Called to serve Feb 2016

Friday 25 March 2016

A busy week, a Temple Dedication.

Sziasztok!

This was a pretty sweet week!
So I might as well start with yesterday considering it was the most interesting thing to happen this week. So yesterday we were able to experience the dedication of the Provo City Centre Temple, which was a super cool experience. It was pretty cool that we happened to be here just over 5 years ago when it burned down as the tabernacle and now to be here all these years later when it gets dedicated as the 150th temple in the Church and the 16th temple in Utah. We got to see the first session which was run by Elder Oaks and hearing him talk along with the other speakers and then giving the dedicatory prayer was an incredible experience. Then the whole rest of the day was focused on temples and the importance of temple work, it was a super cool day, probably one of my favourites in the MTC so far.

Now onto the rest of the week. Tuesday was cool because we had our first real practice at extending a baptismal invitation with our "Investigator" Bertold. Although he didn't necessarily accept the invitation it was still a super cool experience and I think we taught it really well. Tuesday was also Navajo Taco day, which is the single best food to ever come out of this MTC cafeteria. We also had a devotional from Elder Zeballos of the seventy which was sweet.

We taught a lesson in english on wednesday to help a teacher practice being an investigator, which was a super weird experience. But it was definitely much easier than teaching in Hungarian.

Thursday was cool because we had to teach a lesson on the Law of Tithing to one of our investigators, which is a super hard thing to do when you pretty much know none of the words required to teach that lesson, but the pamphlets are pretty good, so we basically just used that. We also met an Elder from Hungary who is going to Finland and he spoke a bit of Hungarian to us and it was so quick that it's kind of terrifying, but I'm sure we'll understand it one day.

The weekends are never the most exciting things but what we thought was going to be like the worst weekend yet because we couldn't have exercise because they were setting up for the temple dedication. But it actually ended up being pretty decent. Also on saturday night our teacher let us ask any questions about his mission or Hungary as long as we could ask them in Hungarian. So we learnt plenty of things from him which got us both super excited and super scared, but we're still all super excited to get out there.

So just a couple last funny things that happened this week, wednesday was McKim Tie day, so everyone wore one of my ties, so I'll include a picture of that. Also we've been looking at a thing called relative finder the last week or so and Elder Römer thought it was Relative Tinder, like the weird dating app thing, so we thought that was pretty funny. Another thing that we found out this week is that the phrase that means "Bless you" in Hungarian "egészségedre" (directly translated to "onto your health") is commonly mispronounced by missionaries (including us) as "egészseggedre" (the only difference is that the e sounds kind of more like an a and the g is slightly longer) which translates to "onto your whole butt" which is absolutely wonderful. Also we found out that the word for "What the heck" in Hungarian is actually one word, which is "Micsoda".

Anyway, other than some weird Hungarian jokes that wouldn't even make sense to any of you, that's about all that I can think of that's happened this week.

Szeretetemmel (With my love)
- McKim Elder

Pics!

The first one is McKim Tie Day!




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