I appreciate the package. As it turns out "hit" means faith in Hungarian, so they turned into our faith cookies.
Tell Tad the MTC food is fine. It does cause a little
bloating, and unfortunately to my companions and I's dismay, there are no
bendy straws. Probably for reasons fairly obvious.
Tell Trevor and Zach for their funny tips and stories, they
give us three a laugh.
Talking about us three:
The threesome just includes more ideas and longer missionary inventories. We are loving each other, and we have become quick good friends
D'Angina Elder is from Californa San Fran. He is 6'6"
and plays volleyball for BYU
Miller Elder is 6'0" and is from Salt Lake and he plays
tennis for fun.
Yes I am the tall one.
Just for beforehand knowledge there are two groups/districts
of Hungarians. Mine (I am district Leader) and the older one, as in they have
been here for seven weeks. They are referred to as the Osi(ancient), and we are
the Kicsi(little/young). (There are accents in those words).
My week has been one of the most wonderful weeks I've ever
had. I have never been in a more spiritual setting before. I know how to pray, teach
lessons, and bear my testimony in Hungarian now. I am far from fluent, but
compared to how much I knew last week, it is a gift of tongues. (If you have
any questions about this please ask).
My favorite moment that has happened was Sunday night at the
devotional. We had Ted Gibbons come and speak. He did a monolog on Willard
Richard's life as the Secretary under Prophet Joseph Smith. He was one of the
four that was at the Carthage jail during the martyrdom. You should definitely
look up stories of him. At the end of Gibbon's story he gave a descriptive
account of the massacre at Carthage jail. The horror of it all gave a powerful
spirit that when all the missionaries started to sing "Praise to the
Man" for the closing Hymn, we all slowly stood (without being asked) as if
to bear testimony of Joseph Smith as one accord. No one wasn't overcome with
the spirit. Not one soul could have survived not been converted if they would
have been present that night. Joseph Smith was truly a prophet.
Yesterday we taught our last lesson to Jozsef. He was our
progressive investigator. That lesson was amazing because we taught a lesson by
the spirit without having to memorize Hungarian. We spoke Hungarian. Anyway
afterward we found out he was our full-time teacher for the next 12 weeks
afterward. We kind of guessed he was though. So after we taught him he
came in and gave us great feedback, but he told us some of the funny things we
did.
The first one is quite embarrassing. We TRIED to sing a hymn
to him in Hungarian. My companions are kind of tone deaf, and none of us are
really that good at singing, so it was TERRIBLE. We never sang the same note
together.
The second one is just kind of funny. "Te" in
Hungarian means you. It is pronounced as "Tah". We kept pronouncing
it as "Teh" which is like the word "Tej" which means milk.
So we kept saying things like "Milk come to church?"
Today is my first P-day and it is kind of boring because we can't go to the temple because it is closed until June 25. I have done a lot of studying and napping today. A positive thing is we may go watch fireworks tonight.
FYI my estimated departure date is September 10
The Lord is blessing me greatly and I can't wait to help the work move forward.
Tudom hogy Jesus Krisztus Isten Fia. [I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God].
Seretettel, [Love]
Decker Elder
PS. I forgot my camera, so I will get you some pictures next week.
