Elder Joshua Winfield August 2015 - August 2017: 16th

Hey everyone sorry this won't be super long as I don't have my time cause I gotta get going to Sarajevo for our exchange..

Well this week was pretty crazy, we had a lot on and went fast which was good I guess... So we started off with our PDAY and as usual we just kind of stuffed around for a while then we went bowling with a member and the sisters which was okay, after that we went back and cleaned etc....

Tuesday we were pretty busy, we started off by going up to a grave site with some members to help them with some family history, they are preparing some names for the temple which is really cool, after that we had some lunch and district meeting, and as usual that night we had english class... it started bucketing down rain at the end so the sister went back with the senior couple to get umbrellas for everyone who those who didn't have one.

Wednesday was our exchange with Tuzla so I got to be with Roberts again! Who was my comp a couple of transfers ago, it's funny how things change a little but not really, most of the time people have the same kind of habits and things they do etc.. Wednesday was fun though we had some lessons planned unfortunately they didn't rock up but... you know that happens... after that we had some dinner and that was about all the day allowed so we went back to the apartment.

Thursday was good, it was really hot but yeah as soon as we went out contacting Roberts felt really sick in the middle of a conversation with some guy so he just left me and went to sit down haah but yeah he got sick and wasn't doing well so lucky we had some things we had to do at the church and a couple of lessons, we also had english, he just sat at the back and looked miserable but yeah,.. I hope he is alright!

Friday we had to leave straight away to go to Tuzla as we were picking up one of the members there so he could come to Zagreb with us on Saturday. After we got done with that and made it back to Banja Luka, I made some pavlova again as the week before everyone really loved and and wanted it again... so I doubled the recipe and it turned out alright, it kind of failed a little because it fell because the institute lesson went long and I forgot to take it out of the oven but that's alright it still tasted good, I think.

Saturday was the big day! We left bright and early to head to Zagreb for the Kreso basketball tournament, seeing as Bosnia had the possibility of not having enough players we went up just in case, they had enough players but they still wanted us to play... soooo we played :) Bosnia came 2nd out of 6 teams which was a decent effort seeing they didn't even win a game last year! There was a lot that happened but in short it was a great day :) There was also a huge thunderstorm on the way back so that was fun to drive through!

Sunday was crazy, I was so sore from all the basketball I could barely move, lucky the sisters had some deep heat so I rubbed that in and it was a little better, the smell of that brings back some memories of football! Anyways... we had some sister who served in Banja Luka return that that was interesting, she took up some time and spoke which was nice.. But yeah apart from that Sunday was just another Sunday!

Sorry about the crappy email I really didn't have a lot of time seeing as we have to leave to Sarajevo now so I hope this is enough and that you enjoy it :) Love you all and hope yous are doing great!

Love Jowi :) xox