Week 4

Thursday, February 27, 2014

these are earthquake circles where is ther is an earthquake you got 16 seconds to run so we pretended like i didnt make it in time but we love these things

Week 3

Thursday, February 20, 2014

I love being on a mission and being a missionary!  Its hard but i love the people and the language is getting better everyday! i love Mexico but i cant wait to get back to the US to get a hamburger! right? idk what else to say but things are going well and i miss my family and friends everyday but their love and uspport gets me through! love Hermana Grigg

This is Sister Burley who is also headed to NY NYC North

Week 49

Monday, February 24, 2014

The first week in a new area is always interesting. Nyíregyháza is good. I miss Szombathely so much. I am learning that I have a hard time saying goodbye. I also am learning that I really like routines. I like how comfortable I was with the area, all the investigators, and all of the members. It was nice. I know that I will love Nyíregyháza. 

But I have to tell you this about Szombathely. So Tuesday night one of our investigators that lives close to us, told us to just stop by real quick so we could say bye. He is the Britney Spears one and I have talked about him tons. So we stopped by and stay bye. He gave me chocolate and a not and told me to read it later. I read it on the walk home and was bawling because at the end he wrote down his testimony. I know he had one because he has told me, but it was just differnet. I know that he will get baptized once he can figure out how to overcome the obstacle that is keeping him from that. I just love him so much. And then later while I was packing B called and was like come out I am here. She got her patriarchal blessing that day and so was traveling back and forth to Budapest so we couldn't say bye during the day. She gest out of her car and goes I had to say goodbye to my soul sister. She brought a cake. How tender is that? Since she isn't allowed in our apartment we talked in the hallway for like 50 mintues. Sister Hinckley was such a champ. I am so lucky to have been blessed with great companions. I just love B so much. She is the one I am naming my daughter after. We were both crying. It ended up being such a teary day.

Nyíregyháza is good. There are some great members here. We also have a senior couple here too, which is fun. We put someone on bap date last night and we are going to start the stop smoking program with him tomorrow. His bap date is for July because he needs to get married and quit smoking first. Him and his fiance were like you are strict but that is really good. (story of my mission with investigators saying that, not all of them. I am only strict with the onest that need it). They both were like this is just what he/I need. haha. oh goodness. I totally was not even that strict with him last night. really I wasn't! 

They had me introduce myself in sacrament meeting and later that day one of the member of the bishopric who asked me to bare my testimony called and thanked me for being so willing and said that I speak the best Hungarian of any sister that has ever served here. and then I said thanks and tried to say something funny back and I said it wrong and he correct my Hungarian. It is fine. life is funny. But everyone says I speak really well so that is nice. I don't think I speak well but whateves.

Ok I love you all tons!

Sister Grigg 

sister daniels and I met up at zone training 2 weeks ago. best day ever. i love seeing my past compnaions. 

When Bogi came and said goodbye with the cake. 

Sorry there is no picture of Sister Moffat and I! We haven't taken one yet. I know so lame. But she is so excited because I am the first of her companions to be shorter than her. She is 5 feet so we are definitely the shortest companionship in the mission, which is funny. We are both super sassy, which has been really funny. She is from Washington and went to BYU before her mission too. 

Ok so my boots broke on Saturday. We went with the elders to an eatting appointment and it was raining and they made fun of me for the 30 minute walk back... so sad. 

Bowling

In szombathely we did a lot of tracting because streeting wasn't very good. never a lot of people on the streets. the numbers we did get never panned, were fake, or if we set up they dogged. 

This was the one success that I say from streeting in 4 months! she is so cute. Sister Hinckley and I found her and I got to meet with there 4 or 5 before I left and she came to church! So prepared for the gospel!

transfers again

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

I am leaving Szombathely. I am really sad. It has definitely been one of my favorite places to serve. Every place has been my favorite place after I leave it so I know that I have been in every place at the right time. I have been on the way west of the country and know I am going to the way East. I think this is the farthest city from the mission center in Budapest. Sad I am leaving because we should have 4 baptisms in the next 4 weeks here.

We had a good week. The six of us missionaries put on this branch program. It was an American night. It was super successful, there was tons of investigators there. The funniest part was that there was tons of American food and no one explained how to eat it Americanly. It was sooo funny to watching them east guacamole and salsa with a fork and without chips. I was talking to one of our investigators and asked where the chips were and he said he got hungary while waiting so he ate them. The didn't know how to put the syrup with the pancakes and every kept asking what you put the ranch with. Then we did rootbeer floats and everyone was horrified when we mixed the soft drink with the ice cream. And the drank the rootbeer plan and asked what is this sweet thing. Oh man it was so funny. I love the Hungarians. I was such a great time to have our investigators mingle with the members and strengthen their friendships.

