Well sadly this week I am getting ripped away from my trainer Elder Murdock. An Emergency Transfer came and some other Elder in a different town needed a companion so he is leaving me Wednesday. Sad I know but he will do great. 

Anyway, this week has been great! So much has happened! First things first; a funny tracting experiance. So we are tracting this building and this lady opens the door and invites us in right off the bat... this never happens. So we were surprised and walked in and when we got in she realized that she didn’t know us and kinda freaked out. She thought Elder Murdock was someone she knew but actually didn’t. So we calm her down and ask if we can share a message and she agreed. She ended up listening and opening up to us about her life. She started to cry and it was really sad but we are going to come back and visit her again soon and try to help her. The funny part is apparently during our message she said that we are all so cute but turned to me, but said but him, his hair and eyes and smile is just gorgeous..... So it is good to know that super old Hungarian women think I am attractive. hahah. 

This week we had a missionary broadcast that was really great. It was hard to understand because it would freeze because the connection was bad but I was still able to get some great things from it! 

This week we went on splits to Miskolc! It was a fun train ride looking out the window and then sleeping over at the Zone leader’s apartments. I was able to go tracting and get let in by this guy that loved football. I pretty much got let in because I suck at Hungarian and he wanted to teach me and said he didn’t want to hear anything about our church but just wanted to talk. So we go in there and end up talking all about our church. Pretty cool how that works. I was able to talk pretty much the whole time. I have never spoke that well in my mission yet and it was such a great experience. I taught him about the plan of salvation and missions and the Book of Mormon. It was so cool to feel the spirit in the room and see it touch his heart. The Gift of Tongues is real. It is an amazing thing.

I also got some glasses while there and we look like the companionship from the Best Two years! haha. 

On the way home, I sat next to a girl and tried to talk to her and sometimes this goes well and sometimes it goes bad. This was a time it went bad. She was very awkward and I didn’t speak Hungarian and it was a very long train ride. I still was able to tell her what I believe but it was super weird and even worse me not knowing the language very well. haha it was a growing experience. 

We were able to meet with an investigator this week and he pretty much taught us. He knows and believes everything we teach him and is the coolest guy ever. He for sure needs to get dunked. I feel the spirit so strong when we meet with him and just know that he was put in place for me to be able to help. I love him and hope God can guide him and me to say the things that will guide him to the Gospel. 

I will end with a funny story and then a spiritual thought. This week a drunk guy started talking to us and was just laughing and all over the place so we started to try to see how many pass along cards we could get into his pocket without him noticing. I was able to put two in without and disturbance. Missionary work can even be done to drunk people. haha

This week I shared 2 Nephi 22:2 with an investigator and I wanted to testify of its truth. Please go look it up its a really good one. I know that this scripture is true. If we trust in God there is no need to be afraid. I know that everyone goes through times in their life were we have no idea how we are even going to survive. I know that God can strengthen us and that he is our salvation. I would not be able to keep going if I was not strengthened every day by My Savior. I can’t learn Hungarian alone but with Him I can. I know we can go through anything with the help of God. I love you all and I hope you have a great week and don’t forget that you are never alone.

Szeretlek titeket

Elder Ure  

The Squad

Gross food

Gross food we hated eating 

He loves white tigers

big Lions

Monkeys!

train ride

Miskolc

sharks at the zoo?

zoo day

which elder am I? from The Best Two Years...

P-day

Jan. 18, 2016

well... This week has been insane. haha. 

So I will start this email with the crazy stories of this week and the funny ones and then be more spiritual. 

So this week I was able to experience many lovely meals of Hungary. The first was when we got invited over for Breakfast at the same house as the guy that fed us salmon. So we sit down and he brings out this plate of sausages. One of them was completely black and he said we had to try it. This is called blood sausage. It is made by pretty much blood of the pig... random gross parts of the pig that normal people don’t eat, put into a sausage. So I put it into my mouth and about died. Tasted like iron and just nastiness. It was so gross. Look it up on the Internet because wow is it nasty. 

