4/27/2015
Hello my wonderful
family!
Once again, I really
enjoyed each and every one of your emails that you all sent to me this week. I’m
glad that Luke is recovering well and that everyone is excelling in all that
they are doing. Mom, thanks for all the pictures that you sent to me this week
of the quick island park trip.. It looked like so much just and I got a little
bit jealous.. Ha. Dad sent me the summer schedule for all of you, and it looks
super busy! Summer is going to fly that’s for sure! I hope everyone has a great
last month of school! Finish strong! The Lord wants finishers in life!
This week in Budapest wasn’t
too crazy. We were so busy meeting with people and traveling from place to
place that we didn’t have much time to do anything else! The work here is
really starting to pick up. This week there was a total of 80 people in
sacrament meeting and we had 11 investigators there! The Heavens are truly
opening up here in Kis Pest! Our District has been getting along really well
together and we work really well together. This last week we came up with this
great idea for finding more people to teach through using out talents. Here in
Budapest there are tons of colleges in our area, and there is also this very
nice ball court right by the Duna River up by the capital building. We are
going to be making special basketball flyers and we are also going to be
advertising it really well. On every Saturday we are going to have liked a
"basketball day" Where people can come and play with some Americans. It’ll
kind of start like church ball does. We will start with a prayer and a little
thought and then we will play. We have already got a lot of good feedback from a
lot of people who said that they want to come. Obviously our target is young
men. It’ll be just like English class.. But we will be doing it with
basketball. I think it’ll be a big success because a lot of people play ball
here. And then we will be able to set up with them after we play ball with
them. I’m really excited for it. :) We will start next week!
Speaking of next week!
I have set up the skyping time! It will be Sunday may 10th, at 5 o clock my
time.. And it will be 9 o’clock in the morning your time. Does that sound good
to you guys? Let me know if it is!
So other than that.. We
spent all of our time this week meeting with people and teaching them. We have
some really cool investigators who are progressing great. Kenny is doing
amazing. He is starting to read sentences and understanding them! The last time
we met with him we had a very spiritual program and he wants to get baptized.. So
we told him to pray about the day when he should get baptized. The only problem
is that Kenny and his girl need to get married first. --- Alexandra, do you
remember her? Well.. She has this new boyfriend.. And he has been meeting with
the missionaries and has been reading the book of Mormon and has decided that
he wants to get baptized and that he wants to marry Alexandra! It was so crazy
when I found out. And then Zoltán ( that’s his name ) He called me and told me
that he wants me to baptize him. So we will see if we can work it out with
president so that we can meet up and I can baptize him! Then.... in Another
Investigator who I found and was teaching has finally decided to get baptized
and he is getting baptized this Saturday! And then another investigator that
sterri and I found is getting baptized soon as well! -- The lord’s work here in
Hungary is truly moving forward! It is so cool to see and witness!
The Ward here in kis
pest just keeps impressing me. On Saturday they had a ward party and we had a
lot of our investigators there and without even asking them, warmly, and
quickly came up to all of them and accepted them and started to be friend them.
And then on Sunday the members even sat by them in church. It was so cool to
see. It makes our job so much easier. SO! back home! if you ever see a new
face.. if you ever see the missionaries bring someone in.. GO INTRODUCE
YOURSELF AND BECOME BEST FRIENDS WITH THEM. It truly means everything to that
new person. The first time going to church can be a very weird experience.. and
that first time must be a great one. Make it great for them!
My comp and the other
two elders here in the city have recently been waking up at 6 and going running
and working out in this really nice park and every other morning we play a
little bit of basketball. It’s good for me to keep my shot, and keep my hops
and spring in my legs.
Anyway, I cannot wait
to skype all of your in two weeks! It’ll be so good to see all of your faces
and to hear all of your voices. After this skype session there will only be 1
left! So crazy!
