This week has been good! I got my new companion on Wednesday. Sister S. She is awesome! I love her already! It will be a great transfer with her.

This week has been kinda a crazy week with transfers and things. Unfortunately we didnt get to do a lot this week but we did meet with a few investigators. L is doing awesome! We met with her again and had a really good lesson on prayer and God. She had read from the BOM. She said that she has never been interested in religions before. She has studied about them in school but she said that there was just something that interested her in our church. She says that everyone is just so happy. She is just the best! I love teaching her!

We also met with P again who A and I tracted into last week. We had a good lesson with him and taught him english. A was super helpful in the program and did really good explaining things. i cant believe she has really only been a member for a few weeks! SHe is already a good missionary!

This week was also Farsang...I am not sure what that is in english (It is kinda like halloween I guess). It was awesome! The main street was just full of booths and concerts and there were people everywhere! The branch here also had a big farsang party and invited people from other cities. It turned out really good! They dressed me up as a witch! and my companion was dorthy from the wizard of oz. There were quite a few people there and we played a lot of games. They also had a donut tasting contest...best donuts ever! The donuts here are deep fried like in america...they are like sweet bread donuts and they are delicious! The donuts were a lot better than the pig jello. I wasnt going to try it at first, but then decided i need to at least try it. Bad choice. haha! It was so gross! They cook the pig fat with a lot of onions and then just stick random parts of the pig in it. The old people here think it is a treat to eat! haha!

This week I learned a little bit about Mary and Martha. They were both preparing for when Christ would come to eat dinner and when Christ came, Mary stopped and came and listened to the Savior whereas Martha kept busy serving and getting things ready. Mary had chosen to serve and do all that she could, but then she knew when to stop to make sure she was still doing the most important things. Mary chose the Savior's companionship over the small details. It was good of Martha to keep serving, one-sided service, however devoted may become neglect. Martha was so busy and worried about the details of things that she forgot WHY she was serving. I feel like that is sometimes how we can get in our lives. We get so caught up in wanting to be good servants and get caught up in the little details, that we forget to learn from the service we give. We give our service but we dont really give our heart. We dont serve as the Savior served.

Well I hope you are all doing well. I love you all!

Falslev Nővér

E (one of the members that helps us ALWAYS!! It is so nice! She is the greatest.) And me and Sister Peterson. This was on the way to see the castle.

 Disgyög castle. It is one of the oldest castles in Hungary. They are remodeling it right now though so that was sad we couldnt go inside. It was huge!

the advance of modern technology.....haha!

one of the crazy things you can get at the farsang booth

it was farsang here this week and the main street was closed down and they had all sorts of booths on the streets. it was so cool to see! 

one of the crazy things they had at a booth at farsang

Miskolc has a lot of cool paintings on the buildings.

so we were walking down the street for farsang and decided to get some big crepes (oriási palacsintas). They were delicious! However, we only grabbed forks and Hungarians always use knifes to cut things. So I helped E cut her crepe and then fed it to her while we were walking. It was pretty funny.

R and D from Nyíregyháza came to the party! I love them both so much! It was good to see them!

me eating pig jello hungarian food. Most disgusting food I have ever eaten. It is pure pig fat with different parts of the pig meat in it. I thought I was going to throw up when I ate it. The hungarians got a kick of watching me taste it though. The older people here love it. 

part of the meat that is in it. disgusting. haha!

me with one of the members B.

me with my new awesome companion...Sister S!

I love Miskolc! :)

TRANSFERS!!!!

Well you probably already figured it out by now, but today is transfers so that is why I am emailing on a different day. We kinda had a little stressful week this week thinking about transfers. We thought for sure that Sister Peterson was going to have to go home but we did a special fast and yesterday we went to the doctor and found out that she can try to do some physical therapy and see if that helps. We were so happy that she is staying!!!! But that also meant that she had to leave to be closer to Buda. She is going to Dunaújváros with Sister Fresh and Sister Sexton who is serving in Dunaújváros is coming to me in Miskolc! I am excited! It will be a good transfer.

This week has been really good. We went for splits to Debrecen on Tuesday and it was really good. We met the coolest young couple there that was really interested. I learned a lot on transfers!

This week we also had zone training here in Miskolc and it was so good! We have awesome missionaries in this mission! We talked about super hero missionaries and how we can become them. It was also brought up how missionaries can be so tired all the time. At home, we just experienced stress in one area usually - when we went to school, we exercised our brains, then we would go with our friends to get exercise socially, and then when we wanted to get physical exercise we would go to the gym. But they were all stressed seperately and when one got to be too much, we would take a break with one of the others. But on a mission, you are stressed in all areas and all the same time and you cant take a break. It was pretty funny when we were talking about it, but it really is so true. Being a missionary is the best, but it is also pretty tiring!