The next experience will be told to my children and they will tell it to theirs’ and so on. We went to a family’s house this week to pick up our phone that they had and they invited us to come in and sit down so we did. When we got to the table, we saw a patty like looking thing of meat. Like all kinds of meet made into a hamburger looking thing. So we sit down and they offer us some and we say no but of course they force us to have some. As I am sitting there my companions at what it is and I couldn’t understand but their reactions told me all I needed to know. What I was about to eat was Pig head. It had pig tongue, Ear, and everything else on a pig’s head. So we had to eat it so I put it into my mouth and was so close to throwing up... multiple times. It was gooey and hard and tendon-y and just the nastiest thing I have ever had in my life. I barely got it down. It was awful. That wasn’t the end of it though. After that the dad of the family said he had a surprise for us and ran out the door... We knew we were done for. He comes back with two cans. One was Octopus and the other was oysters... in a can.... bought at night.... in the middle of Hungary... ya no thanks... So what we did being clever missionaries is made a deal with him. He said he never will come to church but we said if we eat both of these cans, you have to come to church. He agreed and we dug in. We finished them both with much pain and suffering but we did it. Did he come to church..... well no he didn’t. So sadly it was all for nothing but maybe he will come this week. It was an awful experience but will never be forgotten. 

Then this week after English class, one of the guys wanted to show us his car so we got in and he had a full on karaoke set up in his car. So we start going crazy to “We are the Champions haha. It was a good time. We got some weird looks from passing people though that is for sure. 

We also went to a funeral this week. It was a very interesting and sad experience. The person performing it was a women Priest and she wouldn’t even look at us. It was super rude. It gives me a testimony that there is life after death just by going to a funereal not put on by my religion. It was a cool thing to experience that’s for sure. 

I had the most humbling experience this week besides every week with the language. Which is still impossible if you were wondering...

Anyway, this week I bought new shoes. I love them and they are super cool. I threw the bag they gave me to carry my shoes in away in a dumpster outside our apartment not thinking anything of it. The next morning we walk out of our apartment and see an older women and a really young girl looking through the garbage. This is normal and I see it all the time here so I wasn’t thinking anything of it until the mom pulled out my shoe bag and handed it to her daughter. They turned and walked away and I just watched them. It hit me so hard to see such a young girl walking away with some of my trash and made me so grateful for what I have. So many people have nothing and it is so sad. I just hurt seeing it and wanted to help so bad. It is very different when you see people looking through the trash and they pull something out that used to be yours. It taught me so much and made me so much more grateful. 

This week’s sport update is a pretty great one too. We played football in the snow and it was super fun sliding around and catching balls and all that. After we went and played basketball and I made proabally the best shot ever. So Elder Murdock tried to pass it behind the back to me and it went to far so I ran after it and it was a little past half court when I caught it. Right when I got there, I picked it up with one hand turned and just chucked it with one arm from almost 3\4 of the court away.... drain it. goes right in and everyone lost there mind. I was running around yelling and screaming and going crazy haha. It was so awesome. Ball is life.

Anyway, now onto more spiritual things. 

This week we found someone that I feel like I was meant to find. We found him in a cafe we usually go to email. He is the coolest guy ever and needs to be Mormon I am serious. He believes in everything we say and wants to know more. Coolest miracle ever. I showed him pictures of my family and talked about them and just became super good friends. The best part is he speaks English so we can actually talk. When I was showing him pictures of my family all he said is you guys are all smiling so big. I like that. It was so cool to see that he can notice how happy my family is even just by smiles. He also said that about the picture of when I was going into the MTC which we all were a wreck in but that’s not the point. The point is that he can notice a family in the gospel and it really amazed me. He is all about goals and wants to go somewhere in life and said something I will never forget. He said that we all have 24 hours. It made me think. There are so many successful people in the world and they all have the same amount of day to work. It's how hard we works. I love that a lot. 

