Wednesday, July 27, 2016

I'm sitting here right now, in a library in Szolnok Hungary, listening to the pouring rain, and feeling a liiiiiiiitle too blessed to be a missionary, thats all.

I'm sitting here right now, in a library in Szolnok Hungary, listening to the pouring rain, and feeling a liiiiiiiitle too blessed to be a missionary, thats all. 

Szerda: szerda we had a little csoda happen to us!! We went over to Margó nénis house who we tracted into like a month ago and gave a Book of Mormon to. Today when we showed up, she had literally read half of it, and took notes, and had sooo many questions for us! We got to teach vissza to her and it was such a cool experience. It is kinda cool to know that whenever we hand out a Book of Mormon, or give someone a pass along card, or share our testimonies with them, it honestly has the potential to change lives.


 Then we went straight to this other investigators house that the Elders had given us because he was in our area. His name is Tibor and he is sooooooo rendes. The meeting was a liitle interesting though. He was just definitely smoking and sipping a beer the whole time, and "ya" by usher and lil john kept going off because his phone kept ringing. Lovely.  But, it was cool because his friend came over during our lesson, and he was like fascinated with us and with the Mormon church. He asked us soo many questions (in the fastest hungarian i've ever heard haha) and was so impressed that we could speak Hungarian. It was such a great opportunity and I think, if anything, we left a really good view of the Mormon church with them.




Csütörtök: thursday we had zone conference in Budapest again. it was alll about our area books (whooo partyyyyy!) but the zone leaders did a really good job, and my mission president and his wife are the most adorable people I have ever met on this earth. seriously they just love us, and missionary work, so much, and they are giving their ALL here in Hungary for the Lord's work here on earth. Ahh I love them!! after the conference our district got to go and see the Baszilika together and it was SUCH a blast.



Péntek: Friday I finished the Book of Mormon challenge that our Mission President gave us! It was seriously such a good opportunity for me to do that challenge. That was the fastest, and the most I've ever gotten out of the Book of Mormon. This time the lényég that i got out of it is that spreading this gospel is the absolute most important thing. I have never noticed how many verses are solely about missionary work. legit the whole book haha. I also realized how important it is to share this gospel with boldness, and with love. and if we truly follow the Lords will ,and plans for us, we will truly be happier in our lives.

 Friday night we got to meet with one of our investigators Polett. she is incredible. Seriously she is just so caring, and so nice, and so patient, and she really makes everyone feel so loved. i am SO grateful for her in my life. 


Szombat: Saturday we had a dinnyeevés with the relief society. (melon party) and when we walked into the party THREE of our investigators actually showed up. Ladies and gentlemen this was a Christmas miracle. The party was so fun, and now there is some video of me cutting a watermelon with a bunch of hungarians screaming at me all over facebook somewhere. LOVELY. haha 

Hétfő: CHRISTMAS IN JULY. have you never heard of this holiday? hahah cause neither had I. but I promise you I am going to celebrate it every year for the rest of my liiiiiiiiife. We had theeee best day on Monday. we drew names last week in our district, and we got each other presents.  I recieved THEE funniest gift from Hughes  that I have ever gotten in my entire life. We went out to dinner to celebrate, and then we went over to Judits to help her with a service project. We carried all these bags of clothes to this nénis house, and it was really cool because we were able to give her a book of mormon, and answer a ton of her questions about our church.

"To him our direction is ever more important than our speed" -Larry R. Lawrence. I read this this morning in my personal studies and it kinda just hit me really hard. it reminded me so much of Elder hollands talk last conference. God is aware of us. he KNOWS were trying. and how amazing is it that we get credit for that effort. Im so thankful to be out here. im going to be honest, a mission is not easy you guys. but it is so important. it is so important to try every day to be better than we were yesterday, and to serve just a little bit more than we did yesterday, and to just continually be trying to become better, and through Jesus Christs atonement is how that is possible. 