Then the next day we had so many investigators come to church. 15. It was great! We walked with 2 of them to church. I have been teaching them for 3 and a half months now and it was great to finally get them to church so that they could experience the blessings of that! I just love this cute little family so much and I hope that they continue to work towards baptism. Our crazy prepared couple chose to come meet with us instead of go to the concert because they like the way they feel when we meet. so tender.

Speaking of baptism we had a great zone training in győr this week. I always knew that my purpose as a missionary is to find, teach, and baptize and that baptism is an essentially ordinance to salvation. But I guess I never really stopped to thing that these people literally can not live their Heavenly Father again. Everyone needs to be baptized! And sometimes because we are in Eastern Europe and it is harder to find people who are prepared to then help them be baptized we say we just want to help people to make their lives better. But we help them by leading them to baptism!  It put everything into perspective. That if I truly love these people and desire their salvation then I will do everything I can to help them towards making those covenants with Heavenly Father. Plus it helps me not be annoyed when Jeff's mission has 51 baptisms in a week and our mission has 16 for the whole year so far. It is fine.

Ok so funny. I almost forgot. There is a Hungarian missionary from the Szombathely branch serving in Hungary. I met her before she left. super cute. We meet with her parents. They are so nice. They feed us and the mom knitted us matching scarves. She was trying to finish them fast. The said they would come to church and we walked out of sacrament meeting and she is sitting on a chair knitting and I was like what are you doing out here. She goes don't worry. I got here. Heard the whole thing. and paid atttention. It was good. I just wanted to knit to so i stayed out here. I was like well come to sunday school, you can knit in there. And she sits down and the sunday school teacher was like what are you doing. She said someone said it was fine. The sunday school teacher goes who. I timidly raised my hand and said it did. Oops! haha. The scarves came out great! so cute.

Well I love you all and I hope that everyone has a wonderful week!

Love Sister Grigg

So I am sending home a ton of pictures because I am stealing them all from Sister Hinckley.

These was our both from the American night. our both was about holidays so we made valentines and hand turkeys with the kids. such a hit!

so i made that sign and apparently spelled turkey wrong and instead it said make thanksgiving children because it was some nickname for little children. opps!!

one set of elders made skyscrapers out of spegetti and marshmellows.

we did a puzzle last p day it was so hard

in győr there is this stand called chocolate island. nbd. it is the best.

Week 1

Thursday, February 6, 2014 

boo boos m here safely and everything went alright, i didn{t really cry on the plane, funnily enough i didnt actually put any music on my ipod but its all good. LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH. Until my next letter where i can telll you more!!!!

Thursday, February 13, 2014

P day is today!! its warm here and really nice! thanks for sending off robins packages! oh i forgot to tell you Dallin H Oaks came to dedicate our mtc last sunday it was really cool! love you!

To Mom: 

bahah you need to teach your clase mamma!!!! hahah you crack me up. yes the first day waws probably the hardest day of my life i could not fall asleep m pretty sure i had a   panic attack and it was scary but all is better now and everything is great! but i miss diet coke a ton you know? food is is nt amazing and everything does have cheese i mean really? the language is uber hard! and im sorry i could not get pictures this wekk! i know lame! my companions are awesome sister burley and sister wright we all get along super well and we love our district!i hope grandma is doing okay! how are you boo boo? mexico ispretty awesome all the people here are pretty cool and nice. good luck on the job hunt!!haha thats awesome about kate hanson! tell me all about it! exciting about the architect!!! im so excited to see hwat it will l look like! bahha so my pdays are on thursday! and i hope i run into billy too but he didnt email me!! neither did jenny go yell at them k? thanks for all your kinda words and i loved the letter i found even though it made me cry. i love and miss you and talk about you tons!!! hopefully i will master spanish soon! i love you more than the world okay mamma? always know that!!! oh great now im crying.... okay well i think thats all you can read dads letter too obviously! i miss your hugs and please send me stella and merlin and annie pictures!!! you are the best!

Aww tell sister peterson i say hi too and im sad that i couldnt say goodbuye to her either! maybe give me her email please?