The last thing I want to say is a story about us streeting. We were walking the streets and I went up and talked to these two random ladies on the street. They were cute little old Hungarian ladies and I asked if I could practice with them and just talk. They said yes so I sat down and started to talk to one by myself. It was a struggle but I ended up telling her all about my family, about my life and then taught her the restoration and gave her a Book Of Mormon. I only got a little help when I didn’t know the words. I don’t know this language but I was able to use my hands and describe things and I saw the gift of tongues for the first time in my life. It was soo cool. I know that God really does answer Prayers and that he is with all of us. If we pray and ask for help we can be helped. I am so grateful to be a missionary and I love it. I have never done anything harder but this week it was all worth it. I love you all and I hope you have a great week. 

Love 

Elder Ure 

Dec. 28, 2015 - Jan. 11, 2016

January 11, 2016

This is going to be a short one this week Sorry!! This week has been a hard week. I found out that the US army ranked Hungarian as the Number 1 hardest language to speak in the world so that’s comforting. haha. 

I had a very cool experience this week though. I was at a meeting and I had the opportunity to bear my testimony about how I found out the Book of Mormon is a true book. I was able to share how I went on Origination and how I read the whole book in two weeks. I shared how I didn’t receive an answer until after during the testimony meeting. I shared how strongly it was conformed to me that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. After I shared this in my broken Hungarian a handicap kid in our ward came up and said to me that while I was talking he could see the spirit in me. It was a really amazing thing to hear. It made all the hard parts of my mission worth it. It made my week. I really do know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and if you read it, you can know that also. I challenge you to read it. It will change your life. 

A funny thing that happened this week was during sport day when I was playing basketball. We invited the football to come and some guys came. One of the guys is seriously hulk and a lumberjack put together. He is a monster. Such a big human being. Anyway, I was going in for a layup and well... hulk punched me in the face and I about went down. Made my chin all bruised. haha. He felt so bad but I just laughed and said it was fine. He is a really good guy. It was funny. We are hopefully going to try to meet with him soon. 

This week was not very exciting but I am learning everyday. Hungarian is super hard and I am trying super hard. I love it here. Have a great week I love you all!! 

Elder Ure 

 DECEMBER 28, 2015

Sziasztok

Well I have a ton to write about this week because last week I didn’t have a computer to use. sorry. I will try to fit it all in. 

So Christmas was so awesome. Christmas eve nothing special happened besides me climbing on the statue. haha that was fun and I got a cool picture from it too. haha Then for my Christmas eve feast I had noodles and cream. I didn’t have any sauce so I just used some cream... haha I guess I have had better before. Then on Christmas we woke up and just kinda hung out. It was like a normal day to me.  We then went and skyped home and it was the best. I loved seeing you all. All day we just hung out at the branch house and played ping pong while people skyped. For dinner I had the left overs of the night before soooo once again I have had better haha. I have two weeks of football updates so the first week we played like ultimante frizbee football and it was super weird. It was so cold and I couldn’t feel anything. By the end of it I was all wet and covered in dirt but it was still super fun. I was able to kinda talk to one of the guys on the team using the Hungarian I know and just explain  some stuff about what I believe and our church. It was really cool. 

  I found out a cool thing in Hungarian today. The word sacrament in Hungarain translates to Lords dinner. I really like that. It is just something kinda cool to think about. 

So last we were tracting and tracted into a Roman Catholic and it went a little crazy.  At the end Elder Roberts through me under the bus and asked me to pray... so me not knowing how to pray for anything other than things in our church, I start to pray and this guy comes out of no where and starts doing this Catholic prayer... like a memorized thing... and then stops and says for me to continue so I go again and he cuts in again... and then at the end all he says is thank you and for us to leave. Most insane experience I have had yet. Until this week but I will get to that. 

So later in the week I was going around practicing Hungarian and asking people whose tie was the best looking out of all three of us and it was super fun and we ended up meeting this super cool guy and taught him some stuff but never heard from him again. It was still really cool though. 