SOK SOK SOK SZERETETTEL
Swenson nővér



1.  Tell me about your Pday today...Where did you go grocery shopping?  Did you go out to lunch?
its hétfő in the email!! :)

2.  How far do you run when you run?
uhm we only have 30 minutes so usually like 3 miles!

3.  Do you love how Hungarian sounds when you sing hymns?
yes i never ever want to sing hyms in english again haha

4.  How many more weeks until your next transfer?
3 more ahhhh

5.  Would you like a hymn book with guitar chords?
that would be sooooo cool :)

6.  Where is Greenwood going to school after her mission?
BYU BYU BYUUUUUUUU

7.  Do you write in your journal every day?
haha maid nem... 
8.  How is your shoe situation?  Do you need new ones?
the ones i got a little while ago are holding up, i might need some new ones soon!
9.  What would you say is Hungary's favorite sport?
definitely soccer!
10.,  Did you know that you have really cute hands?  I remember thinking that when you were just a baby, and they stayed that way all the way growing up.
hahaha thank you!!

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

hallostok csillagaim, hogy vagytok? sok mindent csináltunk ezen a héten. (translation: hallostok stars, how are you? We did a lot of things this week.)

Hallostok csillagaim, hogy vagytok? sok mindent csináltunk ezen a héten.  Holy what a fast week. ahhh the time is beginning to go by so fast here and its kinddda low key freaking me out! 

Szerda: We went and visited the Németék this week. the family consists of  a dad and two sons. they've been having a really hard time lately because the mother just passed away. We went and shared with them a message of hope, and just overall happiness. I seriously am so thankful for the knowledge I have of this gospel. how cool is it that we know that families can be together forever, and how cool is the actual fact that FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER. That is my favvvvvorite thing to tell people here! Anyway it went really well. But, one problem is that the dad, is literally the hardest person to understand in the whole world. hahah its hilarrriiouus. He sometimes says prayers in sacrament and everyone kinda just looks around, and prays that someone catches him saying "amen" so that everyone else can join in. ahhhh gotta love hungarian.



Csütörtök and Péntek: splits splits spliiiiiiits in 
Kispest. The STLs got a brand new apartment and we were the first sisters to do splits in it, So ooooobbbviously we bought them a house warming succulent. It was incredible haha. I went on splits with Willets again and we went to thee most eccentric nénis house.  The only way I can describe her is as a little fairy! She fed us yummy food then we raced off to another lesson with József, who Withers  taught before. I've heard tons about him so it was so fun to meet him! We then taught Angol óra (english class) and I said the opening prayer and they all said my hungarian pronunciation was so good :') THATS THE NICEST THING ANYONE  HAS EVER SAID TO ME IN MY LIFE haha.



Szombat: Holy best day! Saturday was the big "sport nap" buli in Békéscsaba and it was so much fun. we all crammed into this little "bus" that the branch rented. I got to sit by Judit the whole way up and she is honestly probably my favorite person to exist on earth. We got to see tons of our missionarz friends and spend the day with them! We went to lunch, and got gyros táls that were GIGANTIC, and delicious.  We then played jeopardy, and then, President and Sister Szabadkai showed up and we went on a tour of Békéscsaba. SUCH a beautiful place. Richi and I (a member in békés who literally planned the whole buli) talked and decided I need to serve in Békéscsaba. Haha so hopefully President gets on board with that as well ;)





Everybody go read Elder Hollands talk "cast not away therefore your confidence" again okay? I promise you will never be more spiritually pumped in your entire life!! I love you ALL. Seriously. Don't forget about this missionary over here in Szolnok Hungary!!!!!!!!!

Hiányzol nekem, és nagyon szeretlek titiket! (translation:  I miss you and love you very much.)

-Swenson Nővér 




1.  Pday happenings today?
Nothing too exciting, Just grocery shopping and playing my guitarrrrr

2.  What do you usually buy when you go to the grocery store?
hahaha groceries!

3.  Do you have an opportunity to play your guitar very much?
hahah yes its literally what keeps me sane out here haha 

4.  Does Greenwood play the piano well?
she is incredible
5.  How many people are there usually at your branch?
around like 15? 20?

