Well,
it is the start of another transfer and I am pumped and ready to go! I am
serving with Elder Hughes in the beautiful city of Buda and like the email
title says the field is white and is ready for the harvest. I am so
excited for the chance that I have to serve with Elder Hughes this upcoming
transfer. He is a really great missionary and already we have seen miracles.
The biggest miracle that we saw this week happened with our investigator that
we have been meeting with for a few months now.
Ironically enough, Elder Hughes actually found him on an exchange here
in Buda! He has not really been progressing for the last couple of months
and we took a break from meeting with him in order to see if he was really
interested or not. We met with him once a couple weeks ago and the lesson went
pretty well (he was able to come to church the following Sunday). We then set
up to meet with him last Saturday. We planned to talk about baptism and
confirmation. Let us just say that with God all things are possible and He can
truly soften anyone's heart. To start the lesson, we sit down and he pulls out
the Book of Mormon from his back pack. He tells us that he now has the desire
to want to read it and is going to read the entire book. Before this he had been
very against the Book of Mormon and really did not think of it as scripture.
When we asked him why he wants to read it now, he told us that we have been
telling him to and has not yet done it. He told us that he feels and accepts
that Joseph Smith was God's prophet (something he has not really wanted to
accept) and that this is truly God's living church upon the earth today (this
is how he came to feel the truth). We taught him about baptism and how it is a
sacred covenant we enter into to always serve God and take Christ’s name upon
us. We felt like we needed to ask him to be baptized and he willingly accepted
a date for the 30th of September! He came to church and he was able to stay for
Sunday school as well. We are really happy for him and we really think he will
be ready for it!!
We were also able to have another of our investigators in church. They were the ones that had the super crazy story of being met with in Germany like 40 years ago. It was super funny, to start church, we shook their hands and it was kind of an awkward handshake (I shook his and Elder Hughes shook the wife’s and we formed like a cross because we were standing apart from each other). Basically, the funny part of it was, in Hungarian we say that after a handshake like that comes a baptism, and we were like you all know it (it is hard to translate what happened but the point is they want to be baptized we think, haha). They are doing really well and we are planning to get them on a baptism date this upcoming week as well. We have spoken about baptism before and we really feel that they could be ready in a very short amount of time. We will keep teaching them simply and through the spirit and will continue to invite them to come unto Christ and partake of the fruits of the gospel.
We were able to meet with quite a few of our other investigators as well this past week. Our investigator from Romania is also doing really well. We have been really focusing on the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him and how it can be used as a road map or a direction map to be able to make it back to our Heavenly Father. He really does a lot of thinking about things and we are really feeling that in some degree the spirit is touching his heart and he is more and more coming to see that this is the true path that God intends for all of his children to follow. He has been reading from the Book of Mormon and we committed him to pray about baptism and to ask God if it is the right path for him.
Another of our investigators is doing quite well. He is still smoking pretty heavily and does not know when he really wants to quit. He is progressing in other areas I feel like, however, the 2 biggest things that are hard for him are coming to church and smoking. We taught him about fasting and how when we fast we become more in tune to spiritual knowledge. It is like when we close our eyes, we use our ears more and our hearing becomes more enhanced, when we fast we close off he eating channel in order to feed our spiritual sensitivity. He understood it well. We invited him to fast for answers to his prayers and for a knowledge if this is truly the path that God wants him to be taking, he is doing well. We were also able to meet with a couple other people that we have not met with in over a transfer. They are both doing well and it looks like one of them is more interested than before to start investigating and learning about these things.
Another of our investigators had to return to Ukraine for work conferences and to be with is family. He told us that he might have a job offering in the United Kingdom and if he got offered the job then he would take his family and he would go and move there. I would be sad if we would no longer be able to meet with him, however, I know the Lord has a plan for him and if he does end up moving, we will make sure he can meet with the missionaries over there in the the United Kingdom.
We were also able to have another of our investigators in church. They were the ones that had the super crazy story of being met with in Germany like 40 years ago. It was super funny, to start church, we shook their hands and it was kind of an awkward handshake (I shook his and Elder Hughes shook the wife’s and we formed like a cross because we were standing apart from each other). Basically, the funny part of it was, in Hungarian we say that after a handshake like that comes a baptism, and we were like you all know it (it is hard to translate what happened but the point is they want to be baptized we think, haha). They are doing really well and we are planning to get them on a baptism date this upcoming week as well. We have spoken about baptism before and we really feel that they could be ready in a very short amount of time. We will keep teaching them simply and through the spirit and will continue to invite them to come unto Christ and partake of the fruits of the gospel.
We were able to meet with quite a few of our other investigators as well this past week. Our investigator from Romania is also doing really well. We have been really focusing on the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him and how it can be used as a road map or a direction map to be able to make it back to our Heavenly Father. He really does a lot of thinking about things and we are really feeling that in some degree the spirit is touching his heart and he is more and more coming to see that this is the true path that God intends for all of his children to follow. He has been reading from the Book of Mormon and we committed him to pray about baptism and to ask God if it is the right path for him.
Another of our investigators is doing quite well. He is still smoking pretty heavily and does not know when he really wants to quit. He is progressing in other areas I feel like, however, the 2 biggest things that are hard for him are coming to church and smoking. We taught him about fasting and how when we fast we become more in tune to spiritual knowledge. It is like when we close our eyes, we use our ears more and our hearing becomes more enhanced, when we fast we close off he eating channel in order to feed our spiritual sensitivity. He understood it well. We invited him to fast for answers to his prayers and for a knowledge if this is truly the path that God wants him to be taking, he is doing well. We were also able to meet with a couple other people that we have not met with in over a transfer. They are both doing well and it looks like one of them is more interested than before to start investigating and learning about these things.
Another of our investigators had to return to Ukraine for work conferences and to be with is family. He told us that he might have a job offering in the United Kingdom and if he got offered the job then he would take his family and he would go and move there. I would be sad if we would no longer be able to meet with him, however, I know the Lord has a plan for him and if he does end up moving, we will make sure he can meet with the missionaries over there in the the United Kingdom.
The
work is moving forward and I am excited to see the miracles that are going to
be taking place in Buda this transfer! I love you all so much, have an
amazing week!!!
Gentry
Elder
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