Szervusztok kedves barátaim!
So this week started with a nice rainy transfer wednesday, where I finally got to meet my new companion Elder Stringham, who I had actually heard a lot about already because he served with my last companion 2 transfers ago. We had a nice little adventure trying to find our new apartment even though it was only like 20 minutes from the mission home, but when you both don't really know this area at all and you don't have a map it can be a little hard.
Thursday had our first district meeting with our new district, but it's strange because even though we're in Buda, we're not in the Buda district and instead we have to take a train out to this other city just outside of Budapest called Érd. But it's super cool because now I get to be in a district with my MTC companion Elder Robinson and his companion who are both super cool, so I'm not complaining.
Friday we got to help one of the member families pack up and move all their stuff because they're moving to Turkey in a couple weeks and we also got a new phone.
Saturday was crazy, firstly there just happened to be a baptism of an American girl who is here for a little while, so we got to go to that, which was pretty fun, we don't get to see baptisms very often here in Hungary. Saturday was August 20th, which is a huge holiday here in Hungary, so that didn't help our proselyting, but we did get permission to go watch the huge fireworks display that they have on the Duna at night. So we were trying to meet up with the secretaries to watch it with them, but when we got on the bus it turned out it was heading in the complete wrong direction and we had almost completely left Budapest by the time we had worked it out. So we got off and waited for the bus that was meant to get us back to Budapest, but it was meant to take 35 minutes and it was already 8:30 meaning we were probably going to miss the fireworks that started at 9, but then some sketchy looking bus that wasn't even meant to stop there comes and picks us up and takes us back to the city in 7 minutes, meaning we ended up making it to the river with 15 minutes to spare. Super crazy, and the fireworks were pretty cool.
Also had my first Sunday here in Buda and it was pretty different than Pest, it was actually the first time that I had to go to Hungarian sunday school because we always had to go the English one in Pest and no other branches have one, so I guess I'll just have to get used to it. But we all had to introduce ourselves in Sacrament meeting and it was probably the first time I've ever had to speak in Hungarian in front of a whole bunch of people and I wasn't scared, so that was cool.
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