First fun thing was that we had an awesome zone conference with one of the 70's! Élder Montoya was so so awesome and the spirit was so strong, it was nice hearing from a general authority. The Torreon mission here isn't exactly the most appealing place to visit, so pretty much no one ever comes to visit us lol. So, for all my buddies serving in places like Rome, enjoy those weekly devotionals with General Authorities hahaha. Anyways he talked about priesthood keys and that we should work hard, even past the last day. Cool stuff.
Other super cool thing is that we finally got Gaby's entire family on date to be baptized!! Gaby is the awesome person that we kinda home-wrecked last week, but she's been killing it in the gospel since. Her sons, Axel and Oscar, have been eating up the gospel too and watched the Restoration. When we came back to their house the next time, they piled us up with questions, it was so sweet. Unfortunately I will not be there for their baptism because...
I'M GETTING TRANSFERED!! After serving a third of my mission in the same church building, I will now be going to open up an area called Vicente Guerrero. It's a mini city with 16,000 people, with probably just as many churches. It's a two hour bus ride from the rest of my district, and better yet I don't think there have been any missionaries there for the past few years, so there will probably be no records or nothing.
The best part of all this is that I will be training there!! I will be taking the bus ride to Torreon tomorrow to meet my baby boy, and then we'll head out to the middle of nowhere to start the grind.
I can't tell you guys how excited I am for all this, but I also would be lying if I wasn't nervous and a little scared out of my mind ahaha. But, I know that despite my inadequacies (my teaching, Spanish skills, etc.), the Lord has put me right where I need to be. I have been prepared for this obstacle and I know that the Lord will be there to help me out.
I wanted to share a scripture, but nothing came to mind lol. Something I did love though was from Sunday school yesterday when we talked about the story of David and Goliath. I had always thought of David as being timid leading up to and during the battle, but after reading it with everyone I found out that I was very wrong. David met Goliath with confidence and faith, knowing from the beginning that, with God, he could beat Goliath.
Apply this with me this next week and take your challenges head on with faith and confidence in God!! He's prepared you guys to be where you are and he will continue to help you if you let him. Love you guys 
-Élder Winegar
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--Lunch--zone conference--baptism--that I totally forgot to mention lol--service--pizza with Gaby and her Fam--bye bye church
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