21st - 27th March 2017

I don't really have much time to email again today, another 30 minutes, we are super busy, this week we will be in Zagreb till probably Friday with meetings and an exchange with the ap's.

I just have a lot of random stuff go on and extra meetings etc... and yeah we do exchanges with the whole zone which is not very many but still takes time because they are meant to last for 2 days..life is busy up here at the moment, it will cool down soon..

sorry I really didn't have any time again so I'll send a bunch of photos instead :) love you all! just know I'm doing well. xo

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Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

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Adriatic North Mission

14th - 20th March 2017

Just a short one this week I didn't have a lot of time to email so here it is :) This week I was in Sarajevo and we went up with the missionaries there to a lookout view then had some good food to finish off a good day! Ill send some photos too.

Tuesday was the exchange so I stayed in Sarajevo, it was fun we had a lot of lessons to teach so we were pretty busy, they also had an english class of like 20 people! it was nuts... what do you do though... we had to split in to two groups of 10 and we just taught half and half each. 

Wednesday was fun we had a lot on again, we actually got invited to a soccer game so we got permission and took our lunch and dinner breaks to watch it, it was awesome, finally had some competitiveness in my life, and the team we were there for one (we went with a less active too btw.)

Thursday we switched back, we had lunch at some place in between Banja Luka and Sarajevo, got some cevapi as always, I still prefer the cevapi here though, don't know why. Anyways then it was just back to normal life here in Banja Luka! Had english class and taught our humble little beginner class of 2 :) we have more in the advanced but the senior couple here took over that for us.

Friday we just worked as normal and then we had a conference from Zagreb which was getting streamed here to Banja Luka, it was for the Relief Society but we were all invited so that was interesting, we then had some food after that.

Saturday was just a work day, we cleaned the church ect.. and yeah that was about it...

​Sunday we had church as usual, we had a pretty decent turn out though so that was cool.​ Apart from that, that was my week! Hope you are all doing well I love you all xox

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Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

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7th March - 13th March 2017

Well this week was quick, I feel like I was legit just here a couple of days ago emailing.... Well...

Monday was fun and wet... it rained all day and then we organised to go bowling with a couple of the member who dogged us but we still went, its super cheap, like $3 for an hours worth of play so I mean that was alright. Also got myself a haircut, I still don't trust anyone here but I had to get over my fear and yeah, it wasn't too bad in the end.

Tuesday was the same with the rain, it did not stop all day... We went tracting to change it up a little, it was weird. I still hate tracting I realise... I guess that's where all the stories come from though. We also had our district meeting which was fun. My shoes broke, well they didn't break but they are definitely not waterproof so they got soaked... that's alright though it shouldn't rain too many more days before my mission finishes. After all of that we had English class which was fun, we also had a surprise drop in on our English class from the last mission presidents wife which was cool.

Wednesday was rainy again.... it was really annoying, we had a bit to do though with our zone conference being on Thursday we had to prep and all of that, we had a 20 minute presentation to present and then another 10 minute one on top of that. We also were in charge of food as the zone conference was here in Banja Luka so I made the sweet and sour salad dressing (that's for the recipe Dever's) it actually worked out pretty good though.

Thursday was the zone conference, we had a visit from an area 70 too Elder and Sister Adler came, there presentation was really good, they challenged us to record ourselves in the language bearing our testimony then for 30 days every night we bear our testimonies in the language to our comps and then at the end we will do it again on the camera, he promised we will see the gift of tongues! I guess we will see, it was weird recording myself though. After the conference finished we went and got gyros with the aps which was fun, then we had to quickly clean up as much as we could so we could have our english class again.

Friday was back to it again, we were pretty busy though with a few things popping up. At the end of the day we had institute which was good. Apart from that though it was really just a normal day. oh and we also got taken out to lunch by the last mission president and his wife, the Rowes, he is a business man and comes down here a bit so it was cool to see him because I heard a lot about him, definitely different then president Grant! They seemed really cool and nice though.

