Hello! well.... another pretty quick week. :)
Monday was fun we had a casual pday with some of the members and played some card games and Frisbee etc... it was hot as though... like 40 odd degrees outside! After all that we had a lesson that night with a guy who has been coming to church the last few weeks, it went well I mean I think he just wants to talk and have a really casual conversation rather than a sit down lesson. I'm not 100% what the next step will be. He drinks, smokes, (which is fine, fixable) he says he can't read because he doesn't have glasses or something I'm not 100% sure but either way he says he doesn't read at all really and that will be hard for him to get a testimony of the Book of Mormon if he can't read. We had a member on the lesson too she helped a lot! He came this week though which was good, he makes it seem like he doesn't really want to change and just enjoys the socialization, we will keep working with him and see what is to be done next.
Tuesday was pretty normal, we had a contacting session in the morning and walked around the city trying to find strawberries.... there is legit none because of the season but it's fine we found mangos to replace it instead. (as I was making pavlova) anyways after all of that it was just normal contacting and then we had English class, we didn't have anyone show up to advanced so we helped the other elders with their beginners class. I also realised that I caught some sort of bug and was becoming sick... so yeah I was pretty much sick all week, it's hard though you still got to keep functioning and I still have never taken a day off on my mission :P I know I took millions off school. Maybe because the Lords work is 1000 times more important than school? I'm better now though which is great. I hate feeling sick it is the worst. anyways......
Wednesday was pretty busy, we worked in the morning and then had lunch, after that we had district meeting, it was good to have the whole district back together for that as the senior couple has been away the last couple of weeks. After that it was a little more work and then we had a dinner appointment at a members house. We went a little early as I wanted to make some Pavlova, it turned out alright it was kind of hard without fresh strawberries but it was okay. The mum of this family is an amazing cook! It was really great and kind of them to do that, you could probably count the amount of times you have been fed on 2 hands so you could say that it is nice to have that for a change.
Thursday was as well fun, in the morning the zone leaders came here for our exchange, I was staying here in Sremska with Elder Valentine! (my son :)) so it was fun to be back with him in the city where I trained him, it was cool to see the improvement, I remember when he could barely say "my name is....." and now he is going great so that was really fun to see, obviously doesn't have a hell of a lot to do with me as I just trained him and it is more about your personal attitude but nonetheless it was cool to see. We just mainly contacted a lot and then we had English class, we only had one student so it was just nice casual conversation in English.
Friday was pretty packed as we wanted to visit some members with Valentine being back. In the morning it was contacting mainly and then we had a lesson booked with a couple of guys that called and gave us their address, we went over there and they weren't home or anything, I called them like 10 times and still nothing so we just went back to the normal grind!, after that we visited another members house and had a good discussion and ended up giving a blessing to her and her daughter which was awesome. After that it was more member visiting and saying hello to people that Valentine hadn't seen in a while. It was great though :) I wish we could do that more than contacting but you know you gotta find people somehow and that's the main way right now... regardless it was a great day.
Saturday was again pretty busy, we had the Beograd elders return and I got my comp back, we had lunch at our little BBQ place that we always go to. After that we had the land lady come around because on Wednesday night our apartment flooded a little because of a stupid as leak we have in the corner of our house, anyways she came and checked it out and someone is supposed to come today and fix it. We will see though.... Those guys who weren't home ended up calling us back too and wanted to have the lesson still so we went over to their place which is around a 30 minute walk from our place, their house was pretty rank, everything was just dirty and all they had were cigarettes, water and rakija (dad you can ask Tony Difresco about that). They were high the whole time I'm pretty sure... so we weren't there too long just because it is really a waste of time dealing with people like that. We might play some basketball another time with them though we will see... we had to book it back to the church though as we had to help with cleaning, after that it was just studies and dinner!
Sunday was the big day as always! I always think of church on Sunday like my football game on Saturday, we get there early prepare etc... and hope we have a good game (meaning we hope we get some investigators and have lots of members there) this week you could say we won! We had a decent amount of members, mainly because we had the area president and counselor come down, they gave great lessons and talks though. After church we went back, did some weekly planning and then we had dinner at the senior couples place, they are really nice, (elder Decker) loves sports and was a carpenter so you could say we have a decent amount in common, although he loves that panzi American football sport its okay I still respect the man. :) he actually served his mission in new Zealand like you dad but a little bit earlier.
That was about our week though, this week should be pretty normal though we don't have a lot on, we have the misison president coming down tomorrow for some interviews, so that will be cool to be able to finally talk to him face to face.
I heard that Federer won Wimbledon.. (however you spell it) bet you and pappa are pretty happy mum! Hope yous are all doing good :) love you all! have fun in the cold while I'm in the heat.
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Elder Winfield
Starješina Winfield
Старешина Винфилд
Adriatic North Mission
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