Dear Family,
This has been a really
good week for us! A few things that have happened this week:
I've been feeling a
lot better about the language every week. I'm able to understand a lot more,
but I've gotten much better at just being comfortable talking to people, and
I've seen my speaking skills improve a lot.
On Tuesday, I was able
to help teach a lesson with some other missionaries and a member, and I was
amazed that I spoke about as well as some people do who have been on their
missions 6 mos longer than me! Yikes!
Best of all, the
weather has been super fantastic all week (except there was some crazy
hailstorm for like 15 minutes on wednesday)!
Other than that, most
of our week has not been too interesting, but we have been really busy! We also
gave a few people challenges to be baptized, and while they said not now, I
think that it is very good that they are thinking about how important it is,
and they want to understand more.
We also had a very
good English Class on Wednesday, and we had several new people ask us to teach
them, along with helping them with English.
On Friday was when it
started to get really good! Friday morning, we went on splits again, and I got
put with my MTC companion, Elder Jones, for the second time! But this time we
aren't in our 2nd week in the country, so it was a lot better. It was cool to
see how much we have both improved in the last couple months. It was kind of
like the good ol' MTC times, except using real Hungarian when we teach!
Haha.
On Saturday, we
switched back into companionships, and Judd and I went to see Noémi (one of my
first investigators here) get baptized! She found the Church through some
American members' blog, and requested a Book of Mormon back in December, and
wanted to be baptized on her birthday! We found out that she actually lived in
another ward boundary though, so she had to switch to the Buda ward. Ergo, the
chapel was filled to the brim with 2 wards of people! It was super awesome!
Elder Bracken, my trainer, baptized her. And the couple whose blog she found
was there too (She said she'd send some pictures to you).
On Sunday, we had fast
sunday. There is a senior couple in our branch, and the sister asked me to
translate her testimony for her... so I did. I told her that I would as long as
she kept it really, really, really simple... but she didn't, haha. So it was
really hard, but it was pretty cool to be able to publicly translate something
into Hungarian! Haha.
Also, I have been in
the country for exactly 3 months now! Imagine that!
Well, there's my week
for you. Have a good week!
Love,
Mitch
At Noémi's baptism
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