Sister Orme and me with a church member :)
Sister Orme and me wearing some clothes that a member gave to us :) (The blue jacket and the green vest)
Ready to go preach the gospel!
Out as a district one last time before transfers :) (Getting hot chocolate with one of our investigators)
Our 3 investigators that came to watch General Conference on Sunday :)
Dearest Everyone,
This last week was wonderful :) With transfers (we got a new elder here in Miskolc, Elder Gallond--- he goes home this August! So soon!), General Conference, finding new investigators, and finding opportunities to teach and serve others, we have seen miracles this last week-- great and small. Some miracles have simply been being able to get into 10-stories to go tracting. The 10-stories are just that--- huge 10-story buildings with tons of little apartments in them. They are all over in Miskolc (one of the marks from the communist era). Usually, we have to stand outside and "call" people on this little pad outside until someone will let us in--- and that usually doesn't happen. But there were many times this last week that people leaving or going into the building would hold the door open for us so we could get it. Once inside, it is a lot easier to get people to listen to our message, all though it is still hard. In one 10-story, you have about 50 apartments (5 on each floor), and our regular is maybe 1 or 2 people that will listen to our message. So it is always a tender mercy to get into one of these buildings, and then a miracle of itself to find someone that will listen to us :) There was one teenager we spoke to last week in a 10-story that we will be with this week again, and another man that has set up to meet with us again later this week too. Miracles :)
Another miracle has been helping one of our investigators gain a testimony of Jesus Christ. She (Edina) is very sweet and doing her best to be in tune with the Spirit. As it has been a struggle at times to teach her, I have learned so much from her! Something that I didn't expect. She has been working (last transfer and now this transfer) to obtain a testimony of Jesus Christ. She has such a powerful testimony of God, our Heavenly Father, but has a hard time accepting Christ for all that he really is. As Sister Orme and I have been teaching her over the course of these many weeks, I have felt my own testimony of our Savior growing. The three of us (Sister Orme, myself, and Edina) all share scriptures with one another that we find about Jesus Christ in the Bible and the Book of Mormon, so we are all helping each other grow. Then yesterday, right before watching one of the sessions of conference, Edina requested to meet with us briefly. She then told us that she had recieved personal revelation that morning that Jesus really was a great prophet. We were so grateful to hear this. She is on the road to developing an unshakable testimony of Jesus Christ, one step at a time. I am so grateful for her and for the example she sets for me and for all that she teaches me. I came to Hungary imagining myself just teaching and teaching and watching others grow in the gospel, but I feel so blessed now and I can see that my investigators are helping me to learn and grow as well. The gospel is true :)
As for Conference this weekend, it was wonderful! I really enjoyed it. It was a blessing that we were able to listen to it in English here in Miskolc so I was really able soak up every moment of it! Our elders (Elder Jackson and Elder Gallond), Sister Orme, and myself got a room to ourselves at the church while everyone watched the sessions in the chapel in Hungarian. Saturday night, we got to watch the Saturday morning session live :) Then on Sunday morning, we had the Priesthood and YW session. They were both offered in Hungarian, but only the Priesthood Session was offered in English, so Sister Orme and I watched it with the Elders. It was really good, of course--- the first time I've ever watched that seesion :) Then in the afternoon, we watched the Saturday afternoon session, and in the evening, we got to watch the Sunday morning session live. So it was really good :) It wasn't possible for us to see the Sunday afternoons session, but I will be downloading everything onto my iPod so Sister Orme and I can listen to them every morning as we get ready for the day :) There were so many wonderful talks that were applicable to me and the questions I had prepared, and I also heard a lot of great things that would help our investigators. So overall, it was incredible :) Plus the Relief Society here provided some food for lunch, and some yummy cake before we watched the last session. What a day :) (Plus we had 3 investigators present! So good.
I will be finishing the Book of Mormon this week! So I will get to tell you all about it later :) And now that it is a new transfer, I have chosen a new Christlike attribute to work on: Faith. I can already feel that this is going to be a powerful experience. Sister Orme also chose to work on Faith! So we will be helping each other this transfer as we study faith from the scriptures and modern day prophets, and apply it to our everyday lives :) So my experience with "humility" last transfer went well I think. I will be doing a write up about it and hopefully I can share some of what I've learned in a future post :)
The gospel is true. God loves you. I hope you all have a fabulous week :) Go make someone smile!
Love,
Kimball nővér
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