Well we're another week down on the adventure that is living in this crazy place. This week wasn't quite as crazy as last week was, but this place always manages to throw some surprises our way. I'm honestly a little worried about how it's going to be outside of the big city if it's this insane here.
Monday we spent a super cool P-day together as a district discovering the cool little spots of Budapest's Belváros (downtown, I guess). We had to find a new email place and our only two real options were a super old and cool looking University library in one of the coolest parts of Budapest or a place called the Porn Palace, so now we email in a super fancy, couple hundred year old university. Then we just explored the Belváros, saw the Parliament building and Basilica and visited the American store, where I happened to find some vegemite, so although I hate vegemite, I'm going to make some Hungarians eat it, it should be fun to watch. Then on leaving the American store, my companion got hit by a cyclist while crossing the road, he got kind of hurt by it, but he's fine now, so we can laugh about it.
Tuesday we had a really good program with our investigator Dávid, he's getting super close to overcoming everything he needs to do to get baptised, so hopefully he'll be ready before the end of this transfer.
Wednesday we had to head over to the mission home in Buda so that I could pick up my residency card (finally legal, woo). But it was also Mission Leadership conference at the same time, so we just so happened to run into a bunch of our friends (including my last companion) so that was really fun. Then we went out tracting and a random drunk man stopped us on the street and in English asked us about the End times before making us make something that looked like a house with our arms, then started making references to being Nazi's if we don't help people, then told us to share his message about the house thing. Strange man, had some valid points though, probably not going to show people the house thing.
Saturday, was the next time something really interesting happened. So as usual we went out to Vác, but for some reason in the middle of the ridiculously hot Hungarian summer, it just decided to Thunder storm for like 3 days, but it was especially bad on Saturday, we got absolutely drenched. Well mainly Elder Winkel got super drenched because his coat wasn't very good, but it was still crazily wet. We then came back and bought a whole grilled chicken from a man in a truck on the side of the road, good chicken, will probably buy another one in the future.
Sunday nothing too exciting, just Church and then for like the third time this week we got the cops called on us while we were tracting, but that's seeming to become a pretty common occurence now. Yet to have any cops actually come and talk to us, but I've been told by people that they called the cops at least 12 times so far this transfer.
I honestly don't think I could count how many times my companion and I have uttered the phrase "más a világ" (It's a different world) this week, this place is just crazy and I'm loving every day of it.
Have a great week
- McKim Elder
Ugliest car I've found in Hungary
District Pics
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