Just quickly I want to
share with you what I’ve shared many times before.. That the amount of miracles
that take place.. and the amount of success that we find in life.. and in the
mission.. and within the family.. and in relationships with loved ones.. has
been determined on how willing we are to sacrifice. Of course it’s hard and not
easy. Of course it’s sometimes painful. Of course it requires you to walk down
a road that not very many people have gone down.. but when you get to the end..
and when you don’t give up.. and when you continue to push through the hard
times, even though you might get knocked down a couple times.... when you get
to the end we you will say to yourselves.. " it was worth it." And
thousands of miracles, blessings, and successes will replace all of that pain
from your willingness to sacrifice.
I love all of you
guys!
Have another great
week! be safe! Luke.. way to be tough!
Watson Elder.
5/4/2015
My Beautiful Big
Family!
Time is truly flying!
Mom mentioned that you only have 28 days left or so in school... how crazy is
that?? I clearly remember when school started! It feels like it was just
yesterday! I hope you are all getting ready for a great summer!
I loved all of your
pictures and emails this week! Grandpa G happy 77!! almost to a new decade!
Hannah, I’m so proud of you for learning how to shoot a gun :) and for making
sure my parents are still healthy and alive:) ha - max, Luke, mom, I’m jealous
with dad.. that you watched the new avengers without me.. And jarom and dad, I’m
glad that you had a good time with the scouts this weekend :) and mom! congrats
on the new calling!! ha you’ll do great! they need you in there!
Speaking of which..
That reminds me of what happened this week! So our district had this
idea, since we like basketball, to start a little basketball day up in the
downtown where there is tons of people. It will be just like English class.. we
will start with a prayer, a thought.. and then we will use our talent of
basketball to "win the hearts of the people" and then we will set up
with them from there. -- so this week was our first week of doing it.. we
had no idea how it was going to go, but let me tell you.. it went GREAT:)
we chose this park up by the parliament building ( the big white castle one ),
literally its right next to it by the duna river. It’s a pretty park. There are
TONS of people there.. tons of tourists.. and everything. On Friday we did this
and the weather was perfect. As we showed up there was people already playing
ball, so we invited ourselves in and they were like.. seniors in high school
who all played on the Hungarian national team, I was pumped :) ha-ha my eyes
just got huge.. I was like.. Bring it on.. this will be a great missionary opportunity
:) So, we started playing 4 on 4 half court and I was talking to them in Hungarian
the whole time and they were impressed by how well I could speak and they asked
me " where did you learn Hungarian?? why are you here? where are you
from?" ( like the perfect questions if you’re a missionary.. :) ha ) so I
explained that we were missionaries for the church.. and that we are here to
teach people the restored gospel that was lost and that we are here to help
people in anyway. Then we started playing.. and then 20 min. later 10 other
players on a different high school team showed up and then we divided into
teams and said that we will play tons of mini games and the winner will keep
playing. They all agreed. There were TONS of tourists around the fence watching
us. And there was a spot in the fence where people could come sit and watch..
and that was full with people.. youth and middle aged people. And so everyone..
literally everyone saw us with our name tags on. ha :) ha it was great. so when
we divided teams I purposely ( since I was kind of in charge) put us
missionaries together on a team of 4 ( the pest missionaries came too, so we
have 4 people out of all of us that loved to play ball and played in high
school, so us 4 played together) we were way smaller than all the other
kids, but I didn’t care. ha I was like.. we will show them up. And that’s
exactly what we did. The 3 elders I played with.. one was from lone peak.. he
played football there. Then one was from orem.. and I guess he remembered
playing me back in 8th grade.. I guess he guarded me. Then the other was a kid
from Wisconsin who played in high school. and I was the tallest. ha so this was
our team. everyone else was like.. 6.3.. 6.2.. or taller. We started to play
and we just wrecked them.. we didn’t lose! ha They asked me if I played ball
and I said that I am going to at BYU Hawaii ( I was wearing their shirt that
day ). -- But the best part of it all was when everyone and their dog were
watching us.. And I was guarding supposedly the best player out of everyone
else ( honestly.. they were like.. okay varsity players.. the level is completely
different here than it is in America. ) And he drove and I swatted the snot out
of him.. ha I got the long rebound.. cleared it behind the 3 point line. in-between
the baseline and the wing.. and I saw that that same guy was still under the
hoop standing there whining... so I was like " here it is! :) " here
is my opportunity:) " ha I literally sky rocketed and dunked it on
his head. ha I jumped from like 6. 7 feet away and I had a sick.. pretty..
