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Hello! Hi! Hey! Bonjour! Hola! Aloha! SZIASZTOK!!!!!!!!
I am here and I am alive and I LOVE THIS PLACE!! Here’s a few things that happened each day this week:
Wednesday: The big day. Oh my gosh I have never felt so sick about anything or been so nervous or upset about leaving my family when we got to the MTC. I honestly thought I was going to die or something. I don’t even know. But I did it!! Walking away from my family was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. But as soon as I couldn’t see them anymore I felt the most overwhelming feeling of peace and the hugest smile grew across my face and I knew that what I was doing was right. They put my name tag on and I just couldn’t hold back the excitement. I’M A REAL MISSIONARY YOU GUYS!!!! We went to my room and my host broke the wheel off my luggage but I wasn’t even mad about it. Trying to work on my patience 😉 Then I met my companions. That’s right, TWO OF THEM! Im in a trio with two girls I met online before my mission. We are the only girls in the district AND there’s only one more girl in our zone that is going to Albania. Its sooooo fun. I LOVE MY COMPANIONS!!! We just laugh 24/7. Like literally ALL THE TIME. It’s probably bad how much fun we have, but it’s whatever. We started learning Hungarian only 10 mins after I got here and BOY is it a stinkin hard language. it is soooooooooooooooooo beautiful though! I am obsessed with it. I never thought I’d say this, but I like it more than French. I really do!!!! It challenges me and that is really exciting!! I try so hard not to get frustrated with myself when I don’t understand what is going on in class and everyone else does. The first day was hard. I was trying so hard not to cry the whole time! But each day it gets better.
Thursday: I learned how to say a prayer and bear my testimony IN HUNGARIAN!!!!!!!! It was super cool and a total miracle.
Friday: We taught our first investigator… AGAIN ALL IN HUNGARIAN and I knew what I was saying! It was really, really cool to get a little taste of what the next 18 months will bring. I love it already.
Saturday: I honestly don’t remember!
Sunday: The best day. We had church and our zone (finnish, hungarian, albanian, estonian, armenian, georgian, and a couple other random ones) all sang the hymns in our mission language! We lovedddd it. It was super cool to hear so many languages going on at the same time!! Our temple walk was great (we already forgot what the real world was like) so that was cool. Then the BYU men’s chorus sang to us for our devotional! It was so good. I highly recommend that you look up the songs: Savior Redeemer of My Soul, How Great Thou Art, and Come Lord Jesus by them. They are such amazing and soul touching songs!!!!!
Also, if you can find it, read The Character of Christ by Elder Bednar. AMAZING. It is the talk that I decided to use to set the tone for my mission.
Monday: I felt sooooo sick!! I was honestly really upset about how bad my stomach hurt and I let myself get down on missing my Mom when I felt sick and that was not good!!!!! Our lesson with Evelin (our investigator) didn’t go very well and I was mad and frustrated. I asked my zone leaders for a blessing that day and I felt so much better afterwards and I was just so thankful for them and for their willingness to give me a blessing.
Tuesday: We sang in the choir at the devotional with the President of the Seventy and it was so cool and touching. Look up the song Where Shepherds Lately Knelt. Lynn G Robbins spoke on developing Christlike attributes and making a “to be” list instead of just a “to do” list. I decided that my main focus will be patience. That is one that I definitely need to work on!!!
Wednesday: We taught Evelin the first vision and restoration and the spirit was so strong. I WANT TO BE IN HUNGARY TEACHING REAL PEOPLE ASAP! But really I do love it here too.
Thursday: Today PDAY was much needed and I was nervous reading emails and stuff would make me homesick and miss all of you guys but it didn’t!! I am sooooo, so, so thankful for all of your support and for your dear elders, letters, and packages. I feel so loved its ridiculous!!!!!!
Some other things that happened this week:
Hungarian Translations:
I met with missionaries with the street on = i met the missionaries on the street. Weirdest language.
sacrament = urvacsora = literally the Lord’s dinner
We have class on the 5th floor and missionaries aren’t allowed to take the elevators here! Sooooo yeah I don’t feel bad about eating all the sweets people send me because we go up and down those stairs literally 23457823649587234696 times a day!
Our choir director is so cool and choir practice on Sun and Tues is the highlight of my week.
I CAN READ MY WATCH THAT ONLY HAS LINES INSTEAD OF NUMBERS NOW so that’s handy!
I eat in a special diet room here and get better food than everyone else. HA!
Our district thought that our teacher was engaged to our investigator but that’s not true, and we are sad.
I LOVE MY DISTRICT!!!!!! It’s amazing how you can throw 7 boys and 3 girls randomly chosen from across the United States and that we get along as well as we do. We are all here for good reasons and we all are so open and loving to each other.
My companion’s shampoo exploded ALL OVER HER FACE and we died laughing.
I had a laugh attack for probably 30 mins after lights out last night and motra (our sister training leader) was about to kill me because she’s all about exact obedience but I COULD. NOT. STOP. It was horrible and so embarrassing and my companions were cracking up too and I couldn’t breathe and I swear I was about to pee my bed. HAHA!
In choir practice I looked up and saw my face on the big screen and had another laugh attack. Not as bad as the bed one but still slightly mortifying.
Sometimes I wish I was English speaking so I could say what I want in our lessons, but then I think about how much I already love the people in Hungary and I remember that I would not want to go anywhere else.
I love the MTC. I love my calling as a missionary. I love my name tag. I love my companions. I love this gospel. I LOVE MY LIFE!!!!!! This has honestly been the hardest week of my life and I have felt so tested and pulled and stretched in ways I could have never imagined, but it is so good. I am so happy. If I were to come home today I know that you would already see a change in me. I can’t even imagine how different I will be in 77 weeks.
I have felt so strengthened by the atonement and by Heavenly Father’s love for me this week. The spirit here is unlike anything I have ever felt.
I can already see why so many sisters told me that they would recommend every person go on a mission. It is really hard, I am not going to lie. But it is already the best decision that I have ever made. I wake up each day (at 6:30 which if you know me that’s CRAZY) so happy and excited and ready to go. I know that this is where I am supposed to be and I would not ever wish to be anywhere else.
I love you all so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SIKERUNLI FOG!!!!
Sok szeretettel,
Mason Nover
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