This week we went around singing Christmas songs at different places

December 18, 2017

This week as a district we went around singing Christmas songs at different places. As part of our "tour" we had two different  "gigs" at two different old folks homes. It's a good thing that 1. Hungarians are pretty much tone deaf and 2. Old people are pretty much deaf, so we didn't have to worry too much about how well we sang. Then afterwards we talked to the old people for a little bit. Then for our third and final "gig" as part of our "tour" we sang at the church Saturday night because there was a talent show. We just need one perfect show and one perfect night, then we'll be going places, haha. 

Kaposvár District

In Kaposvár every December a Christmas market opens up downtown with a lot of different shops. And one of our new investigators is an artist, and he owns an art shop in the Christmas market. He is always there at his shop so we have been teaching him in the middle of the street in front of his shop. It has gone well so far. 

Also this week we finished the “I'm a Mormon Missionary” video and posted it on our Facebook page. The people who have seen it told us they like it and think it is funny. Right now we’re sitting at 300 views, but we’re hoping to make it go viral, haha. 

Gifts from Mikulás

We also did service this week at a member's house. Her house is on top of a hill, and she had a bunch of wood logs at the bottom of the street that we had to carry up the hill. The previous night it had snowed/rained so the ground was super slippery. It was hard to walk up the hill without wood logs yet alone with them. The woman who lives there doesn't even leave her house because she's not able to walk down the hill. Anyways we did it and came back alive. 

We got permission to use the park across from the Christmas market for Saturday, so we have a projector and we are going to be showing the “Light the World” video, our “I'm a Mormon Missionary” video, and other ones. We will have free hot chocolate and baked goods and hopefully run the people who are selling hot chocolate at the Christmas market out of business, haha. And we will ask people how they will Light the World, and we will record them and then we will compile all of their responses and make a video and show it at the end.  We are going to make sure we play it very loud so everyone can here and know who we are. 

Udy Elder eating giant snowflakes

I haven't seen any Hungarian Christmas nativities, but I also haven’t been looking for any, so I will look now. And on Christmas we have the whole day as our p-day, but I think I will go to the branch house to Google hangout because I don’t think any of the member’s have good enough internet or computers. I’m not quite sure what time that would be at, probably 4:00 or later my time. I might be able to send you an e-mail in the morning or something so you can know. 

-       Udy Elder