January 29, 2018
Sziasztok Mindenkinek, (Hello everyone)
Last week for p-day we went to a
go-karting place and it was a lot of fun. Fuchs Elder, the missionary form
Germany serving here in Kaposvár, said it was his first time driving anything with a
steering wheel. I thought it was a little weird, but I guess driving just isn't
as common here in Europe. It has also been almost 5 months since I have driven
anything, so it was a nice refreshing feeling for me.
For about the past month and a half we
had a break in our English class, but we are starting it back up this next
week. This past week, in order to get a lot of people to attend, we made a
bunch of flyers and called about 70 people who used to attend English class at
some point. Hopefully we can get a bunch of people to attend.
Also I was on splits with Spencer Elder
and we were going out tracting and nobody wanted to hear our message about
Jesus Christ, like usual, but then we got to the last house on the street and
we were joking around saying that this house is going to let us in. And it
turns out they actually did let us in. It was cool because they had met with
missionaries over 20 years ago and they showed us their really old Hungarian
Book of Mormon. It was before the church had translated the entire Book of
Mormon into Hungarian so it was just select sections that were translated and
compiled into a book. I have seen some of the older translations of the Book of
Mormon, but this was the first time I saw this selected translations edition.
We were only in their home for about 5 minutes because we had to run back to
our bus. But we gave them the “entire” Book of Mormon and are going back this
week. And we also taught a handful of other people this week too.
Recently I read in a 2012 Liahona,
an article by Elder Jeffery R Holland, about his time as a missionary in
England. And I just thought it was very similar to missionary work here in
Hungary. He said, "We threw ourselves into the only thing we knew to
do—knock on doors. We knocked on doors in the morning, we knocked on doors at
midday, we knocked on doors in the afternoon, and we knocked on doors at
night... but we kept knocking on doors. And we got in almost none of
them." Whenever we get the opportunity to go inside someone's house,
we always cherish it because it doesn't happen very often.
To answer dad's question from last week
about parents picking up missionaries here, President Szabadkai is okay with it
but he will only be the mission president until July 1st of this
year. The church will announce the new mission president on February 3rd. So
keep your eyes out for that new announcement ;). So I will have to ask the new
mission president, but I think it shouldn't be a problem.
I wish Dad a happy birthday. It has
been a crazy year for you guys becoming grandparents and all. Hopefully you
guys aren't spoiling Noah too much. I can't believe you guys are actually on a
diet. That’s good. My diet mostly consists of frozen pizzas and ramen. It’s not
as good as having a home cooked meal every night from Mom, but I survive. I did
make tacos this past week which were good.
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| Playing pool on p-day |
Sok szeretettel (Lots of love)
Udy Elder
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