2 wonderful years!!!

The last one....

These last 2 years have been absolutely incredible and life changing!  I am so incredibly grateful for the opportunity that I have had to serve the people of this amazing country and am so incredibly honored to have been a tool in Heavenly Father's hands over the course of these last two years!  This work is truly so amazing!  

It was a good last week in Hungary!  On Tuesday we went up to Budapest for a, "Meet the President," meeting.  President and Sister Hettinger are remarkable people that are full of energy and are truly called of God to be leading us at this time.  They have already incorporated some new things that we have been applying and have truly been seeing miracles from.  Although I really miss the Szabadkais, I fully support and sustain the Hettingers as the new mission presidents of the Hungary Romania, Budapest mission.  

We were able to see a miracle on Tuesday night as we felt promoted to go and tract on a street not too far away from our apartment.  We were able to tract into a woman named Barbi, who at 1st was hesitant, but after bearing testimony of the doctrine of Christ, let us into her yard where we taught her and two other families (who had come from Romania, but spoke Hungarian) the message of the Restoration.  We set up for a couple days later and when we returned, we brought our branch mission leader, Brother Füredi, who has known Barbi since childhood!  We were able to teach her and one of the other families about the Plan of Salvation.  

The investigators are doing well.  János was able to read from the Book of Mormon as well as Alajos and Endre.  We were able to have Mária in church and were also able to have Tamás from our part member family we have been teaching.   We also had a potential investigator come to church by the name of József, who we will be meeting with tonight, he seems prepared.   I was able to speak in church this past Sunday!  I spoke about the need to follow the prophet in these the latter days and how if we live according to the gospel we can truly be happy.  I spoke about how President Nelson is really emphasizing 1. The Book of Mormon 2. Temple and family history work (making time for it) 3. Receiving personal revelation 4. The importance of ministering.  

We were able to take part in a huge miracle yesterday (more than one actually).  We were doing companionship study in a local park and I saw this girl walk by and felt impressed to speak with her.  She invited us over that very day and we met with her, her dad, and her little brother.  The girls name in Dorina although it did not really interest her dad and bro, it really interested her and we set up to meet again.  After that, we got a let in to a man named László who lost his wife.  We testified of God and His plan and set up again.  We found an additional 10 potential investigators and were able to help a member put together a cabinet for his sister in law who is not a member but might want to start investigating, we did not plan it, but the Lord lead us to them.

I know with all of my heart that this is the work of Almighty God.  He is truly at the helm and if we turn to Him constantly and live according to His commandments and His Gospel He will ALWAYS provide and we will experience pure joy!  I know that my Redeemer lives and I know that through his grace weak things can be made strengths and that we can stand spotless before Him at the last day.   The Book of Mormon is true and is truly the most correct of ANY book on earth, and this is truly the church of Jesus Christ restored in these the Latter Days!   I love this work so much! I love you all so much and am so grateful for you! 

See you soon, 

Gentry elder 

Miracles, miracles, miracles!

We were able to have a lot of miracles take place this past week as my title implies!  We had a really amazing start to the week, as we had President and Sister Szabadkai make the trip down to Pápa on Tuesday, in order to take us out to lunch and say an official goodbye.  I truly do love them so much and I am so honored to have been able to serve with and learn from them!  They are truly wonderful!  

We were able to go on a really amazing daily exchange with our district leader Elder Jameson and his companion, Elder Seeley.  The exchange took place here in Pápa and it was a really an exchange full of miracles. I was with Elder Jameson and I felt an impression to go and tract a nearby 2 to 3 story building (mind you that I listened to President Uchtdorf's talk about the 4th floor last door that very morning). We started to tract and no one was really  interested. On the last door we knocked on, however, a miracle happened.  We were let into by  two young parents to 2 really adorable young children.  We were able to teach and testify of the Book of Mormon and the Restoration and it was really a good experience!  These people are SO prepared and one of them had just weeks before had a conversation with an LDS man in, I think, Italy.  We are going back tomorrow. In that very building we met a man who told us we could come back the following morning.  We came back and were able to meet with him and his wife.  They are the parents of two really cute little boys.  We testified of the Book of Mormon and how the Gospel truly blesses families.  They really seemed to like it and we set up again.

We were also able to have a miracle take place as we were meeting with another woman.  She is going through some hard times in her life and we were able to bring the Elder's quorum president.  He worked with her for a long time at the same work place and they got along great (we did not know that beforehand). We were also able to find another new investigator.  We met twice with her and after the second meeting, we tracted into her aunt and found out that just earlier that day she had been telling her about the church, so amazing! 

We were able to have an investigator in church once again and the Lord keeps honoring us so much!  I love you all so much, have a great week!! 

Gentry elder

  

It was a great week! Post Date June 25, 2018

We were able to have a wonderful exchange this past week with the Zone Leaders from Győr.  I was able to serve with Elder Pulsipher and we were able to get some really great work done.  We were able to have a few teachings (members helped in every one) and we were able to get let in to a nice family.  We were able to also find some good potential investigators as well.  

We were able to find a couple of new investigators this past week! One was a sister that we found through tracting.  She is a single mother of two and she met with the missionaries about 20 years ago as a teenage girl!  We were able to meet with her the following day after we met her and we brought the district president, President Szür.  The lesson went well and we spoke about the Plan of Salvation and bore testimony about how much these things have helped us in our lives!  We were going to meet tonight, but she cancelled, hopefully we can meet soon!  We also met a new family, first with the father.  We spoke about many of the fundamentals of the gospel.  We spoke outside his door, but then he let us in to meet his girlfriend/wife (not sure) and there 5 month old baby.  They are soldiers and are very kind.  

We were able to meet with another investigator (an older woman) and it went really well.  She was able to come to church again and stayed for Sunday school.  We had a great meeting with another investigator/part member family.    We spoke about the Book of Mormon and the member that helped bore really powerful testimony.  They are doing well!  The Lord is honoring us so much and I am so glad to be a missionary!  I love you all and will finish strong!  

Gentry elder