Cooper Winegar: October 2022

Whats up guys, happy Monday!! Hope you're all doing super super awesome. This week was killer, we saw a ton of cool things happen. We also went on two transfers at the beginning of the week which was cool. Exchanges with Elder Chavez was bomb, it's always cool to be able to receive advice from him. The other exchange was with Elder Randall, who's the best. He just barely got here last week so he's still learning Spanish a bit. But we ended up seeing loads of miracles

One of the miracles we saw was when we went to the hospital to go give a blessing. The members husband was going to get brain surgery the next day to clean up his hemorrhage, so the wife was super scared for him and they were saying that he had a 33% chance to come out of it good and a live. She had faith in the priesthood so we went with her. We had to argue with lots of people to get in, but after a while we made it in. Elder Randall had to give the anointing in english which was sweet and then we blessed him and got out of there. The big time miracle was that on Sunday, the wife told us that the operation was successful and that he finally ate his first quesadilla in months!! Super cool to see the faith of the sister and that he's all good now.

Other cool thing was that on Saturday we ate some super good tacos. They were from different parts of the cow head, so I got tongue, gizzard, cheek, and lip meat. 10/10 for all of them apart from the gizzard meat lol, don't recommend that one.

But ya we're teaching lots of people too, we found 4 people this last week which was awesome, normally we only find like 2 in this area. Lots of huge blessings are happening in this transfer.

Also for those from my family that are wondering, we will not be visiting grave sites to visit the ancestors of other people. There is not a cemetery in the area and the members aren't gonna go visit their dead ancestors either. Ya i know, I'm disappointed too

Love you guys all so much tho, have an awesome week BYE!!!

-Elder Winegar

Pics

District, pics from the exchange with elder randall, tongue, eating the tacos, and other pictures lol

Happy coco day

Monday, October 31, 2022

What's up besties, weekly blog time. This week was banger and we had transfers which was super cool and sad. The good news was that I get to stay in the same area!! I'm super stoked that I get to stay in Independencia here in the playboy mansion. Bad news is that Elder Caballero left and I'm gonna be training here. It's gonna be a fun change and I'm actually super excited for it lol.

My new comps name is Elder Mendoza, he's from here in a state called Mexico State which is a pretty sweet state name hahaha. I wouldn't be mad if the U.S. added a 51st state called America State lol.

I've been with Elder Mendoza since Friday tho, and in our short time together we've found an awesome dude to teach! We found Victor on facebook and he's been asking for help with Bible studies. Saturday at 10pm he sent us a message asking when we can do a study and we told him come to church and we'll talk after... and he came!!! That day we had the primary program so you already know it was a awesome meeting. Other cool this was after the second hour the Elders quorum president asked for a volunteer to teach the next class. And guess freaking what. Victor raised his hand.

Homie loved the church so much and we ended up talking for 2 hours after and he's gonna bring his parents and family next week to not only church but also the activity that's planned out. He's also big into the Mayan calendar. Apparently, the Mayans had their own kind of astronomy signs, so he told us our signs hahaha. I'm a red feather-plumed dragon, lmk what you are

the week with Elder Caballero was pretty cool too tho. I already don't remember what we did haha but I took lots of goodbye pics with him lol.

But ya that's the week, not much more to say. The church is true and keep choosing the right. Peace and Love

-Elder Winegar

Pics

Lots of goodbye pics, one of my favs with grandma Rivas finishing off the cookies. Also a handsome dog. Enjoy

Dad time pt. 2

Monday, October 24, 2022

Whats freaking good guys!! Just finished up a crazy week, I feel like I kinda went through it all haha. But through all the crazy stress of some things, there were so many miracles that I saw it was nuts.

First off we had zone conference which was bomb. Highlight was that I got to share a mini capacitacion thing which was super fun, also got to see a bunch of friends I havent seen in forever. I even got to see and meet someone else that was from bountiful, Eli Barlow! We couldn't believe that we'd never seen each other in school, especially because we graduated the same year, but it was cool to be able to talk to someone from good ol b-town.

After zone conference we had to zoom to the baptism we had! It was easily the most last minute baptism i've had in the mission. We interviewed him on sunday, but then the next day we got a text from his wife saying he wasnt doing good things to her which was a big time problem. So that Wednesday we had him go to an interview with the ward, and he passed. But then the mission president wanted to interview him and was telling us that we would most likely be canceling the baptism. But no he said all good, go ahead. So after we had to plan the baptism i less than 24 hours, with the zone conference getting in the way too. But ya it turned out super pretty and they're very happy!

One miracle of the baptism is that we would always tell them that following the commandments brings huge blessings. They were stoked to see the blessings but kinda were doubting it a bit. But the day of the interview with the mission president, Pricila (the wife of the couple that got baptized) got reached out to by a banking company that she applied for almost a year before. She'd totally forgotten about it but gratefully accepted the job interview. Then, the day of the baptism, she found out that she got the job! It was something super random that nobody expected, but she's taking it as a miracle and so are we.

Also a random dude gave us a ride the other day. The dude, Nahum was talking about how he has a friend from Utah and that she told him to give the missionaries a ride if he ever saw some walking. So he picked us up and started showing us all the famous latino rappers hes met, because he just happened to be an "up and coming" rapper too. It was a mini miracle for us that hyped us up a bit lol.

But ya love you guys so much!! Let me know if you guys need anything, love you all tons. The church is true and sag your prayers

Go padres!!

Elder Winegar

Pics---dog, me looking very excited in the capacitation, elder schwab, ELDER SANCHEZ, baptism, district, nahum

Buen Día

Monday, October 17, 2022

No time but heres some pics. Enjoy love ya bye