Happy Birthday America!
It has been another great week here for us! We started looking for a new apartment at the beginning of last week and today the contract was signed! We will now actually live in our area so we won't have to spend so much time traveling back and forth everywhere. We are really happy about that. We will move on Saturday! We are feeling really blessed because everything went really smoothly and we were able to find the apartment on the first day of our search! It is a perfect place. I really love it here. It has been a big change from Nyíregyháza to the hustle and bustle of the busy city of Budapest and we are really busy each day, which I am really happy about.
We went on two splits this week. Earlier in the week we had the sisters from Szolnok come to us here in Kispest and it was very productive. I was able to go on splits with Greenwood Nővér, whom I just adore! It was the first time we were really together since the Missionary Training Center. She is so much fun!! Later in the week, we went to Győr. It was actually kind of a funny story; because the day before we were planning on going, Willets Nővér got a call from one of her investigators in Győr (she served there before coming to Kispest). The lady's name is Johanna and she said she was in Budapest for the day and we were able to meet her for lunch. We told her about our plans to go to Győr that same night and she said she was also planning on going back at that same time and she gave us a ride!! It was so kind of her!! We had a nice car ride (and a little nap in route) to Győr and the next day on splits we enjoyed visiting with Johanna and eating cheeseburgers that she made for us and also a cake (for Willets birthday!). It was also great to see Ure Elder at the District Meeting we had as well, he is a great District Leader there.
While on splits with Cribbs Nővér, there was one lady and her son that I talked to in Győr that was really so tender. Her son had some special needs and was in a wheelchair but he was so incredibly sweet and kind. I talked to them for quite a while when we were talking to people on the street and after being told no from others for the past hour, it was really refreshing to talk to someone genuinely interested. It was a testimony to me that there are people who want to hear our message and that is why we have to do our part in being brave to talk to people because you never know when you will have a conversation with someone that is ready to hear your message at that moment. And although her son couldn't communicate very easily, his sweet smile was more than enough and I hope the message of the Book of Mormon will reach their hearts.
As far as other news from Kispest goes, we had a nice time visiting with some of the members here and getting to know them. There are really some amazing families here, and it has been so wonderful getting to know them better. We taught Csilla again this week (I'm sure I've talked about her before) but we had such an amazing lesson with her. We talked simply about the gospel and how every step of the gospel --- faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end - really works together like one continuous circle. Each of those concepts are so so important and as we remember each of them and continue to do them, we will see such blessings in our life. Of course baptism isn't something we repeat, but, however, when we have the opportunity to take the sacrament each week, we can remember those baptismal covenants we made to remember Jesus Christ and strive to always follow his example and take his name upon us. Everything in the gospel is connected and I think in the end it all leads back to love. Our Heavenly Father loves us so very much that He sent his son, Jesus Christ and because of that, if we have faith, we can repent and we can take his name upon us. As we endure to the end, we can go back to our loving Heavenly Father and forever live with our families. Everything in this gospel can be traced back to love. Csilla said that she would pray about the decision to be baptized and expressed to us that it is a desire of hers, so we are so happy for her.
We have also continued to meet with Krisztián who has a baptism date set for July 30th and he is doing really well. He is so bright and I feel like often he is the one teaching us. He will be a great member and already wants to help teach others the gospel.
Last Saturday we had a really fun Vízi buli (water party) with our ward. We had water balloons and played a bunch of fun water games. We played this one game where they had frozen two shirts in a block of ice and we were divided into two teams. Each team had to break open their block of ice and get the t-shirt out and put it on someone, haha it was hilarious. Sunday at church there were SO many people. It felt like I was back in my home ward in America, the chapel was completely packed. In addition, there were two Russian families visiting from Moscow, and it was wonderful meeting them. It is also so amazing to me, that now matter where you go, the church is truly the same all over the world! It was great to have Krisztián at church and also another woman, Gyöngy came. It is so exciting that she came because she hasn't been back to church in over 20 years. We have been visiting her recently and she was so happy to be back. We sat with her and she was the happiest I've ever seen her as she pulled out her outdated hymn book with a different translation and listened to the testimonies that were shared. She is such a cute lady and I'm so glad I was able to she her joy as she came back to church.
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