6.  How many hours is your church?  Do you do the full 3?
yes yes

7.  What kind of building do you meet in for church?
its a little csáladi ház theyve made into a church!!


9.  Do they have pizza in Hungary?
yes!

10.  Did you know that you are absolutely BEAUTIFUL.  Yep, it's true!!
you are the nicest mom!! i love youuuu

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Five Months

Szerda: Szerda we went to ebéd at erzi nénis house, erzsi néni is probably theee sassiest person i have ever met in my whole entire life. haha I adore her so much. She absolutely stuuuuuffffeeed us and then we gave her a spiritual thought, and she let us finish and it was super nice. Then she spent like an hour just grilling us about our hungarian and teaching us hungarian hahahaha.   It was hilarious. you gotta love how Hungarians just speak their mind! The beeeessst.  

After that, we went to a lesson with our investigator Gyöngyi and she is now ON BAP DATE!!!! we are so so soooo excited for her and so excited to work with her towards that amazing day! That night while tracting, we got a let in with this Néni named Éva and, wooowww that woman could talk. She also LOVED prayers so she had me and Greenwood pray like 3 times.  Then we ended up missing our bus, but we were finally able to get in about 3 words and talk to her about the Book of Mormon. This woman has a HEART OF GOLD. Also,  it was so funny because we were just sitting there talking and mid conversation she just got up, and found this blonde wig... and put it on.   Then she just continued on like nothing happened. I LOVE HUNGARIANS.

csütörtök: District meeting was soo great with the Elders. Elder Baird does a really really good job of bringing the spirit during our district meetings. This week we had a "personal interview with God." These questions are amazing and I encourage you guys to take this little interview for yourself and evaluate where you are with your Heavenly Father.
1. Are you happy?
2. Do I love my companion? (or family and friends)
3. Do I love being a missionary in Hungary? (or do i like the life I am living right now?)
4. Do I feel like I am giving my all?
5. What more can I give?
6. Am I proud of myself/ what do I like about myself?
7. What are my strengths?
8. Do I know that God loves me/ do I know that God is proud of me?

Péntek: friday we had to go to Budapest. When we got there I got to see President  and my comp and I had little impromptu interviews with him.   haha and GUESS WHAT? I had my first interview with President in alll hungarian!!! I was so happy about that little win in my week haha hungarian is HARD you guys! but it was really cool. 






We got back on the train headed to Szolnok and my companion and I were just talking, having a great time,  we were really distracted, and looked to our left, and saw Szolnok passing us by! hahah we missed our train stop!! the next stop was in an hour and a half all the way in Debrecen oh my goodness. We finally made it home around midnight, and the Elders had to come to the train stop to walk us home hahaha we are literally idiots SO FUNNY

Vasarnap: I AM IN LOVE WITH THE SZOLNOK BRANCH. they are thee most caring, patient, and loving people I have ever met. I am so lucky to be serving in Szolnok right now ahhh. Also two of our investigators, Attila and Polett came to church.   On Sunday I had another one of those moments where I just look around and realized, holy cow I am way too blessed. I actually had a suuper cool experience in my personal studies the other day. I had been praying a lot a lot for the Savior to help me know of his love for me individually.  In my personal studies I was reading all about Samuel the Lamanite (my favorite scripture story) and then I had this idea to read a Liahóna article.  The talk I read, I promise, was written for me, at that time. holy cow. the talk talked all about the Samuel the Lamanite story, and what we can learn from it, and then it went right into alma 26, which is my favorite chapter in the whole Book of Mormon. It was such a testimony builder for me to know that the Lord is truly aware of me, and what i'm going through, AT ALL TIMES. even when I wonder what on earth is going on in this crazy country!


