Anyukám és családom,
Wow your lives are awesome! Life is great when it is busy. That is one great
thing about my time here so far with Bowen elder, we are busy. Veszprém is
going to be my favorite place. We have two real investigators and an RCLA to
meet with and lots of time to do things, but the thing is I have an amazing
companion now. I knew it was so when I got into the train with him and he told
us all that in Veszprém, we are going to be 100% obedient.Yes! It has been so
wonderful to feel the blessings from God already. He may be the best companion
I get all mission. He is a lot like me, but taller, he has fun, but he knows
how to work. I am going to learn a lot from him. We are going to do a lot of
good here in Veszprém. It is going to be hard, but with my God, we are going to
do miracles.
Here's a story. This was a good welcoming to me from Veszprém. The day after
transfers, so Thursday, we were out tracting. We ring this one house and the man
immediately said, "kimegyek". We were weirded out. People don't
usually come out to say hi. Well he came out, was really welcoming and invited
us in. We were excited until he said, "I am Muslim." Dah dah dah, we
were in trouble. Lo and behold when we got in all the guy wanted to talk about
were Muslims, The Coran, and about Muhammad. My goodness it was annoying, but I
was very patient as this man tried to convert me with obvious false doctrine.
It's awesome when you can recognize that because you've done your studying.
Anyway I just let him talk, and I had him explain everything and I learned a
lot. Once he was winded I then asked if we could have a turn to teach. I opened
immediately to Moroni 10:3-5 and would not let him interrupt me until I had
born pure, true doctrine testimony of the spirit and how I had received a
personal witness from the spirit, not from some facts about whatever. Then
Bowen elder took over and went through the entire Restoration and the story and
then bore his testimony. The man was speechless for a few seconds as he tried
to rekindle his faith in Muhammad. he then began to repeat himself and
contradict himself. At that point we respectfully said we needed to go and
thanked him for the info and we left. It was such a testimony builder that my
testimony is built from a true relationship from God, not from facts. We truly
hold the authority in this church.
Other cool story is this guy we visited the other day. He is 80 years old and
we returned because we had given him a BOM earlier. Well he let us into his
home. this is the cool part. As we went to the backside of this house we
realized he was pretty poor, and it became more obvious as we entered his home.
First thing we saw after climbing a two step porch was a little bathroom on the
left and the kitchen on the right that was soon to be where we taught him. As
we entered the kitchen this is what I saw. One light bulb just hanging on the
wall from an outlet. The one from the ceiling was broken. A small stove by the
door that was cooking his potatoes, an ancient radio playing old music, his
counters filled with clutter, two chairs whose cushions had been fixed with
rope, shoe soles and rages. There was also black molds within the walls. From
the kitchen was a pitch dark room in which we never ventured into and to the
right was a smaller closet. In this kitchen we taught this kind, slightly
crazy, loving, understanding, poor, hurt man. We taught this man around that
light bulb. Our first 20 minutes of teaching this man was trying to relocate
that light bulb on the wall into the middle of us because [he] was worried
about us reading in the dark. So huddled around this light bulb like a campfire
in an environment of poverty, teaching a man in great need for God's love, I
had the greatest spiritual moment of my life. We taught him of the Restoration
and prayer and helped him feel some love. We are planning a lot of service for
this man, and we are hoping to teach him a lot. He will be a little slower, but
we feel we were sent to make this man's life a little better. I am so grateful
I came and left my life into one of service. I could never have experienced
this if I stayed at home. I am definitely where I am supposed to be.
I know through prayer we can receive all the blessings from blessing. I am
happy I have such a great relationship with God, I know he lives and he has put
his gospel on earth so we can know of him. We are such blessed people. I love you all.
And enjoy your Christmas in celebrating our Savior and Redeemer.
Sok szeretettel
Decker elder
