Called to serve Feb 2016

Tuesday 22 November 2016

Short week, lots of meetings.

Sok szeretettel köszöntelek benneteket!

Well this was probably the shortest week of my mission considering it basically started on Wednesday but it was packed full of meetings and craziness.

  So considering P-day was on a wednesday this week and all the museums in Hungary are closed on mondays, we decided that we should make the most of our chance to see a museum and so we went to this place called the Terror Ház (Terror house). When we called for permission President Szabadkai said "az nem egy vidám hely" (that's not a joyful place) and boy was he right about that one. It was basically a museum about all the terrible things that the occupying forces did to the Hungarian people to establish and throughout communism. It was really sad, but it was a great opportunity to learn more about Hungarian history, because we hear bits about how terrible things used to be but we never really learn too much about it.
  Thursday was pretty normal, we had district meeting and English class, which is always good fun.
  Friday we headed out to Budaörs with the hopes of a normal day meeting with an investigator that we have out there, but it didn't turn out like that. Firstly we went tracting down some super sketchy street where we stumbled across something that I don't even know how to explain, but I included a picture of it below. We hope it was just some really messed up halloween decorations and not real dead bodies, but we don't know, it was super sketch and so we just went down the street and kept tracting. I actually had to get that picture from Elder Allred because when I tried to take a picture of it, my camera screen just blanked out white and then my camera died when it had 2 bars of battery left, super creepy. Then after that we tried to meet with our investigator but she was sick and so we ended up meeting with a member out there instead which was super cool before grabbing some Ikea for dinner and heading back.
  Saturday started our wondeful weekend of Stake Conference, which was presided over by Elder Adler who is an area seventy. I especially loved the priesthood session that we had on Saturday because it was very focused on missionary work and Elder Adler gave a lot of special promises and challenges to the missionaries here. Stake conference was also really cool because it meant that a lot of the missionaries in the stake got to come up to Budapest to watch it, which was super fun.
  Sunday we continued with Stake Conference, it was really good. It was cool to see my progression between my first stake conference after only a couple weeks in the country and now to when I could understand basically everything that was being said, it shows me that God really does help us with this language because there's probably not many people out there that can learn this language as quick as the missionaries do. People often say here that "the only people who can speak Hungarian are Hungarians and Mormon missionaries" which is cool. After stake conference we got the opportunity to go to a members house and assist in giving her a blessing, so that was really cool too.

Hope you all have fantastic weeks!
Szeretlek benneteket!

- McKim Elder
                                                                             
                                                                  Sketchy dead body thing

                                         
                       Elder Robinsons, Elder Thomas' and my sons all mesmerised by being on a metro

                            Ran into my old investigator, David, and my trainer at stake conference


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