18th - 24th April 2017

I'm just going to write a short one because I really don't have a lot time, this week was pretty normal except for the fact that I'm now living with Elder Bowles again.

Monday night Bowles and his temporary comp showed up at like 3am because they had some car problems etc... so yeah that was weird but then on Tuesday I said my goodbyes to Elder Deleeuw before he went off to Sremska Mitrovica, Tuesday was just working and we had a meeting with President Grant and the Branch President here, I'll now be the 2nd Councillor so I finally am released from doing Clerk work! wooo! Wednesday we again just worked, we found a couple of people and got some numbers which was cool apart from that there wasn't really anything too special happening, we also had district meeting which was fun :)

Thursday again was just all work, we didn't have english this week because of the transfer break that we have. It kind of sucks to not have english but oh well, we got a lot of calls from people seeing the english advertisements so we should have a lot of people come tomorrow.

saying goodbye to Deleeuw! lataz!

​Friday was again a normal day although we had Institute which was great as always, I won uno 4 out of the 5 times... it was good to be back ;)​ I forgot to mention that it snowed again a decent amount this week.... I don't know where that came from but yeah, I was used to the shirts and ties and had to go back to my jacket again..

our illegal book of mormon stand! (we got kicked out of center because we didn't have a permit....) woops....

Saturday we cleaned the church and had a lesson set up unfortunately he didn't show.. after that we went to go visit some less actives, we had never met them before so it was kind of strange but it went alright in the end. The dad obviously knew some sort of Australian because when I said that I was from there he just screamed MATE haha it was funny.

Sunday we had church, I had to conduct which was fun, luckily I'm now released from my piano playing thanks to elder Bowles! After that we just went back home, weekly planned had some food and worked! It was a pretty good week in the end, next week should be fun too, we might do exchanges with the APS so I guess we will see with that. 

Apart from that though that was pretty much my week, I hope that you guys all had a great week, I love you all and yeah... stay safe! don't have too much fun without me and enjoy :)

Love Jowi :) xxo

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Elder Winfield

11th - 17th April 2017

Well... this week was interesting. We ended up having a decent amount to do. First off for pday I don't even remember, I think we went bowling or something, who knows, I'm losing my memory! 

Tuesday we just worked all day, and then our english class was pretty bland, the sisters were in Sarajevo and the senior couple was in Serbia for a conference so we just taught a humble class of 2 people some english, oh well.

Wednesday was pretty much the same, just work work work, it was good to be able to do that though, I missed just trucking through a 4 hour session of contacting, we had lunch actually with a member which was cool, he gave us these books on how to make banja lucki cevap, so that was cool, ill show yous it one day :p

Thursday was the big transfer announcements, I knew  was staying, I just didn't know who was coming with me, we opened it up and boom, I'm going to be back with Elder Bowles again, it should be great, he is a good guy. We had a good time our first time around too, it was exactly a year ago too so it will be interesting to see the changes.  Deleeuw will be off to one of my old area Sremska Mitrovica, he will love it there just as I did :) I told him one word and that's all he needs to know, "Pletenica" I won't bother explaining it all now to you guys... one day.  Anyways after that we just worked some more and then had english that night, again 2 people, the same people, and again no sisters or senior couple. 

Friday we had to catch a 7am bus to get to Tuzla so that Deleeuw could deregister, the bus took like 5 hours... I hate buses >.< I got a bit of sleep which was good but yeah, after that we just helped out the Elders there a little and had dinner there, we had to stay the night there too as there weren't any buses coming back. 

Saturday we cleaned the church in Tuzla then had lunch and headed back to Banja Luka, lucky the elders had a car and they could take us as they were going that way anyway, once we got back it started pouring down rain and then we had to clean the church in Banja Luka. 

Sunday we had chruch as usual, we changed our start time from 11 to 10 so that was fun, had to leave a lot earlier which sucked, lucky the senior couple picked us up because again, it was pouring down rain, apart from that though not too much happened, just normal work, we also ate dinner at the senior couples place which was nice, sister Bradford is a great cook! 

Today will just be a whatever day I guess we will see what will happen, Elder Bowles comes tonight and then it begins! my second last transfer, it should be great I'm looking forward to it. 

Hope yous had a great Easter, I am looking forward to our skype which is soon too, speaking of that, how are we going to do that with liam out as well? :/

Anways, love you all! I don't have my camera so I might send photos later, we will see.. xoox :)

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Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

Старешина Винфилд 

Adriatic North Mission 

4th - 10th April 2017

Well this week was quick! We had a lot on in the end which made it go really fast. 

Monday we started off with just a normal day, we ended up going to some place where you can play pool and darts and things, so we took one of our english class students with us, he is kind of an investigator you could say too, although he is pretty entrenched in his orthodox beliefs, it was still fun though to be able to have some fun etc... After that we got a call from the sisters saying we need to go give a blessing to some lady who lives about a 10 minute drive away from where we live so we got the senior couple to take us and the sisters there. Turns out she didn't need a blessing but for us to move a bunch of stuff around in her living room... we were there for like an hour just moving these huge closet things, which had like china and really nice things inside of it so we had to take it all out then move it... it was good to be able to do some service but yeah, elder Deleeuw and I were screwed after that.. it was like a 4 man job but the room was probably the size of my room down stairs back at home..

JUST A SIDE NOTE: ONE OF THE SISTER'S PARENTS (MENTIONED ABOVE) LIVES IN SALT LAKE CITY AND SENT LIAM A PACKAGE TO CHEER HIM UP. WHAT A SWEET BLESSING. THAT SISTER SENT AN EMAIL TO HER MUM SAYING: The elders did most of the work... we just made sure they didn't break anything... At one point elder Winfield was like "Sisters, just keep doing what you're doing" and we were like "Okay! What were we doing?" then he was like.."nothing." Haha.

