A lovely cathedral near our home
Our lovely paintings from the last YSA program. We did finger painting :)
Dearest Everyone,
It's was actually a pretty good week this last week. We unfortunately didn't find any new investigators, but we have seen progress with some of our current ones. Andréa is doing really well compared to last Sunday. She still doesn't have work, but she is able to eat and so on. I've been very impressed with how much she has come to love the Book of Mormon. While she says she hasn't felt anything special while reading it, she likes to talk about what she read, and she has been using the index too to do some extra research and such. We were also able to meet with Zsuzsa and her mother last night for the first time in a couple weeks (they were out of town). And now I'd like to comment on another investigator that I don't think I've mentioned before--- Roland.
We have been meeting with Roland for a few weeks now. We met him through the English classes, but is meeting with us just to discuss religion. Our first meeting with him almost made us go crazy because of all his crazy ideas (God is in the table and in the tree, Christ couldn't have done what the scriptures say he did, why didn't Jesus ever write down on his own, a little bit of reincarnation ideas, and so on). We thought that it would be better to pass him over to the elders. However, that didn't happen. We tried inviting a church member to attend with us for the next couple meetings, but that didn't help as much as we hoped it would. We then resorted back to meeting just with him alone. A miracle happened. We don't know if we needed to try all of these different things to try to understand Roland, or if we just needed to patient with him, but we have finally reached a point where we feel like we understand him as he has come to admit that he is personally confused with all of his own theories, and he has committed to try praying the way that we taught him to. After admitting that he is confused and that he feels like he's not on the right path, we were able to testify of our purpose of being here in Hungary, and that we are here to help him find the right path. His view of who our Heavenly Father is may not be correct, but he is now at a point where is willing to try and accept God as an actually being with a body and a gender. It may seem like a little thing, but him starting to pray and imagine God in this way is a huge step for him! Skipping a lot of details to make this short, I am so grateful that we stuck it out and didn't give up on him at the first signs of difficulty. It is so important that we really try to get an understanding of our investigators so that we can understand what their needs are. After our first meeting, I felt as though it might be hopeless to keep meeting with him. After our most recent meeting, I have high hopes for him. God knows each of us perfectly, and he knows our needs. I pray that my companion and I can continue to live worthy to have the Spirit with us in all areas of the work (let alone in all areas of our lives). I love the work, and I am so grateful to be serving here.
President and Sister Smith are now here! We haven't met him yet, but they sent out a wonderful email with all sorts of wonderful quote from their training at the MTC and so on. It's pretty crazy to think that President and Sister Baughman are gone--- I loved working with them. But I am also excited to work with President Smith and his wife. I'm sure that there will be things that they change here in the mission, but whatever happens, I know that it will be for the benefit of the work :) Change can be good.
Hmmm.... anything else note worthy..... We're going to buy a fan today for our apartment! It is sooooo hot that it can be hard to fall asleep sometimes--- and it's just going to get hotter (more hot? what's correct?) Anyway, that's exciting. Oh, another thing--- one of the Less-Actives that we've been meeting with that is now coming back to the church brought her cousin with her to church yesterday! His name is Joszi. We met him once before, but now we are actually going to start meeting with him, and I really look forward to that :)
Well, we're going to try see Parlament today! hopefully that works out. I hope you all have a wonderful day/week. Go make someone smile :)
Sok szeretettel,
Kimball nővér
