Morgan Elder in Magyarország

Dear Family and Friends, I've just got the news: "The Church has recently announced that, effective July 1, 2018, the countries of Hungary and Romania will consolidate into a single mission headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. President and Sister Hettinger, currently assigned to the Romania/Moldova mission, will move to Budapest where they will assume responsibilities for the newly consolidated mission upon the regularly scheduled release of President and Sister Szabadkai. The name of the new mission will be Hungary Romania Budapest Mission. In addition, the Church has announced that the country of Moldova will be combined with the Ukraine, Kiev mission on the same date." President and Sister Hettinger are great people, the combined mission will be a powerful source of many blessings for our missionaries and for our peoples. :) President and Sister Szabadkai *** We don’t know yet how this change will impact missionaries in Hungary, whether they will serve i...

Sziasztok! It was a good week, and winter has finally come! We woke up early to go to ward council Sunday morning, but our bike locks were frozen solid. So we went to take the bus… but it didn’t come, so we walked to church and we missed ward council. It’s been bitterly cold. SO WINTER IS HERE! I guess winter is just this little part right here. This week it snowed for some period of time Monday through Saturday, and today and yesterday have been clear and sunny, but windy and really cold. Not supper fun to be outside, but somebody's got to do it, this next week will be very cold and snowy too. Because of that, we will be riding the train up to Budapest tomorrow for interviews so Szabadkai elnök doesn't have to drive on icy roads. I love going up to Budapest, and next week we will get to go up again for transfers! Crazy! Because of our 9 week transfer schedule it will be my 3rd transfer but I guess if I was in a normal mission it would be 4th. Can't wait to see w...

Szervusztok! It was a good week, we had lots of good work, and we were able to find 3 new investigators this week which is always awesome!! Numbers wise it may be one of the most productive weeks of my mission thus far. My language skills are progressing quickly now, I’m at a place in Hungarian where it’s easier for me to pick up new words so I’m making flash cards to help me increase my vocabulary. This week we went to Hetényegyháza, twice, to look for inactive members of the ward. On P-day we went to a traveling national history exhibit at the city museum and saw the Sevso Treasure . The treasure is roman silver serving platters with beautiful artistry from the 300 A.D. It was pretty cool. We went to a fun priesthood activity at the branch building and it was really fun. We played ping pong and ate hot dogs and talked. It was really simple but a lot of fun. Tuesday, was one of the coolest days of my mission. Wow! Buckle up. We had an early morning lesson with an old invest...

Kedves Barátaim, Jó volt múlt hét. I'm frustrated with this winter. I was expecting more, but is has basically been a Maryland winter, 20s and 30s, occasional snow, that melts in 2 days, its been good for working outside, but it was disappointing, maybe it will get its act together in the next few weeks before march. ***Ted hopes for a much colder and more snowy winter, yes it's strange.*** Any ways, we received some cool zone goals for the next few weeks, this last week was to talk to people who we normal wouldn't. On Tuesday we saw this old man with no legs in a wheel chair and we decided to talk to him and push him for a while. It turned out to be like an hour and we probably walked a good 4 km. I had know idea where we were. At one point we asked him how much farther it was to get to his house, and he said, "Oh, another 5 km that way." We got him over the overpass, and we stopped him in front of a restaurant where there was a guy that new him. So we ...

This week was my 5 month anniversary of being a missionary! This was another week of travel. On Tuesday we went on splits in Szeged. I love Szeged, it is absolutely beautiful, and I like the bigger more urban feel. Elder Biesinger and I had two lessons which was awesome! One of them I shared a scripture and the lady cried, good tears, it was a new experience for my mission. She then gave us 10 kilos of apples, they were the best apples I've had in Hungary. We also had a lesson with one of their investigators, about how precious the gospel is in our lives. I shared with her the parable of the pearl of great price. We also talked about Lehi's dream. It was fun. We went to the lesson with Robi, an awesome member in Szeged that I met last time at their branch Christmas activity. We had lunch at Burger King, and It was so good, but we ate way to much. Robi was astonished at how much American boys can eat and how big the hamburgers were. Yeah, we Americans eat way too much. ...