Feeling close to heaven

Sziasztok!

Hope everyone had as good of a week as I did!

Monday: We got dinner at Ikea and played basketball and volleyball for our Pday fun!

Tuesday: We got to meet with Hajni again. She is so great. She has been coming to church again!! And reading and praying every day. It makes me so happy to see her in church and progressing and renewing her covenants. This is what its all about 🙂 Then I made a big pot of my favorite white chicken chili for dinner and it felt just like I was at home 🙂

Wednesday: Me and Hughes Nővér were both really sick all day… so that wasn’t too fun. We got to go visit a less active family, the Takácsék. There is so much less active work here which is my favorite!! Its super fun:) We just shared a quick spiritual thought and invited them to church. They said they are too lazy on Sunday morning to get up and go into the cold in skirts and make the hour long journey to church. We promised them so many blessings, so we will see if they come this week 🙂 They made us a delicious meal, zöldség leves (begetable soup) and töltött káposzta (MY FAVORITE HUNGARIAN MEAL!! its stuffed cabbage. SO stinking good.) There was definitely something in there my tummy didn’t like though because I was really sick all day after that. It was definitely worth it though 🙂 We also got to teach Ibolya again which was great. We talked about the restoration with her which was good. We are just concerned that she doesn’t have a lot of questions… but at least she listens and does what we ask her to do! she just needs to start coming to church.

Thursday: We got dogged sadly. I hate it when that happens, but we just make the best of it. It had snowed a bunch this week, so we just took some snow selfies to spice up the extra tracting time haha! Then the elders decided it was Mason appreciation day so they brought me some presents to district meeting. A bag of rice, a drawing and name poem, and an onion plant because I love succulents and that was the closest thing they could find haha!! District meeting was about staying positive while finding which was much needed. Then angol óra ( the most interesting people come to that so its super fun), and then when we got home I turned on the faucet and it totally fell out of the wall!! Why do I break every sink that ever existed in Hungary!?!? We got it fixed though so don’t worry haha!

Friday: We tracted for like 4 straight hours so some more snow selfies were taken. We went tracting right by the Duna which was so cool because it’s been so cold that there are huge chunks of ice floating down it. So beautiful! While we were tracting a néni came out and totally yelled at me because I didn’t ring her csengő the right way. Weird haha then we got to meet with our recent convert, Viola. She is so cute and always gives us so much food to take home. She even made me my own little bag of fruit to take home! SO sweet. We are almost done teaching all of the lessons to her again which is really sad because that means that soon we will have to hand her over to the elders 🙁

Saturday: We got to go meet with Angéla and Zoltán, another less active family. They are so cool. She is really sick with some disease I don’t know what its called, but she still loves the church and reads and prays every day and holds family night every week, but she is just too sick to come to church. He is kind of angry with God right now because he doesn’t feel like his prayers are being answered with his wife’s sickness. It is really sad actually. So we talked about hope and tried to help him understand what it means to have hope in Jesus Christ. Then we went tracting and we decided to get off the metro at a random stop we had never been to and tract a random building there. Someone accidentally let us into the building but they weren’t actually interested. So we decided that since we were already in the building we would just tract the rest from the inside. Then a man came out and told us to go away. I tried to talk to him a little and he was just like I don’t want to talk to you, I cant understand your Hungarian. I cant help you. Why do you speak so badly? And I just told him we aren’t looking for any help, that we were just there to talk to people about Jesus Christ. And I asked if we could come in and share a message and he was like uhhh I guess that’s fine. And now he is a new investigator! Haha funniest let in but I think it was really a miracle find 🙂

Sunday: It was yellow day! haha my comp and her family made up this holiday a few years ago and we celebrate by eating yellow food and wearing yellow clothes! It’s super cute. Also the elders surprised us with presents at church. Hughes got a giant stuffed toothbrush because she is OBSESSED with teeth, and I got a stuffed pig because I am weirdly obsessed with tiny pigs lately!! hahaha weirdest and funniest day ever. Then after church we got to go visit another new investigator, Szabolcs. He is so rendes! and Hajni even came to be our member present!! It was the coolest thing! He had done a ton of research on the Mormons and had a bunch of hard questions but was very respectful and kind with the answers we gave! hoping we get to go visit him again soon. 🙂

Randoms:

Just a warning… ice is slippery to walk on. Don’t fall. And no I’m not speaking from experience…

I had a little freak out because I have been HORRIBLE at journaling on my mission, so this week I decided to change. I caught up from January 1st and decided to not miss a day for the rest of the year! I’m really excited about it. Pretty upset I don’t have more from my mission, but its never too late to start 🙂

Well that’s about it for this week. I hope you are all feeling God’s love and seeing his hand in your life. I have felt so close to my Heavenly Father lately and that is the best feeling ever!! That’s why I am here, to help other people feel this closeness with heaven. It makes the hard times easier and the good times sweeter. I love being a missionary. I have never done something more rewarding in my entire life, and I don’t know that I will ever do something that brings me so much happiness again! I am so grateful for this opportunity and for my many answered prayers. I am so grateful God has kept me just healthy enough to be able to stay here on my mission. It hasn’t been easy but it has been the best experience of my life, easily!!

Have the best week!!

xoxo,
Mason Nővér