week 4

Hello, how was all your's thanksgiving? Ours was fun. Dallin H Oaks came with his family. His five year old great grandson is super good at guitar, and his seven year old great granddaughter is super good on cello. He talked about how we need to be grateful for all things, even our adversities, especially if that adversity is the Mtc. The whole Mtc did a service project, feeding children. We made around 360000 meals in fifty-five minutes, most ever according to the mtc presidency. It was fun, we watched 17 miracles and had a talent show. It was almost as good as ours usually is, there was a real live rubber duckie song, a yodeler, a on the spot blues jam. There were some other ones, but those were the best. The blues had one guy come up and ask if anybody was comfortable jamming with him, and then this other elder said he could do it with him. One of them was from provo, and the other was from laguna. This week went by somewhat quicker than last week, we seem to finally be falling into a groove, they will probably switch our schedule to keep us from getting too comfortable. I am learning spanish way fast now, and can teach the lessons for book of mormon, apostasy, restoration, and atonement, although i am no too good at understanding when they ask questions. Fortunately my companion can. On Sunday we had a funny speaker, talked about satan pushing our buttons. He had a volunteer come up to the mike, and he happened to be british. Our speaker burned him alive, and had his companion come up to translate. He also talked about how when he was a stake pres. he was getting a drink at one of those double water fountains, and a little boy came up. There was nobody around so for half an hour he amused himself by changing the water pressure whenever the five year old tried to drink, getting water all over his face. The little boy never figured it out or got mad, he just kept trying to drink.

Hasta luego,

Elder Winkel