Hermana Naegle: Vallarta

Buenas Tardes!

this week was really good. Last week we all got an email from President Wagner. It was a talk about how to become a consecrated missionary. Its really good. It talks about how you have to sacrifice everything on the altar of consecration your disobedience, thoughts, heart, fears, etc. everything has to be cleared away and every thought has to be about the Work. Its really powerful and direct. My companion and I have been studying it this past week and we've been coming up with personal and companionship goals. We both really wan't to become consecrated missionaries. Its been really great to have a companion who really wants to change too. This week we're putting into action our plans and I'm super excited! 

Well We have this amazing family that we've been teaching. Their names are manual and Luz. They have two kids Chelsea and Jeffery. They're both so adorable! Chelsea is six and super smiley and is way excited for her parents to get baptised she tells me every day they're getting baptised the 12 of April its darling. jeffery is the smilest baby ever! he's so happy and if he could talk I'm sure that he would be super excited for their baptism as well. The best part about this is that we're not only converting Manuel and Luz, we're converting their children, their future children, and their future posterity. 

BUt really they're made of gold. Manuel studied a lot about religions for his work (he's a phychiatrist) and he was studying about the mormons and reading the book of mormon. When he contacted the missionaries he already had a testimony of the Book of mormon and Joseph Smith. And he's been reading church books like crazy. Right now he's reading Jesus the Christ and when he found out how many books the church has he got really really excited. they're amazing. Their desire to obey the commandments is astounding. Everytime we visit with them they tell us about their experiences with the word of wisdom. They had both been coffee drinkers before and they have really been tempted with it but they have been so strong and faithful! Every time we teach them a new commandment they just say ''of course. that makes sense, we'll definitely live that.'' they're so incredible!

Well thats about all for today.

Love you tons!

Hna. Naegle

Naegle Nover: Big Hopes

Because I am a new missionary, I have to complete a training program that we refer to as the "12-week" program. Each week there are certain tasks and obligations that I specifically have to complete as the new missionary. This past week was week 11, where the new missionary takes the lead. So, I had to lead in planning, during lessons, meetings, etc. I was extremely worried about it, because I don't speak Hungarian very well, and I was worried that I was going to ruin someone's salvation somehow. Which sounds silly, but that's how I felt. And the first lesson that I led out in on Monday night was kind of a bust. But- over the course of the week, things just worked out and by the end, it wasn't a big deal anymore. I have now led out in teaching several lessons, and even though the week was difficult, it was worth it because of how much it helped me grow as a missionary. And I didn't ruin anyone's salvation.

One of the things that I was worried about the most was the correlation meeting, where I would have to go through and explain each of our investigators and their progress to the mission correlation leader in front of all the other missionaries in our district. The mcl's name is Dávíd, and he speaks really fast and is a fast-paced person, so it's really intimidating to talk to him. The week before I had tried explaining just one investigator to him and he cut me off and made fun of something that I had said, which only made me more intimidated this week. But it went well and even though Sister Curtin had to explain some things, I was able to participate and at the end, Dávíd asked me to say the prayer. After I said the prayer commented on how much I was able to understand and say, and asked me how long I had been here. It was the best compliment ever. I still have sooo far to go with the language, but it was like a little gift from Heavenly Father to remind me of the progress that I have made. When I first came, I could barely understand anything in that meeting.

So many cool things happened this week. Our Chinese investigator, Kriszti took us to this amazing chinese restaurant. I tried chicken gizzard and goat meat for the first time and it was surprisingly delicious. It was really nice of her to take us, but it was a lot farther than we thought it would be, and so we were running out of time to teach a lesson. It's really hard to communicate with her because she doesn't speak Hungarian very well, and normally we practice English with her for half the lesson, so I was worried about asking to do a lesson still without the English. I decided to go ahead and ask her anyway, and it turned out to be one of the best lessons we've had with her. She opened up to us about missing her family and how she feels spiritually tired. She ended up going home that night and reading the Book of Mormon and praying to help her sleep. It was a crazy experience, being driven around Hungary by a Chinese woman, trying to teach her about the scriptures in my broken Hungarian, but I think it was a turning point for her.

