Hermana Naegle: Transfers!

So we did not have transfers! I am SO happy! this means that sister Warburton and I will celebrate thanksgiving, thirteen months, christmas, and new years together! and we celebrated one year the past transfer. SO many things to celebrate. We are planning on having root beer floats with Axel and Rox for thanksgiving since its hard to find good pie here.... Oh hey mom could you still send me those récipes? there are a few members who keep asking me for them. Thanks!

Well our recent converts came to church and stayed for all of it! Angelica came and it was the first time she had come since I had gotten here. Axel and Rox came and it was SO good to see them! they're doing good. We explained to them that there is only one church and that they can't pray to the saints of the catholic church, it was hard especially for Axel because it was his whole childhood and he told us that he felt really confused about all of it, but they are praying to know if the book of mormon is true and as they continue to do that they will become stronger and stronger.

We are really excited for this transfer. We're hoping that Josue will get baptised. he had a pretty big accident on his motorcycle and his face is all scratched up and swollen and he was in a coma for an hour but we are hoping that things progress now. He's a really good friend of the Placencia family and they really want to help us out with him. So he's already got friends in the Ward :)

We haven't been able to get our investigators to church lately but we hoping on this sunday that it will all work out. That we'll at least get Jenny and Josue and hopefully Efren (he's a new investigator we met last week. he's promising we'll see what happens.) and maybe Ivon, (she's also new) and hopefully other future investigators, Maybe monolo will show up again.

Well thank you all for your prayers and support. I really appreciate it. I'm so grateful to know all of you, for all of your support and love that yo have shown me. I want you to know that I have a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon. O know that its the Word of GOd that its here for us to grow closer to Him, its here to be read, its here to be studied. Its not a pretty decoration for the book shelf or the table in the family room. We need to get to know it, we need to read it to understand what our Heavenly Father wants for us. There are a lot of things coming in the future and we need to be prepared, we need to prepare our children, maybe these things won't all happen in our lives but in the lives of our children or grandchildren it will and we need to do our part in strengthening them and helping them grow closer to Christ by setting the example

Well keep Reading and studying! keep praying and following the voice of the spirit. If you feel lost you can find rest in the words of the prophets both ancient and living. if you feel like your trials are to much remember the trials that christ had and then look at your trials as an honor because you get to walk side by side with Him. Then be humbled to know that you'll NEVER has to experience something like He did (unless of course you don't repent D & C 19:15-20) and that He's willing to help you out and to lighten the burden so that you can hardly feel it upon your backs (mosiah 24:14-15).

Anyways I love you all have an excellent week!

Hermana Naegle

Naegle Nover: Cool Experiences...literally.

It was totally freezing this week and I was very grateful for my warm coat. I may look like a Jehova's Witness but I am warm and alive. We did some tracting this week and had some interesting experiences. Sunday night we went on splits with some members and Dóra and I were tracting along in the evening (by the way it starts getting dark at about 3:30 and as soon as it gets dark the Hungarians sometimes get really upset if you ring the doorbell) around 7:00 or so. We got a phone number from one guy and then had no success until one man came out to the gate on the phone. It turned out that he was on the phone with his 80-something-year-old mother who was railing on the phone out of grief since they had just found out that her daughter (the man's younger sister) had been murdered and left behind two children. The man himself was in a rage and at first wouldn't even let us speak because he kept going off about how he doesn't believe in God anymore since God wouldn't let something like this happen. We didn't really know what to do but just kept trying to get a word in here or there and all the while the mother kept yelling over the phone, he even had Dóra speak with his mother on the phone. After a bit he calmed down and apologized and almost sent us away several times saying that there was no point etc. etc. and wouldn't even take our card but finally he said that he did believe in God but that he wished He would give him a sign to let him know what to do. We promptly told him that we were the sign from God and explained how he could find hope and peace and he started weeping and kept grabbing our hands and said he hoped we could help. We gave him a Book of Mormon and a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and a card and he said he wanted to meet sometime in December. So hopefully he will let us in when we go back. It was definitely a crazy experience, especially since I had really prayed to know where to go and when I saw that street I felt good and decided to tract there. We kept going after that but infortunately of the two people that answered one was "cooking" and the other swore at us so badly that when I recorded it in my record I used a lot of little stars. My mouth actually fell open when he said it.

