Hello! Hey! Hello! How
is it going?
Have things calmed
down yet with the move? Is there a new, permanent home? What's it like to live
in Utah? CONGRATS TO JASON GOING TO TAIWAN!!!
I don't have much
time, today has been pretty craaaazy and we have no time!
So last week, yes, I
got the package!!!! Thank you!!! I also got the card today too, so it was
perfect timing!! I also got a present or two from other people. One of our
investigators gave me a really nice Hungarian flag scarf a couple weeks ago,
and another investigator gave me a ton of chocolate and a Ukrainian hymn book!
I don't know why, but I have one now!
Also, the city of
Budapest gave me a birthday present too! The new Metro line opened up this last
weekend! It's awesome, you walk into a big, green spaceship on one stop, and
you end up in some crazy kryptonite cavern on the other side of town. I don't
know, it's a pretty cool experience. They opened it up for free for the first
few days, and there were soooo many people down there taking pictures and
stuff. Pretty exciting!
Also, our hot water
started working too! Yes! It had only been a couple weeks!
Other things that
happened last week- we went on splits with the Zone leaders. I spent the day
with a guy named Elder Christensen, and we had a blast. Tracting for hours is
not one of my favorite activities, but we made a good time out of it, and met
some pretty cool people on the street, too.
Then we got to eat
dinner and hang out with the zone leaders and another friend of mine in the
same city, which was nice.
The next day, we had district meeting. The lesson I gave was on "feeling and responding to the Holy Ghost," and so we had an object lesson- I had the mission president stand with his hands over his eyes, and someone threw a nerf ball to him a couple of times. When he threw it, he'd say, "Catch!" and then President would have to try and catch it with his cat-like reflexes. At the end, once he was pretty familiar with catching the ball, he got a piece of candy thrown to him instead. It was pretty fun. Then we somehow tied that presentation into a lesson. While talking about how to explain what the Holy Ghost feels like, one of the senior couples brought up a good question for investigators: "How did you feel when your child first said, 'I love you?'" and that feelings like that are very special and personal, and are from God. I liked that example a lot.
The next day, we had district meeting. The lesson I gave was on "feeling and responding to the Holy Ghost," and so we had an object lesson- I had the mission president stand with his hands over his eyes, and someone threw a nerf ball to him a couple of times. When he threw it, he'd say, "Catch!" and then President would have to try and catch it with his cat-like reflexes. At the end, once he was pretty familiar with catching the ball, he got a piece of candy thrown to him instead. It was pretty fun. Then we somehow tied that presentation into a lesson. While talking about how to explain what the Holy Ghost feels like, one of the senior couples brought up a good question for investigators: "How did you feel when your child first said, 'I love you?'" and that feelings like that are very special and personal, and are from God. I liked that example a lot.
Well, this was a
pretty exhausting week as far as the work goes. One night, I sat down on my bed
right when we got home, and I woke up in the middle of the night with my whole
suit on. I felt like the greenie from the Best 2 Years, haha.
Some exciting stuff happened this week... we had an old couple in the ward invite us over, and they taught us how to home-make nokedli, a kind of noodles that is really, really good.
Some exciting stuff happened this week... we had an old couple in the ward invite us over, and they taught us how to home-make nokedli, a kind of noodles that is really, really good.
One of our investigators
bought us each our own deck of Hungarian playing cards, and wanted to teach us
how to play Hungarian games, which was cool. Also, last week, she told us that
she wanted to get baptized before she ever even met with us, and told us that
since it took so long for me to call her (she had been going to english class
for a few months) and because of "other things" she doesn't feel as
close. We told her that we want to help her get close, and asked her to
consider a date as a goal for baptism. The next day, she told us that if we
would finally let her teach us her game, she would accept the date... I don't
think it works like that. So we are making sure that she wants to make changes
and come closer to Christ for realsies, haha, but she's super funny.
Well, we are trying to
work hard and have fun out here. I feel like we are working harder each week,
and it's cool to see the results, since we are having more people coming out of
the woodwork! Although I've been here for like 5 months, I would be really sad
if I leave next week... which is when our sisters go home... yikes!!!!
k, I seriously
have no time. Love you aaaaalllll,
Elder Younger
1. The Hungarian translation for John Locke's "A Treatise of Two Governments" with my friend Ricsi.
4. Tracting in cool places
5. Us with the main guy who translated the BoM to Hungarian (The Joseph Smith of Hungary). They also taught us how to make nokedli (and he's still undefeated at the stick pull).
6. A guy and his lady friend, we teach. The man is a pretty interesting fella (you can ask Jason for details).
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