super hard.. one handed dunk over him. haha and the other missionaries started
to freak out and scream and run around.. the football player literally ran out
of the park.. and it got everyone’s attention and tons more people started to
watch. ( I wish we would’ve recorded it.. it would be a YouTube for sure.. )
during that moment I felt my legs were so loose and I could just fly... ha it’s
the best feeling :) So anyway.. everyone was impressed and surprised.. we were
clearly the best team there.. 4 missionaries.. haha it was so much fun. we
played for a couple hours and then spent another hour talking to people about
our lives and about what we are doing here and we actually got a couple people
to meet with us. It was an amazing missionary experience... The lord truly
blessed me and us to play well.. to jump high.. so that we could look super
good.. to earn the peoples respect so that they would listen to our message.
Modern day example of what Ammon did. And we, in all of our lives.. have many
talents.. we need to develop and use those. Because the lord needs us to. he
needs us to become great in our talents so that we can have these kinds of experiences.
so that we can be instruments in the hands of god for the salvation of his
children. And with faith.. He is able to cause miracles to happen in our lives.
It was another powerful testimony to me of this.
Other than that, this
week we spent a few hours in Africa. ha and I got some good news! Kenny is on
bap date for May 31st!!!!! AND.. karoly.. from békéscsaba.. that x reformist priest
that I found?? HE GOT BAPTIZED on Saturday! It was so cool to see. --- so
Kenny literal only eats African food.. and it’s like.. REAL African food. he
buys all the African foods. So he made us some this week.. he made us plantin..
and Egoosi soup. trust me.. it smelled horrible. it literally smelt like horse.
so gross.. but it was the first food that I’ve smelled that is horrible and the
taste was completely different. it wasn’t bad.. it was african rice.. pork..
egoosi soup.. made from an african seed called egoosi. and then plantin.. that
looks like a LARGE banana! I was holding it in the picture. its taste is sooo
crazy. I can’t explain it. But it was edible for me. ha my comp struggled with
it. so that was a fun little experience. he also was teaching me some Araba!
which is the african language that he speaks? so now I talk to him in araba
sometimes! :) after learning Hungarian.. other languages are like a piece of
cake! ha but anyway, that was the fun experiences this week :)
Just a reminder! next Sunday
morning at 9 o’clock your time I will be skyping you all :) I’m so
excited to see you all! don’t be late!:)
I love you guys!
Elder
Watson
5/11/2015
My Dear Beautiful
Family,
What’s up family? Long
time no talk! ha. It was so good skyping you guys yesterday. You all look
really good. The guys were looking good, yes, even you dad and grandpa! And the
ladies were looking great as ever! I’m so blessed to have an amazing beautiful
family! I love you guys!
It’s pretty crazy how
time flies huh? Now I only have one skype to go, and then I am home! Although
there is still a lot of work to be down here in Hungary, I’m excited for what
the future has in store for all of us.
This week not too much
happened, but at the same time a lot of things happened. We had interviews with
president. It was the last interview that I would have with him before the next
mission president comes in. They went really well. President smith did a really
good job here. It was cool to serve around him. The next interview I have will
most likely be in Hungarian with the first Hungarian mission president
ever.
On Tuesday, my
companion must have eaten something bad, because he was feeling really sick the
whole day. We had to cancel most of our programs so that he could rest a little
bit. I decided to clean our gross apartment. ha
On Saturday we played
basketball again up by the parliament building on the river. It went really
well. We have met a lot of friends and have had some investigators come out of
it. Then, that night, we had to teach English class and then quickly head
up to the adults session of stake conference. It was a really good stake
conference, we talked about missionary work like the whole time.
Then on Sunday we had
stake conference again, I got to meet up with all my old friends from Gyor. I
was really excited to see all of them.
