Morgan Elder in Magyarország

It's been a good week. My wrists are feeling better, they are still a little weak though. Last Monday we went to the állatkert (animal garden, or zoo). It was very cool. They had lions, tigers, goats, and ostriches. The funniest part was that in this Hungarian zoo they displayed the rare North American raccoon. lol! The rest of the week was filled with lessons, tracking and streeting. On Wednesday we went up to Budapest for zone conference (We are the south-east zone, or area, in the Budapest mission. We meet as a zone for training.) which was focused on teaching youth and the church's new Christmas initiative. ( https://www.jezuskrisztusegyhaza.hu/legy-a-vilag-vilagossaga-video-2017 ) I'm really excited to use it this Christmas initiative to help us find more people to teach and to help others serve during this Christmas season. A Karácsony időszak is here! We went to a Christmas market in Pest afterward. It was so cool! It's fun to be in Europe at Christma...

This week was a little difficult, so many of our appointments fell through and it was a harder week for the language. I don’t know, some days are awesome and other days speaking, or even understanding, this crazy language seems impossible. I just need to keep in mind that I have only been here 3 weeks. Thank you dad for praying for me that I will have the spiritual gift of tongues. I pray for that but also for the gift of interpretation of tongues. (Moroni 10:8-18) We went to Budapest for training on Wednesday. We went with my MTC companion Elder Udy and his trainer to the "west end" so he could buy a new suit. The west end is a huge western style mall in Pest, and it pretty much proves that Budapest has integrated into the first world. It is the coolest mall ever. We had pear ice cream which is amazing. Yesterday we met with one of the people we are teaching who has set a baptismal date. We went to his house for the first time (usually we meet up other places). Well ...

This week has been absolutely crazy... But busy and awesome! Let's start with the thing most on my mind. Yesterday was stake conference (regional conference for members of the church in Hungary) and on the way to the train station my bike tire blew out while I took a corner and I sprained my right wrist. Honestly its the worst! I've had a sprained ankle a few times but the wrist is much worse because you use your right hand for literally everything! After stake conference in Budapest we rode back to Kecskemét. It hurt so much and it was so swollen we wanted to see if it was broken. Let me start by saying that Eastern European hospitals are terrifying! They kind of look like slaughter houses, and next to the iron maidens they have scary signs in Hungarian (it also turns out that Dracula would have spoken Hungarian, so yeah!). Okay it wasn't that bad but it was still stereotypical post soviet. They took and x-ray and it was not broken, so they prescribed some o...

I'm alive! So so much has happened! The rest of the MTC was good, I don't remember much of what happened. Monday morning we rode the train up to the airport in Salt Lake. We were supposed to leave at 3 for Amsterdam but the plane was broken so we had to wait around for them to get another plane, it took 5 hours. While we waited we ate at Cafe Rio and we talked to some people in the airport about missionaries and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked with a man form India, a woman from Hungary, a woman from Romania, and a man from Holland. We also gave out some pass along cards.  The flight to Amsterdam was very long and I didn't sleep well, not a surprise. We landed in the Amsterdam airport which is huge and very cool. We had to move quickly to catch our flight to Budapest. We flew to Budapest on KLM, which is a dutch airline. We arrived in Budapest at about 4 pm and the sun was already setting. Hungary is about the same latitude as Maine so it gets dark a lot soo...

Elder Morgan and his district left SLC airport Monday, October 30th, and arrived in Budapest on Tuesday October 31st. The Mission President kept parents updated on Facebook. "Dear parents waiting for the information about your missionaries arriving today to Hungary. There was a delay, so they could just check in a later flight leaving from Amsterdam for Hungary around 2 PM and they will be here in Budapest at 4:15 PM. We will keep you informed." Posted 8:45 am, Oct 31st. So after a considerable delay in SLC they finally made there flight to Amsterdam and then to Budapest and were met by their wonderful Mission parents. President Szabadkai József and Szabadkai Lánytestvér have kept us well informed and posted lots of wonderful pictures. I appreciate this so much. Arrival in Hungary Budapest Dinner at the mission home after arrival This nice comment posted by President Szabadkai The new missionaries with their trainers Ted with his trainer, Elder...