Doesn’t Get Any Better…

Hello!!! Feeling so stinking blessed this week. I am so so happy and loving every minute of being a missionary. Today is my 13 month mark and that just makes me so emotional. Honestly this is the best decision I have ever made and I wouldn’t change it for anything!!

We had the best week ever basically 🙂

Monday: We got to go ice skating!!!! At night in front of a lit up castle. Dang I love this city you guys!! We had so much fun and were laughing the whole time and I never even fell 🙂 Also miracle because our water heater and heater got fixed so we weren’t freezing inside all week and that made for a very happy and warm Sister Mason.

Tuesday: I got the airport call. It was a dreaded day haha. It’s just when the office calls and asks what airport you would like to fly into when you go home and I just started to cry thinking about getting flight plans and leaving my perfect country and so I decided to just not think about that and it was better after that. We went to see if we could get service opportunities at a homeless shelter and we got to go to sport nap and play basketball with investigators all night. Buli!!

Wednesday: We got to go out to visit a member, Zsuzsi. She is basically my favorite person ever and I wish I had more emailing time so that I could tell you all her story, but sadly I don’t. Just know she is the strongest coolest member and she makes delicious taco salad!

Thursday: We had a great district meeting about prayer and how we can be more sincere, and then a great Angol Ora where we talked about New Years resolutions. It made me a little sad, because a lot of them were just talking about how they don’t have goals, things can’t change, so why even try. I was like WOAH PEOPLE!! Be happy!! Make goals!! You can change!! These people are just kind of stuck in this dark mindset and it makes me sad every day to see that they don’t want a happier life. But I love them with my whole heart anyways and try my best to brighten up their days 🙂

Friday: We got to go on splits!! This time I went with Sister McGregor. We had a blast. We got lost a few times because I have no idea how to get around this ginormous city… but we made it out alive and met a really cool lady named Kati while tracting. We get o go back and teach her this week and we are super excited about that. We had fun changing a light bulb and having a photo shoot about it that night after planning hahaha!

Saturday: More fun with splits! We streeted around a square with lots of people and talked to a bunch of them. No one really listened but I always feel successful if I at least try and give them an opportunity to hear what we are all about. Then we got to go teach our investigator, Ibolya. I hadn’t met her yet because of the holidays, but she was super cool! She’s been investigating for 3 years… and she hadn’t even been taught the Plan of Salvation yet!! So we talked a lot about that. It’s one of my favorite lessons to teach because it just strengthens my testimony of God’s plan for his children every time. Love it.

Sunday: Best Sunday ever!! Again I wish I had more time to type… but long story short we had a new investigator, Donát, in church, and a random girl Sára walked into church and said she wanted to know what we were all about! We sat next to her through church and got to teach her a quick lesson afterwards. We are meeting again next week and we are really excited about her. Then Zsuzsi bore the sweetest testimony in sacrament and gave us a shout out 🙂 Tears of happiness haha and then we got to go visit the coolest guy ever. The elders just told us an address we needed to go to after church that was a 30 min train ride away. We were super confused about it and had no idea who in the world we were going to visit and why, but we went along with it. So we get there, and there is a néni. We talk to her for a while and ask about her and find out she is an inactive member. She took us into a room with an old bácsi sitting on the couch, and she told us to talk with him. We started to ask him about himself but then we realized he didn’t speak Hungarian, only English! He is from England and he married a Hungarian so they moved back to Hungary. He is very very old and is confined to a chair all day and cannot do anything for himself. His wife died three years ago, and he has been living with this inactive member ever since. She is now his caretaker since he can’t do anything, and we were just there to be his friend for an hour or so. He was the coolest man I have ever met. I didn’t ever want to leave! He was telling us his conversion story and how much he loved his wife and all of his callings… and how he loves missionaries and wishes he could get out of his chair. It is really hard for him because he lives in a house with people who speak no English. He is so lonely and can’t communicate with anybody!!! We are going to go back twice a month to chat with him because he really needs some love. We love Brother Pen!!

Fun fact. I don’t know if you guys know about the creepy hand thing, but basically they have the hand of Szent István like in this glass case in the huge Basilica here. I got to see it this week. And almost threw up because it was a disgusting dead person hand. But it was cool and I thought you would all like to know that.

Also I have never been so cold in my life. I cried on Saturday because I was so cold and I didn’t like it and then the tear froze on my face and I decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to cry because it just ended up making me colder hahaha!

So this week was great! Feeling to thankful for this opportunity that I have been given to be a missionary. Sometimes in my life I have worried that I am not doing my best, or that I could have worked harder or been better at something. But this week, Zsuzsi told us that she truly believes that if we are trying our best to be in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, then God will truly bless us. I know that as we strive to do the Lord’s will for us we will be blessed with immeasurable happiness and who wouldn’t want that?? Make good choices and you will be happy 🙂

Have a very happy week!!

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Mason Nővér