1st Baptism!

It has been such a crazy week!!! We had hivatal - orientation- today with some of the people from my MTC group and that was pretty fun to see them again. I am glad they are all doing really good. While I was in orientation my comps went hiking without me!!! But hopefully we will get to go do something fun sometime. We haven't really gotten to go do much. We haven't had time.

This past week we did get to go see Buda Castle and Mathews church. We were meeting with a guy and he wanted to show us something so we were a little concerned where he was taking us to at first but he took us to this really pretty spot where we could see all over Buda. It was the prettiest thing i have ever seen! It was cool to see Buda lit up at night. I will send some pics but they didn't turn out too well...pictures just don't do it justice and I couldn't figure out how to do night pictures. It was even cooler to do the restoration lesson up there! It went really good....I'm not sure if we will be meeting with him again but we will see.

The best part of my week was this girl was baptized! She is the most amazing member and the nicest person ever! She found out about the church from a persons blog that lived in Salt Lake. She was a photographer and a really good writer so she writes about her family and stuff on her blog. This girl accidentally found her blog (clear over on the other side of the world) and she felt like she really wanted to know more about the church that these people belonged to. So she called them and asked them about it. They gave her the number for the missionaries and she was baptized on Saturday! The people who's blog it was came to her baptism! They are awesome! They took some pictures and said they would send you them so hopefully they do. They were really nice. It was a great baptism and a lot of people showed up!! The girl has already been doing missionary work and is so strong! She wants us to start meeting with her mom.  So hopefully that goes good. Her mom has been to church and was really supportive of her getting baptized. It was a really great experience.

This week has been great but its also been pretty hard. We did have 2 baptisimal dates but it didn't work out and we aren't meeting with them anymore. We had a lot of our programs fall through which has been pretty discouraging but we are getting much better at street contacting! Yesterday we had a really great day...I learned a lot about myself and how hard missionary work is. So we had about 4 programs planned for after church and only one of them showed up. It was an interesting lesson-he speaks fluent english and asked a lot of really hard questions. Then the rest of the 3 programs canceled so we decided to go to the park and talk to people. It was a gorgeous day so lots of people were there! EVERY single person we talked to was not very nice. A lot of people in Buda know who we are and so when we go up to talk to them they are sometimes not so nice. Most people are but yesterday we didn't meet a lot of nice people. We had been doing this for about 4.5 hours and we decided to go back for dinner and decide what we else we could do that could be more effective. I'm not going to lie...we were pretty discouraged because we were working so hard but no one would even give us a chance! While walking home, I saw this cute little family so I decided to talk to them. Well come to find out he was a pastor from another church and it was really hard! He could speak English so I could actually understand everything he was saying. He started yelling at us with his little children watching. He was yelling at as for about 10 minutes when one of my great companions just bore her testimony very strongly that she knew the church was true and that she knew that Christ lived. It didnt really do anything for him but it changed my view on missionary work. Missionary work is the hardest thing I have ever done. I cant speak the language. People wont talk to us. People tell us how evil we are without even getting to know us. But the hardest thing about missionary work is seeing so many people so unhappy and see them reject the Savior. As hard as it is and as many times as people wont listen to us, it makes you stronger. As the preacher yelled at us, I realized who I really was and that I really did know that the Savior lives. The Book of Mormon is not just some book that Joseph Smith made up. I know it, because I have read it. Every day as I read it, I feel the power of the Book of Mormon. I know that people are being prepared here-just like the girl who was baptized this week. The church really is growing over here and it is a wonderful time to be a missionary! Every one in our ward is so nice and so kind and so patient! A lot of the members of the ward have gone through so much in their lives....a lot of them have had to fight for their freedom. The Hungarians really are such a strong people! Its amazing to be here and to serve them!

Anyways, everything else has been going good. My companions are awesome! We get along really well. The language is still trying to come. It is so hard but people are just impressed that I am trying to learn it haha! They tell me they were never try to learn Hungarian if they were from America.

Anyways, I hope you are all doing well! Love you lots! Hope everything is going well!

Falslev Nővér

We went out singing one night. A lot of people liked to listen to the music. My comp is really good at playing the ukeléli.

This is on a hill overlooking parliment. it is beautiful there!

This is a way cute street.

This is Matthews church. So beautiful!

Another church by Buda castle. There are churches everywhere over here.