May 16, 2016

So I haven't wrote this for a little while I think. We have been talking with a lot more people because there are no progressing investgtors. in this area right now. We did a ton of contacts this week, which is hard in the cold. Everyone wakes up at 11 and goes to sleep at 6, so we walk in the streets from 6 to 9 looking for anybody living that we can talk at. We got in the last 2 weeks 28 new investigators, but with them, we will probably leave 22. Yay numbers. 
A lady in my ward made me a laundry bag. I'll send you a pic when if i find a computer that can do it. It is really cold here now. Around 8 celsius,  don't know what that is in f. We got a new bishop, but he doesn't have any counselors, which is a little weird. 

I had legal stuff this week, but it was in a different area really far, so we needed to sleep there. We went to the train station in bus, but the bus was late, so we missed the only train to where we wanted to go, and had to wait until 9:35 for the next one. When we got halfway they cancelled the trains,so we got off and wandered around lost at 11:35 at night in a not so nice area, until a member saw us and helped us to know where we needed to go to get another bus. So we went there and took 2 more buses until we were more or less close to where we wanted to go. Then we gave up and called the elders in the offices, cause they have the only car, and they came and got us. We got to the pension at 1:30 in the morning. So that was pretty fun. I can't think of anything else that happened this week, so that's that

Hasta luego,

Elder WInkel

 

 25 April 2016

So this is my new companion, and a pizza de argentina, which I gifted myself in my last day of my other area . This week it is still raining. My new ward is a good size, which I like. We don't have any investigators progressing right now, we have to find some. We take the bus a ton, but everybody normal does, so it's not too bad. The other fotos are a district activity and my old comp and me coming in out of the rain.

Week 20

So this week was kinda empty, a lot of appt's fell thru. We found some more people to teach, and that's always cool. It has been pretty wet and rainy here, I think it has rained almost every day for the past week and a half, kinda weird. I found out that a guy in my ward doesn't have a tribe in his patriarchal blessing, he is a sealer in the temple and sings really good, and doesn't have a tribe. I'm not really sure how that works. I'll try to send some photos next week.
Elder Winkel

Week 19

This week was pretty bad and good at the same time. Almost every one of our fixed appts.
fell thru, but we found a lot of new people. We have been teaching this lady who is terminally
ill with cancer, and she accepted a bautismal date, but she has to get married to the father
of her children or seperate, and this always takes forever. We also got a date for an older
lady who's husband just died, but she told us it is just a goal, and she doesn't think she
will be ready on that day, so we'll see what happens!

Week 18

Okay, so this week some people told me that I need to send more details about these
people who got baptized. The family Chancan is Jaime, the father, 44, Christina, the
Mother, 42, Jhack, the oldest son, with 12, Franck, the second son, with 11, Mateo,
the youngest son, with 7, and Candela the daughter, with 6. They are awesome  
investigators. They moved to Argentina from Peru 6 years ago, they are very peruano,
 very short, and goditos. They live in Campo Tongui, which is almost a nice place,
because their house burned down with all of their stuff when they went to visit their
parents in peru. elder Rosti baptized the parents, and I baptized the kids. I don't know
how they chose, two days before the baptism I asked elder rosti who was baptizing
them and he told me that I was going to, suprise! We thought it would be cool for the
presidente de rama, and of young mens to do the confirmations, since they know them,
and also the people here really like authority figures.
Ezekiel is 17 years old, his mom and older brother are members, and his dad and
younger siblings are not. He is super addicted to a game called Counter Strike.
He wins money playing it professionally.
Gonzalo is his friend, and is also addicted to Counter Strike. They play it all day, every
day.
This week we talked with a lot of people, and had our stake conference. No
investigators came, but its alright cause the micro that we took to the stake center
was super full.

Week 17

7 March 2016

Hey, so this week we baptized 6 people! It was good. I liked it. I got to
baptize two of them, Jhack and Frahnk.
I also got to confirm Gonzalo, which was pretty scary, and cool.
We had 139 come to the church this week,
which is by far the most ever. E' Rosti got changed to monte grande,
and I got a new comp, E' Cedeño de Panama. He really, really, really likes
Panama, and plays football americano.

