Caught Living the Gospel

Hello wonderful and beautiful people!

The sun is shining, the tank (or library window) is clean, and I am going to attempt to write about all of the amazing things that happened this week!

Alrighty.... here it goes:

GENERAL CONFERENCE! So. Good. Oh wow, I love it so much. I am still trying to figure out how it felt like an eternity as a child and how it feels like about a half a second now. Attitude perhaps? So great.

We were able to experience many miracles this week leading up to and surrounding conference!

To give a few examples:

-We found manyyy more people that are searching for the gospel than we have found in recent weeks, which allowed us to spread the message that there is a prophet and are apostles on the earth today more than usual!

-We contacted a man outside a member's house and taught him a short lesson. He expressed some interest, and we texted him about conference to remind him of the times. We didn't receive a response, but decided to text him again Sunday evening to see if he was able to watch it. To our delight, and surprise, he responded and said: "Yes I was and found it to be very enlightening for trials that I am going through in my own life. Especially the Portuguese speaker. I do have questions though." What a miracle! We have an appointment set up with him to answer those questions. A funny side note? We originally contacted him by asking his young daughter if she wanted to smell the delicious-smelling flower we had picked. The Lord really does work miracles when we open our mouths!

-We had a wonderful lesson with a young couple who had been invited over to dinner with a family (the J family) in our ward. We were able to share parts of the restoration and missionary work, and the husband ended up attending the Priesthood session with Bro. J at the church building and loved it!

-A young mother who has been struggling with her testimony and her many doubts went visiting teaching with her new visiting teaching companion, and best of all, she now has a strong friend in the gospel!

-We had a lesson with the J/T sisters (the youngest being our recent convert), and it was beautiful. We decided to watch President Uchtdorf's talk from the Women's General Meeting with these four sisters. As we gathered around an iPad, we had each of them write down one or two questions that they had about anything onto a small note card. We promised them that their questions would be answered during the video, and pressed play. As the video went on, we saw little heads bowed over each note card, hurriedly scribbling answers onto those note cards. At the end of the video, each girl had received an answer. My favorite comment came from the oldest sister, L: "The question I wrote down wasn't really answered, but a question that I have been thinking about for a really long time was. And I realized that THAT question was so much more important than this one I wrote on my note card."

-Saturday night the H sisters broke their key in half in their door so they had to sleep over at our place. We went over to drop off some blankets and pillows that a less-active family had brought over for the H sisters and we caught them watching the last session of conference. It made my heart so happy. It reminded me of a talk by Elder Holland when he says, "When He comes, I SO want to be caught living the gospel."

As you can see, there have been many reasons to rejoice this week. I love this work. And I love this mission.

Some notes from General Conference that I can barely read because my handwriting has gotten progressively worse:

-"Someone must pay for this terrible wrong!"
"Someone already has paid..."
-Which way do you face? Do not fear man more than God
-"Courage is the form of all virtues at their testing point." -C.S. Lewis
-If we walk farther and farther from the light, things will always become dimmer and more difficult to see
-What are your thoughts if you knew you had a personal interview with Jesus Christ one minute from now?
-Decisions determine destiny
-Things not easily measured are usually of greatest importance
-Absolute truth exists, even in a world that disdains absolutes
-To obey is better than to sacrifice
-Spiritual questions require spiritual answers

There are so many more but I'm running out of time! I love you all!
Have a wonderful week!

Sister Szilagyi