Feasting in Hungary: 2017. december 04.

Sziasztok!
We had a pretty great week. Things were a lot of fun, we were able to meet with a lot of our investigators, and we met with some really cool new investigators.

Last Monday we spent some time with some members from Győr that really like visiting Elder Murphy. We went with one of them to Margit Sziget, I have some pictures of it. The Island isn't as pretty as it was earlier this year, but we still had a good time. And we took some really beautiful pictures of Budapest.

Tuesday we had the weekly phone call with President, which was fun. After that we had a really busy day. We met up with one of our investigators who wanted to give us some food, then we went to visit Ági a recent convert. The member who came with us, Miklós, is one of the oldest members in Hungary in terms of how long he's been a member. It was a lot of fun to work with him and Ági is doing really great. She is so awesome. After the lesson with her we came home, had language study, and then one of our lessons got cancelled. But after that we met with Bogi, another recent convert. She's also doing great. We mostly talked about the Christmas initiative with her, we are trying to get as many people involved in the initiative as possible.

Wednesday was a bit more calm a of a day. We had a few lessons in the evening, but one of them cancelled and the other one dogged us, so we had a lot of time for finding. We went tracting in a building that was full of super nice people. They were all pretty young and none of them formalized us, which is a little odd. We kept tracting, and then we met someone that told us that everyone living in the building was a police officer. We thought that was kinda weird, so we ignored him and kept tracting. Then while we were tracting a man wearing a Police sweater opened his door, and he told us that everyone was a police officer, and that the building was off limits for people. This time we believed him, and we left. After we left the building we found some signs saying that the entire building was off limits for people, so it turns out that the people were telling the truth.

Thursday we had district meeting in the morning, and Elder Murphy made a bunch of cinnamon rolls because it was Sister Huhtala's birthday. After district meeting we had a pretty normal day, in the evening we had English class and a lesson with Krisztina and her family. It was pretty good. Their situation isn't really that great financially, and Krisztina spent most of the lesson complaining, but we were able to share some gospel truths.

Friday was fun. We had weekly planning, we got dogged by a potential investigator, and in the evening we met up with other elders for an exchange. As we were leaving the apartment, we closed the door, and then we realized that neither of us had the keys on us. We had to ask our neighbor to let us out of the building (you need a key to leave), and then we spent some time trying to track down a spare key. It didn't really work out, but Elder Murphy and I had heard stories about missionaries leaving one of the windows open in case they left the keys in the apartment (we live on the ground floor), so we decided to try it out. Turns out, we have had a window open the entire time I've been living in Pest. So we climbed in the window and the problem was solved. And then we locked that window.

Saturday we were on exchanges, I was with Elder Jameson. We had a busy day, we went to Vác, a city about 40 minutes outside of Budapest by train. Most of our day was travel time to the city, the lesson we had there, and then travel time back. It was fun, I haven't been on a train in a few months. After the exchange ended we met with Erika and Attila, who are some super nice former investigators. We talked about the Book of Mormon, had a good lesson, and then they took us to our next lesson (it's a 20 minute car ride). That was super nice of them. Then we met with Katalin, she's doing okay. Her life is hard, but she's doing the best she can.

Sunday we had church and MCM, afterwards we met with Alex. He'd cancelled on us earlier that week because he was sick, but then he got better and we could meet with him. The lesson was good, after that we had a typical Sunday.

And that was our week. Our topic for Self reliance was Show Integrity. They were some conference talks about it, so it was a good topic to learn about. Having integrity is super important because trust is the foundation for all of our relationships. It's really frustrating when you can't trust what people say (i.e. they say they want to meet and then don't show up), so I've learned a lot about the importance of doing what you say you will do.

Also, later today we have interviews with President Szabadkai, which will be fun. After that we are going to visit Parliment and the Basilica, and some other areas of downtown Budapest. It'll be fun.

Szeretettel,
Terry elder

Margit Sziget