We dropped by one of our investigators named Rozsália on Wednesday. She is extremely poor. When we first found her, her apartment was, not gross, but messy. Her walls are just cement, and her bed is made of crates. It is so humbling to teach her. She has a lot of sadness in her past, and she has a lot to overcome, but she accepted a baptismal date, and it is amazing to see the changes that have already taken place with her in the short time since we met her. When we came by this week, she had moved around the furniture to make it more pleasant, and cleaned up. Her bed was made, and she had set up a mirror, as if she could finally face herself again. 

Laci is finally reading the Book of Mormon more quickly, and he is actually finding some things he likes. He is attending church regularly, and he comes to some of the weekly activities. We fasted with him on Sunday for his grandfather, who is sick, and I am so proud of him for making that sacrifice. He has some difficult objections to some of the church's teachings, but he is exercising a lot of faith by praying about a baptismal date. I am so grateful for the opportunity that I've had to teach him. When we first found him, he didn't really believe in God, and now he prays and reads daily, and attends church every week. His life has changed and he doesn't even know it. 

Sorry this was such a long email. There are a million little things that happened and other amazing investigators that I could write about, but I probably need to finish up. The people here are amazing pioneers. The church is so young, but the members are strong, and our investigators are brave. I love them so much.

I hope you all have a wonderful week. I love you, and I am so grateful for your prayers. I could not survive without them. 

Sister Naegle

Hermana Naegle: Puerto Vallarta! ixtapa 3!