This week we taught T and her son and had the best lesson with them. T has been meeting with the elders for a while but then decided to meet with the sisters instead. When we went over there, something in the family had happened just before we had come and we could feel that it was pretty tense in the house. Luckily we had a member with us and really helped us with the lesson. We talked about how the gospel really can help families be stronger and have better relationships and by the end of the lesson both mom and son were crying and hugging each other. We are also starting to meet seperately with the son. They are the coolest family!

Funniest moment of the week: on Saturday we had a sport day with the ward, and I told one of the elders about the egg joke. It was hilarious! I wish I could send the video. My favorite part of the video is when he looks straight into my camera and says 'let this be a lesson to all of you.....never listen to sister Falslev'. It was hilarious!

Also this week we got to go on splits again with some of the members here. We were doing a special fast and got permission to go on splits. I got to go with the girl who just got baptized a few weeks - A. She is the strongest member already! It was such a good experience for me. I learned so much from her. She is so excited about the gospel right now and just wants to tell the whole entire world that she is mormon! It was so fun to go with her! We started tracting and we got some pretty bad door slams. No one wanted to talk to us. And so I just started praying so hard that we could just meet one person so it would be a good experience for her! Towards the end of our split, the last door we knocked on, we met P. He let us in and we explained the BOM to him. When I got to the picture about Jesus Christ teaching the Nephites, I turned to A to let her explain it. She bore such a powerful testimony. I was just so touched that she has only been a member for a few weeks, but she really has such a powerful testimony! I learned so much from her! And we are meeting with P again! A was so excited! It was such an awesome split! These members here are really so strong and teach me so much. I really think that I learned more from A than she did from me.

I just love being a missionary. God really does love being merciful and giving us the things we desire. We just have to ask and work for them. God is with us.  It is amazing to see His hand in this work and to be a missionary! I love being a missionary! It is the greatest!

Love you all lots!

Falslev Nővér

this is the first egg that I cracked over his head. Super funny!

 finding out that it was a joke.

I could not stop laughing. He could not believe I did it.

when he looked at the camera and said 'let this be a lesson to all of you...never listen to sister Falslev.' haha!

this is part of Miskolc. The buildings in the background are all what the buildings are like all over Miskolc. They have so many 10 story buildings!

Another week as a missionary :)

This week has been so awesome! And so crazy!

First off, we met with this young girl named L this week and she is awesome. She speaks perfect english and she is the one who asked us if she could meet with us to learn more about the BOM. When we met with her, she had read quite a bit from the BOM and had lots of questions. I asked her why she wanted to meet with us and she told me that she felt like there is something here that she needs. She said that everyone that she had met that was Mormon was just so happy and there was something about them. It was a really good lesson!

We also got quite a few let ins this week and had some really awesome lessons with people! We met this one lady named I who said we could just come in for hot chocolate but wasnt really interested in the church and by the time we left, she asked us if we could come back and tell her more about the church. It feels so good finally getting more people to teach!

We had also one of the hardest programs I have ever taught this past week. This lady had invited us over because she wanted to know more about the BOM, but in actuality she just wanted to tell us why the BOM was wrong. She just had all these scriptures laid out and everything to tell us how wrong we were. It was so rough. It turned into an environment that we could not teach with the spirit and so finally I just stood up, told her we had to leave and started walking out the door. That didnt go to well. It was one of the roughest lessons ever, but I learned so much from it. I am just so grateful that I can recieve answers from God and that I dont have to rely on my own interpretation or my own knowledge of what things mean. I dont know everything, but what I do know, I know because I have learned it from God. It was a really good learning experience for me.

We also had a baptism here in Miskolc on Saturday. It was such a good baptism! It was her and her family (her mom and brother) got baptized last year. She is so cool and is so strong! It was awesome to see her baptism because you can see how close the gospel really does bring families. After she was baptized, her brother ran up to her to give her a hug and then the mom came over. They were all just bawling and were so happy! That is what makes missionary work so worth it right there!

We also had one of our investigators, A and A come to the baptism. A loved it and asked me when she can get baptized after the baptism! So we are meeting with them today and hopefully can talk about a date with her. She is awesome!

After the baptism, we had a family night over at one of the members houses. There were just all the young ward members there and it was amazing to see how strong they are and how much they really love each other. They all talked about what they felt like and what they experienced when they were baptized and how much the gospel has helped them in their lives. There might now be a ton of members here, but man are they strong! And they are always helping each other spiritually. It was just a testimony builder to me to hear all these recent converts testimony! So powerful! This branch really is just like a big family here! I love it!

