Morgan Elder in Magyarország

This week was good. We have been focusing as a companionship to find new people to teach, specifically youth, for the last few weeks and this week we found 3 new investigators (people interested in learning about the gospel) under 20. It is always fun to find new people to teach. 2$ Cotton Candy bigger than my head, so amazing! János had his baptismal interview with the Zone leaders on Friday, and he did well. ***Before a person can be baptized into the church there is an interview with them to ask them about basic doctrines and principles they understand and guage whether they have a adequate understanding of what baptism and membership in the church will mean for them. I'm so excited for him and his baptism, he has grown so much in the last two months! it makes me happy to see him happier This week was very busy with normal missionary stuff but not very eventful when it comes to sickness or travel or weird stuff, therefore, a good week. We served at a Human Rehabilita...

Sziasztok Mindenki! (Hi Everybody!) This week was very busy. Last Monday we went to the Hivatal which is where you go to register for legal residency, and it is like the DMV, so supper fun. After drama, paperwork, and calls to the mission office secretaries I am now a legal resident of Hungary. On Tuesday the Zone leaders (Elder Smith and Elder Garrett) came to do splits with us. (explanation needed) *** Zone leaders are missionaries that have responsibility over a regional group of missionaries called a Zone. Our mission has 5 such zones. Our zone is the southeast one and has about 16 missionaries spread out over Kecskemét, Szolnok, Békéscsaba, and Szeged. Once a month or so the zone leaders will go to an area and help train and work with the missionaries in that area for 24 hours. So for 24 hours I had Elder Smith as my companion, that's why we call it "splits," because my regular companionship is split up and our zone leaders are our companions for the da...

Winter is pretty much here! It snowed yesterday for the first time and the temperatures are in the 30s now. (Don't worry Charlie, you'll get your snow.) Last Preparation day we had a bonfire with some recent converts and ate some good Hungarian campfire food. We also went to a cool World War One traveling exhibit. This week we had some lessons, but we spent a lot of time streeting and tracting. We used the whiteboard in the town square (explanation from Elder Martin's blog below). I hope some of the contacts will bear fruit this week. We were going to have splits with the zone leaders on Friday and Saturday, but we got sick instead. From Thursday night through Sunday we've had a really weird stomach flu, because of that we stayed in the apartment and had a lot of time to rest, study, and plan for next week. Sick days in my former life were sometimes fun, but sick days as a missionary are horrible. I did however have time to watch 17 Miracles (a movie ab...