Where did November go?

me playing H in ping pong. It was a pretty intense game...hahah! She is so funny! She is just like my best friend!

trying one some fun stuff at the store today

I cannot believe how fast time flies. I cannot believe December is next week. Everyone here is getting ready for Christmas. It is getting REALLY cold. The main part of the city is beautiful here! They have a huge tree and all sorts of cute little christmas shops. It makes me so excited for Christmas just seeing it!

Things are going so great! I just LOVE being a missionary here in Hungary! I just love these people so much!

A is doing great. He is going to be such a great member! Everything is still in order for him to get baptized so hopefully it stays that way. He is getting baptized on Dec. 14th. I am really excited! He is just so patient too! Yesterday we had another little frustrating sunday and we had to wait awhile - approxiatemely an hour and a half - for church to start. It was a little frustrating but the meeting was awesome! We had Elder Walker from the 70 come for stake conference. It was awesome! We just caught the end of his talk but something he said that really stuck out to me was 'criticism comes from not understanding'. I have been thinking about that a lot and it really is so true. Once we try to understand why someone did something and take the time first to understand them, there isnt much room for criticism afterwards. It was an awesome talk! He talked about temples and temple work so hopefully within the next few years Hungary can be getting a temple! that would be awesome!

All of our other investigators have been doing awesome! We have quite a few of our investigators praying about baptism right now so hopefully we will have some more baptisms in Nyíregyháza. They havent had to many here.

So last transfer, Sister Rupard and I met with this girl named N twice on the street. Both times we met with her, we had a really good conversation with her! And she even ended up coming to the halloween party and had a great time. So all in all we had met with her 3 times. But for some reason, every time we forgot to get her number so we had no way to get ahold of her. Sister Messinger and I were walking on the street the other night and she saw us and chased after us. We ended up meeting with her this morning and she told us that she had tried calling what she thought was the our number (it was really the elders - and they never answered.) She had been trying to get ahold of us the past few weeks and had even come to the branch cause she wanted to talk to us but then she just thought we were too busy. She has a test coming up for English in a few weeks and she really wanted to talk to us. So she said a prayer that somehow she could find us again. That same day she prayed she saw us walking on the street. When we met with her this morning she said she doesnt know why but she has been feeling like she needed to meet with us for something else besides english also. It was such a cool lesson! She is our age and is here for school so she is far away from her family. She is the coolest girl! I am really excited to be teaching her!

It has just been amazing to see miracles everyday. My language is just sky rocketing. There is still A LOT i need to improve on, but almost every lesson sister Messinger and I get out of, we just look at each other and are amazed that somehow we were able to communicate. Yesterday we found the cutest family with an adorable 5 year old girl. It was an amazing lesson! The spirit was so strong! When we tracted into her, her neighbor came out and told her that she should not talk to us. She proceeded to tell him that we were kind to her and she would listen. Then 2 other people then came up and tried to get us to stop talking to her. THe whole time I just kept thinking that Satan really did not want us to talk to this mom. We really had the best lesson with her and we are going to meet with her again. Hopefully it goes well.

This past week we had an awesome zone conference. We talked about how we need to have progressing investigators but that we also need to have progressing missionaries. We listened to a talk by Elder Holland about when Christ asked the apostle Peter if he loved him 3 different times and each time peter said yes. Elder Holland just reminded me of how important it is to love the Lord. And the way that we are the Lords disciples is to love others. That is how we can know if we are the Lords disciples. I have thought a lot this week about how blessed I am. One night when we were out streeting (we did a lot of that this week!) and I was thinking about how all the things that I have been blessed with- all the blessings that really matter in life. I couldnt help but think of the hymn 'I stand all amazed at the Love Jesus offers me'. It is so true. Christ has given me so much! I came on a mission to help others, but I really honestly feel like the Lord has just poured out even more blessings on me. It just ceases to amaze me how merciful and wonderful Christ is. This Gospel is amazing! I just love being a missionary and love being able to meet these amazing people and see their relationship with Heavenly Father and Christ grow. I really think there is nothing better than I could have ever been doing than being a missionary! Missionary work is just the most amazing work!

Thanks for all your letters of love and support! Love you all! Happy Thanksgiving! Eats lots of yummy food for me!

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