First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANNALEA! I hope you have a great birthday. Cant believe you are 15. That makes me feel old. Im sure it makes mom and dad feel ancient :)
This week we got to have our district meeting in Debrecen and the Senior couple there had a thanksgiving dinner for us. We got up early and made homemade rolls and an apple pie to bring. It was so fun! Before we started the dinner, we all went around as missionaries and said something we were thankful that had to do with the world and then we went around again and said what we were most grateful for spiritually. It was an awesome meeting with all the missionaries! The Lord has definitely blessed us with so much! We also had 2 hungarians there and they loved it! It was just a good time!
This week has been super good with our investigators. They are progressing. We still have quite a few that are praying about baptism so hopefully that will go good! A is doing awesome! He is really excited to be baptized. He is going to be a great contribution to the branch here! Its kinda been a rough week with the language and all but we are really doing our best! I love being a missionary. It really is the best time of my life.
We also got to go with a couple of the members and they took us to the 'piac'. It is like an outside market type thing that has things for super cheap! It was the coolest place! We got a bunch of winter clothing for really cheap and some christmas things. I wanted to buy everything because it was just so cheap! That was really cool to see. We defintely had to watch our bags and stuff so nothing would get stolen but it was interesting to see all the little shops and candies for Christmas.
The highlight of my week though was definitely church. It was probably the best Sunday I have ever had since coming to Hungary. It was fast and testimony meeting and at the beginning of the meeting, H (one of the members we do everything with here...she is like my best friend!) poked me and handed me a note that I needed to go up and bear my testimony because this may be one of my last weeks in Nyíregyháza :( (it is a very high possibility that I will get transfered next transfer or that our companionship here in Nyíregyháza may be getting closed due to too many missionaries going home and not enough coming in - we really really hope neither of those happen and I can stay) anyways, I told her no way....I suck at speaking Hungarian and didnt want to get up there. Anyways, the whole meeting the spirit just kept working on me and telling me to get up. And then before I knew it, I just got up not knowing at all what I was going to say or do. I was so scared. I got up and there and as I looked out over this little tiny branch, I just realized that they are really like my family. I love these people so much. I have been reading in Alma about Alma and Ammon and how much they loved the people that they taught. I feel like I understand their love so much more actually being a missionary. I got up there, said a few sentences, and then just started bawling because I realized so many things:
1 - I really truly love these people. It is wonderful serving in a small ward because you really get to know every person and you get to serve them. I never want to leave! haha! 2 - I love being a missionary. It is just the greatest blessing to be able to focus on sharing the gospel with people every single day. It is really hard sometimes, especially when you are rejected. But it is so worth it.
3 - I realized how blessed I have been. The Lord has given me so much and as I try to repay Him in whatever little way I can, He just proceeds to bless me with more. I truly stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me.
And finally 4- I learned that or noticed that I have truly found what true happiness is. True happiness really is found when you serve God and others with all your heart, might, mind and strength. I have realized that this really is the happiest that I have ever been in my life. Sometimes (ok a lot of the time) it is really stressful trying to know what investigators need, trying to speak the language, getting people to keep their commitments, etc. But I feel like the last little bit I really been able to just lose myself in the service of these people and I found true happiness. These people just amaze me how strong they are and I am so grateful that I have had the opportunity to serve and meet them!
Anyways, it was a great sacrament meeting. I also realized from others peoples testimony's yesterday, how big affect you can have on someone by just doing small and simple things. When we think of service, we think it has to be some big thing. The small things can add up to something bigger.
I really have felt like what Alma experienced in Alma 26:16. 'I cannot say even the smallest part of what I feel'. I love being a missionary and I love these people in Hungary! Best time of my life.
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving! Good luck getting everything ready for Christmas! Love you all!
Falslev Nővér
ya I forgot to mention in my testimony thing yesterday.....NO ONE understood one word that I said. (hungarians are very blunt) they came up and said 'we couldnt understand anything you said but we could feel it' I was so mad. haha! But really, I know no one could understand what I was saying, but people really could FEEL what I was trying to say. People were just bawling and they said they didnt know why. I am SOOOOO grateful for the spirit or else I really could not do this work. Just proves again...God qualifies the called! Do what He needs you to do and He will make it work somehow!
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| our christmas cookies we made for some of our investigators this week! Yum! (we will see how the hungarians like them....we made brownies the other week and gave 2 of them to a member and she said she had pain in her teeth for hours because it was so sweet! Hungarians dont eat any sweets. The frosting on these are really sweet so hopefully they will like them! |
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| these are the little christmas shops that are all along the street. They are so fun to see just the little trinkets they have in them. And they sell DELICIOUS food which is a bad thing and a good thing. Tastes good but we eat a LOT! |
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| we went whipping again today. It was fun! And good weather! |
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