Great Week!!

Hola Parents!

 Okay so this last week has been cray...kinda? So about the pictures it takes 20 minutes to upload 1 picture at this library i cant be bothered to upload them. same with email's if i try to email one its takes ages to send and then the computer freaks out and its bad... Anyways this week was good. We have an investigator named Liz, we taught here 2 times this week and we have planned for her to be baptized on the 14th of Feb. She is amazing! She has had such a hard life and wants to know so much! Our lessons with her are my favorite! She believes everything we teach and studies stuff out for herself and learns things without us even helping her!!! agh shes so cool. On a less positive note i am still sick from November with a chest thing so I'm probably gonna go in and get a chest x-ray because its not getting any better.
  So this week should be interesting. Hopefully we can find more people and i can get some sleep. Life = crazy. Cool British thing to try put malt vinegar on some chips (french fries) its super good, also i cant remember if i told you but i love things with vinegar now? i know weird right? Salt and vinegar crisps and fish and chips dowsed in vinegar. Missions are so weird. AAGGHHHH

Anyways love you guys! Stay fresh!

Love Elder Winder

The Book of Mormon

Wow this is so weird, yesterday at church we talked about prayer in all our lessons, today I started reading the BOM a different way.  I got a paper back copy and in the front wrote down a question I have. Mine was how does prayer benefit us and what blessing can we receive?  So now as I read it from introduction to end, I am going to mark every single verse that talks about prayer or the blessings that come from it. I'm excited to see how much stuff gets marked. When I finish I will go back to the front and write the answer underneath the question. Then I have a book tailored to a specific questions.  

Do you remember my friend Dustin Sorenson? He emailed me and he just got his mission call as well to the Alps so he will be in Germany and Austria and stuff. I personally never thought he would serve a mission but I'm excited for him and Kelton as well. 

This week we had interviews with president and I went on exchange with Elder Gros from France. He's super french and he's hilarious!!! We taught a couple lessons this week and commited a family to baptism...but they are moving in 2 weeks so we wont be able to see them get baptized but its alright as long as they know the truth:) other than that its been a pretty basic week.
I actually finished D&C this week so I've read through the whole thing and my mind is full of dodge now... there is so much to be learned in there and in the pearl of great price. I did get my bike and it should last me for a very long time! its a very nice bike for the price i payed for it. The bike shop loves the missionaries so they always give us super good deals!!!! You're right this weather isn't good for bikes maybe you can talk to president and get me into a car? ;) haha wow its freezing here all the time it doesnt matter if the sun is out or not its cold.
We are going to Wollaton Hall today... aka Wayne manner.  That's right I'm going to the place where Batman lives, or where his house is filmed in the movies at least haha. Ill take pictures! hope you guys have an amazing week.

Love Elder Winder

Teaching, Yeah!!!!

Well this last week has been fun! I went on 2 exchanges because we were behind on exchanging with the district. So i went with the Zone Leaders from Tuesday to Wednesday! We had a great time! we taught an amazing lesson on the Plan of Salvation and we committed their investigator to a date! Then i showed him the talk and i changed his life! (Elder Alldredge) We almost had to drive to Lincoln to check up on some elders cause they weren't texting in and safe to us so we were freaking out and had to call the President and stuff! The president just told us to call them in the morning and if they weren't there then we needed to drive up there. Luckily they texted later and said they were okay and so we had them call president. Then on Thursday to Friday we had exchange with another team in our district. I went with Elder Battles....Hes freaking crazy! he's one of the funniest guys I've ever met! We went to a Chinese investigators house and they cooked hot pot for us!!!! Hot pot is the best Chinese food around no doubt! Then that night we played some chinese card games with some other Chinese investigators. It was lots of fun! So when we exchanged back the next day we went to district meeting and that was good! After we exchanged back latter that day me and Elder Packer found a Polish guy named Andrew! he doesn't speak any engllish but he understood enough to set up an appointment with us. So when we taught him we brought a 10 year old kid who spoke English and Polish to translate for us. We taught the restoration and about how the church can change Andrews life and he was completely willing to change! We havent been able to see him since but we are trying to set up another appointment! thats all for this week! OH wew bought Settlers of catan! its the districts new favorite game! we play it whenever we get a free chance. Today we should be playing it so it will be fun! i need like £60 for a decent bike. And you didnt put down Wesleys email -_- but yeah the ward is good too the ward mission leader is amazing! he will do anything for the missionaries. Sorry i am sending this to both of you and not doing individual emails i dont have a lot of time today on the libraries computers.

Happy New Year!!!

 

 

 

Well last week was crazy indeed. Im gonna try and remember everything that happened but ill probably forget a lot of stuff. SO the beginning of the week was super normal, p-day changed cause it was a weird week so we had a normal day on monday. After we confirmed skype times with our families we just went to work. We went and did some finding and didnt find very many people. I dont think we found anyone actually. Tuesday was a weird day. Ive been sick so we tried to get me into a private physician but they are all on holiday so i had to go to a NHS (national health center) which is kind of like a doctors office but we went there and ended up being there for 4 hours and ended up paying £50 for a nurse to tell me that im sick and that i should go home and get some rest and drink water.......My mission president could have told me that.. they didnt even prescribe anything for me? It was a waste of time. But for the rest of that day we went and taught some people and ended up getting 3 new investigators and helped a lady whose baby was in the hospital due to complications. It was a crazy day!!!! Then on Wednesday we did something fun i cant remember. haha. But Thursday was crazy!!!!!!! So we woke up opened presents! got some socks and some other cool things and tons and tons of candy which was bad cause me and my companion are trying to eat healthy. Then we went to the other elders in our districts house for breakfast. Our breakfast consisted of 1 egg each and a piece of bacon and some cheese...we are so poor T-T haha but after that we watched a movie and me and Elder Nogueroles played Magic The Gathering for 3 hours, Agh we are nerds!! hah then we all went to our dinner appointments and me and Elder packer went to a members house to eat and skype. there was way too much food and we didnt finish even half of it. Then it was time to skype.....So apparently i have a bit of an accent and i didnt even know it so i was pretty happy:) all my siblings voices sound older and they got way cooler presents than i ever got so thats good haha. but it was lots of fun to sykype home! then after that we just went home and fell asleep cause we were so drained. Friday was BOxingDay so our whole district went to Nottingham city center to shop at all the stores and everyone was having sales. I bought a suit some white shirts and some ties and some nerd stuff from a place called Forbiden planet (best place on earth) and i got some new scarfs. The rest of the week has jsut been the same old stuff eating lots of food and going out finding...oh and it snowed here....ive never been so cold in my entire life!!!!!!!! agh its the worst. we cant ride our bikes cause there is so much black ice. so thats all my last week!

 

so yeah it was a fun week! im super mad i missed the wedding:( like super mad. he couldnt wait 2 years?

anyways this week should be good as well:)

love you:)