I love you all so much! Thank you for the support and kind words, You have NO CLUE how much that means to a little missionary like me! have THE BEST WEEKS. imadkozom rólatok mindig!

sok sok sok szeretettel, 
Swenson Nővér



1.  Pday activities?
we had kinda a short pday today because of the big sport nap in Békéscsaba this week, so just grocery shopping!
2.  Do Hungarian kids have summer vacation?
yes!
3.  What do Hungarian teenagers do for fun?
run around like youths in the streets

4.  Is soccer big in Hungary?
YES 

5.  How many miles a day would you say you walked?
uhmmmmm not positive! probably like 5? 7?

6.  Do any of the Hungarian missionaries have cars?
nope ?(8.  How big is your district?
just us and 1 companionship of elders!

9.  Do you always come back to your apartment for lunch?
yep :)
10.  Did you know that you are one of the kindest, most caring people that I know....You have always had that big soft part of your heart that makes people know that they are true friends.  I am super glad you are my friend...forever!!!
i love you :) mind örökre :)

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

What a Week!!!!!!!

kedd és szerda: SPLITS IN KISPEST. It was seriously such a blast. The sister training leaders are Sister Willets, and Sister Schoendorfer, and they are probably my favorite people alive. I was on splits with Sister Willets and we went to this suuuper rendes nénis house in Budapest, and got fed... best day of my life.  Then we shared my favorite scripture with her, Alma 26:12.   We then just went casually tracting right next to the Bazilika, okay? Haha, I couldn't help looking around and just thinking "I am wayyyy too blessed". 

Next,  Willets tells me that her ward mission leader knows me, and like loves me, and  was sooooo confused, cause how does this random ward mission leader in Kispest Hungary know me and love me? Haha, then I totally remembered that Michelle Anderson (Curtain) (who served in hungary) Got me in touch with Láci before my mission. We talked about Hungary, and he gave me so much advice! It was really cool because i called him and he was soooo excited and asked if he could meet me in real life! and I got to go meet him! Such a cool experience! 

csütörtök: We had sooo many lessons this day!! We had one with Gyöngyi and Irén again. Wow the spirit is incredible in those meetings. We got to teach them the Plan of Salvation, and they are really really getting it! I am super excited to see where things go with them! 

We had our first lesson with Polett and I was SO excited to meet her because I had heard so much about her from wWthers.  She is just as incredible as Withers told me! She was the most caring person and asked me so many questions about myself.  She was sooo patient with my Hungarian. After we had our lesson, we went to fagyi  with her, and she bought it for us so you could say best day of my life? i adore Polett. ah. 


Szombat: Literally best day of my mission so far. Saturday was so fun! we started out the morning bright and early and headed over to Erdikas for a "garden" service project...except for, here's the thing.., It definitely was not a garden, more like a forest hahah...It is actually suuuper sad because Erdikas husband lost his legs a couple of years ago because of smoking, and he is basically just a torso on a wheel chair :( It was the coolest thing to do service for them. There was absolutely no way Erdika could have done any part of that on her own! The branch in Szolnok is incredible and we worked so hard! Afterwords, Erdika fed us literally a 5 course meal of the most delicious Hungarian food I have ever had in my life. blessings upon blessings.

 That night we had sport nap again and we got to play soccer with Gabor and his buddies.  This time was probably the best thing in the world. These guys are legit. they are all like 25 year old majdnem professional soccer players and I have never been more happy in my whole entire liiiiiiiife. sport nap. is. my. favorite. 

FOURTH OF JULY: sooooo what do missionaries in Hungary do to celebrate the Fourth of July???? Well obviously we make American pancakes, (none of this palacsinta business), with syrup from the USA :'), and buy a giant watermelon, wear red white and blue, and eat it by the tisza of course. Haha yesterday was sooo much fun. also it made me sooo grateful that I am American.


