Hey family!!!
Alright, I´m planning on keeping this email fairly short because I want to try writing more emails every week to everyone more personally :) (cuz a personal letter means so much more right?) Anyway, here are a few of the things that happened this week:
First of all, I met my new ward for the first time at church yesterday. All 13 members. Haha, i was pretty blown away when i showed up to the church right before the meeting started, only to see 13 members, 5 of them i believe under the age of 12, and 1 of our investigators. It was pretty...crazy! It was a little overwhelming though because this ward used to be just that...A WARD. Anyway, it looks like we have plenty of work we´ll be doing here in the ward, which is just great because Elder Tague and I just love a good challenge. The members of the ward are really solid and amazing people, and I know that we are going to be able to work strongly together to bring the members that have fallen from the path a little bit back on track. Also.....I've been regretting my poor choices of not continuing piano lessons to the point where i could play hymns! It´s weird singing in church without a piano, not gonna lie. Anyway, i found a simplified hymn book in the apartment, so we might be doing some winging it here in the ward to bring it back alive. Another fun fact of sacrament meeting.......both my companion and our investigator bore their testimonies 2 times to fill up time........kinda weird huh?
Other fun facts for the week is that we have 7 people with baptismal dates! Very big increase from 1 last week ha. These people that we have are just great though, one of them is a couple that recently had a baby, one of them is a guy that just moved into the area and is seriously INVESTIGATING the church in all aspects (book of mormon, folletos, internet..which can be sketchy, but its exciting to really find people searching for the truth), and just some other people that we´ve been finding that are just really really good people, and it´s exciting to be able to bring them the truth.
Well, that's enough about me.....i´m glad to hear that you are all doing well! Sounds like winter is just around the corner.....and for me the summer just arriving...BLEH. But, here´s for Nate (one day late) ¡¡¡¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!!! I hope that you had a great birthday!
Also mom, I will be getting my package on Wednesday, no worries :) I´m super excited for it. Also, if you send another package in the future (wink, wink), i might want some little games that we can play in the apartment during p-day and stuff, maybe games like (missionary impossible, warriors of the promised land) cool missionary games like that. just a thought.
Anyway, everything is going well here! Loving the mission and everything about it.
Here´s a couple quotes that i heard this week:
"Happiness - only real when shared" -Into the wild That's so true.......not only in aspects of the gospel, but in all the fun things of life...can you imagine going to Disney land alone?
"True doctrine understood changes action and behavior"
-David A. Bednar
Anyway, i think that´s all i´m going to write for the week. I´ll work on sending some pictures as well and writing more frequently to everyone! Thanks for your prayers and support.
The Lord´s work moves forward!
Elder Winger
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