#5 Pest II: Traveling our Zone
This week was awesome! We were literally all over the place. We went on splits in both Nyíregyháza and in Eger (most of the pictures are from there). We also had interviews which were wonderful and on top of that some good lessons with investigators and some appointments with members to talk about the book of Mormon initiative.
The biggest teaching update is that we had to take our most progressing investigator off of baptismal date, primarily because he is having some questions about the Book of Mormon, and his date won’t work because it is this week and he is not prepared. We will be working with him this week to overcome his concerns and help him have a new goal for baptism.
My split with Elder Gilson was great. It was so much fun to work with him in Nyíregyháza, it was like old times (4 weeks ago). His companion Elder Rathal is from England, he lived in California for a few years before his mission. He's had a rough mission because all his companions have gone home for health reasons and other stuff and so he's had a rough time. We wanted to make sure that he is recuperating. When we traveled back from Nyíregyháza we went to Kispest (we were there twice this week, once for a baptism interview and once for district meeting) so we had a 3 1/2 hour ride on the train and Elder Surdu and I had lots of great talks on the way back.
We got to Kispest about 3:15 and went to the branch house to do a baptismal interview. The sisters' investigator was a nannie (old woman) who was being taught there when I was in Kispest, and she remembered me from when I was there. She is really cool. She's 80, but she's super agile and has lots of energy. When she was younger she was a doctor and when Chernobyl happened she was one of the doctors the Soviet Union deployed to go take care of people. So she has no teeth and heart problems because of the radiation. She's a hero! She's one of my favorite nannies and she'll be baptized in a week.
So, this week I visited several of my former areas and it was nice.
I had my interview with President Hettinger this week as well and it was another good interview. We talked about how they are collapsing one of the zones next transfer so there will be some big changes. This is the last week of the transfer, I hope that we will stay here in Pest, but with big changes around the mission I may not be able to stay here. There's so much change all the time on a mission.
The biggest teaching update is that we had to take our most progressing investigator off of baptismal date, primarily because he is having some questions about the Book of Mormon, and his date won’t work because it is this week and he is not prepared. We will be working with him this week to overcome his concerns and help him have a new goal for baptism.
My split with Elder Gilson was great. It was so much fun to work with him in Nyíregyháza, it was like old times (4 weeks ago). His companion Elder Rathal is from England, he lived in California for a few years before his mission. He's had a rough mission because all his companions have gone home for health reasons and other stuff and so he's had a rough time. We wanted to make sure that he is recuperating. When we traveled back from Nyíregyháza we went to Kispest (we were there twice this week, once for a baptism interview and once for district meeting) so we had a 3 1/2 hour ride on the train and Elder Surdu and I had lots of great talks on the way back.
We got to Kispest about 3:15 and went to the branch house to do a baptismal interview. The sisters' investigator was a nannie (old woman) who was being taught there when I was in Kispest, and she remembered me from when I was there. She is really cool. She's 80, but she's super agile and has lots of energy. When she was younger she was a doctor and when Chernobyl happened she was one of the doctors the Soviet Union deployed to go take care of people. So she has no teeth and heart problems because of the radiation. She's a hero! She's one of my favorite nannies and she'll be baptized in a week.
So, this week I visited several of my former areas and it was nice.
I had my interview with President Hettinger this week as well and it was another good interview. We talked about how they are collapsing one of the zones next transfer so there will be some big changes. This is the last week of the transfer, I hope that we will stay here in Pest, but with big changes around the mission I may not be able to stay here. There's so much change all the time on a mission.
During district meeting in Kispest my job was to translate for the Russell's, a senior couple here in our district, and that was fun. I like the Russell's. After district meeting we got on a train from the eastern train station and traveled to Eger. I've been to Eger for the district activity (cookout) last transfer and I really liked it. We had a little time when we got there so we explored the downtown and the castle, it was a super cool town. I had a good split with Elder Baer, he is 2 groups below me. Eger is probably the most beautiful place I've been in Hungary. Later that night the four of us played risk, which was fun! On our second day we saw a big tower built during the Ottoman Empire, and I asked an old woman we were talking to on the street what it was and she said it was a place where the Muslim religious leaders would climb up and say the prayers from the top of the tower, so Eger has a rameumptom. We had some good missionary work while we were there. We white boarded and I met a Pentecostal man and answered a lot of his questions. It was a good conversation.
We are really excited about how last week went when it came to new investigators. We finished with 21, which is only half of what our goal was, but it is still leaps and bounds better than the last couple weeks. We really hope that it gave motivation to the zone to keep working strong this coming week.
Yesterday, in priesthood meeting we talked about the sacrament prayers and what kind of covenants we make at baptism. “And the elder or priest shall administer it; and after this manner shall he administer it—he shall kneel with the church and call upon the Father in solemn prayer, saying: O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen.”
Something that stood out was the phrase: "...that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son,” it is interesting to me that it does not say that they take upon them the name of thy son. It makes me wonder, if we don’t take upon us his name just by being baptized, then what? I think there can be many answers, but personally relevant to me is that I literally wear his name on me every day, and at this point of my life this is how I take his name upon me. O, how I love to be a missionary!!
I'm doing good... I'm also so happy that fall is coming, the weather has been so wonderful, its been in the mid 20s (68 degrees Fahrenheit) all week. I love Budapest.
Love, Elder Morgan
We are really excited about how last week went when it came to new investigators. We finished with 21, which is only half of what our goal was, but it is still leaps and bounds better than the last couple weeks. We really hope that it gave motivation to the zone to keep working strong this coming week.
Yesterday, in priesthood meeting we talked about the sacrament prayers and what kind of covenants we make at baptism. “And the elder or priest shall administer it; and after this manner shall he administer it—he shall kneel with the church and call upon the Father in solemn prayer, saying: O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen.”
Something that stood out was the phrase: "...that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son,” it is interesting to me that it does not say that they take upon them the name of thy son. It makes me wonder, if we don’t take upon us his name just by being baptized, then what? I think there can be many answers, but personally relevant to me is that I literally wear his name on me every day, and at this point of my life this is how I take his name upon me. O, how I love to be a missionary!!
I'm doing good... I'm also so happy that fall is coming, the weather has been so wonderful, its been in the mid 20s (68 degrees Fahrenheit) all week. I love Budapest.
Love, Elder Morgan
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