#4 Pest: A Disciple Lifestyle

We went to the city park and heroes square with the sister missionaries on Memorial Day, it was also elder Fales birthday

It was a slow week for missionary work. We had quite a few people drop their lessons with us, but that happens in missionary work. Our Indian man we were teaching didn’t show, which is a bummer because we had a Hindi Book of Mormon for him. Elder Fales and I made the best of it and streeted. We came up with some creative approaches and were able to get 8 phone numbers. We went to teach our investigator from Mexico this week and we were super excited because we got a member to go with us who is from Spain, we thought it was going to be great, and then she wasn’t there which was really sad, but we didn’t let ourselves get down.

We did a lot of finding, talked to a lot of people on the street and knocked on a lot of doors. We talked to a woman through her door who told us a really sad story about how her mother and father died within six days of each other. We said a prayer with her and taught her about how her family can be together forever and she cried. We could tell she was touched but I’m not sure if we will get called back with her.

Something extraordinary happened during an evening tracting. We tracted into an American woman who was from South Dakota! I told her I was born in South Dakota and she was like, “NO WAY!” And she told us her story. She’s lived here for two years teaching English and she lives with her boyfriend from Holland. We got her phone number and are going to try to meet with her sometime. Meeting someone from South Dakota is rare all by itself, but meeting someone from South Dakota in Budapest was crazy rare!

One of the highlight of my week was our splits this week. It breaks up the daily grind a bit. I worked with Elder Surdu in his area. I really like him. He is cool and from Calgary.

Saturday the Dunson family asked us to come over and teach their son a pre-baptism lesson. I brought my awesome plan of salvation cutouts that my mom made for me and the kids loved it. They loved the little paper people and their spirit and physical bodies that attach to each other. It was a hit! The Dunson’s are an American family, the father works at the consulate and is active duty Army. Their family lives in Buda, but we got permission from our mission president to visit one American family per week in Buda. They live in the Buda hills and it is a really pretty area. The Buda hills feel a lot like the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland except the houses are really nice and it’s a very wealthy area. They live in a cool house that is down the street from a really big mansion that is the ambassadors of South Korea’s house and just down the street is a big estate that is the Prime Minister’s house.

Sunday there was a big European area broadcast (közvetítés) with Elder Uchtdorf, it was an uplifting meeting. The stake president talked about the importance of going to the temple. He told the members if they would make themselves temple worthy and sacrifice to go to the temple the Lord would bring a temple to them.

Elder Uchtdorf talked about the importance of being a disciple of Jesus Christ and how we can show it by how we live. I really want to live the disciple lifestyle better than I do, as a missionary, and after my mission. It it easy to be a good church member or missionary and just go trough the routine, but being a disciple of Jesus Christ is more than membership in the church. True discipleship is not just something that you do or look like but something that you are. It's inseparable from who you are. I think the greatest honor is to be known as "a disciple of Jesus Christ."

After conference we went to the Dunson son’s baptism, the American family, and so the whole program is in American and all the American members of the ward were there. It felt like we weren’t in Hungary for a moment. They had sandwiches and cookies and brownies, made in American style, so they were super super sweet and delicious. While we were there we set up lunch and dinner appointments with American ward members, one a week (because that is what we are allowed) for the rest of the transfer.
I love you all, I hope this next week goes splendidly for you.

Elder Morgan.

Word of the week: tanítvány (tahn-eat-vine): deciple