I am going to start this email off by talking about a very crazy old lady that is a member here in Nyiregyhaza. She is the best but she can throw one crazy party. This week we went to her house and the sisters came and we just thought we were going to have dinner and share a message. Not even close to what happened. She walks out and has all these animal masks and costumes and party supplies and tells us to put them on. So I obviously get the snow leopard because that is my favorite animal. So we all have these masks on and we are all laughing and eating cake. She then puts on Mama Mia or at least I think that’s the name of the song and she wanted us to dance to of course we did. Hungarian old women are a lot crazier then you think they would be! haha.

Shout out to my Dad because he is really into biking, your missionary son has also got really into biking because he has to.... even when it is pouring rain. It has been very rainy here this week and we have been out in it all week long. It has been fun but also very wet and is starting to get annoying. I still can’t get over how much I look like the missionaries from The Best Two Years. 

This week we had District meeting and Elder Roberts and I decided to take a big speaker to the branch house, blast Enya and play ping-pong right when the sisters walked in. It was super funny and way fun. Making good memories like that is always fun and I will never forget them.

We had some really cool but also funny things happen this week. We had a program out a little far away so we got on a bus and went out there... a little into the bus ride we realized it was the wrong bus and saw that it was taking us all the way out into the forest which was a problem. So we go to the bus driver and ask when he will be turning around back towards the city and we figured it out that if we stayed on the bus it would take us back. So we are waiting on the bus and I see this old lady carrying two heavy looking bags running to catch the bus so we run and tell the bus driver and we get out and go take her bags and help her on the bus. When we get on the bus the whole bus is just silent and looking at us. The bus driver then asks the old lady how often you see to young men going to help someone like that and she said never. He then went on to say that we had to not be Hungarian. So we told him yes we are American. By now the whole bus is listening and the bus driver shouts out... You must be Mormons! Haha!! So the whole bus was just amazed at us helping this lady, she was even amazed. We were able to talk to the bus driver and give him our number and as we were getting off the bus, a woman gave us her number and told us to talk to contact her. It is amazing how such a small act of service can change a situation so much. I have realized that service is such a big part of missionary work and helps people to open up their hearts. 

I will finish by saying how much bearing a testimony of my Savior makes me happy. No matter how hard it is to say, no matter how hard the day was, no matter how mean the people are, when I get out that I know my Savoir lives and loves me I feel peace and love every time. I know that Jesus Christ died for us all. He can help us through any hard ship in our life and if we open our hearts to him and give him our weaknesses he will take us above them. I would not be able to learn Hungarian, get rejected every day, leave my family and the ones I love for two years without Jesus Christ. He knows how we feel when we are at our lowest. No matter how hard it is we can do it with Jesus Christ. I am learning this lesson currently. I love you all so much and I hope that you can keep Jesus Christ as close to you as you can every minute of everyday. 

Love Elder Ure 

the sun came out...

our crappy bikes

ping-pong warriors