Anyway, our investigator Enikő is doing fabulously. She came to church and she just looked so good. She will get baptized for sure, it's just a matter of time. We also met with Aniko again and she had read so she is progressing!! We had five people in church which was super cool. Dóra spok in church so her mom came and we got to meet her. Dóra's inactive cousin came with her boyfriend and we had the cousin of a member who's dad won't let her get baptized as well as another member's son who we are trying to start teach. So there is a lot of potential to work with.
I just got a phone call from a lady we met on the street saying she is actually going to come to our program in half an hour so I have to run but my final news is that we got transfer calls and I will be training this next transfer. I am a little nervous but I think it will be fine. I hope I can be a good trainer!!

Until next week!!

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Hermana Naegle: We moved!

Today was really long! first we had to go all the way out to the offices which are like and hour and a half away and we had to be there at like 9 o'clock because we had to sign some papers. Then afterwards we had to rush back home, (its really hard to rush when you have to take the bus...) because we had to move all our stuff into the apartment below. Unfortunately when we got back home we checked the cell phone and we had four missed calls from the secretaries telling us that they forgot to give us some other papers we had to sign. We didn't answer our phone because I accidently left it in the house. But we have finished moving and the good news is that we have a washer! the owner of the apartment really trusts us and decided to let us use her washing machine. Its awesome! and we also have an oven,  a very very rare feature in mexico. A lot of housewives are scared of the oven and just use them as another cupboard.

This week our recent converts Axel and Rox came to church! we were so happy! because they hadn't come for like three weeks and we were getting really worried. and we didn't know what to do and then we were talking with them one day and it all came out. they were just feeling a of pressure about all the responsibilities and the members were being a Little bit hypocritical (I'm not sure if that actually an english Word or if I made it up but I think you get the idea.) and they were also trying to have 2 religions (mormonism and catholicism) Anyways we explained it all out and now they are going to do a lot of praying. But they came to church!!!!! yay we were super happy to see them.

The rough part was that our two most promising investigators didn't show up! and they both promised! Alexis told us an hour before church started that she was going to come but then didn't show or nor did she tell us why. We are going to have a very stern, but loving, conversation with her this week. And Jenny, who knows why she didn't show. maybe she went out to her moms house and couldn't.... I'm hoping the best. But they both need to come to church! its the most important part of their progress.

We also had our zone conference on wednesday. It was really good. Our mission president told us that in like january or sometime they're going to come out with a lesson 6! which will deal with being autosuficient. (again I'm not sure if thats a Word in english... in spanish its ''autosuficiente'') . anyways we all really excited. And he talked ALOT about the second coming and told us that we need to read and study all the prophecies because we are going to be living them. which made all the missionaries afterwards to start chatting and talking about all the prophecies. the truth is that it really is close. I don't know if it will be in my life but its possible. The only thing we can do is just obey the commandments and listen to the prophets voice so that we are prepared for whatever happens. The righteous will have no reason to fear.  

We had a cool stake missionary activity this week. They were all blindfolded and had to follow a rope and listen to good/bad voices to try and make it to the tree of life. It was fun and the members really liked it. I wish we could take the credit for planning it but the stake did all of it and the missionaries just had to show up :)

Well thats all the good stuff. Nothing funny or scary or out of the ordinary. I love you all so much!

Hermana Naegle

Naegle Nover: short

Well this week was pretty discouraging as far as the work goes. I went back through my old planners and I am pretty sure it was actually the worst. And that's saying something. But it had its good moments. One night we prayed really hard to know where to go and felt like we should go try a few people from our records. We didn't have any success with them, but on our way back I streeted a lady pushing a stroller and walking a dog. Usually people of this type never stop and listen since they are busy but she did and I asked her if she believed in God, which I don't usually do to start talking with someone. She answered saying that she did but that they weren't religious. I asked her if it was because there were too many churches or something and she replied that they just hadn't picked a church yet. I was very happy because I've been pretty much hoping to hear that my whole mission. So I basically taught her the Restoration really fast and even though she said she was really busy she still gave us her number and her husband's name and we said we would call her in the future. So we are really hoping that we will be able to meet with them. We met with a less-active that said she wants to come back after years of inactivity because she hasn't been felt like the same person since she left. Another lady is the wife of a member that we looked up and she at first wouldn't let us set a day or time to come back but by the end of the program she asked us when we could come back and we are going to meet with her and one of her sons.
So there were some cool things. We also had zone training with a Thanksgiving dinner afterwards. We were in charge of making a fruit salad. It turned out pretty good. The training was alright but what was a lot better (call me a bad missionary) was seeing a bunch of my old companions at once. I guess one of the blessings of getting new companions every 4-5 weeks is that I have been able to serve with some really wonderful friends.

Thanks for all your prayers. Hope you have a wonderful week!

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Hermana Naegle: Make that sound! Worms.... babies....