ELDER WINFIELD HAS PAPPA BUR'S SENSE OF HUMOUR HAHA.

Tuesday we left to Tuzla for our exchange that we would be doing with the other elders there, I was staying in Banja Luka so I got back and it was just contacting and some english class..

Wednesday I had a fair bit to do as Zone Conference was on the Friday and we were in charge of the food, so I just ordered like 20 pizzas for everyone, luckily they were chilled with only a few days notice. Wednesday was kind of rough work wise, it rained pretty much all day, and at night it poured down and we didn't have our umbrellas, still not sure why i didn't but it happened and we got soaked.

Thursday we switched back and that went fine, once we got back to we had to get some more things for Zone Conference like water bottles etc.. anyways we got all that done then we had our district meeting and following that we had english and yeah after that we pretty much just set up all the chairs and tables for Zone Conference. 

Friday was the big day... kind of. We got there at like 9am and yeah, we had to start the meeting without president Grant as he was stuck at the border. Anyways so that all happened, we had our presentation on finding and my bit was about the Forsbury Flop and high jump, talked about how we need to change things up so we can do better as he did. Anyways so the conference went well in the end, after that there was a lot of talk on transfers so it should be interesting!  not sure how I feel about it all but it should be okay. After the Zone Conference, some of president Grants family came and one of there relatives son's came here for a mini mission over a period of like 4 or so weeks or something, and while he was here they found one of members who is really strong here, so they wanted to meet her, so I called her and yeah then they invited her for dinner and we had to translate so we got to come along :) woo! so that was fun. translating makes me tired though I was done at the end of the night. Got your guys package though, thanks for all the lovely letters and chocolate! black forest.. mmmm yum. and also the card game skip bo! I taught deleeuw how to play so we have been playing a bit. 

Saturday was just a normal day we had contacting, cleaning the church, we also met with one of the recent converts here, we taught him the Law of the Tithe along with a couple of other commandments, we are trying to get him all prepped to go to the temple. After that I don't even remember what happened to be honest.

Sunday was also a big day, we had President Grant come down, I had to translate his whole talk... that was fun, I was actually a little surprised I did a lot better then what I thought I would. Anyways after that we had lunch at the senior couple's house with the Grants and the sisters... after that we went to a members house to give a blessing and to show a new BYU Pathways program to one of the members who is looking to study so that was cool, again though my brain was fried with translating at the end of the day, apart from that though that was my week :)

This week will be transfer reveals so that's always intense... only 1 more after this one... 

Hope you all have a great week I love you all :) xoxo

go tigers. ;) :)

Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

Старешина Винфилд 

Adriatic North Mission 

28th March - 3rd April 2017

Well this week went super fast! We had a ton on. First up, on Monday we had a surprise visitor from one of the other branches I served in so that was really fun, we went bowling, I won finally!!!!! It was close with me and Deleeuw, he beat me like 3 times when we went last time but yeah... after that we just chilled at the church, played uno etc... just you know the good old fun things. It was a really fun pday though! Much needed. That night we went to work and just did the same old... contacting! 

Tuesday was really busy, we had a big skype call with all the district leaders in the mission then we had to have our district meeting right after that. After all of that we had to go home and quickly pack so we could make our bus to Zagreb. We arrived that night and had a good dinner, that was about all we did though. They also kicked some Gypsies off the bus at the border... that was interesting.

Wednesday was just working with the AP's we found some people who they can now teach which was cool, the people in Zagreb are a lot nicer than here, it was weird having people actually stop for like a second. We had our MLC meeting at 5pm and that went for a good 3 or so hours, after that it gave us a little bit of time to play some basketball! woo! the court was so dusty because it is clay and it hadn't been watered at all... we were all covered in red dust by the end, good fun though.

Thursday we had more meetings and then it was the drive back to Banja Luka, that night we also had English so we taught that which was fun, one of the guys who is our one and only beginner student is cool, we are actually going to chill out with him today so that will be fun.

Friday was just a normal day although we had a skype meeting with the Mission president and the AP's we talked a lot about prepping for our Zone Conference which is this week, we have an hour long presentation on finding so that will be interesting! Hope it goes well. After that we picked up our papuce which are some woolen socks that these ladies make, I requested to get a pair of Black and yellow ones made for the tigers! they look great! I'm going to get them in yellow and black too so yeah... We also bumped into one of our Advanced English class students and one of his mates so we went and had ice cream with them and talked for a good hour which was fun. We had institute that night too which was fun as always, we play uno for a little at the end... I didnt win this time it was weird... i usually get at least one win!

Saturday was pretty busy we had to clean the church and then prep for General Conference, we watched the Saturday morning session live, a fair few members came which was good, apart from that though the day was normal!

Sunday again was really busy, we had time to find in the morning so we went out, we were about 2 hours into walking and it was hot so we took a 5 minute bench break, I guess it was inspired because some guy ended up talking to us for like an hour and we have his phone number and he wants to meet up so that is cool, problem is that he is a pretty devout orthodox man! Oh well it was still fun being able to have some sort of success, you never know maybe he will convert ;) After that it was lunch then off to the church for another conference session, after that session we had dinner at the church which the Senior Couple here made and then watched one more session before heading back home.

So yeah that was about my week, this week will be good, we have another exchange, I'll be staying here though which is good I'm kind of sick of travelling! We also have our Zone Conference which we will have to prep for... we are on food too which sucks... i guess pizza it is! cant complain too much right? 

Hope you guys are doing well :) you'll be in my prayers achy! hope you get better quick. keep me updated on what the surgeon says.

Love yous! xo

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Elder Winfield

Starješina Winfield

Старешина Винфилд 

Adriatic North Mission