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Try your best

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This week was great.

Monday: We went for a walk on the Sziget! It’s the really cute little island in the Duna and it was a lot of fun! 🙂 and of course we got paninis for lunch 🙂

Tuesday: We got to meet with Krisztián again and Szabadkai Nővér came! It was probably the most spirit filled lesson of my whole mission. We talked about faith, and how first we need to have the desire to believe these things, then we gain faith, and then that faith grows into a knowledge. We are trying to help him feel something. he just thinks way too logically and doesn’t pay attention to his feelings, and so it is hard fro him to gain some faith! We even brought pictures of our family and showed him and asked if he thought we would be here, so far away from these people that we love so much, if we didn’t feel something. I don’t know, it was just really really powerful and the spirit was there the whole time. He ended up not really changing anything by the end of the lesson. That is something that is honestly really hard for me. To have taught people and brought the spirit in their homes and to have done the very best we can… and then to have them still not feel anything or to reject our message or to not want to take any more steps. Sometimes I just wish I could shake these people and tell them to wake up and take a step forward! It’s just so hard because we can see how happy this can make them and we can see how much this could change their lives, and they just don’t see it. Agency is the most important part of missionary work, but it is also most definitely the hardest. And then we got to go do service which was super great! There was a guy there who told us that his little brother passed away about two weeks ago and that he was really lonely and sad and confused. We ended up being able to teach him a whole plan of salvation lesson and he was crying so hard by the end and that day was just so filled with the spirit!!

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Wednesday: We got to see Zoli… and we put him on bap date!! fir April 14. the last Friday of my mission!!!!! We are so so so excited about it! We know we can help him to be ready by then and I have so much faith that he will be!!! Beyond excited for him!! And then we met with someone named Dávid. The elders had to hand him over to us. He had been meeting for about a year I think, and he knows everything and believes it all too. So we committed him to be baptized on April 15 and he said he would love to aim for that!! woot woot!!! I know that God can and will help these people if they seek him! Life is great.

Thursday: We had mlc which took like all day. So that was very exciting… and also I got to see Sister Roche!!!!!!! She sadly had to head home again after having headaches 🙁 I said a teary goodbye and see you soon to her. I love that woman!!!!!!! Then we just had district meeting and that was that.

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Friday: We went to service again which was really good 🙂 and then we tracted into a JW… we had a great discussion but we couldn’t escape and it was kinda of horrible haha but we realized that we actually agree on a lot of things and I thought that was pretty neat!! Then we started splits and I got to go with McGregor Nővér! Love that girl.

Saturday: A little boy from the ward got baptized and it was the cutest thing! And then we finished splits and sadly we were both pretty sick this weekend so we had a nice easy night with weekly planning and area book work.

Sunday: Two little American girls were baptized right after church and it was great! They were just so stinking cute! I love tiny girls and I cant believe I was just like them once. Then we went to Mátras for a quick lunch and then we got to meet with Zsolt! We talked about Alma 26 and why it is our fave chapter. He didn’t make us too frustrated and it was actually a great discussion!!

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Randoms:

Swenson downlaoded an oboe concerto and every time it comes on i just think of Ash and how much I love her!

Swenson rapped with a man in English class and it was MAGIC.

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There was a weird man that was staring at us on the metro… and then he started to do really weird things like pretend to fall asleep on the woman next to him. We had to get off the metro we were laughing so hard.

Anyways, that’s about it for this week. I have been thinking about what it means to “do your best” recently. Like whenever I do something not perfectly people say well, you did your best! Or you don’t need to be perfect, just try your best! I have a little bit of a hard time with that statement, because doing my best would be doing things perfectly! On my mission I have had to learn a lot about using the atonement in my life. My best is not perfect, because I am human! I just have a hard time knowing what my best is, because I feel like I could always do better. Like my best isn’t good enough. But Jesus Christ knows that our best isn’t good enough, and that is why He came to the earth. To suffer and die for each of us personally, to atone for our sins! How amazing is that? When we do our best, no matter what that is, the Savior makes up the rest. He knows he has to make a lot up for us, and that is exactly why He performed the atonement! He just expects us to try. And that is what I am working on now. I think a great place to start is to pray for the desire to do the things you know you should be doing daily if you don’t feel like you have the desire. Some days I have to pray for the desire to get out of bed in the morning, and on other days I get right out of bed and talk to every human I see. God knows our hearts and he knows exactly what “our best” is.

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