In a lesson this week we where teaching one of our investigators that has a Baptism date and he had a ton of questions. He had a question about a scripture and right when I heard the scripture I realized that it was exactly what I read that morning in my own studies. I was able to teach and tell him what I knew about the scripture and it was really great testimony to me that God really is watching over me and putting me in places to help people’s lives. It was awesome. 

Now onto the super funny stories of this week. hahaha I am laughing as I am typing this. So in one of our programs I pulled out my picture book and showed it to the father of the house. He is this crazy guy that high fives us every five seconds and just loves us haha. So he starts going through my picture book and comes to the picture of me and the fam in Costa Rica and gets this crazy face on him. This picture was right after football season when I was in super good shape so he turns to me and probably one of the very few English words he knows says.... Juice. Like asking if I use steroids.... Dylan and I just bust up laughing haha. It was so funny. I told him no of course and he was still just like wow. haha. 

So for news years we didn’t do much haha. During the day one of the kids from the football team called us and wanted to have us teach him some football stuff so we met with him and I was able to teach this kid how to throw the football with good form and all that in the middle of Hungary... Like what.  It was crazy cool. He is this little kid and just loves it and it made me so happy. After, we shared a message with him and then went home and got ready for the night. 

For new years we went to a party. hahah like a bunch of old people haha. We got there and just talked with people and I found a massage chair and sat in that for like an hour. Then they busted out the karaoke and put on 1D... so you know I was all over that. I sung my heart out and had fun but then we had to leave and go home because we had to be inside so we went back home. We got home and we live on the top floor of our apartment so there is this little door to the roof of the building so we pushed it open and we can get on the roof from there we found out so we got up there and just looked at the stars and fire works. It was so cool. I felt like it was a scene straight out of the Saratov approach. I always wanted to do it and I did and it was so cool. I will take pictures next time. 

We also went to my Branch Pres. Dance performance.... He is the coolest guy ever and is such a good dancer. He teaches dance for his job. Mom would have loved it because it was like dancing with the stars Hungarian style haha. 

Then this weeks’ football practice was sickkkkkkkk. I balled out haha. This week the coach asked us to put the team through some drills so we had them do foot work and all that stuff and then did two on twos with a corner and a safety. The last play Dylan and I go on offense and he runs a post and I run a corner and the QB throws the ball late to me so the defense catches up with me by the time the ball gets to me because I was gone before then... anyways haha I end up catching the ball over the corner and coming down with it to finish the practice. Everyone went crazy. The down side was that it is so cold here that the ground was frozen so it was like landing on concrete and I wrecked my knee and face. haha. Totally worth it. That was football though. This week we have a ton of guys coming to our sport day thing and we are going to teach them. It is going to be way cool. 

So I will finish with my tracting experience this week. We where knocking doors and knocked on one and these two guys let us in and right of the bat we knew they were gay. They even told us. So we start talking to them and tell them who we are and find out that they are actually way cool guys but it was a very interesting experience. Then the most insane experience I have had on my mission yet. So I walk up to a door and it was my turn to do the door approach of introducing us so I knock and this guy opens the door and he is a big dude. So I start talking and as I am talking I realize what he is wearing... He had on a way too small tee shirt and then a banana Hammock, or a really small speedo... and I got out two things and he invited us in. We where just like oh crap. So we go in and all these drugs are everywhere and we walk in and this other guy comes out and just starts ripping us apart, like saying the bible is lies and all this crazy stuff. So here we are with this crazy guy that hates us, a half naked man, and three Mormon missionaries. So we got out of there really quick. You meet crazy people here that’s for sure! 

I will finish by telling you about something I had conformed to me this week. I know that there is life after death. I realized that doubt is from Satan, and that’s what he wants. He wants us to have no hope of seeing loved ones ever again and I can testify that that is not true. We will live again after this life and we will see the ones that have already passed on. I love this gospel and I know God has a plan for me. Never give up on the one that Frees us from all of life’s trials. Jesus Christ will always be there in hard times. 

