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