15th - 21st March 2016

Well pretty quick week only feels like yesterday I was emailing home! We had a lot of stuff

to do to prep for our cultural night which was pretty annoying as it was pretty much just 

me running it! It went well in the end we had a lot of non members come although a lot of

them left early, we didn't have too many members there which would of made it a lot 

better, I guess you cant win them all though. 

A lot of contacting this week which made the majority of our time, I have also started 

waking up an hour earlier so I can get better at the language I realise how important it is

to be able first understand exactly what they are saying and then get exactly the point 

across that you want and if you cant do that it will make things a lot harder then what 

they have to be.

We had a lesson with someone who we have taught for a while now, he said that he thinks

as long as you live the 10 commandments and be a good person you will be saved and 

that when Jesus comes down he wont say that only the Catholics can come to heaven ect..

. So that was pretty frustrating in the end... We will keep having lessons with him maybe 

he will continue to learn and change. We had 2 of our less actives come to church which

was great, they struggle financially to get there which makes it tough, I just hope they will

continue to come.

I also spoke on Sunday which was good, I was still writing it as sacrament meeting was 

going because I only got asked the night before church, I didn't mind the challenge though 

I always like writing up talks and then getting a native to correct it because you can really 

see where you are in the language.

English class has been going really good too, we have 3 students who usually come and 

they have recently been asking more questions about our faith and they bring us 

chocolates! We must run a pretty good English class!

This next week I will be going to Karlovac on exchange with the Zone Leaders which 

should be fun I have never been there before I heard its pretty small though, we also have 

Zone Conference in Zagreb the day before Easter so that should be great, all in all it's 

been a good week though just have to keep going forward in faith! hope you all have a 

great Easter and celebrate hard! but remember... don't have too much fun without me.

--

Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

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Adriatic North Mission