Putting Faith to Work

Heysztok!

What’s up?? Hope everyone is happy and healthy. I don’t have a lot of time this week! but…

Tuesday: We met with Krisztián and he committed to pray about a bap date!! Woohoo!!!!!! And we got to do service at the homeless shelter. We were assigned to clean the grossest clothing storage closet I have ever seen. They told us to organize it and be done in 2 hours. Ummm impossible. But we did it!!! I don’t want to talk about the amount of used underwear and other yucky things I had to touch though. Haha! Then we got to meet with HERNAN! My fave. And we met his family at the end of the lesson and it was great.

Wednesday: We got to meet with Dezső and he still thought we were the JWs – hahaha – and we taught a lady we met with on splits too which was great! And then we had a worldwide mission broadcast!! They changed the whole daily schedule! And we don’t count like any numbers anymore. WHAT!? We don’t count lessons or investigators or tracting or anything. I feel a huge weight lifted! Everyone knows that the numbers don’t show how much work you put in, but its still really stressful when we work every second in a week and then have to turn in bad numbers and get calls about it. SO STOKED ON THIS! haha

Thursday: District meeting and a lesson with Dezső and Hajni and then Angol Ora! Typical Thursday.

Friday: We did service again and this time they set up a cute thing in the little library for us to talk to everyone about what America is like! And the conversation kind of turned into what we are doing here and what we believe! 6 people begged us to take them Book of Mormons next time we come, and one of them was a worker! And a lady came up afterwards and she told us she was baptized in 92 and became homeless and has been inactive since like 2000 and it was a miracle that we met her! We invited her back to church. So excited to go back and talk to all these amazing people again!! Then we met with Ibolyya and Hajni came with us. We talked about baptism and she didn’t really like it… so we will see what happens with that. She said she would pray about it this week though!

Saturday: I died of sickness. I don’t know what happened but I kinda wanted to die. But I didn’t die and now here I am. So that’s good news 🙂 We had a super cute talent show for the branch and they were all so awesome! We heard the flute, the piano, some poems and other cool stuff! And our district did a midget dance and it was the funniest thing ever. 🙂

Sunday: After church we got to meet with Sára. I LOVE THIS GIRL!! Super sad that she is moving to Germany in a few weeks… 🙁 then we got to see Penn Testvér which was AWESOME!!! MY FAVORITE PERSON!! He is so lonely but still stays so happy and positive. Inspiration.

So great week! I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to use the atonement in our lives. Especially with my sickness, I have been thinking about what it means to turn to him and to leave my trials at his feet. I don’t really have a good answer as to how that should be done, so if anyone has any cool insight let me know. I have just found a lot of comfort through the scriptures and prayer and reading conference talks and listening to hymns. Even if I can’t make myself feel healthy through those things I can help myself to be filled with the spirit so I can feel closer to Heavenly Father. And that is something that helps me get through the day to day life as a missionary. I am trying to accept that we might not know the reasons for things, but that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t have a perfect reason for everything. It is sometimes hard to have faith in that, especially when you think about your trial and cannot see any way that it could make you stronger. BUT I know that as we try to exercise our faith, especially when we don’t want to, or it seems too hard, we will be blessed. We will see the hand of God in our lives and feel His love more abundantly.

“Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.”  – President Monson. I have a strong testimony of this!

I love you all a lot!! I hope you can find a way to exercise your faith because I know you will be blessed. Have the happiest of weeks!!

xoxo

Mason Nővér