Well this week was pretty good!
Monday was pretty busy we emailed of course as usual, after that we shopped and chilled out for a bit, I actually took a nap which was nice, well needed! After that we got our gear on to play some basketball, it was pretty good, I mean out district isn't full of basketball champs but its all good we had fun nonetheless. Some chick came up as well who was barely wearing anything and wanted to play.... it was pretty awkward to watch all the other elders not know what to do or how to talk to her.. haha it was funny though, she realised we weren't interested at all! After that we had some food and headed back for a normal night in the apartment.
Tuesday was pretty long we didn't have a lot on, it was mainly just contacting all day! We had a lesson organised with some guy but he didn't show up... after that it was English and some dinner! Apart from that though that was about all we did, we didn't find anyone who would listen. We also had a 5 minute skype with President and Sister Grant to say our last goodbyes! Its kind of weird knowing that they are now gone.... I didn't think it would ever happen.
Wednesday morning was just contacting and then we had lunch as a district at their place as they owed us a lunch. After that it was just district meeting and seeing as the senior couple wasn't here because of some problems at home we just did district meeting at their place. After district meeting we just went back home and did our normal studies etc... just the usual you know! :) Had dinner and finished the night off with some contacting, we got a couple of peoples phone numbers which was cool, we are hoping to meet up with them this week. we had a lot of problems with some unpaid bills for our apartment which was a pain and then the office was being a pain so yeah pretty much it was a big waste of time but that's okay... I guess someone had to do it!
Thursday was pretty normal we had to go finish off with all those bills in the morning at the post office, after that we started a mini exchange I guess.. I was with Deleeuw, it was just like old times! We didn't have much success contacting unfortunately but the other elders did so that works :P I guess that's the beauty of having a 4 Elder district! We met back up and had some dinner before English class then we had English. After English class we had a couple of the members who know Russian try to teach us a bit haha it is actually really hard >.< I thought it would be easier but yeah, that's okay maybe another day, need to still get better at this one first :P
Friday we went to a members place to visit and teach a lesson which was nice although it was pretty hot! The mum member has a younger daughter so we played a few games with her which was fun, here you don't really have much to do with younger kids as there isn't many of them. It's a blessing in some ways and in others it kind of sucks to not have little kids running around causing chaos! After that we had to visit another members place to drop some papers off, now I thought the first house we were in was hot... this place was at least 40 degrees I swear.... haha we were all dripping! We were there for like 40 odd minutes too. Anyways but yeah that was about it for Friday.
Saturday we contacted in the morning until around 1 o'clock then we sat and argued for like 20 minutes as to what we wanted to have for lunch.... sometimes the heat just gets to you haha but anyways we finally chose what we wanted then had that.... After that we cleaned the church etc.... Then we went contacting for a change :) woo! We actually had a lesson booked too.... So we had the guys address which was a little different as we don't usually get addresses but anyways we tried to find the place and eventually we got to what we thought was his house but he wasn't home and was at a meeting... We will go back another time, we know when he works so we will just pop in one time! After that we got a surprise call from the other elders to visit another member as he wanted a blessing, he has rarely came to church for the last year or so and really needed some help so we gave him a blessing, the spirit was really strong though which was cool :) he said he would come to church the next day and we got the other elders to swing by in the morning to pick him up but he bailed the last minute.... that sucked but oh well... we aren't going to stop trying of course!
Sunday was church and seeing as the Senior couple wasn't there we kind of had to run things a little more and take up the slack. We had the Sunday school lessons so we went to the church early to finish preparations for that etc... anyways then church started and we realised that we had no one that could play the piano! Because the member that usually plays decided to turn up late :P (thanks Ada..) anyways but we somehow managed to get something going but it was probably the saddest Joseph Smiths First Prayer song I have ever heard sung... I also realised I forgot how to conduct as Elder Bowles taught me ages ago in Zadar but anyways... so yeah I decided that I'm going to retire after Zone Conference tomorrow as they asked me to conduct for that... for some stupid reason but that's okay.. I'll do it... Anyways we had Sunday school after Sacrament meeting and it went alright for the amount of prep that went in etc... we only got told last minute by the other Elders because they are spuds and forgot to tell us but that's alright we did it and it's done so end of story :) After church I had some help from a mate translating some things which was great :) then we headed back to the apartment and did some studies before we had a nice dinner to break our fast! Later that night we had the other Elders come around and stay over as they wanted to... so yeah that was fun but our place is a mess now as always when you have someone over.
That about sums up the week... This week will be different I guess.. We are going to Beograd tomorrow for our Zone Conference and we will get to see our new Mission President! It will be weird and from what I hear he is a hell of a lot different than President Grant so I guess we will see... it should be fun though ill get to see some old faces at the Zone Conference who I haven't seen in a while.
Sounds like things are going alright back at home I hope that everyone's doing alright. Love yous all! Have a fun week :) xoxoxo
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Elder Winfield
Starješina Winfield
Старешина Винфилд
Adriatic North Mission
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