To Dad: 

Hahha i am soo sorry that you are cooking for yourselves now! i loved your email it made me laugh! i miss you and thee first night believe when i say was very hard but i promise you that being here is the right thing for me and i love it and im so gladi stayed! i was ready to come back on the next flight but now i love it! i am in a trio and i love my hermanas so much they are the best! my district is pretty cool as well! what has been going on there? did you put that money into my bank account? por favor mi padre! i love you and i am so grateful for your love and support. the weather here is pretty great in the mornings it is cold though. i dont know if i have time to write one big letter for the blog just maybe write somethings about how i am but i am more focused on writing you guys you know? thanks for the pictures i left my camera in the casa sorry you will get more next week but i did take pictures. so dont you think that it was funny about my ipod i mean come one!! okay so i really regret not taking as many shirts because im already running out and some really dont match my skirts! and i wish i had brought lotion they dont sell any here. so we cant go into the temple beacuse it is closed but we are going into the visitors center soon which is still cool!! how is everyone? i dont actually have jenny or billys email address can you send me it? even though THEY SHOULD HAVE EMAILED MEEEEEEEEE but you know im cool about it obviously. so the language is really hard but im trying. they threw us right into teaching out investigator but we are almost done with our first one. sorry but i do not like the food and mom was wrong there is OHH SOOO MUCH CHEESE in everyhting. but they juices are good so im drinking a lot to make up for no diet coke which i miss so much! oh well

love you and i miss you!

love hermana grigg

Week 47

Monday, February 10, 2014

Dear Family,

We had a great week! We had interviews and went on splits, and then yesterday we got feed lunch and dinner. I felt like a missionary in America :) haha

I was a little worried for this week because we were loosing almost 2 full days with going over to Budapest for interivews and splits (we both stayed in Buda to work with the sisters there), but the Lord helped make everything happen that we needed to.

We came back from splits on Saturday and met with a referral. It was this couple that lives in a village outside of Szombathely, but they came to the branch house. It was one of the best restoration lessons of my mission! The spirit was so strong and Sister Hinckley and I were teaching really well with each other and both the Husband and the wife were feel  the spirit super strongly. They were in tears and were talking about how it is super important for them to find the right and true religion! They want to be baptized so we were able to commit them to a bapdate. They came to church the next day and only stayed for sacrament meeting, but without us telling them or prompting them they said they will get everything done this saturday so they can stay the whole time this Sunday! they taught themselves keeping the sabbath day holy.

A few thinks happened in the work this week that were miracles but kind of pretty private for the investigators so I don't want to put them on here. Such know that the Book of Mormon is amazing and changes lives! I love when people tell us that is spoke to them!

So how much would you all hate me if this was the end? Ok sorry!!

Love you all and Have a great week!

Sister Grigg

Week 46

Monday, February 3, 2014

Dear everyone,

Katie is a missionary!! How exciting is that? Two Sister Grigg's in the family at the same time. She is going to be a wonderful missionary! I am so proud of her decision to serve the Lord. I am sad I didn't get to listen to her whole farewell talk, but it was so fun to hear the sounds of her voice!

We had a great week! One of our investigators got baptized! B. He is 16 years old. It has been quite the rollercoaster teaching him and getting him ready for baptism, but I have learned so much about life and what it means to be Christian. I think it also helped me learn to be a little more patient. But if I am being completely honest I am still not that patient. Rough life. I am working on it. He is such a tender guy and during his baptism the member that spoke about baptism talked about how it isn't every day that you see a 16 year old boy make this serious of a decision. One who wants to follow the savior one that wants to put God first in his life and shows that make making covenents with him. It was really humbling experience to be a part of his conversion process. Looking back I can really see the Holy Ghost at work. Because in the end, it is the Holy Ghost that converts people. All we can do is try our best to invite the Holy Ghost so that our investigators can feel like.

Weather wise it was a rough week! It has been snowing like all week and than yesterday is was like raining but is was froozen but not quite hail. So we didn't walk to church yesterday we really ice skated. It is rough. When we are in a hurry, which is like all of the time. The walking is really hard. But when we aren't in a hurry than it is soooo fun! It is like being on an iceskating rank without the ice skates!

This week has been really neat to see they why the Lord can work through us if we let him. For example we walked with one of the sets of elders to one of our investigators so they could give her a blessing. And it was like a 40 minute walk so we decided to take turns talking to people that we saw on the street. Like every other person kind of thing. It was our turn so we talked to this cute girl and ended up talking for a good amount of time and set up to met with her on Thursday. It was neat to see how our mission corellation meeting ran long so we missed the bus so we had to walk so that we could talk to this girl. The Lord really is preparing the people of Hungary for the gospel. T a different investigator has had 2 bap dates and it currently praying about his third. I have been fortunate to teach him the whole time he has been an investigator and looking back the past 3 months with him it is amazing to see the difference in him even if he can't see it. He is just a better person because of the gospel. It was so neat to see him come to church yesterday when a good portion of the members didn't come because of the weather. How neat is that? I am prayins so hard that he will get an answer to his prayers and get baptized in the next few weeks!

Ok so life is great. we are working hard. the weather is horrible but we are blessed with a good amount of teaching. tons of funny things are happening. sorry I can't share them all. we ate rabbit this week! it tasted like chicken.

Love you all and have a great week!

Sister Grigg

Benji's baptism 

there is a bakery called boston pékség I don't know what it is doing in hungary