Sister Shantel Jenna Falslev: Week 3 in MTC

Szervusz Csalad!
Jason and shelece:
CONGRATULATIONS JASON AND SHELECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is so awesome! I am so happy for you both! You guys need to tell me the details of how you proposed jason and send me pics and everything! I kept waiting for the letter telling me how you proposed and I just got a "hey I got engaged" - at least I know it really was from Jason. Anyways, I am soooooo happy for you both! I am excited to have shelece officially in the family! And in the temple....prayers are answered! I sure do love you both!
Well this week has flown by! It has been a great week! I found out my companion...sister Broadhead knows of the Israelsens. Her cousins are in Young Ward and I guess they have told her how awesome the Isralesens are and what hard workers they are - yep that would be them! Her cousins last name is Wildens. Small world!
So this week has been a week of miracles! It's amazing how much the Lord has blessed me! Yesterday we were going to teach our investigator Lilla and I was so beyond frustrated. We had our whole lesson and I could not memorize ANY of the lines and I still can't even begin to translate words because I don't have any of the conjugation charts memorized (we have 17 charts to memorize) and you can't directly translate Hungarian. Anyways, I was so stressed and just overwhelmed. So we went and taught our lesson and I just prayed the hardest I have ever prayed before. It turned out that our lesson didn't even go the way we had it planned because she wanted to know how God could hear and answers every person's prayer. She didn't know that God loved her specifically. It was the most amazing experience because all of the sudden I could remember just enough vocabulary and enough verbs to tell her that God did know her and that He would answer her prayers if she just prayed to Him. It was a huge miracle and just reassured me that the Lord does hear and answer prayers and that He is helping me with the language. I am slowly getting it and I do struggle quite a bit but I am learning so much and gaining a stronger testimony of the Savior because it is so hard.
I also decided to finally start reading the BOM in Hungarian this week. I didn't want to do it because I had no idea what any of the words were or how any of the congugations worked so I thought I would just get really frustrated and discouraged when I read it. Well I decided to try it and it worked! I have learned more about grammar reading the BOM than I have ever been able to understand sitting in class 6-8 hours a day. That is now part of my favorite part of language study because I understand it! The BOM really is so powerful no matter what language it is in.
I just love being a missionary! Everyone here is so happy and so radiant with the light of Christ. Our zone has gotten really close....we are with the Finnish, Estonian, Adriatic missions and they are all just awesome! So far the sisters have outnumbered the elders by 2 but today we are getting 12 new elders and only 2 sisters so we won't outnumber them anymore. It is INSANE how many missionaries are here! The lines for food are SO long! The majority of our meal time is spent waiting in line...usually we just have about 5-10 minutes to eat. (so needless to say all the snacks you have sent me have been VERY helpful! We've already pretty much eaten everything! haha!) It is awesome that so many young people are so willing to go out and serve the Lord. I love being a missionary and being part of the Lord's work. I watched a devotional by Elder Holland on Sunday and he talked about how we are to Preach HIS gospel. And not only should it be HIS gospel but it needs to be MY gospel as well. Everything I eat breathe and sleep. When we work together as a team with the Lord we become much more powerful missionaries.
I hope everything is going well! That is exciting that Jason got engaged and same with Connie! I am so happy for them both! When is Connie getting married? How is everything else going back at home?
Love you all! Happy Valentines day tomorrow everyone! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family!
Falslev Nover