> I'm in Vallarta! its so gorgeous! I absolutely love my area. Its amazing. Well the ward could be better (but that's why we're here) but the people are so humble! I'll tell you about the two days that stick out in my mind from this week. Day1: we decided to go to cañadas, a part of our area thats kind of far away, to search for some old investigators from when the elders were in this area. this part of our area is super super poor. most of the houses aren't really houses they're more like wooden skeletons with tarps stapled to the sides to keep out the wind and rain. none of the streets have names and we were searching for this particular street where these old investigators live but we weren't having any success. we stopped by this little store to ask the lady if she knew the location of the street but she didn't and I had a thought to buy some juice. So we bought juice and then my companion asked me which way I thought we should go, I had a feeling to go down this one street and she said she had the same feeling so we headed down and we passed a school and kept walking and it was so hot and we weren't having any luck. So we stopped by this really big tree to stand in the shade for a bit and we were drinking our juice when these two dogs started freaking out on the other side of this canal. turns out the dogs were attacking an iguana and they killed it and ran off with it. well after the dogs disappeared we weren't really feeling like doing much more in this part because none of the streets had names and no one we had asked had heard of the street we were looking for so we headed back the way we had come. We passed by the school and we were chatting when all the sudden my companion stopped turned around and presented us to the couple that was standing by the school talking to their children. we asked them their names and they were very very similar to the names of the people we were searching for . they told us that they had talked to the missionaries before and the man asked us if we wanted to go to their house to talk out of the sun. So we walked with them back to their house. When we asked them what their address was it was the street we had been looking for , and its the same street that the dogs had been in! turns out they were the family that we had been searching for and they have 5 kids and the youngest is 8! they aren´t married but when we told them that we have a wedding ceremony in our church the dad's face lit up, (he's wanted to get married for a long time, but the mom didn't want to when they met because she figured they would probably get divourced but they've been together for over 17 years).
> anyways they're going to get married legally so that they can get baptized. Also it was way funny when we told them that they had to wait a year after their baptism to get married in the church to prepare spiritually because Javier (the dad) thought that they had to separate and live alone in like a distant mountain range or something crazy like that, I have no idea where he got that idea from but we had a good laugh over it.
>
> Anyways earlier that day the elders had told us that we needed to get new investigators or else we would have to buy the pizza for whatever we're buying pizza for, and since we don't have much money we were determined to get at least one new investigator! so Javier and Carmen (the couple with 5 kids) were our first two new investigators! but we didn't stop there. We have a system in our misnion to teach lessons in the street, with a prayer and everything! its super fun I love praying randomly with people the looks on their faces are so silly when we ask them if we can pray with them. anyways we were walking towards the house of a less active member when we saw this lady sitting at this little table in the shade making sandles. I presented us to her and we started chatting and then we asked if we could say a prayer with her and share part of our message. We was a bit concerned because she's of course catholic but we told her that it didn't matter and we prayed with her. We started teaching the first principle about how God is our loving heavenly father and it was all really good and set the tone for the Spirit to be there and then we started in on the second principle about how the gospel blesses families and thats when got her. she has trouble with her 12 year old son and her spouse. I won't go into detail but we talked to her about how oiur church has organizations that can help her son have good friends and all sorts of stuff and she was super interested. anyways we have an appointment with her later which means we had another new investigator!
>
> then we started to go home becasue it was getting late and we were just going to contact all the way home when we came across this little old lady who was sweeping up some leaves in front of her house. We stopped and asked her if she wanted help and she was so grateful because she fell and has a hard time walking. So we swept up all her leaves and talked with her and set up and appointment to come back and visit with her.. actually she kind of set up the appointment! And then we met her sone Alberto. he's really smart and knows spanish, ingles, french and he makes really pretty things. and he told me he was going to make a list of all the things he knows and show it to me which I thought was kind of funny and he kept talking to me in french.... which neither I nor my companion understand. And when he wasn't talking in french he was talking in ingles which only I understand It was kind of funny to watch my companions face haha (by the way I love my companion! she's a doll!) so by the end of the day we had five new investigators! and we don't have to buy the pizza! take that Elders! super hermanas coming through!
>
> OK day 2: (really fast)
> 1. I forgot to wear my name tag in the morning and didn't realize it until a random member who we had never met before asked my waht my name was.}
> 2. we were walking home from buying some last minute things for sunday when encountered some really suspicious men. I only saw two of them but my companion saw three. One of them followed us for a little bit until he knew that we were watching. And then we waited until he was gone to go inside out house. But once we were inside the two men that I saw returned with two other men and they started eating at the little restaurant across the street form our house and we're not sure if they had a camera and were talking pictures of hour house or not, it looked like it and they definitely kept looking at our house. Well we called our district leader and the news spread all the way to President Wagner and he actually called us and gave us information on what to do if anything happened. but the men had left by then and we weren't really feeling scared. nothing happened but there was definitely a fuss made by the elders. I find the whole experience super dramatic.
> 3. our tile broke.
> 4. my bed broke and now I sleep on a mattress on the floor. I'm actually super comfortable but we now need to buy two bases for our beds instead of just one becasue my comapnion's is broken too.
> 5. and our cereal was soggy by the time we got around to actually eating it that night.... this was significant when it happened
>
> Anyways I love my new area! I love my new companion! I'm learning so much more about spanish and my confidence in teaching has improved and I'm less scared of talking to people. I have forgotten how to spell things in english and I've never been so hot in my entire life. Oh and there are always tourists at church from america and the women just mob me with questions and I have found that its hard to speak in english!
> Well lots of love!
> Thanks for your prayers!
> Hna. Naegle
>

Naegle Nover: a short, but good one.