This week I also decided to start reading out of Jesus the Christ again. I love learning about Christ! One of the stories that really stuck out to me was the story of Christ casting out the Demon in the little boy on behalf of the little boys father. The father pleaded to Christ to take the infirmity from his son and Christ replied to him that if he could just BELIEVE, then he could do it. The man cried out 'I believe, help thou my unbelief'. Jesus the Christ talked about how it was interesting that Christ said to believe, not to have faith. I started thinking about what is the difference between to have faith and to believe. I read Alma 32:27 and came to the conclusion that we all have to start with belief. Belief is a choice on our part and it is the first step in acting. Sometimes that is all we can do. But that is all we have to do, because then God gives us the gift of faith. All Christ asks us to do, is to just make that conscious choice of believing and trusting in Him, and then He gives us the faith in order to overcome our trials and pull through.

Well i hope you have all had a good week! Love you all lots!

Falslev Nővér

Week of Miracles!

This week has been so great! We have seen so many little miracles each and every day. The Lord really is involved in His work.

Things are going good with investigators here. We dont have a ton of investigators right now...but they are coming! One of our investigators I have really been struggling getting to understand. I have been trying to talk to her to really get to know her but I have just had the hardest time getting to know her and what she needs. We have had a few rough lessons just now knowing what to say and things because she isnt very talkative. But on Friday, I had a breakthrough!!!!!! HARRY POTTER!!!!!! I just wanted to get to know her better and what she liked and it was just not working out too well. And then for some reason, I told her that I loved to read and that I really liked Harry Potter. She changed so fast and continued to talk to me for the rest of the night and really opened up to me! I was so glad I finally got a way to talk to her and get to know her better! Success! And teaching has been going better with her.

Also this week, we tracted into this cute older couple who have met with missioanries a few times. They showed us their BOM that the missionaries gave to them and inside the front conver was a 'secret message' from a missionary in english saying how much he loved this city and these people here. It was from 1998. It was kinda fun to read. The couple is awesome and when we told them there was a little prophet they couldnt believe it!

So all the young singles adults in all of Hungary are doing a special 40 day fast so that they can get more young single adults into the church (so they can actually all get married!). We decided as a companionship that that would be one of our goals this transfer is to find a young single adult. And man, once we have decided that, we have met SO many young single adults. God really does help in bringing our goals and desires into realities. We just have to set the goal and strive for it. We have tracted into a lot of young single adults and met with a lot but 2 of them have really stuck out to us.

(we also have a lot of the ward members call and ask us specifically what they can fast for WITH us. It has been so powerful! These ward members are awesome! They are so involved in missionary work and it really does help so much!)

One night, we got dogged and we only had an hour before another program at the branch house. No one was on the streets and it was freezing cold! So we decided to just do a little bit of tracting close to the branch house. These buildings have been done so much by missionaries and so sometimes we run into people who are tired of the missionaries coming. Every door we knocked on in this one building we got yelled at. We were just about to leave the building and go streeting when we decided to do one more floor. And that is when we met B. She let us in and we did a little survey with her and then started talking about the Bible and the Restoration. She had been having so many questions that about the bible that her bible teachers could not answer. It was an awesome lesson! We gave her a BOM and she was super excited to start reading it!

The next young single adult we met was in our english class. She speaks super good english. After our class, I went to ask her where she had heard about our english class and come to find out, she had gone to our english class in Eger and had recieved a BOM there. And then she asked me if she could meet with us to find out more about the BOM and where she should start reading. She is awesome and we are excited to start meeting with her!

This week I have realized the power of desires and setting goals to become better. This week I read D & C 58:26-33 and it really just stuck out to me how much Power God has given us. He gives us the power, and then commands us how we best use that power. If we are obedient to those commands, we can accomplish anything and we can become the person that God needs us to become. God already knows the vision of who we can become, we just need to first find out and see that vision for ourselves. Once we see who we need to become or what needs to be done, God gives us that power to help us rise to that. I have realized that as we have decided to seek out the youth, God has blessed us with help in order to accomplish and reach that goal. God really does love giving us things and helping us to progress. It is just like when a child is learning to walk. They struggle and may fall sometimes, but when they take that first step, everyone is filled with joy for the child because they progressed. It doesnt mean the child can walk perfectly or may not fall again, but it is progress. That is how God feels with us. Each small step is a step toward progression and God is willing to do anything to help us progress. It starts with a decision first.

Also last night, I recieved some great news from Nyíregyháza! M and A called me and THEY WENT TO CHURCH!!!!! I was so beyond happy! And they have a ring and are planning and saving for their marriage! Miracles really do happen. I love them so much! And I am so glad that God knows exactly what they need.

I love being a missionary! Hope you all are doing well back home. Love you all!

Falslev Nővér