I love Buda!

Well as the title says, I am going to be staying in the city that I love...BUDA! I am super glad for this opportunity and I am thrilled for the chance that I will have to stay with Elder Hughes for another transfer!

It was a great week! On Tuesday we were able to meet with our referral that watched the musical the Book of Mormon in New York. The good news is that she really likes the actual Book of Mormon and her husband is also now investigating along with her which is cool. That night we were also able to meet with another of our investigators. Her brother actually was not home at the time so we had to meet on the doorstep, but we taught the restoration and she seemed to really like it. She did not eat our Zucchini bread we made for her because she saw there was green stuff in it and thought it went bad, haha.

On Wednesday we were able to do some super solid finding. One of the biggest things that I have learned over the course of this transfer is the importance of sticking to the fundamentals in everything. I have been reading Preach My Gospel a lot lately and it says over and over again that when we teach people about the Restoration then the Lord will bless us. Sometimes I tend to get prideful and lean on my own strength, however, when I do it how the Lord wants me to do it (connecting everything back to the Restoration and the Book of Mormon and encouraging them to read it), He honors us so much!! That night we were able to meet with one of our investigators who is doing fantastic! She is moving to Switzerland, however, which we are sad about, however, she is really excited to meet with the missionaries over there. When we went over to her home to teach her, we realized no man was home so we ran across the street, grabbed Elder Bagozzi and he saved the day!

On Thrursay we had a bunch of meetings (meeting day in the church, we had district meeting, english class, and missionary correlation meeting, and a cool meeting with the stake about the Light the World project). I do not know if you all have already heard about the Light the World campaign for this year, however, it will be a similar them as of last years and it should be really fantastic!

On Friday we went to the great city of Miskolc and I was with Elder Ure for the last time (as it says a number of times in the Book of Mormon the last shall be first and the first shall be last, haha). He is doing really well and I am so grateful for him and for the things I have learned from him throughout the course of the mission. He is a great example and friend to me!

On Saturday, we finished our exchange (did our best to talk to everybody and got fed some amazing cabbage stew basically from this nice old lady, it was so delicious) and then on the way back home, me and Elder Hughes jammed out to a Josh Groban Christmas CD, haha #tistheseason!

On Sunday we were able to have 3 investigators at church! Then we were in the office going through a course on how to use technology safely, we were the test missionaries, good times. Then we were able to go over to our part member’s home for dinner and we were able to talk about prayer and then we were able to talk about sabbath day earlier on in the week. They are so cool and it looks like everything is going to work out for the 18th! They gave us some good pizza and I explained to them what Thanksgiving was (in Hungarian, haha). They are so kind and are progressing so well.

I love you all so much and I promise I will keep working as hard as I can!! Have a great week!!

Gentry elder