Then I had the amazing
opportunity to skype with my family! I had a great time seeing and talking with
all of you. once again, you all look great and I am so excited to come back
home and hang out with you. We definitely have a lot of things to do!
This upcoming week is
another normal week. Except we have a concert to go to on Friday night and then
there is this international youth activity that is taking place in kis pest,
and we have to be there to translate for all the people who don’t speak Hungarian.
So that should be interesting.
This week I had a
really cool experience as I met with Kenny. We sat down with him one day, and
we learned a little bit of English and then we started talking about the gospel
and he asked a question about the holy ghost and about the devil. He said that
like.. sometimes when he wakes up, especially on the day that we are meeting
him, and he has this thing in his head tell him that he shouldn’t meet with us,
and sometimes he gets close to canceling like on that day for example.. and
then he has this feeling all the time but once we show up, it leaves and he
feels really good. -- to me it was a very interesting comment/question. After
that we had a long talk on the forces of good and evil, of light and darkness..
of truth and not truth and of the holy ghost and then the temptations of the
devil. Then We felt prompted to talk to him about the priesthood and to tell
him about priesthood blessings, then we offered him one and he accepted. The
spirit was so strong as we were able to give him that blessing. After the
blessing he told us that he has never felt like that in his life. It was
another strong testimony to me about the reality of the forces of God, and the
evil forces from the devil. ITS REAL. as missionaries, we experience it all the
time. And this lesson was confirmed to me once again, that usually the greatest
things, or the greatest blessings, lay ahead of us as we are in the deepest
trials and temptations. But after the trial of our faith, do we receive the
witness or the blessings. I testify that this is true. I testify that Satan’s servants
are about in the world trying to tempt us, and distract us, and trying to keep
us in the darkness. But I also boldy testify that Gods servents and angles are courageously
going about in the world bringing people to the truth, saving souls, and
fighting against evils. The question to all of us is " are we going to
listen to God? or are we going to listen to Satan?" Are we going to listen
to that loud voice that tells you to not to be bold and help this person, or
not to be bold and to rather live in fear? or are we going to listen to that
still small voice that tells us to be good, to live good, and to do good? And
to live boldy, courageously, and valiantly having the name of Christ written
upon our foreheads? -- Kenny, luckily, thank goodness, in this moment, listened
to that still small voice that said to keep meeting with the missionaries, to
listen, and to accept. If he had decided not to meet with us that day.. he wouldn’t
have received the powerful priesthood blessing that he received that day.
In our lives, we can
look and see many of these examples, small and big. And we can see times when
we listen to the loud voice instead of the small. but, because of the atonement
of Jesus Christ we can change today. We can change now, to listen to that still
small voice. May we always choose to live valiantly. And choose to fallow
that still small voice, and hold on to that iron rod. That we may win the end
of our faith, even salvation to our souls!
Love you guys! have
another great week!
Watson
Elder.
5/18/2015
My beautiful Family!!
Well! 14 down! A few
left to go! I hope you are all getting ready for a great summer! We are here!
The tourists are coming out, you meet more Americans than you do Hungarians..
every once in while you have an overly nice couple come up to you saying
"ELDERS! ELDERS! IM SISTER SMITH! ( like every other Mormon in Utah)
" haha :) But its true! we ran into a few Mormons from America this week!
Even this morning, as we were heading to our emailing place we get on the
metro.. and these two people were looking at us funny, I could tell they weren’t
Hungarian and they said " Hey Elders" ha :) It was a father and a son
and they were from sandy Utah on a trip. I got to see Carter and his parents
this week. We met and they took us out to lunch at this place called gringo
amigos.. It’s really good. It was really cool to see them! I feel like carter
has been home for like a year! It’s only been like 6 months though! His family
is really nice. Yesterday they headed off to Rome to finish up their European
trip!
