So I guess I should start this email by explaining a little about this thing we call Farsang. I still barely know what it is and I got to experience a bit of it, basically they're trying to scare away the winter and welcome in the spring, but they do that in some pretty strange but way cool ways as I've found out this week.
Anyway, onto the week!
Monday night we met with a woman named Zsuzsi, who investigated before with her husband Jenő. She basically knows and has a testimony of everything, she just has a few things that she and her husband have to overcome before they can be baptised. Hopefully we can help them out with that.
Tuesday and wednesday were nothing too special just regular missionary work, but we did run into a cool family while doing look ups who said that we could come back when they're all home, so that could be cool.
Thursday was the normal craziness of firstly district meeting, then meeting with a member and english class, so our day was pretty packed but it's always good. The member shared some really cool experiences with us about when she had says she saw heaven, super interesting and cool.
Friday we had exchanges with the other elders, which was great fun, I got to work with Elder Gonzalez, who speaks hungarian perfectly so it's always a learning experience.
Saturday was one of the strangest days of my life. We ended up at some sort of parade for Farsang, which was super cool but also incredibly strange. It included many groups of native folk dancers, people dressed in all manner of costumes, knights, whippers, giant puppets and just all manner of craziness. It also included teenagers dressed as the opposite gender being married by a man pretending to be a catholic priest, a performance by some strange witches, a bear (played by a 12 year old in a costume) carstration and finished with a whole bunch of people dancing in a circle around a burning effigy of a child. Strange day but pretty cool. We then got invited to a concert entitled "The legend of wine" by a potential investigator, but "unfortunately" had to turn that one down. Farsang was definitely an experience, and it's not even over yet, it's only just begun.
Sunday was a little more normal but really cool because we had a whole bunch of people come to church, including Zsuzsi and her husband!
My week is going to be pretty crazy coming up, so I hope yours is a little more relaxed than mine will be.
Sok szeretettel
McKim Elder
Teenagers being married
Giant puppets
Dancing around the burning effigy of a child
Teenagers being married
Giant puppets
Dancing around the burning effigy of a child
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