It was truly a really fabulous week!  The best thing that happened this week was definitely one of our awesome investigators!  When we were on exchanges a few weeks back, Elder Lowe and Elder Garrett were able to tract into a woman from Romania.  She lives really close to the branch house and lives right now with her daughter and her two daughters, let us not forget there giant Akita dog.  The grandmother is the definition of being prepared!  She has been baptized into a couple of churches and has been searching for the truth for years but has not been able to find it.  She said that the 1st time she was in church she was looking for a mistake in the way that we did things (like she was able to find in the other places she attended), however, she was not able to find any (it is almost like this is the true church or something like that :).  We were able to bring up baptism with her this past week and we invited her to be baptized on the 3rd of March, she accepted.  She drank coffee, however, ever since she heard that coffee was not allowed in the gospel, she says she fills sick whenever she drinks it, she does not drink it at all now, the spirit really works.  Her daughter also wants to be baptized but we are going to give her a little bit more time.  The Lord truly placed them in our path!  

We were also able to go to Miskolc this past week.  I was able to be with Elder Terry from my MTC group and we were able have a good exchange.  We were able to find many potential investigators and were also able to find a new investigator over there in Miskolc.  It was a bit snowy on the way over there and on the way back but the Lord was totally able to watch over us and it was all ok. 

We were able to have many teaching appointments this past week and the investigators all seem to be progressing really well (the biggest problem right now is getting them to come to church as they all, or at least most, will say they will come, however, in church last Sunday we only had 2 investigators). 

We were able to meet with many other investigators this past week where we discussed the Plan of Salvation and the truths and blessings that come from the Book of Mormon.  We are teaching one family that is half American and half Hungarian (the mom is from America).  We had to meet with one investigator in a restaurant as our member wasn’t able to attend as something came up.

 The Lord is blessing us so much and we are working hard.  Have a great week and I love you tons!! 

Gentry elder 

Új érdeklődők megint! (New Leads Again)

It was another really wonderful week this past week and the Lord again honored us so much! 

On Tuesday we were able to host the Dunaújváros elders for an exchange here in Buda.  I was with Elder Neumiller and we were able to focus on talking with everyone and having effective studies.  We were able to find some super cool potential investigators  and we had a really great lesson with a wonderful family.  We were able to originally meet them in the summer, however, they got super busy and were not able to meet for about 3 months. They have a daughter who is 8 years old that asks very intellectual questions.  We met with them (the daughter was at her grandmas house though) and taught about the restoration, it was great!  Then we were also able to meet with another investigator.  We had planned to speak about the Plan of Salvation, however, the spirit took it another way and we spoke about the Word of Wisdom.  She said she would try to live according to it and at the end of the lesson we gave her a blessing of strength (to live according to the word of wisdom) and of healing (her eye was bugging her). It also went well.

On Wednesday we were able to greet the new Hugnarian missionary, elder Rusz!  I sent a picture of me with both of the Hungarian missionaries (elder Katics and elder Rusz).  He is serving in Békéscsaba and is going to do a really good job, he is actually from the Buda ward originally.

We were able to meet with a couple other new investigators on Saturday (found from tracting and streeting) and both of those lessons went really really well.  On Sunday we were able to have a really amazing church session.  Johanna was able to speak and it was literally so amazing!  She spoke about the role the Book of Mormon had in her conversion and about how God knows what is right and how we do not need to rely on our own strength.  President taught priesthood and he spoke about what it means to show forth true love towards our fellow men.  Love equals time and in order to truly love we need to put off the natural man and become saints.  

I love you all so much and wish you all a great week!! 

Gentry elder

Zone Conference Week

This post was written on February 5, 2018 (we're a bit behind...)

It was a really amazing week for us and the Lord honored us so much.  Every day (Monday to Friday) we were able to take part in a 5 hour zone conference!  They were really really great and I learned so much!  Elder Lowe and I were able to give a training in every one of those conferences on the importance of finding.  Everyone on earth is our brothers and sisters and they need to be reminded of the truth that we have been blessed with.  It is our duty to open our mouths and raise a warning voice to as many people as our Heavenly Father puts in our path.  That was the basis of our training and the Zone Conferences in general were really amazing. 

On top of Zone Conferences, we were able to do some really great work this week and the Lord honored us more than I can express in this letter.  We were able to get a total of 9 new investigators this last week and we had 3 of them in church.  The coolest story happened with a single mom and her son.

They met with the missionaries about 1 year ago and we felt like we should look them up. When we arrived in the area, we were able to search for their home but were not sure which one theirs was.  I then saw a mom and a son going into a house and I had a feeling to follow them in.  It turned out to be the right house and the mother and son turned out to be the mother and son we planned to look up.  We had a great lesson that day and we came back on Saturday with a member who helped a lot.  They were able to come to church and they loved it.    

This work is so amazing and I am so honored to be a participant in it.  I love you all and wish you a wonderful week!!!  

Gentry elder 

As the title said, we were able to get a new car this past week.  I told to myself that I would not drive a Hybrid in my lifetime, however, I am doing it and it actually drives really really well!!  It is a toyota yaris 2018 and is pretty fun to drive.  The only problem is that it does not have a built in CD player and our phones are too old to be able to access its Bluetooth. It is ok though because we listen to the ipod that you all sent me #alliswellinzion

This week we were also able to make a new edition of the Hungary Budapest Mission Handbook.  We were able to get it all printed and it is ready to give to all the missionaries at Zone Conference this week. 

We were also able to hold a good Mission Leadership Council this past week where we were able to discuss the weekly planning session, goal setting, the daily planning session, and using time wisely.  It was really good, went for 5 and a half hours and I learned a lot!

We also were able to find 3 new investigators this past week.  One is a man that is originally from California but is no teaching English here in Hungary.  The we were able to meet with someone after English class and we found another while tracting, she told us to come back and we did.  

Our other investigators are doing well. 

I love you all so much and wish you all a csodálatos hetet!!  

Gentry elder