February 24th 2014

Hey everybody! 

We had some awesome miracles this week and I got the chance to baptize one of our investigators yesterday! She was so prepared! She is from Romania, and a member from Romania introduced us to her. She is really humble, and we have been having the member interpret for us as we taught her. She felt the spirit very powerfully several times, and in the first lesson our member friend turned to us and said "she says she wants to be baptised!" We weren't certain when she would be able to be baptised because she was struggling to give up her smoking. We taught her on Wednesday and told her that if she stopped smoking there and then she would be able to be interviewed on Friday to be baptised on Sunday. Her english isn't very good, but she told us "ok, no more!" She was good to her word and was able to be baptised! 

 

I have to go for zone pday but I love you all loads! 

 

-Kyle

 

 

February 17th 2014

Really short one today! We had a district p-day at the church today, and I really feel like it improved the unity of the district which was great! My companion and I put together a game of jeopardy with some gift cards as prizes to make things more interesting :) 

Things are going really well here although we had a lot of appointments fall through this last week! I am expecting a lot to improve in that area this week though. 

I don't think I have mentioned to you yet our good friend in our area named Haggley road! It is a main road that runs right through the middle of our area. Our area is quite small, and we have found that there aren't really any good places to talk to people and share the gospel with them . . . other than Haggley road. Whenever we are not teaching people or going to meetings we go find people to teach on Haggley road. :) We see knew people every day which is fantastic, but my companion has been in this area for 4 months now and he says it is getting really monotonous! 

 

Love you all! 

-Elder Winters

February 3rd 2014

I just wanted to tell you all about one of the craziest days on my mission! All of last week it seemed like just about everyone we talked to seemed to be saying that we could meet with them to teach them on Saturday, so we were thinking that Saturday would be an epic day! Then on Saturday it seemed like our patience was being tested because a lot of things didn't go as planned! We didn't end up teaching any lessons although we had something like 8 of them set up! The people either called to cancel or they just didn't show up for the appointments. Then we got stuck on a computer at the church for a long time trying to get the program for the baptism the next day sorted out. When we left the church we accidentally locked the church key in the building, which was problematic because there were a few lessons planned to be taught in the church about 40 minutes later. After calling around for a while trying to find someone who could bring a key over, we got desperate and broke in using a shoe lace and a library card. Later in the day my companion got a flat tire and wiped out on his bike, and I realized that I left my waterproof trousers in the flat when it started to rain. I just couldn't believe all that was going on! I kept thinking throughout the day that I had a choice to be either discouraged or to be happy. I decided to be happy, and at the end of the day when we were out talking to people in the rain after the last appointment fell through, I found that for some reason I was happy to be there. Lesson learned, you can't choose the circumstances but you can choose to be happy or you can choose to be miserable!

 

Talk to you next week everyone! 

 -Kyle