Happy Thanksgiving! I literally feel like I was just sitting here writing you. This week flew by and I don't even know what to write about. The new awesome family we were teaching got antied and dropped us hard core which was really depressing, Needless to say we have been knocking a lot of doors! Our P-day is switched to Thanksgiving but we get to email today. I feel like I have fifty things to tell you but then I email and it's all over the place and then I don't tell you anything.

Have I told you about Crochet night? The most incredible woman lives in our ward started a crochet night for our investigator Sister M and every week she has a bunch of sisters in the ward over for dinner and then they crochet. It's the highlight of our week.

I'm learning the fine Minnesota art of layering clothing. If I don't survive the winter here just know that I love you all. My companion is amazing and we have been working our butts off. We are so worn out everynight but God always blesses us and gives us the strength that we need for the next day. I love Heavenly Father and I really don't like anti mormon material but I love you all. Love, Sister Szabo

new companion, Sister Smith

Okay I have so much to tell you but no time and I left my sticky note with everything to tell you at home. A lady in the Anoka ward cut our hair and the Elders hair this morning and it took forever and we still have a ton to do. The lady who cut my hair made me promise not to ever go 9 more months in my life without getting my hair cut again. 

 My new Companion is Sister Smith from Riverton. She is great and she is so smart, I ask her deep doctrine questions while we are knocking doors and she is a genius. She is super super concencrated and obedient! We have already seen lots and lots and lots and lots of miracles.

 Did I tell you about C? Well she's great and we started teaching her and she has 2 sons still at home that we are going to start teaching too. She has tons of earrings and tats and we are making plans to turn her atheist husband into not an atheist.

Did I tell you that Jevohah Witnesses are the worst? Because they are. Well I love them because they are God's children but we keep prayerfully picking streets to knock and over and over again we find their materail inside the doors that we are knocking.

There are so many great people in our ward.

Ah I wish I could tell you all the miracles that we see everyday and I have so many good pictures to send you but I have no time. Sorry.

Can we take a second and talk about how I hit my nine month mark this week. SAY WHAT?

I love you all and I promise I will send a good email and lots of pictures home next week!

Love, Sister Szabo

Hello! I'm staying in Andover. Sister Smith is going to be my new companion and she just got done being trained. I'm not sure how I feel about it but like the rest of my mission I always have a lot of aligning to do. Heavenly Father will probably keep me here until I enjoy knocking doors which will probably be never. On the flip side my new sister training leader is in Med Lake so if I play my cards right I will be able to go on exchanges there. 

Sister Melling went to a different church yesterday but agreed to still meet with us afterwards. We had the lesson at the church with an amazing joint teacher and the Elders came. The spirit was as thick as butter. It was the most spiritual lesson I have ever had on my mission.

I raked a lot of leaves this week. 

It snowed.

The mission conference we had was incredible. 

I love the Book of Mormon with all my heart.

I am learning so much from the woman in this ward.

I love you all and am missing you a lot this week. 

Love, Sister Szabo

Hello! Yay for November and for new miles!

I went on exchanges in Shingle Creek and it was the best thing ever. In Shingle Creek there are even more apartments chuck full of Africans than in Med Lake! It was a miracle filled 24 hours and I even got to eat African Food. Let me paint a picture for you. In Shingle Creek we had an hour of finding time between appointments and we knocked on two doors in a whole hour because at both doors we taught a full restoration lesson and set baptismal dates. In Andover we have hours of finding time and we pick numerous streets to knock and go through all of them without teaching anyone anything. No complainants I just wanted that picture in your mind. I also realized that I have only gone to Shingle Creek on exchanges my whole mission.

 Sister M was supposed to get baptized this Saturday but she thinks she hasn't gotten her answer about the Book of Mormon. So frustrating!

Sister J who came to church last week, dropped us stone cold this week. She had just dropped us and we were pretty bummed but we prayed really hard and then knocked into a family that let us come in and teach them about the restoration. I can now say I held a pet ferret while teaching a Restoration lesson! 

We have a mission conference this week and Elder Carlos Godoy of the seventy is coming!

Transfers are next week which is crazy. Transfers mess with my mind. We will see what happens!

Life is good. I love Minnesota. I know this is God's work!  Love, Sister Szabo