Kedd (today haha): We just had the coolest experience in the whole world. We went tracting today.  I have been praying soooo hard to find the people who need us.  We like got lead to this random street and knocked on this Nénis door.  We started talking to her but she could not understand Greenwood's Hungarian,  so I somehow talked to her.   Then she let us inside and I literally talked to her the whole time, and taught her, and she just started crying and told us that she had just found out this morning that her sister had died, and she felt so alone and just needed people.... and like what the amazing right? The Lord seriously leads us to those that need us if were just willing to follow his spirit. Agh she is so adorable and  she gave us all of these peaches from her peach tree, and she wants me to marry her son.... hahahah so yes my Hungarian wedding will be next week if any of you would like to join. 

Missions are crazy,  but I am loving every single second out here. Thanks for all of the emails you guys, and all of the thoughts, and prayers. I FEEL THEM. and I hope you all feel my prayers as well. I am so thankful to be here. what an incredible experience to share the happiness I have felt every day of my life, with the people here in Hungary who have never even heard of our church. I AM SO GRATEFUL. 

vigyázzatok magadatok ok? sok szeretettel!!!!
Swenson nővér :)


1.  Do you ever sing in church?
haha yes 

2.  What did you do for Pday today?
fourth of july festivities, see above :)

3.  What is your favorite Hungarian dessert, and, explain what it is....
hahah uhm, gyümölcs leves, its basically fruit soup! soooo delicious. i like the meggy one, which is sour cherry ahh its to die for

4.  Any news on the luggage shopping?
asdfljk stress
5.  Are most of the missionaries from Utah that are in Hungary?
hahahah YES. 

6.  What time are you usually back to your apartment by?
i just finished 12 week so now itll be like 9 oclock ish?

7.  Is this apartment bigger than your last one?  You should send pictures!!
yes yes i will send :)

8.  Do you have a washer and dryer in your apartment?
yes a washer, no to a dryer haha dryers do not exist in hungary 

9.  Are you understanding Hungarian better than you can speak it?
YES. i literally basically understand everything but i can not speak this dang language to save my liiiiiiiife

10.  Did you know that you have a REALLY cute nose?  It is just perfectly sitting on your very pretty face..yep, Pretty proud of that nose from a genetic standpoint!!
hahha hey thanks for the genetics

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

What an INCREDIBLE week. June 27, 2016

Hahahahah what an incredible week!! I dont think that I have spent one moment not laughing with my companion. She is incredible haha also this week was packed of newness so get puuuuuuumped for this email. 

Kedd: Ahh we met with Bogi on tuesday who is an investigator who is actually a media referral.   She is probably the most prepared human being I have ever met. Every single thing we teach her she just accepts right away. She came to church for the first time this Sunday.   Usualy,l the first 15 minutes of church is like basically the worst thing ever for me because Greenwood plays the prelude music.    That means that I just have to go around and talk to everyone and I just know sooo much Hungarian and it is terrifying. haha k i might of exaggerated about the worst thing ever, but Hungarian is hard haha but anywas Bogi was there on Sunday so i just got to talk to her the whole time so, best day.



Szerda:  Soooo i have the coolest investigator named Gyöngi who is legit Michael Jackson. haha ahh i love her and her craziness!! but this week she actually brought a friend with her named Trén to our lesson which is SUCH an amazing thing because that means that Gyöngi is for sure getting something out of our meetings! it was such a cool experience to teach Irén vissza and she even cried when i was telling her the first vision. the Spirit can do some incredible things in our lessons if we let it. its such a cool experience to be a conduit for the Spirit out here.

