New Washing Machine! Entertainment? (June 10, 2013)

• We got a new washing machine finally. the one we had was terrible. it would try and spin around the clothes but it was too tired and just quit. and the draining didnt work so our clothes were just soaked when we'd take them out and it took about 3 days to dry. but our new one is so cool sometimes i put a load in and just watch it for like 30 minutes. que bien. (Mother’s note here: My son is a freak of nature! Haha)

• This week had its ups and downs. But it also included my favorite moment yet as a missionary. There's a less-active woman we teach english to. She knows english well so we just help her practice and we can have normal english conversations. She was baptized in Hungary as a teenager, and has been away from the church for many years and is married to a non-member and has two small children. She told us she had different beliefs now and is agnostic or something. She's the nicest woman ever, too. We have brought up the Church with her and a few times and it seemed like she was somewhat interested again. So one day a couple of weeks ago we brought her a Liahona and met her husband. We didn’t see her for 2 weeks and when we did we respected her beliefs and didn’t talk about the church.  But she began speaking about how hard things are right now. She brought up how happy her old church friends seem with their families, and asked how our parents dealt with us. She was basically begging for the Gospel! We talked about how Christ unifies our families, and she said she wants to return, has always known the Church was true, and can feel the Spirit again whenever we come by. She told us that when she decided to leave the church when she was still in Hungary, she was on a bus and was crying and praying silently, saying "i´m sorry im so sorry i just cant do this", and she heard the song playing on the bus and it said "you will return". it was amazing and i was almost crying the whole time.  She thinks her husband is ready to listen to us as well. She speaks english very well so I was able to share my thoughts and understand well. I remember thinking during the lesson "this is what being a missionary is". It was really cool.

• there is a less active woman we go see, she really likes us around  and she has a daughter who is 17, and we were visiting them and her daughter asked us what she had to do to get baptized...so that was cool. our first lesson with her she had a friend over, and we just were like whatever so we taught both of them. her friend is a catholic but she was really interested and is going to read the Book of Mormon. So now we have 4 (maybe 5) teenagers that are all ready to be baptized. we could totally change the branch if it all works out. we want to give them all the same date for baptism and try and get them to hang out a bunch before. it'd be really cool.

• heres a quote our mission president sent us that i really like; The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

• Yes, Christ changes men, and changed men can change this world. Men changed by Christ will be captained by Christ. . . . Men captained by Christ will be consumed in Christ. . . . To paraphrase President Harold B. Lee, they set fire in others because they are on fire.