This week was slow. Sloooooooow. We only had five lessons. If you served a mission or know a missionary ask them if that's a lot. It's not at all. The work is slow here but doesn't mean you can discourage me. The subject line this week come because I PRed(personal record) Contacting time. We contacted for five hours on Wednesday. We contact with this "He is the Gift" poster and we have not been having much success but we're out there doing what we can and that's all we can. I'm extremely grateful I was born here. It's taught me to be grateful for whatever you have and to always have a positive attitude. Contacted for five hours but always keep a smile on my face. This work is hard but I'm preaching the plan of happiness not the plan of sadness and despair so if I expect people to be excited about it i need to be. I miss home and am tired all the time and lessons prish and we only have 9 people in church but it's all about your attitude. Mom i have that little black and yellow magnet you have burned into my mind since I've been here. I've learned it is all about your attitude. There is ALWAYS a positive way to look at something no matter how far you have to stretch sometimes even if everything is against you. You chose to be here you have a God who knows you and what' best you and loves you and is watching out for you. You have an older brother that suffered for you and knows you perfectly. He is walking besides you. Think everyday am I living the plan of happiness or the plan of despair and negativeness. MEN ARE THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE JOY. You exist to have joy. So turn that frown upside down and get to work if you're not where you want to be. I could go on for hours as you all know. Next week you'll get another rant about something or other that I've learned. This mission is a blessing beyond measure for my life. I see why Satan tried so hard to keep me from coming. He knew how much it would help me in the battle against him.
Anyways into my week. Not a lot to report this week because not much happened. Last Monday we had a lesson with a guy named Izmir. (eezmir) he's a super cool guy that speaks really good English which is weird here. He's a student for business and he's going to Norway after he gets done for a scholarship or something. So we showed him the video and talked about Christ and having faith in him and just kind of talked to him about his beliefs. He really liked the quality of the video which i thought he would because he's a business and marketing student and I love how well it's done so i thought he would. But he had some interesting ideas just about that there are these people and gifts that god sends but you can't put a name on it and stuff like that but we just testified and said yes it is Christ and stuff and he kind of changed a little and was like ok. Then we ended and gave him a Joseph Smith pamphlet because we didn't have enough time to explain the book of mormon and when he saw the picture of Joseph Smith he started going off about these alien people called Anonockies no idea if i spelled that right but they are a race they came here and created humans and used them to mine and work for them........ Ya weird right it was just a good lesson that ended very strange but he's just a kid who likes learning and we just need to steer that learning. When we asked him if he wanted to learn more about the book of mormon he was like Of Course! it's a book so he just likes learning and hopefully we can keep working with him and get his desire to learn in the right place.
The other lesson worth mention this week was with our investigator named Liza. She has been an investigator for ever and has gone through like 3 sets of missionaries and always changed her number but i told you about our last lesson we had and we text her to read a chapter in the book of mormon and she read it and two other ones so that was exciting. The lesson so the last one was crazy and totally got prished but this time it was only her a couple of her kids and her husband who we were a little worried about because he always talks about money but we started the lesson. We taught them the gospel of Jesus Christ and they understood the whole thing and we're like ya we need to be better people and follow Christ and they just have a ton of faith but when we taught baptism and committed them and they said yes! and you're all probably wondering why I'm not more excited but it's because they said yes but we got the vibe it was more a yes baptism and following Christ is a good thing so they said yes. It's just been a while since she's got the other lessons and we don't really know how much they know. but they said yes and they had three kids well four but the oldest is 17 and married so.... But we are going to review the restoration and the plan of salvation and hit on baptism again and just talk about why this is the right church and why they need to get baptized in this church and do all these things and hopefully they will get a better grasp of it and get the whole picture on baptism and the gospel. I have really high hopes for her and her family though and I'm really excited to see how our lesson goes next time. and TWO baptismal dates. Been here 2 1/2 months and those are my first ones so HIZZAH! AWAY WE GO! haha
The last thing for this week was Albania had a priesthood meeting for the whole country and we were asked to attend by President Weidmann. We had it in Durres because they have an actually church building. It was crazy to see that many priesthood holders there and have a meeting like that. The work is going forth in and it was great to see. A kids who's going on a mission spoke, a couple bishops and the stake presidency. There was probably 150-200 people there and it was Awesome! Oh. and the whole thing was in Albanian obviously so it was like two hours of language study and i didn't get a ton out of it but it was good. It felt like a meeting we used to have in America and it was cool to see that we have that many members that would come. The two hour drive there isn't great but i enjoy driving and take it from my companion so I can't complain. Definitely worth it as well.
Well that's all that happened this week. I love all of you and leave you with my simple testimony that Jesus Christ lives and is the true meaning of this great season and time. He lived and died and lives again so that we can all be here and experience joy in this life. Find that joy and become better everyday. Mentally, Physically, and Spiritually become better everyday. Your Favorite Missionary. ( a lot more pressure than i thought it would be) - Elder Szabo
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