Week 16

29 February 2016
 
This week we had 6 people commit to baptism for 5 de marzo. Pretty cool, also we ate ice cream this week. Not the same, but it was still good. Got to see Elder Bednar, and he talked to us about missionary work, so that was cool. He gave our mission the blessing of an apostle with the authority of the Melchizedek priesthood. Spanish is going alright, I kinda understand the general idea when people talk, especially about church stuff. That's just about all that happened this week, Hasta proxima,

Elder Winkel

Week 13

So, this week was pretty similar, nothing super awesome or super bad happened this week. Oh, I gave 2 blessings in Spanish, that was interesting, but I don't know if the person recieving the blessing understood.Here are some pics. I am just sending all of them, so I don't know which you are getting, so be careful.

 

Week 12

Okay this week is going to be a little shorter than normal cause i'm just about out of time. We found Pedro in the street, but I don't think he is interested anymore. The work is progressing in other places. 
I don't ever want to eat fidelos again. 

Elder Winkel

Week 11

Hello outside world. I have survived one transfer in Argentina! You can all congratulate me and send me 

money, or ice cream. I'll take both. 

Pedro is still gone so that sucks. We had a newer investigator come to church for the first time, and she 

brought three of her children and two grandchildren over 8, who are all taking the lessons now, so that 

was pretty awesome. We have been trying to get her to come for 4 weeks now. This week we broke our 

record for most lessons taught in one day, which was sweet also. I met this guy that lived in new york 

for ten years and is named Oscar, he is pretty cool, and cooler cause he speaks english. I am learning 

spanish pretty good. I can understand most people, about half the time now, and they understand me 

about the same, some more, some less. I have one kid that understands everything I say, and when 

people at the church don't understand he repeats the same words, just with a better pronunciation, 

and the people understand, which is nice. 

Our favorite scriptures to share are in the beginning of Mosiah, 2-18, depending on what the people 

need. I am liking here, six weeks passed a liiitle bit quicker than the ccm, which I am okay with, 

learning lots, but I have started to have a little difficulty talking in english, so I can't talk perfectly 

in english, and can't really speak casellano either, so it is kinda interesting!

Hasta lunes,

Elder Winkel

Week 10

This week was pretty awesome, and fast. We taught a lot more lessons than we usually do, and found 6 new investigators! We haven't seen pedro since the incident last sunday, but we will probably find him this week. We had tramites this week, pretty intresting. mostly we waited for about five hours. Had a lesson with these invetigators, Abel y Juliana in tongui, they are usually gone, but we finally caught them! Taught a lesson and after they were like, ¨come back and eat dinner with us, we'll cook salmon for you guys¨. This is super awesome cause I am always hungry here, and also salmon is super expensive. I am excited, and ready. Had intercambios this week with the Dl, that was.. different. He's a chileno that doesn't know english, but always tries to speak it. I don't understand his english,and he doesn't understand my casellano. We got along alright. We had a lesson with a investigator, who happens to be a  jehovah witness, and she said that she would only read the bom if she could find a prophecy, without our help, about it in the bible. A little difficult, but my comp is super excited about her. We took the younger chancans, jack y frank with us proselyting one day, jack is 13 and frank is 12. This day was terrible, cause we had 5 appt. fall through, because for some reason every person we saw, or found was wasted. They liked it anyway, so we were safe with that. Had 2 baptisms sat. for these 2 girls in our ward, but they were only baptized late, 11 and 9, so they weren't really investigators, just needed the lessons cause they are older than 8. I met a guy from New York, named oscar, a little ironic. He speaks english, and is super cool. Talk to yous next week.

Elder Winkel

week 9

So this week was pretty sweet. Moises passed his baptismal interview, and today we ran around for four hours and got a wedding certificate for Chencun family, so they have an interview this week. They are our golden investigators, do all the right things, and look for ways that they can be better without us telling them. For New Years we went back to our pension, and watched fireworks until 1. We weren't supposed too, really, but our dl said it was okay since it is impossible to sleep during firework time. If you guys think people back home like fireworks, you are mistaken. They aren't illegal here so everybody buys a ton. The whole city was lit up from 10 to 1, pretty cool, and loud. We met this guy named Pedro, and taught him a lesson, he is a capo, I think, says that he will come to church sunday for sure. Family Falcon, some other investigators, didn't come to church, the dad got attacked by a dog and had to go to the hospital, so that sucked. i am definently getting better at Casillano, which is awesome, for obvious reasons. I think that we have eaten pasta for every meal we have cooked in the last two weeks, which is not super fun, but it could be worse! I still like pasta. Out of time, talk to you next week!

Elder Winkel