This week has been a week of so many miracles! I dont even know how to put into words everything we have experienced this week. I love being a missionary!!!! So much has happened this week.

We found out that M and her boys LOVED church! They went home and told their dad that they want him to come to church. We are hoping they come again this week! Such a cute family!

Also A is doing great. We had an awesome lesson with him with one of the members here. He said he is really noticing a difference in his days that he prays and reads out of the BOM. We met with him just before English class and we talked about the importance of reading out of the BOM and praying every day. Then in english class I asked the question what everyone would do if they had more spare time and when it was A's turn he smiled really big and said 'I pray every morning now and I read that Mormon book because that is what is important'. It was so good! And we had a little bit of gospel discussion in our angalora class. A is so cool!!!!

This week we also found this Less Active member that hasnt been visited in a while. She is an older lady with a lot of health problems so she cant come to church. She has no family around. She was telling us that she felt very alone and cant do much...like not even cut her fingernails or read. So we sat with her a while and cut her fingernails and read out of the BOM with her. After we were done she just looked at us and started crying and said 'now I can wash my hair because my fingernails are short'. She was so grateful. Simple thing we did, but it meant so much to her.

Then we got to visit M. She is a recent convert and she is just the cutest little old lady Ive met! She fed us a feast and gave us some gifts, and then gave us more and more and more! We lefts with just bags of things. She is just the sweetest person! As we were talking to her she was telling us about her life here in Hungary. Her husband and her lived in Hungary during the communist times but they did not support communism so they were put on a 'black list'. Because they were put on the black list, her husband was forced to work in an Aluminum factory which ended up killing him. She has spent many many years alone. My heart broke for her as she was telling us the story. She is just such a strong person! It is amazing to me that she did not turn bitter from her experiences but was still able to find happiness. Everytime you look at her she just smiles at everyone! She loves the BOM too. I just love these people!

I have also seen the power of testimony in our lessons this week. We have taught so many lessons this week! And they were all awesome! In a few of our lessons, things were just starting to go off track but then we were able to bear powerful testimony and its just amazing to see the change in people when they feel the spirit! Its been an amazing week! We were supposed to have 9 people in church this week! That is a ton!!!! But unfortunately things didnt work out as well as we hoped and only 1 came which was a super big bummer. It was pretty frustrating after having such good lessons with all our investigators. But hopefully next week!

We have also found some really cool new investigators this week! We taught the restoration to this guy named P and he just kept saying over and over how he has had the exact same questions as Joseph Smith and wants to find an answer. Super cool lesson!

Also yesterday was just crazy. We had program after program after program planned. We had 2 little breaks - one half hour break before and one half hour after a certain program. Our investigator for that program ended up accidentally coming a half hour early to his program which we thought was super weird but it fit in perfectly with our schedule. Then right at the end of the program we heard this banging on the branch house windows. It was one of the elders investigators that has been investigating for quite a while. She is a young girl and the elders have been trying to give her over to the sisters but we havent been able to do a hand over program with her. Anyways, she was pretty distraught with some things that had been happening in her life and she said she just prayed that someone would be in the branch house for her to talk to. It was the perfect timing. It was our only break during the day! We ended up talking to her and it was such an amazing program! She said she knew that she needed to be a member of the church. We are going to start meeting with her daily. Such a cool program!!!

This week there has also been this reoccuring question that keeps coming up in my mind: Why do I have it so good? I have been blessed with so much. That question has been asked to me quite a few times and I have been thinking about it a lot this week. I look at our investigators, and the members here and they are going through so much. The members here really do remind me of the early pioneers....they are the early pioneers here in Hungary. They go through so much and are so strong! It amazes me! I love these people here in Hungary and in Nyíregyháza so much. And luckily (we got our transfer calls this morning) and I am STAYING IN NYÍEGYHÁZA!!!! I am so happy! I am getting Sister Messinger from my same MTC group. I am really excited but really sad to see Sister Rupard go. It has been a great transfer with her.

I love you all! Be grateful for all that you have! We really do have so much. Being obedient to the commandments really does bring blessings....not only to yourself but also to your family and posterity. I am so grateful to be part of such a wonderful family who has kept the Lords commandments! Obedience really does bring blessings!

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M and me. She always feeds us the most delicious meals! She just got baptised earlier this year. She is such a strong member! I love her dog! We had some good laughs!

this is the church that I love here! It is so pretty!

playing ping pong with the coolest guy ever! 

A (coolest investigator!) and V. Super awesome program! V served a mission in Romania. Super cool member. 

information about the church...can you read it? 

another pic in front of the church

this is in front of the evángélikus temple (they call churches temples here). This building is so pretty and super old. It is like from the 1700s.

on the streets of hungary! I love hungary!

us with sweet M. I love her! She is so strong!

Me with K and L. I love them! They should be moving back to Romania soon though :( So sad!

Me with H. I love her! She is awesome!

Us with J. She is from Ukraine. Her son is V. I love this family! They are so strong. She made us delicious Ukrainian food last week and we watched some Russian dance and it really is like the Russian dance on just dance. Russians are so good at dancing! 

Me with R néni. I have only met her twice but she gave me the most beautiful hazi munka table cloth.! So beautiful! These people will give you the clothes off their backs if you let them! she is so sweet! 

Me with J. He just got baptized a few months ago. He is really sweet. And bought us chocolate for the upcoming transfers. He is super cool!