Boldog Új Évet Kivánok!

Hey there! Happy 2017!!!

Can’t even believe my full calendar year of being a missionary is OVER. That honestly makes me tear up a bit typing that out. BUT I am so grateful to still have just a few more months to work my booty off and continue to learn and grow in Christ. This week…

Wednesday: We went to meet with Kristián and his wife was there too! What the what!?!?!? It was a great lesson and we really hope she will come and listen to the rest of our lessons. We talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and what we need to do to stay on God’s path. Szabadkai Nővér came and taught with us and it was super fun 🙂 Then we went to visit a recent convert, Viola. She is the sweetest and I just love her a lot. We talked about the plan of salvation and what it means to us and the spirit was there so strong.

Thursday: I went back to the doctor and they gave me another new medicine to try… honestly I am a little more than terrified to try it after everything that happened last time… but I started it this morning and so far so good. Then we had district meeting about language study and we got to meet with Hajni our less active. She has been reading the Book of Mormon daily and she agreed to come to church with us. WOOHOO!!!!! I just love seeing the gospel work in these people’s lives. I love it.

Friday: Tracting and mcm… very exciting day…

Saturday: We had weekly planning and we went to clean the branch house with the elders. That was super fun haha 🙂 Then at like 8 at night a member of the bishopric called and asked if I would give a 15 minute talk in the morning in Sacrament meeting!!! I was kinda annoyed but of course I said yes. I stayed up all night writing and translating my talk into Hungarian woohoo!! I talked about the first vision and why it’s important to me 🙂

Sunday: Flooded apartment round 2… not nearly as bad this time, but our water heater broke and was shooting water everywhere and now all we have is ice cold water to shower in and our heaters don’t work so the apartment is FREEZING!!! Love this missionary life of mine. 🙂 Also I survived the talk! It was the weirdest experience of my life talking in the Pest ward. I gave a talk in Hungarian, and a Hungarian translated it into English on a microphone next to me for all the English speaking families. I was super excited because she translated everything back into English exactly the way I wanted it to sound and I was so happy because I realized that people understand me when I speak Hungarian!! WOOHOO!!!!

Randoms:

So we needed to take showers, but we had no hot water. We decided to boil some water and take a sponge bath… but we really needed to wash our hair too. My comp decided to cup shower, but since the bathroom was so stinking cold and the water was so hot she like burned herself!! And she was screaming so I decided to just not wash my hair. Feeling pretty disgusting…. another day in the life hahaha!

The trees here turn into ice when its really cold! It is the coolest thing ever probably. My comp just laughs because she is from Colorado so she’s like well its nice to see that the disgusting cold is exciting to someone 🙂 hahaha.

So we were literally running home through the super crowded metro stops and stuff to make it home by curfew on NYE. We were close to the house so we stopped running because we were out of breath… and then I saw some drunk people throw a homemade firecracker off the balcony right where we were walking. I looked at it and screamed RUN!! And after like two steps the thing EXPLODED and left our ears ringing for hours. So basically I almost died, but all is well in Zion.

So this week was great being able to reflect on my year being a missionary in 2016. It is a year that will FOREVER be in my memory and I wouldn’t change on second of it. I love my last year and I am going to love this year too! I love the fresh feeling of a second chance each time a new year rolls around. Every year I pick a “one little word” to represent my year instead of making a new years resolution. This year I decided on the word THRIVE. I have a hard time living in the moment sometimes, and this year is coming with so many changes and new things with going home and moving back up to school…. and I want to remember that there is joy in every moment. I want to take every day and just do the best that I can with this year.

Make this year a great one!! And I will see you all again THIS YEAR!!

sok szeretettel,
Mason Nővér