With the new emailing time, I don’t
have a ton of time, so please don’t worry if any of your emails are shorter! I
love to hear what’s going on, but don’t feel bad at all if they are just short
and just keep me filled in on what’s going on at home and how everyone is doing!!
Attilla is still doing great! He
has been reading and praying and said that he knows the Book of Mormon is true.
We had a great program last week and he agreed to come to church this
week!
Ferenc is also doing so so great!
We taught him the restoration and we were actually so surprised with all of the
great comments that he had! For example, we were teaching him about prophets
and he said “right, but we gotta remember, he is really just a man. A simple
man that has a lot of faith and obedience. What he says comes from God.” Wow,
he was so right! He also has been reading and praying daily and came to church!
We’re so so happy for him!
We were meeting with György and he
is doing super well! He was asking all about baptism and repentance and the
spirit was there really strong. He has had such a hard life and been through
things that I can’t even imagine. It is so amazing teaching people like him to
learn how to repent and how the Savior’s atonement can bless his life. For
someone who has never experienced it before, I am so incredibly excited for him
to receive all of the blessings from it!
haha Part way through the lesson,
he stops and tells me he has a question. He said Sister Schnoor, I hope this
won’t be too personal, but I’m really curious about something.” I was a little
nervous and said, “alright, what is it? He got all serious and asked “are you
an Indian?' hahaha So so hard not to laugh and as best as I could, I kept a
straight face and told him that no, I am not an Indian! haha I guess all of
this heat lately has given me some extra color!!
We had a great zone training this
week. It was all about Christ and the power of grace in our lives. I felt the
spirit there so strong. I don’t like to talk about the end of my mission, but
next week is my “dying transfer!” It will be the last transfer of my mission,
last city and last companion.. I don’t like talking about it, but with my
mission coming closer and closer to the end, I can’t help but think of the last
amazing months that I have had in this country. It has always been so hard for
me to express how I feel about my mission, but if anything, I am so incredibly
grateful for this amazing experience that I’ve had to be here, to be a
representative of our Savior Jesus Christ and to wear his name on my name tag
every single day. With learning and talking about Him every day, I can’t help
but feel a little overwhelmed, thinking that I am here to do and say what He would
say. Those shoes are way too big for me to fill (at least alone), I can’t even
begin to do and say all the things that He would. It is easy to feel unworthy
or too little at times, but I have seen over and over again on my mission and
have learned this lesson time and time again: that our Heavenly Father doesn’t
expect us to be perfect, in fact, he expects us to make mistakes, he knows that
we’re not perfect and that we’re going to fall short, but what He also expects
of us is that we turn to Him when we make mistakes. He will always always be
there for us, to comfort us and to strengthen us. That is when we need the
amazing power that grace gives us from the Atonement. I can’t tell you exactly
how the Atonement works, or exactly what happened in the Garden of Gethsemane,
but what I do know, is that it does work. That the Atonement is real and I have
felt the effects of it in my life. It has changed my life, it helped me come on
my mission and become who I am today. I am so grateful that I will always have
it available to me for the rest of my life.
Have a great week!
Love you!
