I love
Christmas! I have been amazed by the miracles we have been seeing and I
am so excited to visit all the people we are planning for Christmas Eve and
Christmas day. To keep our investigators progressing with excitement, we
have set up with many of them for the holidays to drop in and share the message
of Christ's birth. It is so wonderful seeing these people we love so much
making time for us on these special days. I am sure it will be a great
opportunity to meet with their families and friends as well!
So, as I previously
mentioned, Elder Jones and I are still going strong. We are going to have
another baptism next weekend, so I can't be sad about that one! We
received a challenge from President Teixeira of the Seventy to get
the work functioning so well as to have weekly baptisms. Well, Elder
Jones and I are finding more and more people just waiting for the gospel and it
seems as though the fulfillment of his challenge is just around the
corner. There are so many people ready in this wonderful city and Elder
Jones and I are finding them!
A good example is Wednesday,
the transfer day. We went tracting and we tracted into
a woman that wasn't too interested, but then referred one of her neighbors that
lived close by. We headed straight over. As K opened the door, her
face lit up. It was so adorable to see her eyes just beaming with
excitement. She was so excited to hear about our message that she called
in her adorable 93 year old mother. After that, she invited us to come
back that night to meet her husband. It was AMAZING.
At the end of our
lesson with K and her family, I bore my testimony about these things expressing
that "I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God." She then
looked back at me and said, "So do I!" Miracles really do
happen!
We were also able
to take T, the guy that was baptized last week, to a program with us this
week. It was awesome to hear his testimony and just feel the depth
thereof. It was just a feeling like, "Wow, I helped this man be
baptized!"
We also were able
to play a part in some branch Christmas activities on Saturday and Sunday.
We helped decorate the Branch house for Christmas on Saturday night
and then all of the neighborhood families came over and the kids were able to
see Santa! Here in Hungary, the children don't just sit on Santa's lap,
but have to sing a Christmas song to him to get their gifts. It was so
adorable and I learned some Hungarian Christmas songs! It was wonderful.
On Sunday, we had a
lunch after church. We watched a Christmas devotional for the third hour
and then gathered for a little "family meal." I brought a soup
that I made up between 9:30- 10:15 the night before that turned out
surprisingly well. We also had some classic Hungarian dishes as
well. We were able to mix and mingle with the non members and we were
able to get to know about some of the amazing part member families in the
branch. It was amazing.
In funny news, Elder Jones and I got stopped by the police this
last week! We were tracting at around 7 pm on Friday night
and someone thought we were buglers (The one bad thing about wearing all
black). The most awkward part was the cops stopped us as we were
exchanging information with an awesome girl we tracted into, it was
an adventure though. As one of the cops was taking down our information,
we started talking with the other. He brought up how much he loves
genealogy and how he adores our website called "family search."
We told him about our resources in our branch house and gave him our information
so we can meet sometime. The Lord works in mysterious ways!
Well, I wish everyone a very merry Christmas. Don't forget
to love the holidays and keep on smiling! Invite the missionaries and
your friends over and remember, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is
singing loud for all to hear! Make some miracles and share the sweet song
of the gospel!
Sok szeretettel,
Elder Jake Nelson
Elder Jake Nelson
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