So the beginning of our week was a little depressing. All of our investigators either couldnt meet, didnt pick up, or didnt want to keep meeting anymore. We were doing a LOT of finding. Then on Thursday we had Zone Conference and it was so awesome. We had Elder Dyches from the Europe Area presidency come and speak to us. Before he started, he has us all come up and shake his hand and he talked to us for a little bit. When I went up, to my surprise he said 'Falslev' right so I asked him how he knew how to say it. He said that he had an Elder Falslev that served in his mission that was a really hard worker. Come to find out that he was D's mission President. So that was pretty cool. Elder Dyches did a really good job teaching and I learned a ton from both him and his wife. They talked a lot about following the spirit and having to do the hard thing and not give up. They talked about how God puts us in the 'fire of affliction' - puts us in the things that are really hard to do - so that we can become something more, become something stronger. It was such a good refresher and I learned a ton. But I was also just a little frustrated afterwards because I have felt like I have been doing everything to have the spirit be with me, but yet still we have not been having too much success with actually teaching people. So I decided that this week, I was just going 'to do the hard thing' and work super hard no matter what happened. And oh boy, did we experience miracles this week.
Friday night when we were looking at our next day, we realized we had nothing for the whole day. just a bit depressing. My companion then told me that this was her first day on her mission that she has not at least SOMETHING planned. So then we decided that instead of making that day really hard, we were going to make it also the best day she had ever had on her mission. I told her we could try to get 3 let ins the next day.....1 let in for every 2 hours of finding. Then she looked at me and said, ' no, i think we can get 5.' just to give you an idea of how that is a lot...we planned to get 3 let ins for all of next week. we just really havent been getting let ins hardly at all lately. But we decided to do 5 let ins....almost 1 for every hour.
When we went out on Saturday, we did an hour of streeting first and when we left, there was hardly anyone out on the streets and the very few people who were on the streets did not want to talk to us. We had forgotten that is was a holiday and on holidays, people especially do not want to talk to us. so needless to say, i was a little worried that we would go tracting and we maybe wouldnt have as much success as we had planned, but we decided to just go for it anyways. We prayed so hard!!! Im pretty sure I have never prayed so hard my whole mission. And it worked.
15 minutes after we started tracting we met M. He let us in and we started doing some survey questions with him and i asked him if he was religious. he then told us yes and that he was already baptized into our church. we were shocked. Come to find out, about a year after he got baptized he got a job and he had to work every saturday and sunday so he went inactive. He had just got laid off of this job a month ago and had been thinking about coming to church again and then we knocked on the door. It was an awesome program! (we later found out that the members had been trying to contact him for a while but his number and address had changed.)
2 doors after m we tracted into a. When I knocked on her door, I just felt this overwhelming happiness come in me. She wanted to know how on earth we could be so happy so she let us in. Come to find out, A lost her husband 1 month ago and she had hardly left her apartment and would not even let friends or relatives into her house. she couldnt believe she let us in. We also found out that she was very Atheist. we had a good program with her though and by the end she said that she is sure that there has to be a God or something bigger because she could see it in our faces and she could feel it when we talked to her. So awesome!
1 floor later, we tracted into L. when we sat down on his couch, I noticed that he had a restoration pamphlet lying on the table next to his bbible. i asked him about it and he said he had recieved in 6 months ago from the missionaries and he had been waiting for them to come again but they never did. he had been wanting to come to our church for a while now. he belongs to a club that is over by our church house and he sees our church house almost every day and wonders what is in there. He had read the restoration pamphlet many times and loved it. so awesome!
by this time, we only had about an hour and a half left and i was so exhausted. we had had amazing programs and had been working so hard, but I honestly didnt know how i was going to do 2 more programs. I just remembered praying and telling the Lord that I could not do this with my strength alone. And we just got up and started going again but this time completely with the Lords strenght. We went and did a whole building and got probably some of the hardest door slams ever. and by the time we finished we only had about 45 minutes left. We said one of the most heartfelt prayers I have ever prayed asking to find 2 more people that needed the gospel. The first door after our prayer we met B and m. B had been searching out and learning about different churches and he was very interested in what we had to say. we left a BOM with them and bore out testimonies and said that we would return later.
we only had a half and hour left to get another program. we said another prayer and got to work and we found É. meeting with her was probably one of the most powerful programs i have ever had. She looked at first like she was just going to slam the door on us and then something stopped her, her face softened and she opened the door and let us in. we got talking with her and we found out that for the last little while she had been angry at God because of some of the really hard things she has gone through lately. she didnt understand why God had left her when she needed him the most. We talked to her a little while about why bad things happen and then we asked her if we could say a prayer with her. Before I prayed i asked her if there was anyone I could pray for and she said her husband and that was all that i knew. I said the prayer and the spirit just started speaking cause it sure wasnt me. i have never spoken hungarian that well before, I said things in my prayer that i didnt even know about her, and it was just so powerful. After the prayer, é was just bawling. she said that she hadnt been able to feel that way in a long time and just opened up to us and told us everything. She also told us that she does not let any one in her door because she has had some scary experiences so she usually just opens the doors, sees if she knows the person and then shuts the door quickly. But when we knocked on the door, something stopped her. Such a powerful program
We did it. we got 5 programs in...not just 5 people who felt bad and just let us in, but 5 people who really needed to feel God's love. I was so beyond exhausted that night, but it was the best feeling in the world just to be so totally led by the spirit and just to experience God working His miracles through us. It was just an amazing day! i love being a missionary. there are no words to describe how wonderful it is to be doing the work of the Lord and seeing the Lord work to help His children. This church is so true. There trully is a God who loves His children and knows them each individually and is so aware of each and everyone of our needs. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!!
Falslev Nővér
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| happy st. patricks day!!!! |
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| i love the members! |
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| A and i on the bobsled thing at tapolca! so much fun! |
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| us playing at tapolca. it was so much fun! |
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