Elder Joshua Winfield August 2015 - August 2017: 9th August

So this week was pretty big we went to split on Monday which was a pretty crazy day but I enjoyed it, got to chill out with my mate Bozo and all the other boys in our district. We had to see the Krehbiel's goodbye as they went back to their area in Karlovac, I was hoping to get transferred there with them but that didn't happen :/

Tuesday was pretty normal we had a few things to do and then we just contacted the rest of the day which was fun, we also had lunch with the Krehbiel's before they left that day.

Wednesday we just had an all working day apart from English class, so we went on an exchange, we just worked and worked nothing to special really, you could feel the tension around the mission as it was the day before transfers! its always like that, kind of crazy.

Thursday! the big transfer reveal, we got to the church and then there it was.... I looked for my name and there I found out I was going to a place called Varazdin, its a small town up the top of Croatia, I've heard both good and bad things about the place, mainly good people just don't like it being so small but its okay Elder Lerohl and I will have the whole area to ourselves which makes things a lot easier, after that I had to go to the MUP (Croatian police station) and tell them i was changing address etc... that was a breeze. After that it was just working and a little bit of packing during dinner.

Friday the new senior couple came, it was pretty intense as we had to get them unpacked and try and sort out there internet and a few other problems, they are really cool so the Zadar branch will like that. Once we got them set up we had a little talk and kind of gave them a lot of information, you could tell they were jet lagged as! It reminded me of when I came I was just out of it!

Saturday we had a meeting in the church in the morning to show the new senior couple the church building and to also finalise everything for the Branch party that we were having later that day, we were going to get sandwiches from a place called papicas which are one of our favourites so we ordered 15 of them on Friday saying to make them for Tuesday but they must of misheard the other elders or something as they made them later that Friday night and we didn't come pick them up! They were apparently a little mad but still did us a good deal and we ended up getting them just in time for the party on Saturday night, it was good in the end the senior couple got to mingle with everyone before Sunday as Sunday was pretty chaotic.

Sunday came and it was my turn to speak and I was the only speaker and there were a few testimonies from Elder Bowles and Bolan as they were leaving, the crazy thing was that there were 55 visitors from all over the place who just rocked up, we didn't have enough chairs so we had to get some more from the other rooms and move the pulpit back and just squish everyone in... so we had 10 members and the rest visitors from the likes of Germany, Austria, France and america. It was chaos! My talk was on the keys of Elijah and I had to do it half in English and half in Croatian, it was pretty scary speaking to so many strangers all squished in the room.

So yeah that's pretty much in short all that happened this week! I will be leaving to Varazdin tomorrow so that should be exciting to change things up, I will really miss the Zadar branch here its been 8 months and its been a lot of fun I love it here I will for sure return one day!