Another week gone and gone. Next week I will have stress cleaned the entire apartment and will know what is happening next transfer. This week we had interviews and they were incredible. Everytime I get to talk with the Szabadkais I love them more. My interview was so great and then afterwards Sister Szabadkai taught me how to say the alphabet, something I just haven't been able to get down since O Ó Ö Ő and U Ú Ü Ű all exist and can make a huge difference. I'll try and send the video I listen to it every morning before I try to read the scriptures outloud in Magyar.
Érnő is getting so close to baptism. He feels the spirit and wants to truly repent; what a beautiful thing we get to experience as missionaries. I think someone in conference talked about being able to see someone repent and said, "There is nothing more beautiful than seeing someone walk out of the darkness and into the light." The contrast really is that vivid. I love being a missionary. Later in the week we met with Sándo,r the new convert, and just talked with him about how incredible conference was and all about repentance. I learn so much from these incredible people.
Fall is here and that is of course my favorite season cause it's the best and we can finally stop sweating. I took a pair of thermal garments out of my bag for the first time and then took them off three days later. Unsanitary I know, but what I didn't know was my life would be changed forever. My companion says I look like I giant snowball but I feel like a cloud so nem baj.
The rest of the week was spent tracting, talking to people in the rain, and not eating sugar cause I went off last week and made it the whole week woohoo.
One thing that really inspired me this week was my studies of the Book of Hosea. One of my favorite books in the Old Testament. In seminary I wrote down this quote by Elder Eyering that helped me understand how much the Lord loves us and what covenants truly are. I'm praying for you all and am so grateful for your prayers. I pray we can all find power in prayer and in the Book of Mormon which really is the word of God to keep our covenants and God's commandments with all our might.
“In just two chapters, even my youngest students knew that the husband was a metaphor for Jehovah, Jesus Christ. And they knew that the wife represented his covenant people, Israel, who had gone after strange gods. They understood that the Lord was teaching them, through this metaphor, an important principle. Even though those with whom he has covenanted may be horribly unfaithful to him, he would not divorce them if they would only turn back to him with full purpose of heart.
“I knew that too, but even more than that, I felt something. I had a new feeling about what it means to make a covenant with the Lord. All my life I had heard explanations of covenants as being like a contract, an agreement where one person agrees to do something and the other agrees to do something else in return.
“For more reasons than I can explain, during those days teaching Hosea, I felt something new, something more powerful. This was not a story about a business deal between partners. … This was a love story. This was a story of a marriage covenant bound by love, by steadfast love. What I felt then, and it has increased over the years, was that the Lord, with whom I am blessed to have made covenants, loves me, and you … with a steadfastness about which I continually marvel and which I want with all my heart to emulate”
The Lord will not forsake us. God loves everyone of us. Turn to him and enjoy everyone of his blessings through repentance.
Sok szeretettel.
HUGHES ELDER
