Boldog függetlenség napot! (Happy Independence Day)
Elder Winkel and found a random seal statue in a little town
Selfie with a member named Margit in Hero Square
Just a cool sunset we saw out of our apartment last night.
So there are times in missionary life where things just do not go to plan. This was one of those weeks.
Currently in our mission we have a challenge from our mission president that if a whole district can get an average of 9 tracting days plus member present lessons per week over a 4 week period, that the district can go do a fun activity together for a day. So as a district we have been trying really hard to get this so that we might be able to go see the Red Bull Air Races that are happening in Budapest in a couple weeks. Elder Winkel and I had set a solid goal to get at least 6 member presents but we thought we could get 8 if we really tried. That was until something happened to every single lesson that we had organised until we ended the week with no member presents at all. So we got kutyázott (dogged) 5 times this week, which is hard, but I guess that's missionary life sometimes. It was still a cool week regardless. Also, it just means that we're pushing for even more this week.
Another interesting thing about our work here in Pest is that for some reason everyone that we meet with seems to end up in the hospital. I've honestly never been in a hospital more than I have since I've been here and it just seems like every week we find another person that we get to visit in the hospital. It's kind of strange being in Hungarian hospitals, but it's a pretty cool experience to be honest.
The last thing for this week was that because both of our zone leaders birthdays are around this time, we got to have a little dinner together with them at the branch house where one of the members here made some American chilli. Oh yeah and I got to try homemade madártej (literally translates to birds milk, but it isn't, it's really hard to explain) for the first time and it was so good. It's kind of just like flavoured milk but it's way more delicious. Also, I ate snails yesterday at a members house, didn't taste terrible, but just a really strange texture, not my favourite food ever.
Anyway, that email was kind of depressing and boring, so I hope you all have a fantastic week.
- McKim Elder
Sweet pic from the top of a castle
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