Saturday was pretty much all contacting except for cleaning the church, we really need to find someone because we hadn't for a bit, we didn't unfortunately but we did have these 3 teenagers follow us then telling us for an hour that our church is a made up cult ect.... and yeah a lot of other pretty bad stuff but I mean it was fine, they were like 16, they didn't even know what they believed in, they were just a bunch of spuds, pretty funny though, sometimes it would be nice to not be a missionary to so I could tell them what I really wanted to say but I mean sometimes you gotta just relax and take the hit! Plus they were 16 so I mean what else can you do.

Sunday was church, we had an okay turn out, about 6 or so.... I had the lesson for Sunday school, it went pretty well so that was good, and yeah then we just had our normal day from there!

Today we are heading down to Sarajevo for a fun Pday and an exchange with the Elders there so I won't be back until Thursday which is weird I'm sure that will make this week fly by also. It should be fun though i guess we will see, i forgot my camera again.... i'm sorry >.< ill remember next week and I'll have some good photos from today I'm sure. wish me luck! :)

Love you all and hope you are doing well, keep your head up Liam I know its always hardest at the start of the mission, especially when its not even your mission at the moment! Just keep going with a positive attitude and you will be alright, also learn tones of Indonesian with your comp because a native will help you a lot more then any utah comp you will get :)

lataz :)

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Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

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Adriatic North Mission 

28th February - 6th March 2017

Well this week was quick, I don't even remember what happened! Well on Monday we were just at our senior couples house emailing and playing a few games because the internet broke at the church, we got it fixed though but the problem is only 2 of the 4 computers work with the internet so we have to wait for the sisters to finish before we can email..... but yeah 

Tuesday was just a normal work day, we had district meeting and then we had english class later that day, we 4 new students which was cool, they are all young and one of them is really good at soccer so we might go play with him one day.

Wednesday was good, we just worked in the morning and then we had a skype call with president grant to prepare for the Zone Conference which will be this week. After that we had to get driving to Tuzla which is a city about a 3 hour drive away from here, we met up with the elders there and yeah then we started our exchange, I was with elder Hardy and I stayed in Tuzla, Elder Deleeuw went with the other elder, we also had dinner at some place on the way, it sucked we waited like 1 hour for just cevapi... dissapointing butt hats alright.

Thursday I worked in Tuzla which was fun, the people are a lot more nice there, we then had english class, they also have a really cool english class there, after I played ping pong with some guy from the class, he was pretty good in fact he beat me so he was better :P I was about to win but i forgot how to play ping pong, it's been soo long since I last played. We then went to some place for dinner with the other elders in Tuzla.

Friday was just working again then we had a lesson with someone that they had found the week before, we ended up just sitting on a bench with him talking for a while, he had some interesting views and probably wont progress anymore, he was nice though. After that we headed back to Banja Luka, we got there at like 7pm, just in time for us all to get Giros... we then went back to apartment and they stayed at our place the night.

Saturday was again just work, we had to clean the church by ourselves because the sisters were going to a baptism in Sremska, where I was a few months ago! I really wanted them to bring me back a Pletenica, from my favourite bakery but...... they didn't. disappointing..., tha'ts alright though, maybe another time right?

Sunday was church and we had a couple of visitors (a senior couple from slovenia) who were going to do the audit, lucky I didn't have to go in for that even though i was the clerk. It wasn't the best turn out at church because of the rain though. After church we had to prep for our Zone Conference presentation, it will be interesting. It was a fast Sunday so when we got back for dinner i made my favourite chinese meal i know how to make, it was lovely! I mean no bias but I was satisfied :P

This week will be fun though, we have a Zone Conference here and we also have a general authority coming down for it so I hope that our presentation goes smooth and I don't make a fool out of myself, I'm sure it will be fine though. 

Apart from that nothing new has really happened, we are still trying to find someone to teach 24/7, I hope we find someone this week we really need it, I guess we will see though. Next week my email might be short because we are going to Sarajevo for our exchange and we are leaving on Pday so we will see... I hope you are all well I love yous :)

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Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

Старешина Винфилд 

Adriatic North Mission