Hello Friends and Family,

Our week couldn’t have been better, especially to end with a baptism. Our investigator Helga, who we have been teaching for months now went into the waters and it was amazing. It was a day I will never forget. There really is nothing better, than to see the ones you love, change their lives and follow the path back towards our Heavenly Father. It’s just a bit a heaven.

We had a great week full of goodbyes and a few bittersweet moments. Words can’t describe how much I will miss Hungary and the people here that I love so much. It has been a wonderful journey and sadly, my mission has come to an end. But through it all it has been the hardest, best, miracle filled year and a half of my life.

My mission has been the most important thing that so far has happened in my life and has brought me so many blessings that I would not have received if I hadn’t have served a mission and the ones we love. It has been hardwork, but everyday in everyway, it just gets better. You see lives change and Christ Atonement work in others lives. Not only in others, but you begin to see that change in yourself. Christ can make so much more out of you than you can of yourself.

What an adventure it has been! I love this Gospel. I love my Savior. I know that through living the Gospel, we can find purpose in our life and experience a kind of happiness we can’t comprehend. The Gospel is so simple and perfect in every way. I know that we have a loving father in heaven who adores us, and all He wants is for us to be happy in this life. We can get down on our knees and pour out our hearts and he will listen.

There were times when everything seemed to be going wrong and I lost hope, Christ was always there, to lift my burdens and carry me the rest of the way. Even on some of the darkest, hardest days, I always found light at the end of the tunnel and I experienced true happiness. I loved my mission, and words can’t describe how I truly feel, but I know I can say to my Heavenly Father, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” I have done my very best.

I want to thank you all for your love and support throughout my mission. I can’t tell you the strength and hope I recieved from your prayers and emails. Thank you for everything, and for being with me every step of the way. I will see you all very soon. God bless you all!

As for my friends in Hungary, keep going, don’t lose hope and never forget who you are and why you are here. I love you, and I am praying for you always. I will be back soon! Isten áldjon titeket.

Sok Szeretettel, Whittaker Nővér

Meggie didn’t have time to write a letter this week – enjoy some pictures!

Hello Friends and Family,

It was such a rewarding, eventful week!

We had one of the most amazing programs this week with our investigator, Helga. We had planned to give her a baptismal date and felt very good about it. During our program she mentions how she has been praying for the perfect date to be baptized. December 5th will be her special day. We couldn’t be happier. I’m especially excited because I will still be here! We got the sweetest text from her this week telling us that one of her conferences had canceled so she decided to sit down and read 40 pages from the Book of Mormon. She is truly the most amazing person I know.

While out streeting we walked past this couple who was speaking English. Quite surprised, we turned around to ask them where they were from. Turns out, the women is from Cleveland and was visiting for only a week. Before she previously came, she had talked with a girl who had served an LDS mission in Hungary. We got talking about the Mormon church and exchanged information. What a coincidence!

We pulled out the soccer ball and had an aggressive game of futball with the elders and some of our investigators. We had a great game and in the end no one ended up getting hurt. Unfortunately, the next day we were too sore to walk.

Something amazing happened this week while out tracting. It was cold and freezing, we weren’t having any luck and everyone was telling us no. Feeling a bit disappointed, we said a prayer. Heading home I look over at a pink house and have the thought to cross the street and ring the bell. Following the promptings of the spirit, we rang the bell and no one answered. Feeling even more disappointed, we decided to head home for the night. As we were walking, we see this women walking up along the street. We stop her and get talking to her. She knew who we were and had met with missionaries awhile back. She was so happy we had stopped her! “You are always so welcome to come and visit with me. I live just in that pink house!” What a testimony builder it was for me to know that God does answer our prayers and all we need to do is listen, and through the Spirit, we can receive guidance and direction. God is so aware of us and our lives.

We have had so many incredible miracles this week. Even though we found ourselves doing hours of finding, we found new people ready for the Gospel.

I am so grateful to be on a mission and to be apart of the Lords work. I hope you all have a great week.

Sok Szeretettel, Whittaker Nővér

And a big shoutout to my cousin Talon and my best friend Kenzie who get home from their missions this week. I love you both!

Hello friends and family!

Happy Halloween! It was a wonderful, exciting week here in good ol’e Szolnok! We went up to Budapest for “greeny” training and we got a wonderful training from the AP’s, and from President and Sister Szabadkai. After we hopped on the train and headed to Kecskemét for splits with the STL’s. It was great to be back in that beautiful city, seeing some of my old investigators and meeting the members. I felt so lucky to serve again with the one and only, Sister Sholly. We started off the morning with a nice morning run, and had all kinds of programs planned for the day. We were able to set up for an upcoming wedding and we made over 600 chocolate balls. Love was definitely in the air.

We had a great program with one of our investigators who is a 65 year old fisherman. He has the sweetest heart and a rockin’ ponytail. During our program, we felt impressed to ask him to be baptized. He said YES! “I guess I’ll get dunked…can I trust they’ll pull me back up?” What was even more special was to see him walk through the chapel doors to come to church. He showed up in the cutest fisherman outfit, with his fisherman’s hat.

Hello Friends and Family, 

What a wonderful week it has been. On Wednesday, we went up for transfers to meet the missionaries new to the country. They held a meeting for the trainers, and we had a great training provided by the APs. Then we were able to meet our new greenys. I’m the luckiest out of them all, because I get to serve with Sister Withers. She is from Alpine, Utah. She is the sweetest, happiest person with the best attitude. It is a joy to be with her and serve with her. I couldn’t have asked for a better last transfer on my mission.

Since having been whitewashed into Szolnok, Sister Withers and I had no idea where we were going. We got to the train station in Szolnok around 8 oclock at night and we were completely far from our apartment. There was no elevator, we had too much luggage to carry and we had to carry each piece of luggage one by one up the stairs. I was dying. I was asking everyone for directions. We were waiting at the bus stop and a bus comes that I didn’t know and everyone gets on. Everyone is staring at us telling us something, and luckily if they didn’t say anything for us to get on, we would have been stranded. It was the last bus of the day. This guy was nice and helped us with all our luggage and just chuckled the whole time because of how lost and silly we looked. haha. We finally made it home in one piece and had to take our luggage up five more flights of stairs. Sister Withers kept the biggest smile on her face loving every little moment. We slept reaaaal good. The next morning my arms were so sore! haha.

There isn’t a lot of work in Szolnok, so pretty much we have been doing a lot of finding all day long and we have been successful as well. When we got here we only had only 2 investigators. I think back to when I was a greeny, terrified to talk anybody, and Sister Withers is doing the complete opposite. She is doing incredible and speaks so well. I feel so happy and great because we are being obedient, we work so hard and we have the strongest desires to do our best. I am not even thinking about home or what I miss. I doesn’t even feel like I am going home so soon. I love it here, and I love being with my new companion. I was afraid to be a trainer, move to a new area and whitewash the area, but I know this isn’t just me that is doing it. We met the ward on Sunday and they are great and so loving! I have met a lot of them throughout my mission, so it’s really fun to see them all again. What is sad is only like 25 people come to church here, so we will try to fix that. We saw all kinds of miracles this week! We got a few numbers, gave away at least 6 Book of Mormons and had a lot of great conversations about the gospel. Szolnok really is a great place and we went from 0 people to 15 programs next week!! We are getting somewhere!!! So we are excited to see what it brings. We are looking forward to the many adventures ahead.

I just want you all to know that I love this Gospel. Truly, it has brought me such great happiness. There really is no better time, then to push the world away and focus on what is most important. The Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is so precious.

I hope you all have a great week!