Morgan Elder in Magyarország

Jó napot! Remélem hogy minden jó veletek. Döntettem hogy magyarul egy annyira nehéz nyelv és érezem sokszor hogy, lehetetlen lesz. The work: This week we taught 9 lessons which is pretty good for here in Hungary. The most I've ever taught in one week is 11, but in an the average week it's about 6 lessons per week; so with tracting, meetings, traveling the city, and our lessons, and other activities, it was a busy and fast paced week, and honestly it flew by. We had an interesting experience while tracking. Most of the people we met some pretty hostile, but at one building we went to the man who answered the intercom was gruff with us, but after asking “WHAT DO YOU WANT,” we explained that we were missionaries and what we were there for and he said, “Well everyone’s downstairs right now on the first floor, you can come in and talk to us all at one time.” We came in and there were a dozen and a half people because they were having a building meeting and so we talk...

Well its winter again, but I look forward to return of the spring (catch my Starwars reference) I'm doing good. It's been a busy week and good first full week is Kispest. On P-day we went to the Basilica, which are really big Catholic Cathedral, it was really ornate on the inside. In a case in an ornate box is the hand of St. Stephen, the first Christian King of Hungary, he was born in the late 900’s AD. It is sacred to Catholics. We went to the very top of the Basilica to see a view of the city. It was beautiful! We went to the Parliament building but we didn’t go inside because it’s expensive to go inside. The outside was super beautiful. The walking path around it goes by the Danube and into a place called Freedom Square. In freedom square they have a statue of Ronald Reagan, Hungarians love Ronald Reagan and Americans. One reason they often talk about it because sometime at the end of World War II and before the Soviets had complete control of Hungary, the Ame...

I'm writing this email from a library built in the French Renaissance style in the middle of Budapest. This place is so cool!! On the Monday before transfers, our last full day of missionary work in Kecskemét we had some interesting experiences while streeting with the sisters. We were in the town square getting ready to go steeting and then there was a guy walking by playing music on his phone, which was nothing unusual, and all of the sudden I got this strange butter-flies in my stomach feeling and I looked at Sister Jensen and she looked at me and said, “Do you feel that?” – And in an instant of glances between the sisters and my companion we all knew we all felt it and then without hesitation we instantly knew that we needed to walk away and find another spot, and we acted immediately upon the impression. We don’t know what happened or if anything would have happened, but we all knew that the spirit gave each of us the exact same immediate impression to leave that area and ...

SZIASZTOK!!! I got lots of news so buckle up. First they finally released the announcement related to my mission. Starting on July 1 2018, a new mission will be formed called the Hungary-Romania Budapest mission, which will contain the countries of Hungary and Romania, with Hungarian and Romanian being spoken, and the new mission president will be Hettinger Elnök and he will move from Bucharest to Budapest. The mission will extend from the foothills of the Austrian alps to the black sea, might as well be called the Trans-Danube Mission. Other piece of news, This morning we got our transfer calls, and I will be moving from Kecskemét, to Kispest! Kispest (key-sh-pesht) is the southern portion of the Pest side of Budapest. It is urban, I hear that the area is the largest by population in the city, will roughly 700,000 people. It also takes in downtown Pest and all of the cool city stuff like the cathedrals, and the Országház on the eastern side of the Danube. Also, it was Elder...