Morgan Elder in Magyarország

This week happened, it was good, but it was slow. Video calling my family was fun and was the highlight of my week. No Photos This Week This week we had a first lesson with a new investigator named Aldof. He is very kind, but has some interesting Ideas. It was a more difficult lesson, but when we taught about Joseph Smith's first vision and the Book of Mormon, the atmosphere changed. It was really cool. We also had some good lessons with Gyula and Lajos, both of whom are progressing in their faith. We invited two of our investigators to the baptism on Saturday. It was a wonderful service. One of our investigators didn't show, the other came in, and then bailed, it was interesting.  Our time is limited for finding, especially when we teach 4-5 lessons a week. We had a good amount of conversations with people but it has been more difficult to make those conversations more meaningful and turn those interactions into teaching opportunities. We are going to need to learn...

This week was so fast, its crazy!! This week we had 4 lessons and found 4 new people to teach!! On P-day this week we did something I've never done yet. We went to the synagogue. It's the largest synagogue in Europe. So, most of the large synagogues in Europe were destroyed during World War II, but this one survived. It's really pretty. In the inner court yard there are grave markers of those Jews who died in the Budapest Ghetto during World War II. 80% of the million Jews in Hungary perished in World War II. Almost all the Jews in Hungary were sent to Auschwitz. The interesting thing we learned is how many Jews came to live in Hungary after World War II. Hungary has a large Jewish population compared to the rest of Europe. A decade after World War II they were 10% of the population. This synagogue was build in the late 1700's and the architects were Christians so its kind of similar to a Catholic Cathedral but with Jewish symbols and art. It was super cool!! ...

The Mission Work: The work is coming along! We had a lot of lessons this week, which felt really good. We had two really good ones. One was with a new investigator named Viktor. He is from Peru, but has lived in Hungary for more than 30 years, is married to a Hungarian, so we taught him in Hungarian. He has an interesting story. He's a physicist who went to school in Switzerland. While in school there he met up with a bunch of Colombian students who invited him to go to Prague for a weekend vacation, he went with them and then his new "friends" left him stranded in Prague with no money and he got stuck behind the Iron Curtain and eventually he ended up in Moscow going to school and then he was expelled because they found out he wasn't a Soviet citizen and so he went to Hungary. Interesting guy, and a faithful man. He was Catholic but he has many problems with the Catholic doctrine, church and history. We had a really good lesson with Viktor about the restoration ...

This week was honestly a harder one for me. We did get a lot of office work done, unfortunately some of it bleed over into Saturday, but I think we are in a good place for the rest of the transfer. On P-day we went to the natural history museum, which was my second time there, the last time was with Elder Gable. This week our office work was mostly related to the transfers but I made stationary and a business card for President Hettinger which was new. We picked up a Romanian missionary from the train station because he is going home. We went to pick up Elder Seely who is being transferred, but it was great to see him because he was a former companion of mine, and once again we got to see the missionaries who are going home this transfer. This is my world now. My desk in the office. This week we had some good experiences streeting and using new questions, and we got 2 new investigators from it and a handful of good potential investigators. One of them is an older man nam...