Friday, October 4, 2013

This week has been amazing! We have seen so many miracles! We have worked so hard and we are definitely so exhausted but the Lord definitely blessed us this week. Here are some highlights:

Monday: We went to the zoo. It was AWESOME! We went with the elders here and one of the members. Hungarian zoos are very different than the ones in America. There isnt near as much of the safety precaution and the animals were so intereactive! Usually when you go to the zoo you just see all the animals just sleeping. This zoo was awesome though! We saw some monkeys wrestling around with each other for a while, a cute baby monkey, we saw some white tigers that are almost extinct (there were so close to us that we could have just reached out and pet them and touched them through the fence), They had a super cool jungle that had rope bridges you could cross and that was super cool! But my favorite part was when we were over by the gorillas. We were watching the gorillas (and by this time there was pretty much no one in the park) and this guy opens up the cage for the lemurs and walks in. And then he tells us to come in with him. So we all followed him in and we got to feed the lemurs with him!!! It was so cool! The lemurs knew it was feeding time so they just came right up to us and would just jump all over us. It was so cool! Lemurs are now my favorite animal! The guy took care of the lemurs so he let us go in. That was so cool!

A- we met A monday night. He is from Sudan but he is a doctor here in Hungary. He is super cool! We taught him twice this week and both lessons went really well. He came to church yesterday and he loved it and was asking all sorts of questions. The members were really nice to him as well! And he said he wants to come again next week!

Z and A - this is a cute older couple that we met a few weeks ago on the street and we went over there to teach them a restoration lesson. It went really well! We found out that they had had the missionaries over at the house 10 years before and A just thanked us so much for what we do. He said that it was from the missionaries that he learned how to really pray to Heavenly Father and he said he had prayed with his own words ever since he met the missionaries. So I learned that even though not everyone we meet with will get baptized, you really still can bring them closer to God and teach them things. It was a really awesome lesson though and they want to come to general conference so hopefully they will come! They are really cool!

J and K-as of right now they are still on baptisimal date for Oct. 19th. We went to teach them this week and K decided to come back home. They were supposed to be at church yesterday with their daughter too but they make it. We were super bummed! We had a super good program with them this week so hopefully they will still keep progressing!

This week the elders found the best burger place here! Hamburgers in Hungary are not from cow, they are from pig and they are just nothing like American Hamburgers. None of the meat really is here. But they found this place and it is the best! One of the elders told them about fry sauce and they tried it and loved it so now they are going to sell fry sauce there too. They are going to name it after the elder - 'andrew sauce' haha!

Also this week, I quit smoking!!!! WAHOO!!!! She did so good and she didnt smoke even once! It was a super good program! And we are actually starting to teach her the gospel now. It was such a good week working with her! And I came to all of her programs and saw the program work so we are hoping that she will decide to try it again soon.

It has just been the best week ever. We have seen so many blessings from choosing to work so hard and be obedient. This week I really came to know how important the spirit really is and how important it is to follow even when you can fully understand why at first. On tuesday, both Sister Rupard and I woke up a little sick. Well Sister Rupard was pretty sick but we had a lot of programs so we decided to try it. Well every single one of our programs canceled on us so we tracted and streeted in the rain quite a bit. It was a really long day and we wanted to just go home and rest a little bit. But we had one more program that night that we decided we were going to. We had met him the week tracting and when we first met him he was very friendly, asked a lot of good questions and seemed really interested in the gospel. So we came back the next week and we felt like we needed to bring a member with us so we did. And as we went into the apartment, something just seemed really wrong. We said a prayer and the man started to ask us some questions and he kept trying to ask a question but for some reason he was not physically able to ask us. It was super weird. Then all of the sudden, I just knew that we needed to leave right then. I dont know how to speak very good Hungarian or anything, but I just got up and was able to have a full conversation with him without even really thinking of what to say and told him we needed to leave. The spirit really is in this work and really does let us know when we are in a place that we need to leave. Coming home from this program, we found one of pass along cards on the ground, in the mud and at that moment, that is kinda how I felt. We were wet, sick, and I felt like we had been pretty trampled on that day. But I learned so much going through such a hard day. It is amazing how much we can learn from our trials if we allow ourselves to be taught by them. I love being a missionary even when it is hard!

I am super excited for general conference this week but unfortunately we dont get to watch it in english because we only have one satelite here and it will be for it in Hungarian. So make sure you all take good notes for me and send me some of your favorite talks! :) I would sure appreciate it! :)

love you all!

falslev nővér

the aquarium! So cool! It had quite a few fish and some cool sharks it in. 

 on the rope bridge in the rainforest.

the lemur on top of my head. They were everywhere!!!!!

the LEMURS!!!!! So Cool!


At the lions cage. They were so active. Especially the male. He was roaring and it was so loud! I got a really cool video of it and how loud he was roaring but i cant send it. 

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