'Toto.....I've a feeling we're not in Hungary anymore'

Well, we are now officially teaching more foreigners than we are Hungarians! It has really been a great week though and we were able to see so many amazing things happen! We do have a few Hungarian people who we are teaching right now and one of them is a new young man we found tracting the week before and his name is Andras. We set up a time to meet a few days later after speaking to him briefly at his front door. When we met with him, he told us he had read 40 pages from the Book of Mormon already and had been reading on mormon.org. He is out of town a lot for work, but hopefully we will be able to meet with him again soon. 

We went to Sopron this past week. I love going there, it is such a beautiful town and the people are really kind. I was able to go on splits with Sister Grogan who was in my MTC group. It was so fun to be with her. I think I told the story of the man named Jozsef who we found tracting whose mom was mormon. We tracted his door a few weeks ago and a few days before we were there he had been thinking about what he would do if the mormon missionaries came by again, and we came! Anyway, we finally got to meet with him this past week and it was amazing. He knows SO much about the church and has studied religion a lot. After we met with him he said he was going to pray about baptism and start reading from the Book of Mormon again. 

Now to our foreign investigators. We are continuing to teach Taylor and Ken, the Nigerians who approached us on the street one day and said they wanted to come to church, and this past week when we went, they had invited another one of their friends who wanted to learn more about the church!! It was amazing! They have so many questions and are really looking for the truth. We met with another guy this past week named Mr. Deen. He is from Africa and studied with the missionaries a few years ago. We had a nice lesson with him and were able to talk more about the plan of happiness with him, as he is still struggling with his mom having died a few weeks ago. President and Sister Szabadkai came with us to the lesson and it was really funny because at one point, 

Mr. Deen started singing and then President and Sister Szabadkai joined in singing, it was hilarious!! Mr. Deen also has so many questions that we are hoping we will be able to answer but I at least know we are bringing peace into his life. He also wants to make us African food one of these days and told us not to let him forget! 

We met with two french speakers this week (who also speak English), one is from the Congo and one is from Canada. They are both so sweet. The one, Annie, is the lady that the senior couple from Romania found, that I talked about a few weeks ago. She is so incredible and really searching to find the truth. She is one of the strongest people ever and so so sweet. We helped her and her cute son get to church yesterday and she really enjoyed it. She has learned a lot of things throughout her life through, really unique experiences and I love learning from her. She already believes so many of the same things that we teach! Her son is such a sweetheart and had fun with the other kids at church. 

The other french speaker is named Debora and she found us when she stumbled upon a  mormon.org  page a little while ago. We got her phone number through a media referral and got to meet her this past week. She has only been learning English for about a year so she still struggles, but she speaks amazingly well. She also has been learning about many different churches and was so excited to get a Book of Mormon from us in French. She said that she really felt good while we were there and with the message we brought her. She doesn't know a lot of people here in Hungary and is so excited to get to know more people at church. She is so fun and one of the happiest people ever! 

Speaking of happy people, I am still so grateful to meet with Krisztian, who was baptized in July. He has such a positive attitude that is completely contagious! He walked into the room the other day for our lesson happily singing a song and he always cheers me up! We also had a really amazing lesson with Csilla this past week. She has come so far and next week we are talking to her about baptism. She has a really strong faith and I just love her! I am about out of time and I feel like I wasn't even able to fit everything in, but I truly love being here! I want to share an amazing quote that I heard the other day by Neal A. Maxwell.

“God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.”

​I know that is true and I have seen it so much on my mission. Have a great week!​

Sok szeretettel, Schoendorfer Nővér

Sopron is such a pretty town.

I love Sister Grogan, we were in the MTC together. 

These are beautiful birds that fly into the trees each night in Sopron.