Csütörtök:  Funniest day of my entire liiiiiiife. first of all we went on a vast hummus search throughout all of H ungary and we FINALLY FOUND IT.  My life is so much better now you guys :') tender mercies everwhere haha.   Then we met with member Gyöngy and her husband Zóli who i'm actually not too convinced isn't a vampire. but he made us amaaaaaaaazing süti 



Péntek: ZONE CONFERENCE IN BUDAPEST. I love zone conferences. it is sooo fun to see everyone in our zone! we talked a lot about Christlike attributes and how we can become better. It was really cool because in my morning studies, I was studying Alma 37 and in verse 6 and 7 it talks about how by small and simple things, great things are come to pass (end quote haha) but i think sometimes we look at changing ourselves as this huge, unattainable tasks, and i just love the comfort of knowing it is by small and simple things every single day that we can truly better ourselves. It gives me SO much more motivation to act, and to serve more, and to love more, and to truly strive every single day to become more like our savior. WE ARE SO BLESSED. 

Vasarnap: if you dont read any other part of this email, READ THIS DAY. HAHA so the Elders have this terrifying investigator who basically put herself on a bap date on their last meeting with her, but the problem is she isnt exactly "bap date ready" We were sitting in Sunday school with her, and the teacher is talking about keeping the Sabbath day holy, and why it's so important.  Their investigator then pulls out this mysterious liquid in a brown paper bag and takes this chug.... hahaha.   We all just like looked around like "uhhh did that just happen?" and like what is one to do when their investigator is casually drinking alchohol during sunday school? hahaha.   Greenwood and I were DYING. So funny. sok sikert elderek. hahaha 




I love this gospel. this church is SO TRUE. if you dont already know that for a fact, go and read the Book of Mormon again, and take  Moroni's promise in 10:3-5. I can also add to that promise that Heavenly Father WILL answer your prayers, and you will know that the Book of Mormon is true. and, if the Book of Mormon is true, Joseph Smith is a true prophet, if Joseph Smith was a prophet, God still speaks to his children today on earth and,  if God still speaks to his children today on earth, the plan of salvation is there for all of to live together forever with our families. isnt that kinda amazing??

SOK SZERETETTEL 
SWENSON NŐVÉR




1.  What was your Pday activity today?
shoooopppiiinnngggg for summer clothes because i am going to melt in all of my collared shirts sajnos :(

2.  Do they like the same hymns from the hymn book in Hungary as here in the old USA!!
yes yes yes!!

3.  What do you usually have for lunch?
eggggssss hahah 

4.  Are you still running for exercise?
yes yes my new companion loves to run!!

5.  Do you have enough clothes for running and Pday?
uhmmm not really!! i might need to be getting some!

6.  Do you ever do service work as sisters? I know that's sounds weird, I know that your whole mission is service, I just wondered because so so much of beau's mission was so much service, not so much tracting.
no way about beaus mission?? uhm we dont do too much service in hungary!! buuuuttt actually we have our first service on saturday!

7.  Is your hair feeling healthier?
haha yes! at least humidity is good for one thing haha

8.  Do Hungarians dress pretty stylish?
haha yah if we still lived in 2005 haha

9.  Are Hungarian families pretty small, large?
suuuuper small haha everyone things im crazy that i have 7 people in my family!

10.  Did you know that I cannot look at a picture of you and not think how you are just glowing with happiness and love? Wow, I admire and love you... So proud to be your mommy!!!
i love you soooo much more!!!!!!!!

Monday, June 20, 2016

Coming at you live from Szolnok, Hungary!! Hallostok a családom és barátaim :)



Szerda:
Holy crazy day! we are doing transfers now at the mission home, which is really nice because you get to see everyone, but then super hard because you have to drag your luggage around everywhere! and that prooobably wouldnt have been too bad, but just because my name is Lindsi Swenson, my suitcase decided to totally break and just imagine how much fun that was!!! Seriously don't even worry i LOVE carrying 50 pound suitcases through Budapest yay!!! 

Transfers were so much fun to see and meet everyone in the mission. i have heard soo much about everyone and so it was super fun to actually meet them in real life! Haha,  after that, we went to lunch with Thomas Elder who was in my MTC group whom I just adore.   Then we headed off to Szolnok! Okay so everybody says that Szolnok is not the prettiest city in the whole world, but they are wrooooong and everyone needs to stop hating on Szolnok because it is the cutest little city, and I seriously love it here!!