> This week was short since we had a transfer, but it was a really great week. We have a lot of really cool new investigators that we have high hopes for. We made a goal to give away all of the materials that we have in our apartment before Sister Curtin leaves to go home, which includes giving away one copy of the Book of Mormon each day. I feel like the Lord has helped us do that. There were days where we only had a little bit of time to give one out and we would street people and have success. One time we were walking by an old lady who was waiting for a bus and her back was turned so normally I would have just walked by, but I felt a little tug telling me to go over to her so I did and started talking to her and then my companion was able to give her a Book of Mormon. She was really receptive and nice, and we've been able to find someone like that every day so far, which is kind of rare sometimes. Most of the time people will ignore us or shrug us off or not want to take anything, but these people were really, really happy to have a Book of Mormon. So I know that when we make goals and try our best, Heavenly Father wants to help us.
> On a different note, I have had a request to talk about the food I eat in Hungary. The truth is, if you want to eat similarly to an American diet here, you can. There is McDonald's and all that. But what I've eaten that was actually cooked by Hungarians is usually some sort of soup with meat in it. This past week I had a soup that was pretty much just boiled cabbage with some seasoning but they served it with some bread that was dipped in eggs and then cooked-exactly like French toast but not sweet. I loved it. Hungarians love bread and there are little bakeries everywhere. They are called pékség and they are very...tempting. There is a lot more nutella and hazelnut things here than in the U.S. A lot of the pékség has nutella in it. There are little chinese restaurants everywhere, which is something that surprised me when I came. I think the very first night I was in my area I had chinese food. They are all the same, I think. Just a little buffet where you pick out some things and then they put it on a plate, weigh it to get the price, microwave it right in front of you, and then serve it to you. the first half is delicious, and then the rest puts your daily sodium levels at about 6000%.
> Pizza is really common here, and it's good but it's different. The sauce is a little bitter (like yours Mom, no offence). And instead of pepporoni they use Hungarian sausage usually that is basically like pepporoni but again, more bitter-tasting. I guess they make burgers here out of pork rather than ground beef. I've had it and it was delicious. This past week the elders convinced us to try the chicken wagon. It was a little risky, but it turned out pretty well. We got some cheap roles from the pékség, rotisserie chicken from the wagon, and some fruit from a fruit-stand. It was a great lunch.
> As for what I eat every day, I usually have yoghurt and granola, oatmeal, eggs, salad, or burritos (I use tortillas that are made in Belgium) and this past week I made pancakes a lot. I had to buy baking powder in little packets and I had no idea which packets were baking pwdr so I just bought one of each. Luckily I chose the right one in the end. :) The Hungarian version of sour cream is really good and I actually like it way more than the American one. There is a dessert that is very Hungarian called türö rüdi (or something like that) and it's super good. You have to keep it refrigerated, so you eat it cold and it is like ricotta cheese with chocolate on the outside and sometimes filling in the middle. It's delicious. In general things are less sweet here, not salty when you want them to be, and too salty when you'd rather not have it be. :) But all in all, it's pretty good. Let me know if you have any specific questions and I'll try to answer.
> Things are good here in Hungary, I hope all is well with you. Take care and God Bless!
> Naegle nővér

Hermana Naegle: perdón para no mandando una correo ayer

Subject: perdón para no mandando una correo ayer

hola! sorry for not emailing you yesterday. I have been transfered to Puerto Vallarta and its super hot! and I absolutely love my new companion her name is hna. Alaracon. she thinks I'm hilarious because I told her that my favorite food from mexico are the refried beans and apparetnly I make a lot of concerned faces. She super sweet and I really think she'll be able to help me a lot with my español.

Valeria got baptised and then they moved me! and we had a nother baptism coming  up to that I was super excited for. But I have prayed to feel peace about the transfer and I have to say I really do feel like I'm supposed to be here in Vallarta. its very far away from the part of Mexico that I know and I have to start all over again to learn streets and stuff but I'm confident in myself. 

we traveld to vallarta form Jalisco in a very large bus that was super comfortable and it took five hours but I got in a nap and got to know my companion a bit better and an Elder gave us a history lesson about mexico and the united states but I wasn't really listening.... 

My goal this week is to get a better handle on the ''tú'' form in spanish because you use it to pray and I've been mixing the usted form with the tu form and I sound silly so thats my goal this week. Its hard becasue we're supposed to use the Usted form when we talk to people and the tu form when we pray. 