Love,

Elder Ure 

7 ft tall guy at our english classes

my Christmas box finally came!

sketchy basement

fun with pink phones

food i made

football field

first snow

CHRISTMAS 2015

MERRY CHRISTMAS! This Week Elder Ure spoke to us (his family) on Skype.  It was so great to see his face and talk to him.  He says it is always foggy, he never sees the sun. They ran out of time to buy food and then the stores closed on Christmas Eve. He is frustrated learning the language but loves being a missionary.  That is all for this week.

Skype on Christmas!

  

Always foggy

Christmas Eve Dinner

Christmas

The Branch Building

HUNGARY- WEEK TWO

Budapest in December

So this week has been crazy, painful, super spiritual, funny, awesome, pretty much every emotion. 

I can’t even begin to describe the word frustrating to you. Sitting there all day every day not understanding what anyone is saying gets to you. Me being the person I am I want to know it and know it right away and it is super annoying not understanding anything but I am being patient. It will hopefully come in a year or so hahaha lol. 

We had Christmas zone conference this week in Budapest and that was super fun. I loved going up there and looking around and being able to see everything again. We had fun at the conference and actually got to see a movie!! We got to go see The Little Prince. I would tell you what it was about but it was all in Hungarian sooo sorry. haha. It was still cool to be able to just sit there I guess haha. 

Then later in the week we went to give service to an older lady and got to take her to a play in this big Catholic church. It was a cool experience seeing how other religions do things and just sitting there listening to people sing and be happy. The old lady is super nice and old and she always wanted to hold our hands because hers was cold and because we thought she was going to fall over but I got to just walk the streets of Hungary holding this little old Hungarian ladies hand for a little so it was awesome! 

So, probably the worst thing possible happened this week. I went to a program with an investigator and he said he was going to feed us and we were all excited so we walk up to the door and right when he opens the door I about throw up. Straight salmon smell hits me in the face and I want to pass out. If you know me you know that salmon is my worst enemy. It is disgusting. So, I man up and walk in. Anyway, long story short I had to eat a piece of salmon and it about killed me. I will never like salmon. 

Now onto probably the best part of the week. WE FOUND A FOOTBALL TEAM!!!!!

So we called the coach and he wanted to meet with us right then but we couldn’t so we met with him the next day and he just told us all about the team and how he pretty much puts all his time an money into the team. He was such a cool guy and all of us thought he would be the best mormon ever, haha. We will get him don’t worry haha. Anyways he asks us what we want to do and if we want to play on the team and all this stuff and then we told him why we are here and our purpose an he loved it and wants us to come coach and then share a message after practice!!! So Saturday comes around and that’s when they practice and we show up and they already know who we are because the coach talked about us to them. So we talk to them and see what positions they play and they didn’t have a QB there so ya boy  I stepped in and was dropping dimes. I played QB and also went and ran routes and caught balls. This team is super like rag tag and just a bunch of guys that don’t really know football so it made it so fun haha. Dylan and I were ballin so hard it was so good to play again. They loved us and we are going to coach them from now on and share messages with them! How crazy is that? Two best buds from Highland Utah playing football in the middle of Hungary. Want to know the even crazier thing? The field they play on is literally a farm. You walk past horses and chickens and all types of animals and behind all that is where the field is. SO cool. I love it haha. I will give you more about that next week!! 

Then Saturday we had our branch Christmas party. It was fun I guess but it was hard to have fun when you can’t really talk to anyone so I just kinda sat there. Anyway the cool part was one of our investigators showed up super drunk so that was interesting. He was passed out in the chair and so we woke him up and started talking to him and what happened was he had to go to the hospital because his heart and he has a really hard life and not a lot of money so he drank and was super wasted. He ended up saying that he doesn’t want to live this way anymore and that he is done with smoking and drinking and is going to change. So we walked him home so he would be safe and he started to hug us all and got to me and just started to cry so I just hugged him and said in broken Hungarian that I love him. So in two weeks he wants to be baptized so we will see how that goes. 

