Hello my amazing family! It sounds like you all are
doing well! It was a really great week for us full of lessons,
conferences, and everything else. So on Tuesday we were able to have our
new missionary training where we were able to give a presentation to all of the
New Missionaries (18 of them) and their trainers about General Rules and
Expectations in the Hungary Budapest mission, it was good. That same day,
we were in charge of Elder Dixon who would be going home the next day. We
had dinner with the Szabadkais (Gulyás and Palacsintas, two of my Hungarian
favorites). We then took him up to a place called fisherman's Bastian
where we took pictures and ran into a member from Finland.
Then we also gave a training to the Zone Leaders and Sister
Training Leaders in our Mission Leadership Council. It went really well
and we were able to speak about how to better improve our language speaking
abilities. We also were able to speak about hope and also how to safely
use technology while doing missionary work (we are going to be using the
computers for facebook). Then the members of the Stake came and we were
able to have a really great conversation with them about how to better include
the members in missionary work, it went well.
We were able to meet with a lot of people this past week.
With one of our investigators, if every thing goes as planned, then his
baptismal interview is going to be this Saturday! He told us that he is feeling
the amazing feeling and influence of our church more and more in his life. We
were able to have a good lesson about Joseph Smith and the first vision. He was
not able to come to church, as he was spending the weekend with a friend,
however, he told us that he is going to be in the area this upcoming week and
that we are going to be able to meet a lot. We feel like he can be ready to
make this step of baptism in a few weeks.
We were also able to meet with another set of investigators, which is an older couple. That teaching also went really well. We were able to talk about the Plan of Salvation and what we need to do in this life in order to obtain salvation. We talked about how we need to be baptized by the proper authority and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost in order to be able to return to make it back to our Father in Heaven. They told us that they have both already been baptized and we explained to them, why we believe it is necessary that it is done by the proper authority. They are starting to see the big picture, however, it may take some more time than we originally planned. They are still amazing people and I do believe with time they can come to find out for themselves that all of this is true and from God.
Another of our investigators is finally going to be getting out of the hospital and is going to be able to get all of his things back in order. He is doing really well and he told us that he really wants to continue to commit himself to this path. He is really starting to understand more and more about why we believe this is the church of Jesus Christ and told us that he is going to read the Book of Mormon. We really see a lot of potential in him. We also met with another of our investigator’s a couple of times this past week. He is doing well, he just has not fully committed himself to believe that this is the path that leads back to God. He thinks that if we can take a little bit from all the religions then that is how we return to live with God. We talked about the importance of coming to know that the Book of Mormon is true and that if this Book is true then that is the proof that the Plan of Salvation is truly God's plan established for his children. He told us he will read at least 5 minutes from it every single morning. We were also able to meet with a new investigator this past week. He was found by the sisters a while ago on a bus. He really wants to turn his life around (he told us that he is spiritually not feeling to good). We told him that the gospel can really be a great way to do it and that that is the reason why we are here as missionaries. We are going back tonight.
We were also able to meet with another set of investigators, which is an older couple. That teaching also went really well. We were able to talk about the Plan of Salvation and what we need to do in this life in order to obtain salvation. We talked about how we need to be baptized by the proper authority and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost in order to be able to return to make it back to our Father in Heaven. They told us that they have both already been baptized and we explained to them, why we believe it is necessary that it is done by the proper authority. They are starting to see the big picture, however, it may take some more time than we originally planned. They are still amazing people and I do believe with time they can come to find out for themselves that all of this is true and from God.
Another of our investigators is finally going to be getting out of the hospital and is going to be able to get all of his things back in order. He is doing really well and he told us that he really wants to continue to commit himself to this path. He is really starting to understand more and more about why we believe this is the church of Jesus Christ and told us that he is going to read the Book of Mormon. We really see a lot of potential in him. We also met with another of our investigator’s a couple of times this past week. He is doing well, he just has not fully committed himself to believe that this is the path that leads back to God. He thinks that if we can take a little bit from all the religions then that is how we return to live with God. We talked about the importance of coming to know that the Book of Mormon is true and that if this Book is true then that is the proof that the Plan of Salvation is truly God's plan established for his children. He told us he will read at least 5 minutes from it every single morning. We were also able to meet with a new investigator this past week. He was found by the sisters a while ago on a bus. He really wants to turn his life around (he told us that he is spiritually not feeling to good). We told him that the gospel can really be a great way to do it and that that is the reason why we are here as missionaries. We are going back tonight.
Overall the work is going great we are going to keep serving
as hard as we can!! I love you all so much, have a great week!!!
Gentry Elder
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