Szia Csaladom!

This week has been a good week! We have gotten a lot of new investigators which has been great! We have had some really awesome programs this week....the problems is that none of the investigators have been living in our area so we have had to switch them to other missionaries!!!! We got 6 new investigators this week that were really interested in the church and actually kept their commitments and they ALL lived in Pest!!! That was kind of a bummer but at least some of our streeting is being a success :) 2 of the investigators are twins that are 16 and I was really sad we couldn't teach them anymore! They had a really hard time switching over to the Pest sisters! But we still get to see them at english class and we will still see them a lot. They have called us and talked to us too so hopefully they will keep meeting with the missionaries!

One of the investigators was from English class and he is awesome!!! We met with him on a friday and he told us straight out that he woulnt pray about the BOM until he read it. Usually when people say that they never read the BOM. But we met with him again on Tuesday and he had read almost all the way through 2 nephi! It was awesome! He had a lot of questions for us and has been super interested! We have had some really good programs this week with him and he has really liked what we are teaching him. The first time he came in to meet with us he was wearing a yankees hat and so Sister Kennedy asked him if he liked the yankees. Im not really sure what he said after that but then he asked us if we liked baseball. I told him that I didnt like the yankees but I did like the red soxs (the only reason i like them is because of Megan...I really dont know anything about baseball haha). So the next day at anagalora (english class) he had went out and bought himself a brand new boston red soxs hat! it was great! he was so excited to show me his new hat! It was really funny! But even better was the next day we met with him and he was wearing his yankee hat again! I asked him about it and he told me in the greatest english: "dont worry about it. I have red soxs. I am true fan!" He then showed me his awesome red soxs baseball socks that he went and bought! I could not stop laughing! It was so funny! I have no idea what he tells me about baseball because he tells me about it in Hungarian but I am glad that he is a Boston Red Soxs fan! haha! But he lives in Pest so we wont be able to meet with him anymore....we havent told him yet though so we'll see how he takes it. He really likes meeting with us.

I also found out we have a Danish Elder serving here and I met him last week. He said he had seen the town Falslev and that it was really small. I asked him to pronounce falslev and it is nothing even close to how we pronounce it in English! I am going to try and record him saying it and then send it home.

The highlight of our week was on Friday. We had the greatest day planned out. We had 4 programs planned out. One was with the Boston Red Soxs fan and one was with another girl we had an amazing lesson with a couple weeks ago! The other 2 were with people we had met before so we were really excited that people were meeting with us again! But as the day went on, we ended up only having one lesson with the boston red soxs fan. We were excited we at least got one! We went out streeting and we were having absolutely no success....the only people that would talk to us were the homeless people that are usually drunk in the square. No one else wants to talk to us if we are talking to them. So we decided to go somewhere else. We hurried and jumped on a villamost and got off at this random spot. It was getting later at night and the stop we got off there wasn't really anyone there. So we got back on the villamost and we were just going to go home a little early and call some of the people we had streeted during the past couple days and get some of the area book work done. But then we decided to just get off at another random spot and walk home and see if we could street anyone else. We got off and there was absolutely no one around on the street. So we started walking home and then we see this girl a little ways down the street and she is yelling and screaming and she threw her purse on the ground. I wasn't very excited about it because I thought she was going to be drunk and we were going to need to hurry to make it home on time. But then as we got closer we could see that she was just really upset not drunk. We asked her if we could help her and she just started yelling and crying in Hungarian. We had no idea what she was saying. Then she realized we were American and was kind enough to switch to English. She was having a hard time with everything...she didnt feel like she was good and she felt like God had forsaken her. She felt so alone! Her grandparents had just died, her parents were gone, she was doing drugs and she knew it wasn't good for her - she was just doing it so she could have friends and even her friends wouldn't stay by her. It was so sad! I have never loved someone so much when I just met them on the street! We just asked her if we could give her a hug and talk with her and she was so grateful. She couldn't believe how kind people could be when we had just met her. She was still very upset but we asked her to sit down and told her we wanted to share something with her. We got her to sit down on a bench (she was still pretty upset at this point) and then my companion pulled out a BOM from her backpack. It was the coolest experience to see - as soon as she pulled the BOM out of her backpack and showed it to her, she IMMEDIATELY calmed down. And we just told her that God was there and that he loved her. You could literally see a little hope come back into her face. Then we told her the book was for her, it was our gift to her, and she was shocked that someone would care about her enough to give her a book. We kept talking to her and we found out that she had come to this place to commit suicide. It didnt have very many people at that time and she just did not want to live anymore. Then she had met us. She thanked us so many times for coming and for saving her life. She did not want to let us go but we had to to get home. By the time we left she was so calm and you could see that hope replaced the despair she was feeling. She told us that she had prayed that morning if there really was a God and she had gotten her answer that night. She was so grateful for us! It was an amazing experience! Unfortunately we haven't been able to talk to her....we got a hold of her once but then our phone dropped the call. We are hoping to meet with her soon though! It was a really neat experience for me!

The ward members here are the greatest people ever! They are all so nice! They are so patient with me learning the language...I honestly really suck at the language...but I just tell them that and they love me for it! Yesterday I tried really hard to try and understand everything we were learning in church and it was so hard! People were asking me more questions because they know who I am now and I couldn't not understand a word they were saying! So hard!!!!! But they have been giving us a lot of referrals anyways....members really are so vital to missionary work! It was so funny yesterday after church we were walking down the stairs to go to choir practice (the choir is pretty much all the missionaries) and this little boy that was like 10 or 11 came and gave me the biggest hug after I just said hi to him! I had never seen him before and I guess he never really does that...he is pretty shy! But it just goes to show you that people can love you if you just say hi to them!

Well that's about all that I can remember that has happened this week. My companions are awesome! I love the ward I am in....today we are going with some of the members from the ward. They are going to take us on a tour of Buda Castle and show us all the 'cool' places to go. I am really excited! Hope everything is going good back home!

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