Morgan Elder in Magyarország

Hi! This week the Cherry trees are producing fruit and its really fun to pick off the fruit while we are walking a long. On Friday we went to a small town called Felsőgöd, it is a 30 minute train ride north of Pest. We went there to look up an lady investigator and to have diner with the Farkasék; and the best part was just eating cherries all along the way. The Farkasék have been members a really long time, Orsi, the mom, has been a member since the 90s and she was one of the main translators for the Book of Mormon into Hungarian, as well as the other standard works and manuals for the church. She joined the church in the United States while she was working as a nanny for a family in upstate New York. After she joined the family she was working for fired her and she went back to Hungary, but later she came back to the States for school. She is the mother of six and is super awesome! Last P-day we went to the "House of Terror" which is where the offices for the ...

Horse Sausage Yup, I bought horse sausage today! Welcome to Hungary. We did get food poisoning this week, but not from the horse sausage. We were poisoned after eating a meal we ate at a new members home this week. Fun times! It’s all part of missionary work. We ran out of food yesterday, so I dipped into my food supply from my care package and we made the Bear Creek Jambalaya from my last care package and we LOVED it. We definitely want more of that kind of thing in the next care package. I'm doing good, but it's been a crazy week, we have been just working and talking to people like crazy. It's been a little frustrating because tones of people have been "dogging" our appointments but its okay because it's just part of missionary work! Speaking of a missionary work... What's in a Missionary's Life? Here's a fun description of a day in the life of a Mormon Missionary, from my companion Elder Fales: https://drive.google....

I'm really glad that I got to see you all in our video chat yesterday! I hope I didn't look uncomfortable. I don't know why but its kind of weird to call home. I like it but it feels a little strange. I'm glad that I got a tour of the house, it looks nice, the dog looks healthy too. It's just good to know that things are going good at home. I love you all very much. I love you Mom. Well, there's nothing really new since our video chat yesterday. The big highlights of the week were p-day, transfers, and a new companion (Elder Fales, he is from Las Vegas, and he came to Hungary 2 months before me), and lots of good work. Everywhere we went this week we streeted and talked to everyone on the buses, trains, and on the streets. We walked to "Kingdom Come" and back. We made tons of contacts. It was great. On the first full day of the 4th transfer and the entire zone went to the heivital to register in our new apartments and afterward we went with ...

I'm MOVING again! Well, I got a HUGE surprise this morning. They are closing the companionship in Kispest, and so they are giving up the lease on our apartment. The Kispest sisters (Huhtala and Christiansen) are staying together. I will be sent up north to Pest, it's really not that far away. It's the same zone. I'll be serving with Elder Fail, he is in the group who arrived in the mission before mine, so he has been out only 2 months longer. We will also have the Zone leaders in our district. So, with this transfer, we have to pack up and clean everything in the apartment tonight!! Crazy! I'm kind of sad that I'm leaving Kispest, but hopefully, President Szabadkai will let me go to Budai Zoltáns Baptism on Sunday. My supper cool French MCM leader, Sébastien This Week in Kispest: We went on an adventure, all the way to Érd. We got to drive into the countryside and see it when it was all green, and it was really beautiful. It really wasn’t that far, but we...

April 30th is six months since I landed in Hungary, I landed in Hungary on October 31st, so I've been in Hungary six months now! Which is six months in Hungary and eight months as a missionary. Which is just crazy, it doesn't feel like it's been eight months at all!! Time flies! It's been a good week, this week we had splits with the Zone Leaders in Pest. I went to pest with Elder Durney. Elder Durney has been here in Hungary for a year and a half, he is from Colorado. We did a lot of tracting but we found a building with a lot of really cool potential investigators.  We also taught a mother and her 3 teenage daughters about the Book of Mormon, and testimony. (This mother has 7 teen aged children! an 18 year old son, 17 year old, 16 year old twins, 15 year old daughter, and 12 year old twin daughters). We gave them all copies of the Book of Mormon and they were all so excited and had so many questions. It was really cool. We also taught Piroska néni (...