Katelyn I hope you dog biten hand feels better.

Jordan the pictures you sent me of the car didn't load if you want to try and send them again. your story was super interesting and I'm so proud of you for sticking to your dream of getting a car and actually accomplishing it!!

Josh your pictures for prom were sweet and yes your date is gorgeous! I'm so happy that your having so much fun this year! 

Mikeala be happy! and be nice to mom. I love you.

Mariah I hear your playing soccer thats so fun! that last time I played soccer my companion got knocked out for about 2 minutes and then we went to the hospital... so be careful. (Oh Hna. Wagner banned soccer becasue of this incident)  

Jared I have no idea how mary poppins was able to pull so much stuff out of her bag I think it had something to do with a green screen...

Jacob how are you? I'm so glad you're my little brother I love you so much.

Madelyn stay cute and small for when I get home. 

Mom my stress is much better. I'm going to start jumproping to get my blood pumping. My new house is sweet! and we have hot water! the down side to this is that I now live in vallarta where its super hot and I'm pretty sure I'm going to want to take cold showers now haha. Oh well. I got to see the ocean when we drove past it and its gorgeous but we aren't close to it so I don't think I'll be able to actually visit it while I'm here. 

I have lot of pictures to send but I don't have time today so I'll try and send them next week. 

 So many of the kind people in my last area gave me gifts when I told them I was leavin gI was super touched by their love for me. and I so cried when I said good by to my  people. 

Anyways I love you all so so so so so much!

Hna. Naegle

Naegle Nover: It was a good one

Subject: It was a good one

Hello,

Today was another transfer so we had p-day today instead of Monday. So it's been a very long week, but a good one. We had zone conference and I had a very good experience. As a companionship we decided to apply the insights we gained from conference and lo and behold, the next day was the best day I have had so far on my mission. We tracted into this lady named Rozsália, who wouldn't let us in at first but then when she realized that we the church of the "last days" she motioned for us to come in. She told us that she believes these are the last days. She said that she was going to take a nap, but something told her to get up and go to the doctor, so she got up and then we knocked on her door. She got teary-eyed when my companion prayed for her, loved the Book of Mormon, and, when she found out what time church was, she said that she would come instead of going to the piac. Then she went around with us trying to get her neighbors to let us in, but no one answered. Then that evening we had our first lesson with a woman from English class who I have wanted to teach forever! She is so nice and full of light already. Her name is Edit and she told us that she had been scared to come to class, but the first time she came Sis. Curtin said the opening prayer and thanked Heavenly Father for helping everyone come and she said that she felt something during the prayer and that it was for her. She said she had heard lots of weird things about Mormons but then she found out that this family blog she follows is actually a Mormon family and she couldn't believe how normal they were. She talked about how we are always smiling and she was willing to pray during the first lesson and she prayed that she wouldn't be lazy in reading the Book of Mormon. Wow, that's what I want all of my investigators to pray for! And when she came to English class that week she happily told us that she had read.

On Sunday Laci came to church and we were so happy. That's twice in a row for him and it's a big deal because he doesn't really like church. Rozsália didn't come and we were bummed because she had been so cool, but then during the middle of the meeting lo and behold, she came in and walked up to where there was room on the front row. And she stayed the whole time. The members were really nice to her and I was so grateful for that.

I keep having better and better experiences at church. I am less and less afraid to talk with them, and they are very nice to me. I think they don't like my boots because one of the older ladies came up to me and a little frantically kept asking me what my shoe-size was. Then she ushered me over to another older lady, who ushered me over to the coat closet area, and gave me a grocery bag with a pair of boots which, though used, are a lot dressier than the ones I usually wear. Surprisingly, I can get my feet in them and I might wear them next week to show my gratitude but they are super tight and they will hurt. But it did make me feel loved. I know for sure that I will be staying in kispest for several more weeks, if not months. I am really happy because I hope to be able to see Laci progress towards baptism, and Edit and Rozsália and some other people we have met. During the week it can feel like no one wants to talk to us when we do hours of finding with little results, and people set up to meet with us but never come. However, at the end of the week I can see that some really amazing things have happened, and I am so grateful to be here and be a part of this. I hope you all have a really great week. Thank you for your prayers. I love you a lot.