These past few weeks have been weeks of searching and searching and searching! WE've been working a lot with our Ward lists trying to find all the ''unknown'' people. I know that sounds weird but I cannot think of how else to translate that to english. But it turns out that they either don't want anything to do with the church, they want money, or they don't exist. But we're hoping to finish off the lists soon and that we'll be able to find some part member families.

We have a new investigator his name is Josua. He's cool. The sisters have tried to teach him before but he never had time. Fortunately or unfortunately how ever you want to see it, he fell and busted his foot so now he can't walk or go anywhere and has plenty of time to listen to us. he's the friend of the familia Placencia and they're going to help us out with him. he's catholic but he's never really gone to church before.

Well nothing much has happened. But I would like to comment that Sister Warburton and I are really funny. We laugh all the time. The other night we had finished praying and the lights were all out and we were tucked in bed and chatting a little bit about babies and about how they eat and then poop two seonds later because they're so small and sister Warburton said ''yeah just like worms!'' it was soooo funny, we then spent the next half hour laughing about babies and worms and how it would be really funny to dress up as worms for Halloween.

Also I have an english dictionary thats really funny. and I would like to write a few of the definitions that it has for several words:

Moo: 1. the sound that a cow makes 2. Make that sound!

Snuffle: sniffle

Moustache: Mostache

Moan: a low sad sound

Moth Ball: Ball of moth....

Anyways we were laughing really hard. I've never read a dictionary that could explain to me sooo well what a Word means.  

Well I love you all! I miss you but I'll see most of you in about 6 months. weird. I'm not sure if I want to come home. Maybe I'll just live in Mexico forever and be an eternal missionary!

Les amo!

 Hermana Naegle

Naegle Nover: The Christmas Tree Is Up!

They put up a huge Christmas tree in the town square and today we saw them putting lights on it. It's going to be beautiful!

We had a few programs this past week. One was a girl that I am pretty sure is possessed..just kept staring straight ahead as she talked with us about her interesting theories. We're meeting with here again though...Another was a girl who met with us pretty much just to tell us that she used to meet with the missionaries in the past just to learn English and set up with us again because she was curious but she doesn't want to meet anymore. Sad. And lame.
One day we prayed really hard to know who to visit off the member list and we had some success!! We set up with one lady to come back, another guy wasn't in town but we were able to introduce ourselves and give a card to the family that was living in his apartment, and at the last place we were able to talk with the non-member wife who said we could come back sometime. I am super excited about that.

Something I forgot to tell you about last week was that on Halloween, which is the day of the dead here, we went to see a graveyard in the evening as it got dark. There were masses of people there because everyone goes to put flowers on their relatives' graves and light candles. So everywhere you look in the dark there are lights glowing. It was beautiful. The member that took us (Heni-she's so great and going on a mission soon) had some extra tea candles so she let me light some for a grave that didn't have any. It was fun. We were hoping to talk to people about the Plan of Salvation but it ended up being too dark. We did pass out a bunch of pass-along cards about death though.

So, hopefully there will be a ton of really cool things to tell you this next week. Yesterday night we ran into a lady we had tracted into before on the street and she told us that one of her sons is not a believer (she is very religious, very nice). Although she wouldn't give us his name or address, she did tell us the street where he lives so we are going to go tracting there and try to find him and help him believe. I can't wait to see the look on her face when we meet again...at her son's baptism. Haha! Anyway, hope you are all having a great week. Take care and God Bless!!

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P.S. This week I hit my one-year-on-a-mission-mark. woohoo

Hermana Naegle: more pictures. Im depending on you to put these in the blog and to show them to other people... like dad and the kids

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Naegle Nover: nothing too exciting

This will be a short one. Nothing very exciting happened. Just finding, finding, finding. Actually we didn't really find that many people so it was more like looking, looking, looking. However, we did get a few phone numbers and a guy said we could come back later since he didn't have time then. A very mean man made us leave one of the buildings we tracked. Other than that I don't remember anything. Oh, church was good. The branch seems cool. I don't really like this city itself very much. Yesterday we went streeting at night for a couple of hours and when I got back my hair smelled so bad like cigarette smoke just from walking on the street that I had to wash it before I could sleep. It's been so foggy that we can look directly into the sun sometimes. I actually mistook it for the moon once because it was just a perfectly round reddish sphere.

One funny story is that we were tracting, knocked on a door and a guy yelled, "Who's there?" And we said "We're missionaries!" And he yelled back "I'm sorry". The translation for the word he used can be taken as both, "I'm sorry you are missionaries (I pity you)" and "I'm sorry I can't come to the door (I regret that I cannot answer)". It's not actually something people normally say so it was pretty funny. 