This weekend Piroska
got baptized and I got to assist in giving her the holy ghost and confirming
her. Her story is an interesting one. I’ll tell it at the end :)
A couple crazy things
happened this week as well. During priesthood meeting yesterday our bishop came
in and pointed at me and told me to come out for a minute. As I walk out there
is a family of 3 standing at the door. I walk up to meet them and I realize
that they don’t speak that good of Hungarian. The bishop then told me, in Hungarian,
that he can’t speak English and that these people came to investigate the
church. So he left me and I started to get to know this family. there was the
mom, the dad, and then a 17 year old boy. I talked to them in really
simple English.. Because they were from Ukraine! (Idk how to spell it) ha:) but
they were form Ukraine and they fled from Ukraine 6 months ago to Hungary
because they lived really close to the war. They were able to come to Hungary because
the wife has some ancestors from Hungary. But she doesn’t speak. So they have
lived here for 6 months, they are starting to work. and they are learning Hungarian
because of the war. And they believe in Christ and they wanted to attend a
church and they found this one! as soon as I heard that.. I knew that it wasn’t
by accident that they came here and I know that in the future they will get
baptized. they have been so prepared. we set up with them, and they said that
they loved church.. the feeling. Because they couldn’t understand a word. ha
and they said that they would be back next Sunday. we got their number.. and a
miracle just took place! It was amazing.
this week we also have
had some time to try and find some new finding areas.. and where ever we went
it was really successful :) we did some tracting and streeting this week..
nothing too new :) haha
I turned into a
marriage counselor this week! We had a really intense lesson with Kenny, and we
have taught him everything but the law of Chasity.. and we purposely saved it
till the end.. but I had to tell them that in order for them to get baptized
that they had to get married. After the lesson they said they would talk about
it over the next few days and they will see. so it was like a make it break it
lesson. and so be praying for them! idk what the laws are.. or legal issues
are.. but somehow, someway.. I hope they can get married. we will see how they
took it this week :)
all in all.. it’s
getting really warm here.. summer is coming. Budapest is being filled with
tourists... and our working is just getting better and better and more and more
miracles are taking place!
I had the opportunity
of holding a bap. interview with piroska on Friday. And her story is quite
amazing. She first found out about the Mormons from YouTube online. she found
this family, who was Mormon.. and I guess they put out a ton of videos about
their live and everything.. well.. she would follow these people and she really
wanted to have a life like theirs.. 2 weeks later, she met with the
missionaries for the first time on the street and immediately wanted and
accepted everything. a couple weeks later she was baptized. I honestly think
this is a great lesson for me, and for all of us. 1, people are out there and
they are being prepared and are prepared. 2, the lives that we live.. the lives
that you live back home.. has such a great impact. in fact.. so big that you don’t
even know how big. you never know who is watching.. you never know what your
examples can do for someone else. you never know how far one act of kindness
will go.
I just wanted to
encourage you guys to keep building great habits of faith. keep building your
character. keep progressing. keep doing good things and keep being good people.
you have no idea how far your example.. how far your light of Christ that is in
you will take you.
be ye therefore an
example of the believers!!!!!!
Love you all!
Watson Elder
5/26/2015
My Beautiful
Family!
Well, another week has
gone, and another week has come. Transfers are next week, which is insane to
me. Which means.. next week pday will be on Tuesday and then transfers will be
on Wednesday. Right now, I am expected to stay here in Kis Pest. Which is great
because I honestly love being up here in the big city. Our work is great, the
place is beautiful, and our apartment is just getting better and better! haha
And ill mention why in just a second.
Like I mentioned, this
week was pretty crazy and it was raining all week. On Monday, during emailing I
got a call from President Smith and he asked me if I could do him another
favor.. and I said yes, and then he said that something’s have gone down in the
mission and he asked me if I could pick up another missionary in my
companionship for a week or so til the big transfers. So we left pretty immediately
from emailing over to the mission home to pick up this missionary. His name is
Elder peregoy. So.. we are in a 3 some! haha for at least another week. It’s
very interesting being in a 3 some. But I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons
from it. more like.. missionary wisdom. ha with a 3 some.. it is like.. VITAL..
