Hello my amazing
family! It was a great week this past week full of miracles, splits,
conferences, and good food.
On Monday I celebrated
the 20th anniversary of the day I was born! Thank you for the great
packages and I love the scarf (worn it every day) and the sweater (I wore it
the day after). That day the Szabadkais brought me a cake and sang happy
birthday to me it the morning which was super nice of them. After that we
had to man the office while the secretaries went to the embassy (#birthday service
#lighttheworld). Then we were able to order Mexican food to the mission home,
went to get our hair cut (I taught my barber the Restoration and he gave me his
number which was cool, I always talk to them and this time this one was
interested), then we shopped, then we had a choir practice thing. Then at
the end of the choir practice thing a member came to the mission home with
another cake for me. We then went to a Chinese restaurant (there was not
a male in the branch house so we could not go inside) and had cake and Chinese.
Then the best part happened when we taught Johanna that night! We went
over there really excited because she told us she had some good news that she
wanted to tell both of us in person. We go in and ask her what the good
news was and she told us that after thinking and praying about it she wants to
be baptized on December 30th!!! We were so thrilled and it was the best
birthday present ever! We taught about the law of tithing that lesson and
it went fantastic! Johanna has such amazing faith and is proof to me that
God is truly preparing the hearts of his children! Later that week we
were able to teach the Law of Chastity and about eternal marriage in the
temple. It was funny, she said, for two people who have never been
married, you speak so highly and happily about marriage and the blessings it
will bring. It was nice to hear!
The next day we were
able to go on exchanges with the elders from the city of Dunaújváros! I
was with Elder Neumiller here in Buda and we had a really great exchange.
The week before, Elder Neumiller actually plowed through a glass door, however,
he was miraculously protected from the whole incident and only walked away from
it with a minor scratch and a head ache (when it happened I was the first one
he called and I was not sure whether to laugh or be worried because he sounded
fine on the phone, we have angels watching out for us that is for sure).
That exchange was great! We looked up a family we found from Norway, and we
were not sure where they lived. The 1st door we knocked on was theirs and
we set up a meeting for today. After that we said a prayer and felt we
should stay in the building. We got let in to a nice mom and her little
baby, who we can hopefully meet with again this week. After that we did
some more lookups and found ourselves in another building. We said a
prayer, felt we should stay and got a let in on the next door we tracted. It
was a nice older woman that we were able to share the Christmas message
with. On top of that we were able to find 10 potential investigators, it
was great!!
Then we were able to
have another exchage with the Miskolc elders! I was able to work with
Elder Lowe, who is such an amazing missionary. We went on exchanges
together in our 3rd and 2nd transfers (he is one below me) and it was so fun
being able to work with him once more. He is from Seattle and is such a
hard worker, I love it! We were able to find some really great potential
investigators that exchange and were able to have a couple great lessons with
Johanna, and a former investigator named Csaba.
On Friday we were able
to have our Missionary Leadership Council here in Budapest! It was
fantastic and president gave a wonderful training about what it means to be a
true leader. It was kind of funny, we were talking about what it means to
be powerful in regards to missionary work and one of the missionaries said that
I came to his mind (really kind of him to say) and then president says in
english, "well obviously" it was really funny and nice of them to
say. Sister Szabadkai shared the story about the little boy that
asked the man on the street that helped him if he was Jesus and the man said no
but he was trying to be like him, I really love that story. Elder Hughes
and I gave a training on effective planning and how to find with faith!
We said that planning needs to have meaning, have balance and have goals and
when we are finding it needs to be like we are hunting not just waiting.
It was a great meeting.
I love you all so much
and am so excited to Skype next week! Have a great week!
Gentry elder
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