Strength in the little things

Hey there friends!!

The weeks keep getting better and better! How is this happening? I hope you all feel the same way!

Monday: After emailing we went on a parliament tour! woohoooooo it was so dang beautiful inside! I loved it! There was so much beautiful architecture inside and it was so cool to learn about all of it. There was the coolest crown in there too. The reason it is so cool is because its no one’s crown in particular. Everyone wore it only once, on their coronation day and I don’t know I just thought that was really cool. We weren’t allowed to take pictures of it though 🙁

Tuesday: We went tracting and then to service and then to meet with Dezső. that sweet man. What will I do without him?? I don’t know. I don’t want to think about that. We watched some Mormon messages together and he loved them!! Anyways, it was a mellow day but it was great nonetheless!

Wednesday: A very busy day. We met with Krisztián first. Szabadkai Nővér came with us and it went so well!! He told us he was thinking about being baptized! AHHH I love him and I know he has so much potential and I am just so excited for him!! Szabadkai Elnök is coming with us in two weeks and I am kinda scared to teach a lesson with president, but I think it will be great for Krisztián! And even if it doesn’t go well, I will be home a week later so no harm done, right 😉 Then we met with Zoli and went over the baptismal interview questions and he passed! Now he just needs to have the real interview haha but the practice one was great. Afterwards Márta pulled fresh lentil soup out of her bag that she made just for us for dinner!! ahhhhhz I love that woman! The Hungarians are just so giving. I love it. Then we were streeting at Hősök tere and they put up the coolest Budapest sign and it was so cool and we took pics of course.

Thursday: District meeting, tracting and angol óra. So…. when we were tracting this cranky néni came up to us and started yelling at us really angrily saying that if we ring one more csengő that she would break our hands…. not too fond of that idea haha and she said she would call the police on us because we have no permission to be there. So we pulled out our proselyting cards and showed her them and then and she got mad when she saw that we did have permission and so she just walked away and I felt as though I had conquered the world. I think the number one thing I will miss are cranky nénis… not even kiddding haha. Then we took a bus home and long story short I sat in human pee and I didn’t even freak out that much! I’m a changed human being hahaha but obviously I wasn’t too happy about that. Then we changed my skirt and went to angol óra and had mcm. Buli!

Friday: We had service and we got to meet with another really cool worker lady and it was awesome! She said she’s gonna start coming to angol óra and she even wants to come to church!! yay!!! Then we had a lesson with Irén… that’s not really gonna any where, but we still love her! And then Swens and I had a date night at this awesome Italian place we found! I’m believer in comp date nights. So refreshing.

Saturday: We had a lesson with a potential, Klára. Oh dear, that woman can TALK! Soooo that was interesting. We couldn’t even share a scripture with her because she was talking so much and she showed us her whole wedding video and we watched her daughter be an elf in a ballet about dancing bushes…. like I said, I LOVE NÉNIS!!!!!!!!!! We had to have the elders call us so we could escape because we told her at least 5 times we had to leave but she wouldn’t let us ahahah! Then we got to watch the Sat morning session of conference. It was so good!!! I love conference!!!!!!!

Sunday: We spent the whole day at the church because we watched conference! We saw the women’s session in Hungarian, sajnos… because I didn’t understand anything. Sometimes I get frustrated that I have been here for so long and still don’t understand simple church talks… but I think that is exactly what God wanted me to learn by sending me to this place with the craziest language in the world!! We watched Sat afternoon and Sun morning in English though, and holy cow do I feel uplifted!!!!!! I always get so many answers and I love it. Also Dezső came to conference and I could not be happier about it!!!

So I really, really loved conference this time around! I mean, I always do… but this one was so special to me. I love to hear the prophet and apostles words to us, and I just think it is so amazing that I always get so many answers to questions that I didn’t even know I had. The church is so true, you guys! I know that President Thomas S. Monson is called of God and so are all of the apostles. Their words are God’s words, and it is so important that we follow their counsel. My favorite thing about conference was the emphasis of doing the little things every day. The primary answers of scripture study, prayer, and going to church seem so simple, and like they can’t help us to solve our big problems in this life. But I have the strongest testimony of these little things! If it weren’t for this testimony I don’t think I would be here, still on a mission. Missionary work is HARD!!! and I have found so much comfort and strength in doing the simple, seemingly too easy things. I know that God blesses us when we keep his commandments.

I love you all so much!!! I hope you have a great week and I can’t wait to hug you in two weeks!!!!!!!!! ahhh!!

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