Anyway that was my week here in Hungary and I hope you all have such an amazing Christmas and think of the true meaning of this time of year. I love you all!! 

Love Elder Ure 

HUNGARY-Week One

(This back ground info is added by Stacy for those of you that do not know the story....
There is an Elder serving in Hungary that was a friend of Cameron's in high school.  They played football together.  This elder was quite instrumental in influencing Cameron to go on a mission.  Once Cameron's call came, they have been praying that they would get to serve together on their missions in Hungary.  Please read the rest of the story in Cameron's words.)

So I will start by saying that the computers here are all in Hungarian which makes typing and spelling things so hard. This week has been so insane! So I left the MTC and went to the airport (got to talk to my family a lot) and did all that. I would talk more about that but it wasn’t really that exciting, haha. I flew on a plane and tried to sleep... didn’t sleep, got to Hungary and was really tired. By the time I got to sleep it had been 34 hours or so since the last time I had slept so that was a rough start.

We got off the plane and walked out and there was the Pres. and the APs waiting for us!! It was super nice to talk to them and see them. They took us back to the mission home and we dropped our bags off and then the APs took all of us to get some food. We had some rice and chicken which was pretty good but it wasn’t really Hungarian. We toured Budapest a little (see pics)  Then went back to the branch house and that is when I saw Dylan (Elder Murdock)  for the first time!! I lost my mind it was so crazy to see him!! We walked around and talked and he acted like he didn’t know at the time but YES!!!!! he is my trainer!!! We went into a meeting and it got announced and I flipped out!!! We had a few minutes to talk and it was a little emotional. But we became comps and another guy named Elder Roberts!! awesome guy. It has been super fun to serve with both of them. So then I find out I am serving in Níregyhaza!! pretty cool town but it is really communist like and everyone hates each other. Haha

Hungarians are really grumpy but don’t worry I am melting their hearts with my super good Hungarian. just kidding! I don’t understand anything haha. It is really hard to be in a crazy place and not even know what people are saying to me. I love it though. It is super fun and I couldn’t be happier. We got on a 3 hour train to pretty much Ukraine. I am right on the border of everything.  We got to the town and we are walking down the street and this guy stops us, and starts talking to us in English. (which does not happen here. like ever.) So he starts talking to us and brings up that he plays American football and that there is a team here in this town!!! what are the odds!!! Dylan and I started freaking out!!! The very first person I talk to and he brings up football... like are you kidding???  We go to our apartment and walk in and it is pretty nice actually. I don’t have a bed though. I sleep on a couch. It pretty much sucks but I am surviving, don’t worry. We went to our first appointment my first day there and it was way cool to sit and listen to the language I am supposed to know. I don’t think I got more than a couple of words but I bore my testimony and that’s about it.  I got to finally sleep after that. Best sleep ever! Next day we woke up and went grocery shopping and had some crazy experiences. People hate when you sniffle so if you have a runny nose you get wrecked here and also they just walk across the street and cars stop for them so it is way sketchy but you just go out into the street and cars have to slow down. It is way crazy. Also, it gets 1öö percent dark at like 4 every day so that kinda sucks a lot.  I feel like I haven’t seen the sun in months because it is always cloudy and then gets dark so soon.

 I taught some really cool lessons and was able to bear my testimony and it was cool to see it affect people. We were teaching these gypsies (which are just different skin color people and usually are pretty poor. But I bore my testimony and asked if she would pray so she did. She hadn’t prayed in over 20 years. So she was really embarrassed and felt bad but I told her that God wants her to talk to him and that he loves her and we love her and she just started to cry and ran out of the room. I hope it was a good thing because it was really cool for me. The Gift of Tongues is real even if I can’t speak great Hungarian.   Sorry, but I have to go,  love you all,  Elder Ure

last MTC care package binge

Balcony of first apartment

First time seeing Budapest

last time with Elder Verse in Buda

Budapest

First Apartment

Our Hungarian food we made

Níregyhaza    

Last MTC P-Day. I Know that My Redeemer Lives

Well I have more stuff to talk about than ever before this week that is for sure. It has been a long time since I wrote last because of Thanksgiving! So much has happened!!

