Called to serve Feb 2016

Monday 12 September 2016

Splits and service

Üdvözölöm benneteket!

So my first full week has passed in the wonderful area of Buda and it was just full of wonderful surprises.

  So last monday we headed over to Érd to meet up with the rest of our district to play some games and get some Lángos (don't even know how to describe this one), which was all well and great at the time. Then the next morning is when the consequences hit, all 4 of us in the district ended up getting food poisoning from the Lángos, which wouldn't have been that bad, if we didn't have zone training that morning. So we had to brave the food poisoning and head out to zone training (which luckily isn't too far because we're already in Buda), which actually ended up being super good and none of us were sick at the training which was a bonus.
  Thursday, firstly we had district meeting up in Érd which was super good, then we went out proselyting and for the first time since we got here to Buda, someone actually wanted to talk to us, so in the best Hungarian that my companion and I could muster together, we tried to teach her about the restoration and answer all her questions, but she didn't even take a Book of Mormon, but we did all we could so that's what's important.
  Friday, we started with doing some service for a family that is moving to Turkey, so we got to move a whole bunch of furniture and boxes from their apartment, so that was cool, they gave us some stuff from the bakery as well, so that's always good. Then after that we got a call from the Assistants saying that we need to do emergency splits because one of them broke their tooth, so I had to head out to some teachings with one of the assistants, but it was super good, everything went super well, I felt pretty confident talking to people and he gave me a lot of advice for how to work in this strange situation that we're in, so all round pretty good day.
  Saturday we once again got the opportunity to do some service, this time we headed out to a little town about 20km outside of Budapest and we got to dig some trenches and shovel some stones for a family out there. They also fed us some paprikás krumpli for lunch which was super delicious.
  Finally Sunday, we had our normal church meetings which was nothing too crazy and then we got to have lunch with the senior couple who serves in the office, so they fed us some nice American food and we got to have some super cool conversations with them. 

This week was honestly nothing too crazy, but it was pretty solid, we'll see if the crazy experiences pick up in the next couple weeks.

Have a wonderful week!

-McKim Elder

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