Dear all,
Well, I'm just going to hit this one right on the head because I'm so freaking excited to tell you all that this week the most prepared person I've had the opportunity to teach my entire mission made some serious life changes in order to accept an invitation to be baptized (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) the weekend before Sister Rada and I go home---the same weekend, in fact, that our other super prepared investigator is also scheduled to be baptized. (!!!!!!!!!!)
To say I'm pumped would not be an accurate enough expression. (!!!!!!)
I came home afterwards, laid down on the carpet and flipped. out.
Sometimes, missionary work is hard. Sometimes, missionary work is the most rewarding thing you ever feel like you've been a part of your entire life. Depends on the week. ;)
Other than that, this week:
1.) Laci received the Gift of the Holy Ghost in Sacrament meeting. We were really interested to see what he would say when we first met with him after his baptism, because he sometimes struggles with anxiety, but he told us he felt a lot of peace and order in his life now. We re-explained that baptism is only the beginning, hard things still come, but I think he's gained a lot of confidence. It's been cool to watch him throughout the entire process and how much he's changed.
2.) We had a miracle find come out of English class who's super interested. We've started to meet with her and her seven year old daughter in their little apartment and we had an amazing first lesson.
3.) I found out one of my favorite English class students in Szeged got baptized too! If you remember back in the day from my old emails, he's the one who taught us how to play Mediball. It was soooo cool to hear how much he's progressed!
4.) I've been drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate. It's insane. I like it so much more here that it's easy to convince myself I should drink it while I can. I swear there's a crazy amount of cocoa in my bloodstream now or something cray. I have a problem, I will admit.
5.) Christmas lights done did get lit up this week! Also, the Christmas festival is in full swing, it's freezing cold outside (hence the unhealthy addiction to hot chocolate) and I'm stressed out about what to get all you people for Christmas! Ah!
6.) Glad Thanksgiving went well, Sister Rada and I went out and celebrated...with some good ol' gyros. Going to miss that stuff.
7.) Anyways, since I'm ending my mission with my companion I've had a lot of time to think about what it means to finish something. And I've come to remember something I was painfully aware of back in college and that's that, sometimes, finishing things is hard.
Soo, I want to invite you all if you have a spare moment to read this by President Thomas S. Monson that's really helped me better understand what it is to really finish, and finish well, called "Finisher's Wanted."
(https://www.lds.org/ensign/1989/06/finishers-wanted?lang=eng)
It's gotten me through the good, the bad, the hard, and the ugly out here in the good ol' Hungary Budapest Mission. And I've really come to gain a testimony of the importance of finishing. I love the part where it says:
Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;
Beginners are many, but enders are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.
Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too;
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after a while.—Author Unknown
God needs finishers. It doesn't matter what you do---missionary, student, mother, bishop, etc, etc---God needs finishers. And yes, finishing is hard, and sometimes you gotta just take a hot chocolate break or two or you'll probably pass out----but finishing strong, as my brief time on the Cosby cross country team taught me, is really key to success.
I love you all! Miss you loads! See you soon ;)
Tudom hogy a Mormon könyve igaz!
Szeretet mindig,
Carle Nővér
Well, I'm just going to hit this one right on the head because I'm so freaking excited to tell you all that this week the most prepared person I've had the opportunity to teach my entire mission made some serious life changes in order to accept an invitation to be baptized (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) the weekend before Sister Rada and I go home---the same weekend, in fact, that our other super prepared investigator is also scheduled to be baptized. (!!!!!!!!!!)
To say I'm pumped would not be an accurate enough expression. (!!!!!!)
I came home afterwards, laid down on the carpet and flipped. out.
Sometimes, missionary work is hard. Sometimes, missionary work is the most rewarding thing you ever feel like you've been a part of your entire life. Depends on the week. ;)
Other than that, this week:
1.) Laci received the Gift of the Holy Ghost in Sacrament meeting. We were really interested to see what he would say when we first met with him after his baptism, because he sometimes struggles with anxiety, but he told us he felt a lot of peace and order in his life now. We re-explained that baptism is only the beginning, hard things still come, but I think he's gained a lot of confidence. It's been cool to watch him throughout the entire process and how much he's changed.
2.) We had a miracle find come out of English class who's super interested. We've started to meet with her and her seven year old daughter in their little apartment and we had an amazing first lesson.
3.) I found out one of my favorite English class students in Szeged got baptized too! If you remember back in the day from my old emails, he's the one who taught us how to play Mediball. It was soooo cool to hear how much he's progressed!
4.) I've been drinking copious amounts of hot chocolate. It's insane. I like it so much more here that it's easy to convince myself I should drink it while I can. I swear there's a crazy amount of cocoa in my bloodstream now or something cray. I have a problem, I will admit.
5.) Christmas lights done did get lit up this week! Also, the Christmas festival is in full swing, it's freezing cold outside (hence the unhealthy addiction to hot chocolate) and I'm stressed out about what to get all you people for Christmas! Ah!
6.) Glad Thanksgiving went well, Sister Rada and I went out and celebrated...with some good ol' gyros. Going to miss that stuff.
7.) Anyways, since I'm ending my mission with my companion I've had a lot of time to think about what it means to finish something. And I've come to remember something I was painfully aware of back in college and that's that, sometimes, finishing things is hard.
Soo, I want to invite you all if you have a spare moment to read this by President Thomas S. Monson that's really helped me better understand what it is to really finish, and finish well, called "Finisher's Wanted."
(https://www.lds.org/ensign/1989/06/finishers-wanted?lang=eng)
It's gotten me through the good, the bad, the hard, and the ugly out here in the good ol' Hungary Budapest Mission. And I've really come to gain a testimony of the importance of finishing. I love the part where it says:
Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;
Beginners are many, but enders are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.
Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too;
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after a while.—Author Unknown
God needs finishers. It doesn't matter what you do---missionary, student, mother, bishop, etc, etc---God needs finishers. And yes, finishing is hard, and sometimes you gotta just take a hot chocolate break or two or you'll probably pass out----but finishing strong, as my brief time on the Cosby cross country team taught me, is really key to success.
I love you all! Miss you loads! See you soon ;)
Tudom hogy a Mormon könyve igaz!
Szeretet mindig,
Carle Nővér