Elder Joshua Winfield August 2015 - August 2017: 21st June

We've had a busy week, it has been averaging around 35 and hot all day everyday which is really rough in long pants and a white shirt! Especially when you have the water right there next to you to jump in! Missionary work wise it wasn't the best this week they had a game in the euro cup and beat Spain 2-1! everyone went crazy and that day the whole city was like a ghost town except in center where all the tourists are. The day after the Spain game there was a public holiday meaning still no one on the streets, we just kind of walked around in the 35 degree heat for 6 hours and got a tan. The day after that was pretty normal although we didn't end up finding anyone it was good work.

Then the weekend came and Croatia played in the final 16 against Portugal and lost 1-0 in extra time so that day and the day after everyone was annoying! on Saturday night I kicked the footy for about 30 minutes for the first time in a long time with my comp, he wasn't actually too bad at kicking the footy! Good to know that I still haven't lost it, I think the hardest thing for me was marking I felt like I didn't have as strong hands. The next day was church and we had a normal day, I had to speak which wasn't really a big deal, I spoke on being humble and did pretty good, I told the story about where I crashed my bike when I went with dad on his nightly walk. There were 6 tourist visitors with 2 of them being from Geelong Australia! which was cool, first time I could speak my own language for a long time, it was like my tongue was loosed. His last name was Grbin and he was a recently married man so him and his wife were making there way around europe and he was going to meet his family here in Croatia which he did! His wife was from New Zealand as well.

On Saturday and Sunday I was pretty sick, the first time on my mission, I really didn't enjoy it. I just wanted to be able to eat and enjoy myself and work but I was just not having a good night, I was up most of Saturday night so i had a good nap at lunch on Sunday.

This week we have a zone conference in Zagreb so that should be fun I'm looking forward to that, its a special one because its summer they combined July's and August's zone conferences and made it in to a big one where we stay in the mission home for a night so that should be fun!

A funny thing that happened was when Elder Pantelakis and I decided to buy Croatia flag ties and when the soccer was on a bar full of 100s of people who usually kind of shout at us and aren't nice were all cheering and telling us to come in and watch, it was funny I was tempted to go in but we just kept walking.