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This week was really amazing and most of all I was really grateful for our chance to go to Hungary. We had an amazing experience with a member named Marian who is living there from Romania. When me and Sora Getts went on our exchange that day we were able to meet with him. We went over and he explained to us (or to me because he doesn't speak Hungarian or English) how he met the church and talked about his experiences. He started showing us pictures and books and things that he has gotten since being baptized. He emotionally told how his family had all passed away leaving him basically alone and how he met the missionaries and been baptized. Since then he has gone to church every week without being able to understand or participate and has been faithful to Jesus Christ for these seven years since his baptism. He then showed us letters that he had received at his baptism and notes that were attached. He asked us to translate them for him. We were then in the most amazing and unique situation in which Sora Getts was able to translate from Hungarian to English and then I translated from English to Romanian. He listened to the letters and just nodded quietly. He then said that he didn't want to take to much time but asked us if we would please read one more. He said it was from his best friend. We read the letter and it said how proud he was of Marian for being baptized and how proud he knew that God was. He also said that he hoped that someday someone would translate this letter for him. Me and Sora Getts looked at each other and I asked Marian if he had ever heard these letters before. He told us that it was the first time. The letters were written at his baptism seven years ago! I know that God made it possible for us to be there with Marian even after seven years and to listen to him and to strengthen him. God loves him. It sometimes seems weird to me that in this mission we are two countries that are so different but I while we were talking to Marian I knew that it was right and that through this uniting of missions that he was able to hear those letters for the first time. Heavenly Father knows what He is doing and He works through great means to bless individual people. We have also seen a lot of miracles here in Romania. Malina is progressing and is fervently praying to know that the Book of Mormon is true. We have also been working with Cosmin and Florin and Nadia. As well as some new investigators like Maria, Lorena, and Denis. I have been thinking a lot about the early days of the Church and when Elder Cook spoke to us he inspired me to really study about the beginnings. We are making church history now in Romania and we can learn so much from the example of the start of the Church in America. Traveling to Hungary I read "Our Heritage" and made notes in it and applied it to today in Romania. It was amazing to see the similarities! One thing that was really powerful to me was Joseph Smiths's and all the saints's belief that the earth would one day fill the earth. It started out as 56 people and now it really has filled the earth! I know that if we have the faith that it will fill this country. Satan is working hard against us but that is proof that God has big plans! I know that it is soon. This nation will embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Love Sora James

me my trainer and my trainee lol