to make sure that each missionary is involved in every lesson. That has been my
goal all of last week and all of this week. Because if a missionary doesn’t
have an opportunity to speak or bare testimony in a program.. soon
discouragement comes, and then the feeling of uselessness, and then they feel
like they are bad missionaries.. then insecurities hit.. and it’s just bad. ha
so I’ve been trying to do that. takes more planning, but it’s been working
great lately. we have had very powerful programs this last week in which
resulted in a new person who is getting baptized on June 7. And then 2
more who are considering a bap. date. So this week was actually really
successful :)
The reason I said that
our apartment is getting better and better is because I fixed the mold problem
that we had in our bathroom, and then we got a new fridge:) ha my next project
is getting a new bed! ha :)
Mom! I really loved
every pic that we sent me of what you guys did this last week! I’m proud of max
for winning and doing great! It looked like you guys had tons of fun. I’ll be
honest.. seeing you guys on the beach... really made me jealous.. ha all I
could picture is Hawaii! :) But I’m really glad that you all had a great time
and now, as I type this you guys are pulling an all-nighter and driving home.
ha that is one long drive... good luck dad!
This week we went
tabling in the big city for the first time ever. I thought it would be really
cool and it would be really successful to go to one of the big squares they
have in the downtown of Budapest.. set up our table and ( for some reason..
this ward has huge. NICE.. legit poster boards of the restoration and about the
book of Mormon. So we used those, propped those up, and then started to talk to
people. It honestly went really good. we were able to get some new
investigators and give out a lot of books of Mormon! We would’ve done it more
this week, but it was raining all week and we also had a lot of other programs
so we really didn’t have much time to go finding.
This week also, as you
can see from all the pictures.. we went and visited just about every cool place
you can go in Budapest. it was super fun. And it only started to rain on us at
the very end. But really, Budapest is a very pretty city. It’s one to come back
to, that’s for sure. The pictures sometimes don’t do justice for how pretty it
was. We hiked up to gellert Hegy, which is that statue that is on a mountain
that overlooks all of Budapest.. and that is where the Elder nelson dedicated Hungary
to missionary work and blessed the land. It was super cool to be up there and
to just imagining having elder nelson dedicated and open the land to missionary
work. In the Prayer... Elder Nelson said a lot of cool things. 1) One
day.. Hungary will be dotted with stakes and wards.. And 2) The lord has
prepared people for those missionaries who have been fore-ordained to come and
serve here. I thought about that as I was standing up on Gellert Hegy..
and I just wanted to let you guys that I know that these two things are true
and that they will come to pass! But it’s not just me, its everyone who is involved.
Its everyone is willing to make the sacrifice. We are all building up the
kingdom of God in Hungary. because without each and every one of you.. I wouldn’t
be here!
I love you guys! have
a great week!
Watson Elder
6/2/2015
My Beloved
Family,
Welcome to June!
Welcome to Summer! I don’t know how I should start this email out! So much has
gone on this week that I am almost left speechless!
First of all I wanted
to tell max that I am very.. very.. impressed and very proud of him for all of
his basketball accomplishments. I had the wonderful opportunity this morning to
watch a little bit of game film from the cali tournament. Bud, you are looking
really good and your potential is literally out of the roof. NEVER STOP
IMPROVING! keep killing it man. I’m a proud older brother. ---- the second
thing that I wanted to tell you.. is I wanted to comment on your little...
elves... skit thing you did. lol. Mom sent me a good video of it and.. well..
after that I was also left speechless! haha Was that really you???? do you
really have that kind of voice??? it didn’t sound like you at all!!!!! I was
very impressed. Keep it up bro! my prayers are always with ya!
