We had a pretty busy week this week with lots of good times and more than a few lessons that fell through. We also had MLC and Zone conference, so it all balances out.
Last Monday we played volleyball as a district. It was a lot of fun, I haven't played volleyball since we left the MTC. It was a lot of fun, then in the evening we got dogged and spent some time finding, tracting and streeting mostly.
Tuesday we had the weekly phone call with President Szabadkai, which was a lot of fun as usual. Then we spent some time on the computers in the branch house using Facebook to proselyte and then we went white boarding. The white boarding didn't work out super well, no one really stopped to listen to us which was frustrating. Then we had an exchange with the other elders, I was with Elder Willes and we worked in his area. We had a pretty good time, we went hardcore on finding and found a few PI's within a few minutes of leaving the apartment. Then we went tracting, totally lost track of time and ended up having to change our plan because we spent more time finding then we meant to. It all worked out though and we had a great day.
Wednesday we were still on exchanges, and the morning went well. We streeted an old couple and talked with them for a while, which was fun, but unfortunately they weren't interested. After the exchange Elder Murphy and I had an interesting lesson with someone. We've been using family history to find people to teach, and this was one of the first times someone met with us off of it. Unfortunately, he just wanted help doing family history, and we couldn't really help him that much. We passed him on to the members that work in the family history center, hopefully they'll work something out. After that we spent some time finding, got some food from one of our investigators, Veronika (She's super nice), and later we visited some recent converts, Attila and Dora. They are doing great and we had a great time visiting them.
Thursday we had a bunch of meetings. That was basically our entire day. We had district meeting in the morning, and after that we went to MLC in the afternoon. MLC was a lot of fun, we learned a lot of new things and we got to talk with the Stake presidency a bit. After that we hurried over to the branch house and had a lesson with Zsolt. It was a really good lesson. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon and had a good time with that. We also shared President Monson's talk from April general conference and asked Zsolt to read the Book of Mormon every day. It went really well and he said he would try to read every day.
Friday we had weekly planning in the morning. Weekly planning is really important, and for some reason it always takes a really long time. Once we finished we spent some time finding, did dinner and language study and then we headed out to the 17th district for a lesson with Ági. It was a really great lesson, the member present, Gábor was super great. Ági is doing really good, she has a calling and has been working really hard on that. It was great to meet with her and see how well she is doing. After that we streeted on the way home and that was our day.
Saturday we had a bunch of lessons, which was a lot of fun. One lesson fell through, which was super annoying because we'd already spent 20-30 minutes trying to find our way to the investigator's house. Then we tracted in the area. Budapest is so big, there are so many out of the way areas that Missionaries have probably never been to. It's crazy how many people live here, and it's crazy how few of them we can actually talk to. Anyways, after that we had a few lessons, for two of them we watched the Restoration which went well. It's super useful to watch to review the restoration. It's fun to watch in Hungarian now that I understand most of what the people are saying. After that we had a lesson with Katalin. She's super great and Tibor came with us. Tibor is awesome, he came even though we invited him Saturday morning and he didn't have much warning. The lesson with Katalin went well, and then Elder Murphy and I hurried home.
Sunday we had a bunch of meetings again, we weren't able to do much else. We had ward council, church, MCM, we had a to cancel a lesson which was sad. Then we met up with the Sisters and discussed our zone training. After that we had some time to find, then we did numbers and planned out our training.
Yesterday we had Zone conference, and that took up most of the day. we did some studies before it and then we had some time to find afterward. It was a great meeting and we learned a lot of useful information. We gave a training on Chapter 11 of PMG, giving commitments, and I think it went pretty well.
And that is a super long summary of our week. We also did some self-reliance stuff, this week's topic is Communication: Petition and listen. It was a fun thing to practice. We worked on listening to each other, not interrupting and then trying to help out. It's a super useful skill for missionaries because we talk to people all day. We also meet a lot of people who really struggle with this, i.e. they don't let us talk and we don't really have a conversation. It was a really cool skill to work on and we had a great time with it.
Szeretettel,
Terry elder
P.S. Here are some fun pictures. We live in a 10 story building and we went to the roof one day. We have a great few of Budapest, I took some pictures, but they didn't turn out super well.
Also, we have an exercise ball in our apartment and elder Murphy had a fun time on it.
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