make the biggest difference. Just like a bee that may spend its entire life working to make honey and it contributes one twelth of a teaspoon through its whole lifetime - it still contributes and every little bit adds up. It can take one act of kindness for someone to have a good view of members of the church, or one act of unkindness for a wrong view. It is all in the simple day to day things.

I love you all! I am glad everything is giong well back home! That is exciting about the new baptism in the ward. Make sure you take care of him! :) I love you guys!

Falslev Nővér

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