Scripture reading and prayer. Thats my subject this week. We have an investigator named Ati, cool kid. Has a gauge in his ear and looks all cool, in his heart he is a super good person, super kind, and has a testimony. He doesnt like reading at all though. Not just the Book of Mormon, but anything, doesnt like to read at all. So we started with him. We are going to be meeting like every other day or so and reading a chapter with him. The days we dont meet he is still supposed to read a chapter. Its super awesome and has given me a new look at reading the Book of Mormon. He wants to want to read I think, he is super willing, but appreciates our help in helping him understand who people are and what he is reading. It helps me appreciate scriptures more. Im sure Ati will get baptized sometime soon.
Prayer. John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." When we pray sincerely, with real intent, God hears and answers. I testify of that. I have experienced it time and time again on my misision. I dont want to give specifics but one day I prayed for one specific thing that seemed really hard for it to happen. I really prayed and I prayed with real intent. And, God answered and blessed me. Its not because Im a missionary, its because Im one of His children.
I hope everyone is enjoying the snow. I still remember as a kid playing in the snow, getting all of the clothes soaking wet, running it, getting something warm to eat, then putting on a new change of dry clothes and hoping those lasted until the first coat and pants were dry. Good times.
As a district yesterday we met at the branch house and brought ingredients for peanut butter cookies, a rarity. Well, after making the dough we talked about the fact that we werent allowed to cook things at the branch house. We decided to be obedient and just eat the raw cookie dough. Super delicious. Sorry Mom.
One of our finding techniques here is tabling. We have a table we carry to a main part of the downtown area and it has a sign or two advertising the church and the free english class. Flyers and pamphlets and Book of Mormons are on the table and one of us stands at the table while the other goes out and stops people and talks to people. Its actually been pretty productive for us. One fun experience recently was when we started tabling while it was starting to snow, cold, but way fun :)
Met with a cool guy named Imi, hes moving to Austria, has a really cool story about how he got citizenship there. Anyways he is way cool and has referred a numebr of people to the missionaries. He gave us his info so he can meet with missionaries there. He is actually a pretty successfull leader, neat guy.
Ati and Matthew are our two main investigators right now, I already talked about Ati, Matthew, Mate, in Hungarian, is like 20 but realized the importance of all of this because he recently got really sick which made him think about things of real importance.
I absolutely love Szeged and my time learning from and with Elder Cutler, he is truly an awesome guy and companion. I hope you all have a wonderful new week, I know I will.
Sok Szeretettel!
Elder Shoop
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