Hello family :) I arrived here safely in Zadar, it was a good 3 hour and a bit bus ride so that was fun. It has been a really busy week here in Zadar I'll give you some information about what we did this week. First of all we couldn't make the bus for Tuesday night so we had to stay at the Zagreb elders house, I bought some Burek and realized the only good burek in the mission is in Serbia :( so I'm going to miss that! Elder Hillock and I left early the next morning on our way to Zadar! On my way I was pretty nervous and unsure about what this transfer is going to be like because, 1 we have both only been out in the field for 2 months and 2. I didn't really know Elder Hillock from the MTC, I wouldn't say we didn't get along but he was probably the person I got along least with out of the 11 other elders! But I'm trying to have a good attitude about it all. He is a very obedient missionary and loves following every single rule. (my favorite) so it took a little getting used to as my old companion was a lot more relaxed and my type of personality but that is okay.
The first thing I got asked when I came to Zadar was "are you able to give a 15 minute talk this week" and I said sure but yeah it was a little stressful as it all had to be in the language and I couldn't ask anyone for any help but it went well I thought. One thing about Zadar is that the people here are a lot more nicer here! A lot of them will actually stop and talk for a few minutes. In consequence Zadar has a lot of eternal investigators.. so we taught about 5 lessons during the week to all of them and we told them that we wont be teaching them any more if they don't want to be progressing so that was good to kind of get rid of the excess "baggage"you could say as the elder previous to me had been here for 10 months straight, he was a bit attached to the investigators and didn't want to give up but yeah we need time to find people and these investigators who aren't going anywhere are just filling up our time.
So a lot of this week has just kind of been setting up things, I think we have the newest district in the mission we have elder hillock and I with a grand total of 4 months missionary experience and the sisters have a greeny and the trainer has been out for 6 months total! So we are very new.
In Zadar they just had a baptism with a young guy about 22 who had been investigating the church online for about 1 year and then he finally got the guts to come to church and 2 weeks later he was baptized! It apparently was a massive miracle, so I met him on Sunday and we taught him the restoration again as you have to go through the lessons again with recent converts but in more depth, so that was really nice, its good to see things like that happening!
On Sunday I got to meet all the members, there is about 10-15 that come every week so not many.. so its a bit of a change from the bigger branch in Beograd! Not many people come to English class here and they have it twice a week so I'm hoping we can advertise that a bit more then it apparently has so I designed some English cards which we will print out soon! looking forward to that.
So it's warmer here than it is in Beograd which is nice but you do get the big sea breeze which kind of sucks but its fine. I'll take some cool photos within the next few weeks for everyone there is a lot of history here and they have a really big Italian influence here, a lot of people can speak Italian and yeah it looks like a pretty European city!
Everything is a lot more expensive here too so I have to live of eggs for a while as I spent a little bit to much money eating out this last week and a bit >.< whoops! but that's fine eggs are good! sometimes....
With Christmas coming up we get to spend the 23rd and 24th in Zagreb at the mission home which is going to be great! I get to catch up with all my mates from the MTC which I haven't seen in about 2 months! I talked to a couple of them on the phone last night and it was so good to hear their voices! only a glimpse of what it will be like to come back home after 2 years! cant imagine what that will be like, but it's still a while away although after this transfer I will be 1/4 done with my mission! it's going fast!
Looking forward to this week as we seem to have a bit more time to contact people on the street, we also have the branch Christmas party this week and there is this traditional dish that they always serve up and its this stupid dried out dead looking fish, I'm not really keen on eating it, they always have it at Christmas! I look forward to Skyping home on Christmas day it will be a bit weird to see everyone's face again but I'm looking forward to it.
Hope everyone has a good week I'm thinking of you all hope you have a great Christmas and don't party too hard without me :(
Love Elder Winfield!
Elder Winfield
Starješina Winfield
Старешина Винфилд
Adriatic North Mission
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