Sister Naegle

Hermana Naegle: hola

In two more months I will be a third of the way done..... weird. we have exchanges coming up..... they're exchanges right? they call the cambios here and I can't remember what they're called in English. its where you might move to a new area or get a new companion..... yeah exchanges is right.. I think.

Anyways....... WE have a baptism this Thursday!!!! Its my first one :) This baptism is really a miracle and a blessing for us. WE have worked so hard to get a baptsim here but we have literally dropped every single one of our investigators for some reason or other except for this one. 

Well I had my first zone conference it was really good. Our leaders really do have the Spirit, I'm so grateful for the organization of the church. Its truly amazing! 

Other things happened too.... but I can't remember them. Sorry. Oh we fit 3 elders in the back of a taxi last Pday.welcome to mexico. Hna. Leija and I had to sit up front. In total we had 8 missionaries in one taxi plus the driver. Its was uncomfortable. 

Sara I got your letter that you wrote in January yesterday! I loved it! I miss chocolate bars and I need some new music I have our ten songs memorized now haha. 

as of yesterday we have 21 progressing less active members. Its really incredible. Even though we haven't had a lot of success with investigators we have huge success with less actives. WE just keep finding new ones! and that reminds me we met LEticia the other day. She hasn't been active for a while because she feels guilty. She knows that its true even though she says she doesn't beleive in the BOM. BUt she's just looking for ways to justify her sins (law of chastity, word of wisdom etc.) WE prayed for her and she started crying. She has a strong testimony she just needs to feel the love of God and repent and come back to the church. 

Speaking of repentance its really such a blessing. Sometimes we hear it and think that's such a mean word but its really not. no one is perfect, nadie! entonces no one can enter the kingdom of God by themselves, BUT! God has given us the Atonement and the ability to repent and be clean again.. .like taking a cold shower, you get to wash the filth away, its unpleasant because its cold, but when your done you're clean and you feel so much better. and guess what you can ALWAYS take another cold shower. WE will always be able to repent again and again because we'll always need to. Its a silly analogy but if it helps you understand better than good :) I did my job. 

Well love you all! 

 Hna. Naegle

Naegle Nover: thumb-times things get "ruff"

Tuesday, which just so happened to be Mardi Gras, which just so happens to be one of my favorite holidays, was the start to a rather sad week. The very first significant thing that happened was that as I was reaching into the cupboard for a measuring cup to make breakfast with, some random shot glass that was in there fell out and shattered. Sister Curtin walked in to see if everything was okay and when I explained she just laughed and said, "Well, it can only get better from here."

She was wrong.