Drum roll
please.............................................................. Elder Shad
Watson has been called to serve in dunaujvaros in the Hungary Budapest
Mission!! My feelings are so mixed right now I cannot even begin to explain
them. President called us this morning and the unexpected happened! Our
companionship is getting white washed.. or completely changed. He called me as
Zone Leader in Duna. He mentioned that he also wants me to be District leader
including to my Zone Leader responsibilities. My other two companions got
called to different cities as well. At first it was kind of a heart breaker.
because our work here is going sooooo good. I felt like I needed to stay at
least another 5 weeks and we would be seeing a lot of baptisms. And I am still
really sad about leaving my investigators that are here. But at the same time I
am excited to have a greater opportunity to influence people for good and I am
grateful for this opportunity. Everything happens for a reason, maybe there is
people in duna that I need to find or something. the point is.. THE unexpected
happened! I’m leaving Kis Pest after 1 transfer. it will be my shortest city
that I’ve stayed in.. which is sad because it was one of my favorites. We will
see what duna has in store for me!
-- and the crappiest
part about the whole thing is that I have to pack again!!!! I hate packing.
ha
here is the
investigator update! :)
Kenny has been
thinking about getting married.. it’ll be at least a 4 month process and then
they will get baptized.
János Is getting
baptized this Sunday and he has asked me to baptize him. Luckily Duna
isn’t very far from Budapest and President will give me permission to travel
back on Sunday morning to baptize him!
Alexandra’s boyfriend
Zoltan is getting baptized this Saturday! He wants me to baptize him but
president won’t allow me traveling down here because it is too far. BUT!!! He
is still getting baptized!:) :) They want to go to the temple in a years’ time!
This week we had a
miracle find with miracle programs following it. We were tracting and I was
walking down the stairs of a 10 story building and I ran into this asian girl
walking into her apartment and I felt like I should stop her. So I stopped her
and I started to talk to her about the gospel and why we were there. She was
kind enough to listen, and she accepted a book of Mormon and she set up with us
a time to meet at the church. We met with her 2 days later, her name is Bongi, and
she is from Vietnam. She has lived in Hungary for 10 years. And She brought her
boyfriend who was a Hungarian who was a Baptist to the program. We got to know
them, the boyfriend is very religious and they are very good, normal people. We
watched the Restoration film with them and then talked to them about it. This
was a very interesting program for me, because Bongi is my first investigator
who literally had no knowledge of Jesus Christ. Most people we meet with have a
Christian background. She is the first one who didn’t. In the first program the
spirit was unbelievably strong. As we bore testimony of Joseph smith and of the
reality of Jesus Christ the spirit quickly and powerfully filled the room.
Then, her boyfriend was helping us teach her about Jesus Christ and the boyfriend
then said "2 months ago I was thinking inside of me, " how in the
world can I make her become a believer? " so I decided to pray and leave
it up to God because I am just a man " " Then, a month later,
these boys come knocking on your door- it wasn’t on accident " I was in
shock when the boy friend said this. I followed with my testimony that it wasn’t
on accident either. ( we are speaking in Hungarian because she doesn’t speak
English) Then, she agreed to try it out and she committed to follow what we have
to say. The next program we had a huge lesson on Jesus Christ. We watched
finding faith in Christ, we discussed faith, we talked about everything that Christ
did, and is doing. It was a very special program. then last night, we taught
her the plan of salvation to answer all the questions that she had, and because
of the many questions she had, and because we had no other program to go to, we
taught her for 2 and a half hours. She said, "next time we need to meet
earlier so that we can have more time!!" I was in shock, once again. She
has been so ready. And then she asked THIS QUESTION " IF someone wants to
get baptized, what does one need to do? " In short, she wants it. IT is
amazing. Then receiving this call this morning that I am leaving.. it was
pretty hard. I’m sad that I won’t be able to teach them again, and that I won’t
be here to see them progress and get baptized. But, a great miracle took place
and it was another testimony to me.. that we are truly instruments in God’s
hands. We were the answer to that man’s prayers. We were truly angles sent from
heaven to save a lost soul. During each program, many special sacred things
were shard which touched each one of our hearts greatly. --- In short, God
loves his children! And has a plan for each one of them, and he listens to our
prayers and desires.
Tomorrow I head
off for Duna. So next week we will see where I’m emailing at and at what time!
Another adventure is ahead of us!
I Love you all! Be
safe, and have a great week! Finish Strong in school!
sok szeretettel,
Watson Elder