Hope you are all having a great week! Love you all!

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Hermana Naegle: hambre.. no de pan sólo de agua.... (famine... not of bread but of wáter)

This week we had no running wáter in our house. In fact we had no running water in about half our área which resulted in that our investigators all went  to go live with relatives. So we ending up walking a lot looking for new people to teach. And I mean ALOT so much that I now have a constant twitch it my left calf muscle that I'm scared is going to turn into a charlie horse one of these nights or worse in the middle of a lesson!

BUT the wáter returned saturday night and we're hoping that our investigators return to us!

Alexis didn't come to church :( some excuse about her brother... but we'll see her this week and we'll get her to come this next sunday!

We had a surprise new investigator his name is Monolo Flores. He was a Street contact earlier in the week and we thought he was drunk when we met him but he showed up to church and it turns out he's just really weird and wasn't drunk at all.... he stayed for 2.5 hours of church but he had to get bck home to make dinner for his mom (he's a bout 60 years old and takes care of his mom who's probably about 100) We have an appointment with him at 6 today and we'll see how it goes.

I also taught góspel principles yesterday in sunday school. The Ward misión leader told us he wasn't going to be there and I was the one who all the other missionaries volunteered to teach the class, but then the WML showed up and every time anyone asked a question he answered and so I pretty much didn't teach anything..... thats OK becasue I was rather nervous.

Well thats the news for this week... we have another new investigator named Paz (which is peace in english) she's interesting she believes all churches are true but that the catholic church is the truest even though there are things she doesn't like about it.... she's nice and we're going to come by next sunday but she told us that she won't pray to know if the book of mormon is true so we'll see if this goes anywhere.

Well thank you all for your prayers. I have really needed them this week. I can feel your love for me all the way out here in the middle of Guadalajara! I know that this church is true I have a strong testimony of th Gospel of Jesús Christ and that it changes lives. I may not have had many ''converts'' in my misión but I have seen the difference the góspel has made in my life and in my family and I hope that you all can come to know for yourselves. The best way to learn the truth of something is to live it. you don't know the cake is delicious until you've tried a bit. you don't know the góspel is good until you have lived it and experienced the blessings in your life.

 I love you all so much! keep praying! Keep Reading the scriptures! keep paying your tithing and attending church!

Hermana Naegle  

PS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIAH! twelve years old!!!! Young womens! yay!

Naegle Nover: Depths of Despair Oct. 27th

Okay not really, but almost. I got a call this morning telling me that I would be transferred. I thought for sure this transfer wouldn't affect me a) because everyone told me that it wouldn't b) because it's not even really a real transfer, just one sister is going home . But that's okay. I am really sad and I have only heard bad things about the place I am going but I figure that this gospel that I try to tell people about every day of my life is true and if it is then Heavenly Father knows what is happening and has a plan for me and all the missionaries.

Just a quick recap on the past week is that I had a great birthday eating out with some great church members and one investigator that actually invited all of us to go to the hotel where he is a pastry chef and we all got to choose a dessert on the house. It was fun.

On my birthday we met with this family of a man, woman (not married) and their four daughters. We had run into him a while back and he recognized us and wanted to meet with us. They had met with the missionaries in the past and said they had prayed about the Book of Mormon and knew it was true and wanted to be baptized. Which is great, but it was a little too easy and felt weird and they had no questions  when we taught, neither that time nor the second time when we went back on Saturday. They said they would be at church but then long story short they did not come and I doubt they will be getting baptized anytime soon. I think if anything they were hoping to get money or something.

We had another lady who we were super excited about last week but then she showed up this week and said many rude things to us and blamed us as Americans for not helping Hungary during the world war, and also railed about all the doctrine she disagreed with, which is actually doctrine she just doesn't understand because she never listens when we try to teach. Something weird happened to her during the week to make her so different but she wouldn't say what it was. She did break down a little bit after and apologized.

We have a super cool new investigator named Bogi who said she hopes the Book of Mormon is true and that she can't believe how happy everyone is that she's met at the activities and how happy she feels when she meets with us or comes to activities.

Ben said that when he reads he feels a good feeling and an urge to learn more. However, he didn't come to church.
Szilárd said he would pray about a baptismal date. He's doing well.

Well, I have to run, I got a lot of really great emails from many of you and I am so grateful for those. They really helped pick me up when I was feeling kind of down about the transfer. This was the first time I have cried about a transfer so I am kind of bummed but I know it will be okay in Nyiregyháza where I am going.

Have a wonderful week and take care!

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