That day we had several hours of finding to do so we decided to wander out into an area of kispest that we had never worked in before. We had had little success for a two or three hours when we started ringing doorbells in a neighborhood. We made our way down the first street, and took turns, as usual, talking to people. In Hungary it's really common to ring the doorbell at the gate and people will either walk all the way to the gate or have you shout up at them at the door or at a window. We approached one house, rang the doorbell, and after a little bit a girl opened the window. At the same time, a large lab-sized dog started barking very loudly. It was my turn to introduce us, so I tried to speak to the girl but the dog kept jumping up (there was a fence between us) and barking and she couldn't hear. I was trying to think about what I was saying in Hungarian, and I absent-mindedly made an attempt to climb up on the cement-bottom of the fence to try to get a little higher than the dog so she could hear me. I reached out my hand in order to brace myself against the fence and I started to speak again to the the girl but before I even knew what was happening I felt a sudden shot of pain in my hand and I couldn't speak anymore. I realized then that the dog had jumped up and was chewing my thumb. I screamed and screamed hoping that someone would help me but when I looked up at the girl she just gave me a "that's what you get" look and then I knew for sure that I was doomed. Luckily, however, the dog stopped and I was left with a very sad, bleeding thumb. At the time I was totally terrified that it would have nerv damage and I wouldn't be able to play violin anymore because there was so much blood that I couldn't see it very well and I was a little bit in shock. But I had the presence of mind to keep rotating my hand so that the blood would drip on the sidewalk and not get on my jacket or white skirt. So I don't think I was too messed up, just really spooked. The owner came out and she was very kind and wiped up the blood with a towel and they
sort of bandaged it up. My companion called the mission president and we were told to go to Buda where there is a very good doctor's office that the mission uses. It took us a long time to get there because we were so far out, and the tram broke down once, but other than that everything went really smoothly. Sister Curtin randomly had hand sanitizer with her, so we squirted that all over it and even though it hurt like the dickens, it was cold so it kind of felt good too. The owner was very cordial about the whole thing and said that she had all the papers to prove that the dog had received all his shots and the wound so far isn't infected and the bone wasn't broken. It hurt really bad the first two days, but now it's just kind of a dull throb all the time and it's not a problem unless I think about it. I am learning to appreciate thumbs now. Every-day tasks like washing hair and getting dressed are significantly slower without one. But my companion is very nice and patient and does all the dishes. So, the good news is that I don't have to do dishes, we got to go into Buda a bunch of times this past week (which is my favorite place in the whole world, except for home of course), and I got to meet a bunch of nice Hungarian doctors and nurses. Oh, and Sister Smith brought me my package that night so I got to open it a few days early.
The bad news is that we got dogged nine times this week and because of all the doctors visits we weren't able to do all the work that we should have. However, we did get to meet with a really cool investigator named Attila who is a fireman. He showed us the fire department and it was awesome. We just started meeting with him and we're really hopeful that he will progress quickly because he met with missionaries a few years ago and was just forgotten until we found him in the area book. We also meet with a super cute Chinese girl who doesn't speak Hungarian very well. So we gave her a Chinese Book of Mormon and it's funny because we're all speaking in a language that is not our mother tongue. The best news of the week is that Laci came to church. We were thinking that he wouldn't because he didn't really like church last time and he feels weird there, but we've been praying for miracles and we left for church yesterday and looked down the street and there he was, walking towards us. I looked up at the sky with a big grin and said, "Thanks!". Well, actually I didn't because we were speaking only Hungarian outside the apartment yesterday. So I actually just smiled really big and thought it in my head.

Yesterday was the best Sunday I've ever had in Hungary. For one thing, I think Laci had a good experience. He had a great conversation with a churchmember, and he really liked the talks. At one point a little girl came up to him and threw all these wooden puzzle pieces into his lap and we all started giggling because it was so funny. And then everyone was making fun of me afterwards because I kept falling asleep but I think it's good for investigators to see that we're all imperfect people just trying to do our best and they don't need to be perfect to live the gospel or be part of our church. I prayed really hard that morning to feel loved by the members and I was able to have two conversations all by myself with churchmembers and people were just extra warm and loving to me, and I knew Heavenly Father was answering my prayer.
So, we had a very poor week as far as numbers go, but we learned a lot and were really blessed in other ways. In the lessons that we did teach, I had the opportunity to lead out in a lot of them and that was a really cool experience for me to be able to actually do some real teaching in Hungarian. I realized this week that I am almost 1/4 of the way done with my mission and so even though the future can seem daunting, I know it's really only a very short time that I have to be here. We went back yesterday to the dog's house and gave them a copy of the Book of Mormon, with a pamphlet and a letter that I wrote saying thanks for being so nice and sending the immunization papers so promptly. Who knows if anything will come of it, but
if nothing else, I will always have some nice scars on my thumb to remind me of my mission and that God is always with us, even during the "ruff" days.