So last week, the day before Thanksgiving my district got flight plans for Hungary!!! Never been so excited in my life I am pretty sure. 

We have to be at the travel office Monday morning at 3:35 Am... early morning for sure!

Then our flight takes off to Houston, Texas at 8:01 from SLC.

We land in Houston at 12:04 Houston time so 11:04 Utah time. I then have a 4 hour lay over in Houston before flying to Munich, Germany!!!! How cool?? 

Then off to Hungary! I will be getting to Hungary at 4:30 am U.S. time. Which is 12:30P.m. Hungary time so I probably wont sleep for over 30 something hours straight!!! I am pumped hahah. 

It is going to be a very long travel day but I cannot wait. I can’t believe I am almost out of the MTC already!! 

Thanksgiving in the MTC was so amazing! I will for sure never forget the day I had! 

We started off the day with a devotional by Elder Oaks and it was really great. You can read what he said online so if you would like, go look it up! He gave a great talk. Then there were a lot of musical numbers done by the Oaks family! They played a lot of string instruments and were incredible! Last their whole family got together and sang! I can say I have been sung too by an apostle!

We then left the Devotional and went and had our Thanksgiving Feast! (Lunch)

We got to have some really yummy turkey and potatoes and ice cream and pie. Best thing yet at the MTC for sure. It was a great Thanksgiving meal! 

We then had a devotional about our service project and how that was going to work. I am sure you all read about it but it was amazing!! I was a box mover so when the finished boxes of food would come to me I would put them in a pile. It was hard work but was so great! 

The last couple weeks have been crazy for getting ready for Hungary!! I had to dry clean my suits and we procrastinated so the past two weeks I have been without a suit. I have had to wear sweaters and my summer pants all week. haha. 

Also, just a quick funny thing here in the MTC. We call our name tags toast. Sometimes when our name tag starts to come out of our pocket we say "your toast is done" I don’t know if you will think it's funny, but I think its hilarious! haha. 

I also gave a talk in Hungarian Sunday. It was a very interesting experience. I pretty much just read what I had translated on my paper but was able to also bear testimony so that was really cool! My talk was on repentance!

I want you all go listen to the song I Know My Redeemer Lives. The song is truly amazing and has some incredible lyrics. It says how I feel about my Savior in a song. I love that song. Also the song I Believe in Christ. The same goes for both songs. 

Sorry I am all over the place in this email I am just trying to get all that has happened in! 

So I will finish off this crazy rushed email because I don’t have a lot of time with some quick thoughts. The first was actually super funny when it happened. haha

This random branch President walked up to us and said "Elders many are cold, but few are frozen." I thought about that and it really is true. A lot of people in Hungary will be cold and I will have to figure out how to warm them but there will always be people that just won’t want to talk to me and I have to realize that. 

Second, I heard this in a talk, They said to teach with such power that your investigator thinks Jesus is in the Room. If I am able to do this, I know that I will be able to change people's lives. I just first have to figure out how to do this. 

I want everyone to first go watch all the New Christmas Mormon Messages. They are incredible. Then go watch the Mormon message Mountains to Climb. (bring a box of tissues, you will need it.)

Last, I just want to say to everyone, even people that are not of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. If a Mormon missionary knocks on your door, let them in. Hear them out. For me. I promise something good will come out of it. 

I love you all so much and am so grateful for you in my life. I love this Gospel with my whole heart and I know it is true. Let it into your life and it will change you forever.

The next email you get from me will be from Hungary!! I am so excited! 

Sziastok!! 

Szeret, Ure Elder 

The MTC has lights (and we match)

our zone going to the temple