Splits with my own companion.

Sok szeretettel köszöntelek benneteket!

Well first of all, as of today I am no longer a teenager and that's about the weirdest thing ever, but I'm so glad that I got to spend a wonderful birthday here in this great place. It's been great so far and I'm so the rest of it will be too.

  On tuesday I was able to actually spend a whole day with my own companion which is what seems like a rare luxury these days. It started with us meeting with a guy that we called from our area book and he definitely wasn't what we expected when he rollerbladed up to the branch house door but he's really cool and he has a lot of potential, so we're excited. We were also able to meet with our super legit investigator, Márk, and had a super good lesson with him, it was a good day.

  We then spent the next day up in Budapest (again) because once again we had a wonderful zone training. Luckily we weren't late to our own meeting this time and everything was able to go as planned, so it was a fairly good meeting, nothing too special.

  I got to spend Thursday on an exchange with the other Elders here in Szeged. We taught a very catholic man, did some tracting, taught some english, at a really good burger, it was an all round pretty good day.

  Friday we had another set of exchanges, this time with the Békéscsaba elders. Split miracles are definitely a thing because we tracted for like 20 minutes and someone let us in which basically never happens. We then met with one of our less actives and did some streeting, so it was also pretty good.

  Saturday we finished our splits and met with a few more people. We were able to meet with Márk again and then we met with branch presidents family where we asked them to pray with us and then select a street for us to go tract where we can find a new investigator. We didn't have time to go do that right after though, because we headed to our game night that we hosted for the YSAs. In the middle of it they surprised me by bringing out a cake and singing happy birthday for me, it was super cool, the members here are so great!

  Sunday we had church like normal and then we went out tracing. We decided to go to the street that the branch presidents family gave us the night before and that was where we met our brand new investigator, Péter. Miracles are real people, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. He's a really great older man who was wanting to know whether his relationship with his deceased wife still continues and so we're going back there this week to teach him more about it. 

  That brings us to today! We volunteered ourselves to work at a place that cares for people with mental disabilities and they told us to come back on monday for their "Classical music morning". It was actually really cool they had some members from the Szegedi Symphonic orchestra and they played songs for the people in the home. We then got to spend some time talking with them all and playing games, it was a lot of fun and it was a great experience! I'm super excited to go back there.

Well that's another long update on my somewhat interesting week!

Vigyázzatok magatokra!

-McKim Elder

PICS!

                                                                 Our Branch President and two of his sons.

                                                                          My surprise birthday cake