Csütörtök:
We met with our WML Tibor and he is the nicest guy. he is suuuuper helpful with our missionary work too and that is awesome because our new thing in the mission is getting members present to every single lesson. After meeting tibor he took us to the tiszavirág festival. the festival is in honor of the bugs that "flower" (virág means flower) on the tisza and are only alive for one day of the year. We got to talk to this drunk néni allllll about it, so that was exciting haha.   Then i got to try my first Kürtös Kalács and its probably the reason I am going to stay in Hungary for the rest of my life. SO GOOD.


Péntek:
Friday we had our first district meeting, We all brought our pictures and introduced ourselves. Greenwood nővér is adorable!!! She is the most chill human being I have ever met and she is super easy to get along with. We are going to have SO much fun this transfer! She is from New Mexico and is 21 and she went to BYU for a year before the mish :) Elder Hughes and Baird are both from utah and super great guys!



Vasárnap:
So the Szolnok branch already has my heart. Oh my gosh the members here are just amazing. It was so fun to meet everyone that I have heard SO much about from Withers Nővér!! This branch is suuuper rendes and so willing to help us out in our missionary work. seriously i feel way too blessed to be here!! I got to bear my testimony/introduce myself as well and everyone LOVED when I said I have a twin haha Hungarians always think that is the coolest thing. 

After church we got to go teach SANDOR. ahhhhh im obsessed with sandor. he is a 52 year old man and Withers found him and he was just baptized and his daughter Judit is 18 and i just love them all so much already. Sandor made us meggy gyümölcs leves which was delicious, and I wish that you all could meet him and that I could do him ANY justice by describing him ahhh. 

Sunday night we were doing dinner with the elders and we had to make peanut butter cookies really fast because who shows up to district dinner without peanut butter cookies right?? Anywho, we tried to make them... TRIED being the key word haha. Greenwood accidentally put them in the oven with the cutting board... and we kinda.. melted the cutting board... and it was kinda a disaster. haha but do not fret we took at knife to the dried melted plastic all night and cleaned everything. hahaha the life of a missionary. 

Ive been reading Jesus the Christ for personal studies and I cannot get over how amazing that book is. Or how amazing our Savior is. There is a quote by Dieter F. Uchtdorf that says "The greatest, Most capable, most accomplished man who ever walked this earth was also the most humble." I Think that is incredible. I have such a stronger desire to be more like my Savior, and to develop all of the Christlike attributes and truly become a better Lindsi Swenson, but with his help. I am SO thankful for my savior.

I LOVE YOU ALL SORRY THIS EMAIL WAS SO LONG IF YOU HAVE MADE IT TO THE END YOU ARE A HOMIE



sok szeretettel
Swens monayyyyyy



1.  So, what do pdays in your new town look like?
today we went on an adventure walk with the elders and i probably got like 14 ticks haha we were trudging through a legit forest but it was so fun!!

2.  How big is your branch, ward?
there is about 20 people that come to church!

3.  Do you know any of the Elders/sisters in your district?
elder baird served with withers before, but other than that nope!

4.  Is Greenwood Nover related to Dr. Les Greenwood?
sajnos no :(

5.  Do you know a Mckay Bruse?  His family is moving into Marcia Moody's house.
whaaaat???? hahaha youre kidding! i love mckay bruse!! i taught the little bruce girls in swimming lessons at oakridge!! you will love his mom!!

6.  How is your knee feeling?
it actually started hurting super bad again but i will be fine!!!! do not fret!

7.  Have you cooked any hungarian food yet for yourself?
yes! rako krumpli and gyümölcs leves!

8.  Does everybody in Hungary have Iphones?
haha not really? kinda?

9.  Any clothing requests?
ahhh any cute dress like the one you sent me!! or long skirts!! summery stuff is always amazing!!

10.  I love how your eyes are totally sparking and smiling in every picture that you send.  You my dear are a beautiful young woman!!