Last week of the MTC

Szervusz Csaladom!!

What a wonderful week this has been! I found out that if you ever want someone to be quite - tell them they can only speak in Hungarian - they won't talk at all! It has been a crazy week only speaking Hungarian but I felt my language skills go up and my confidence in the language increase. This week has just seriously been a week of miracles! I absolutely love the MTC!!! All of our lessons this week were amazing...last week pretty much all our 'investigators' dropped us and it was so discouraging! They ended up having us come back though and we gave the most amazing lessons! I felt my love for the investigators grow even though they were our teachers we were teaching. I found that if I focus more on the investigator and forget my weakness with the language the spirit is so much stronger and does all the testifying the investigator needs- i just need to move out of the way and let the spirit work through me! We taught again - one of our investigators who found bad info on the internet - and it was probably the most powerful lesson I have ever taught. I was able to recite the 1st vision by memory and then our companionship all testified. The first vision really is such a huge miraculous event and it's amazing to feel the power of the first vision when you are teaching someone. I am so grateful for Joseph Smith not denying what he saw and what he was told despite all that he went through! It was truly just an amazing experience and got me so excited to go teach the Hungarian people!!!!

This week we went and saw elder Bednar's character of Christ talk again. Jesus Christ really is the best example of everything! I have been learning more about Christ and how He turned out towards everyone else when He faced hard times rather than looking in on Himself. I have found that that works. When I looked outside of myseft this week and tried to help either my companions or an investigator, it didn't matter what my weaknesses were - I was somehow able to do it with the Lord. I saw a lot of miracle take place within myself this week and it's amazing to look at how the Lord is lifting me up. Last night's devotional was awesome! The speaker taught about how the MTC is like an incubator - it's creates the perfect environment in which someone can thrive and progress preparing them to be strong enough to enter the 'real world'. I leave for the real world this week. I was debating whether or not I was really ready to go to Hungary and to talk to people in a language that I do not even know. The MTC has been the greatest place and I've been able to learn so much here! I love being able to learn about the Church and Christ all day long! Now it is time to share that knowledge with those around me. Although we will be leaving the incubator, we will not be on our own because Christ will go before us and prepare the way and we will also have the spirit. The Gospel really is the greatest and most comforting thing I could ever have in my life!

Another thing I learned this week was living with no regrets. I am going to have many opportunities to act on my mission and I need to take a hold of many of them as I possibly can. I can't let them pass me by. I realized how incredibly fast time flies by - especially the closer it gets to leaving the MTC. In the temple this morning I just wanted to do anything to get time to stop and slow down! But it doesn't. So just enjoy the moment right now because it will go by fast. The Lord will give you opportunities and if you don't take them, they will be gone. I want to try to live my mission so that I can live with no regrets - I can act and see the miracles that come from acting.

This week we also got to meet the previous mission president of hungary - president and sister gassar - they have a daughter going to Finland who was in our zone and just left of her mission to Finland. They are going to serve another mission in Germany over the Swizerland YSA! President Gassar served in that same mission when he was 19. It was so cool to talk to them and hear their stories of how amazing Hungary is and what it is going to be like. They are amazing people and are going to be awesome missionaries! I am so excited to go there!

Speaking of amazing people, yesterday at lunch, Brother Heaton (he is in charge of the missionary department for the Church) and 2 others from the special buildings development of the church came and sat by us and talked to us for the whole lunch period. It was awesome! They asked us what we liked about the MTC and what they could be doing better. They are really getting ready for missionaries - they aren't sure what they are going to do yet but there are going to be some big changes at the MTC!!! They expect that there will be over 100,000 missionaries out in the mission field by next year. They definitely need to expand this MTc- it's crowded but they are doing a good job with so many people! They just talked with us and gave us a ton of really good advice - my personal favorite was when I get to Hungary to just speak the Language and forget myself. One of the guys who was talking to us was the person in charge of getting land for temples so we told him that Hungary really, really needed a temple! He told us that if we would do our part, he'd work on his part! WE just gotta get more members in Hungary! It's growing! That would be so aweseome to get a temple in Hungary! Today was the last time I got to go to the temple for 16 months - it was really hard knowing that I wouldn't be able to go for so long. It really honestly broke my heart. I have been able to go EVERY single week (except like 3 or 4) since I recieved my endownments and the temple has become such a special place in my heart. I am going to miss it so much! Make sure you enjoy being so close by and having so many temples so close! I am sure going to miss the temple so much but it is a sacrifice worth making to help bring the Gospel into others lives.

Well I leave the MTC on Monday!!! So crazy! Most of the people in our zone left this week - really sad! Our zone will be really spread thin after this - we had estonian, albanian, finland, and hungarian missionaries. After next week, they will only have 12 finnish elders, 2 sisters, and 2 hungarian sisters. Plus our branch president's last week is sunday so everything will change once we leave. The finnish missionaries who left this week missed their plane in Chicago to London so hopefully that doesn't happen to us! That would be so sad! Plus we have such a huge group!

I have really come to love my companions - they are my best friends and I can't believe I only have 5 more days with them! I really don't think I could have gotten better missionary companions that the ones I have!!!! It is going to be so hard to leave them but I know that we will be friends forever!!! I am really sad to be leaving the MTC but I know that it will be good for me - I've gotten comfortable with the MTC and it's time to move on and progress. Thanks for all you do and all the love and support you have given me over the years. I am so blessed to have such wonderful family and great friends! I love the Gospel and all that is gives me. God really does bless us with miracles every day. It's amazing to see what the Lord can help you accomplish if you allow Him. I love the Lord so much and I know that He lives. I cannot wait to share my testimony with the Hungarian people (we have to speak our first sunday in Hungarian - SCARY!!!) I can't wait to get to Hungary and finally be with the people I have really grown to love so much. I love being a missionary and feeling the Lord's love for His children. I love being a small part of the Lord's work.

I forget - Elder Holland came to the MTC last week to a random district and he said some really amazing things! He said that his favorite scipture right now is D&C 33. He said that the 11h hour is RIGHT NOW. That right now is the time that the Lord is really hastening His work and we are a part of it. Do the best you can and pass the test. There will never be missionary work like there is right now - so he said: make it count - make yourselfs tired, work work work. Work so hard that you don't have time to think of yourself or your inadequecy's. That is what I will try my hardest to do! I love being a missionary!

Hope all is well! Hope to hear from you soon! Love you all!

Falslev Nover

Opening your package!  It was like Christmas day!  Packages are the best!

All the Hungarian Sisters! So many! We are almost doubling how many sisters they have now! We'll see how that turns out with the language!