Dear family and
friends,
Another week came and
went. Nothing really exciting happened until Thursday, when we took a trip up
to Budapest for interviews with the mission president! We started off our trip
by spending the whole 2 hour train ride behind a huge group of loud, obnoxious
Germans, which was really fun to listen to.
The actual interviews
were really good though, and President basically told me that since the mission
is getting so much younger soon (a lot of older elders are going home, and
we're getting about 30 new ones this summer), I will probably have to start
serving with elders from my own group in the next month or 2. It will be
exciting!
I also got Jason's
graduation invitation, which was pretty cool! I guess I missed the actual party
though... darn...
On Friday, we met with
an investigator who is reading through the Book of Mormon. He is in 2nd Nephi,
and had expressed concerns that it was very hard to understand, and must not be
a good translation. I explained to him that it's actually just as hard to
understand in English, then I told him the joke about the guy who had a BoM in
his shirt pocket and got shot, but was fine because the bullet never made it
past 2nd Nephi, haha. I think it made him feel better.
Saturday, we taught
the Plan of Salvation to one of our investigators. She thought it was really
interesting, but could not get herself to even imagine that there could be a
pre-existance. It made me really glad to have that kind of knowledge available
to me since I was very little, because I never really thought of it as
something that would be impossible! Hopefully she will be able to think and
pray more about it and accept it!
That night, we also
ran into a guy who used to meet with the missionaries. He was a really big guy,
wearing a shirt that said, "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll!" and he was
pretty drunk. It was a pretty interesting, because most drunk people we meet
are like 60, but he was our age, so we could actually talk about music and
movies and other pop-culture things that the kids are into these days. For
example, he asked if we liked Justin Bieber, and when we said no, he threw his
hands in the air and yelled, "Yes! There is a god!" It was a fun
little end to our day.
Well, Happy Birthday,
Jason! I hope you got my letter!
That's all I got this
week.
Love,
Elder Young
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