Much Love,

Naegle nővér

Hermana Naegle: Buenos Días, Tardes, or Noches depending on when you read this.

This week has been interesting. We officially had to drop our investigator who was supposed to get baptised last Saturday but because he kept lying to us about the word of wisdom his fecha (date) fell. We were going to visit him again but he conceled on us and then we recieved this text message ''Hermana te amo. Dios lo sabe cuando te vi'' or in English '' Sister I love you. God knows it when I saw you''. A little weird yes. Anyways we're avoiding him.

We passed out the invitations of our investigator Valería Quiñones. She's getting baptized the 13 of march! its not a saturday because that saturday is girls camp so we moved it up. somos muy animado por esta bautismo!!! muchísimo! We got to her just in time too. Her mom is a menos activa y ella was about to participate in her first communion in the catholic church, but we taught her about the priesthood and that to have a real baptism you have to have the real authority of God. Anyways we're super excited!!!! she's 12. 

Thats about it for this week. I'm in week twelve of my training, but in total I will have had 13 weeks before the next cambio because my first one was 7 weeks long instead of 6. 

Well with much love!

Hna. Naegle

Naegle Nover: weekly letter

This past week has been really awesome. I'm still loving serving with my new companion, and we had some really cool things happen to us.

Tuesday was a pretty hard day, kind of gloomy and I was just kind of tired of trying to talk to grumpy Hungarians who didn't want to hear what I had to say. But the day ended really well when we streeted this great lady with three kids. And I could actually understand what her kids were saying, which is new for me. Usually, kids are  super hard for me to understand. Wednesday was great. Thursday we went back to meet with Tibor, whom I mentioned in my last email. He had said his mom would be there, but when we got there she wasn't and we had to stand in the hall for an awkward amount of time because it's against the rules to meet with a male alone in their home. We probably could have justified going in, but we didn't because we wanted to be obedient. Finally, his sister came home from school or something and the minute she walked in the door I had this feeling that we were there for her. We went upstairs into their apartment, and we still had to wait for the mom to come home because she apparently wanted to listen too. I thought maybe Anita (the sister) wouldn't stay and listen but when the mom came she did stay and she paid attention during the lesson. The lesson itself didn't turn out that well because the mom is really religious and wouldn't really let us talk so we were kind of disappointed. But right before we we left, Anita all of a sudden asked us about whether we thought drinking and partying was a sin and how we knew it was a sin. We had to leave, but we tried to tell her that we would bring a For the Strength of Youth pamphlet which is how we knew what guidelines to follow (from our prophet). The mom didn't really want us to talk to Anita so we wondered how we could get it to her.  But the next day, we were out streeting, and we were talking about how cool it would be if we ran into Anita, even though the chances of that happening were super tiny, since we work in a huge city. My companion mentioned that she wasn't sure if we would recognize her, but I said that if we were supposed to recognize her, we would be able to. Not too long after that, I was looking down to avoid stepping in a puddle, when I heard my companion greet someone. I looked up and found myself staring straight at Anita! I couldn't believe it! We told her we'd bring the pamphlet by, and gave her our number. I tried to ask her for her number, but she wouldn!t give it to us. But the next morning we went to drop off the pamphlet, an English class flyer, a youth activities flyer and we were praying that she would be home so that the mom couldn't throw it away. Well, she wasn't home, but her dad was! Which might have been even better because we had never met him and he is not the same religion as the rest of the family so we think there's a good chance that he actually gave the envelope we handed him to her. 

I learned this week that Heavenly Father is watching out for our investigators. If they are supposed to hear the gospel, and we are doing everything we can to be obedient and try to bring it to people, He makes things work out. We had some members that completely forgot to come to one of our lessons and it was very unlike them to do that but it ended up being better for our investigator to not have them there. It is really cool to be able to watch things like that happen. God knows what we need and He knows what they need and everything just works out when you are trying to be good. 

Thanks for all your prayers and know that I pray for you every day. 

Love, 

Naegle nővér