Cooper Winegar: January 2023

Waddup, hope everyone's going great!! Sorry for no email last week but hey the good news is that ive got tons of things to share this week!

Recent highlights have been

-11 people came to church two sundays ago

-1 person came to church yesterday, lol

-we have 3 people on baptism date!!

-it is likely that only one of them doesn't get reprogrammed

-In total tho, 8 or 9 people are interested in being baptized!! We've just gotta grind and the we'll see huge blessings here in the aeropuerto ward.

Another huge miracle we saw was yesterday during church. We were about to start up the second hour of church and we were kinda bummed out cause none of our friends came to church. We were especially missing our friend gaby, who was planning on coming with her two kids, 3 nephews and her sisters family to celebrate her daughter birthday. They had planned out a huge party here in the ward too to help support these people learning about the church... but they didn't come haha. Our mission leader got an awesome impression from the spirit tho and said we should go bring the party to her.

We left right there and, after some looking, found her a block away from her house, on the phone crying. She had been so excited to bring everyone to church, but something had come up between her sister and her husband that made it super hard to come to church. We said no worries, we'll have the party next week and it'll all be okay

But then we came back an hour later with a load of people, a cake, and of course, the coke. They were all so excited to see us and everyone in the family was crying. It was so awesome and I was so impressed to see such initiative from a ward. We didn't do anything, simply trusted in the spiritual promptings from the members. I know we will see miracles from this in the upcoming week.

Apart from that, things have been chill!! We went to parras again and I finally got my grape juice, it was freaking freezing there tho. We will be sharing the zone counsel today and also going to play tons and tons and tons of soccer lol. I love you guys so much, peace out!

-Elder Winegar

--Pics--

are a baptism we went to, a wedding, exchanges in parras, and other lovely pics that I put I but that I can't see lol enjoy

Avioncito

Monday, January 30, 2023

What's up guys, it's been a crazy week like usual. Big crazy transfer updates is that elder bermudez got sent to durango and i get to be companions now with my trainer, elder sanchez!! He's going home in 3 weeks so I get to Kill him mission wise, but it's gonna be an awesome few weeks with him I'm stoked.

Other highlight was that we did exchanges in a magic little town called parras. It was freaking awesome, it's super cold there and very green with lots of hills. They're also known for the grapes that they grow there, so I bought some more expensive than normal grape juice. I was gonna drink it when I got back to Torreón, but I ended up losing my backpack with the juice in a taxi. Bummer. But it was still super mega fun!!

This week we also had huge success and had 7 people come to church!! These past few weeks have been tough mission work wise, so it was huge to see the fruits of our labors.

I've also been very very sick with what looks like pneumonia, idk tho I still haven't gone to the doctor. I'll get there this week tho but please pray for me and my companions cause it's been tough trying to teach lessons while coughing a lung out.

But ya friends I love you all so much, lmk if you need anything. Peaceeee

-elder winegar

Pics are a ward mission activity we did, last day carne asada, service, padel, clean water river, parras, face masks, mission leader and his son and e. Gonzalez, bye bye Elder Mendoza, and pharmacy

Familiar faces

Monday, January 16, 2023

hey hey what's up guys. I've actually got some time to sit down and write out a well contructed email today, but it's been so long since I've been able to do that so we'll see how it turns out lol.

This week started out with some miracle filled exchanges! I went to my old area Independencia with Elder Castillo, who left the district a transfer and a half ago but he's back now yayy. He had fun trying to teach me his honduranean accent and it was all an all a fun time. Apart from that, we got to find a new person and set up two baptismal dates! One in particular was a person that I had been teaching who looked like he'd never progress. He had already been to the church more than 50 times and had commented before that he never wants to get baptized into "a white american church." But apparently, on the fast and testimony meeting two sundays ago, he got up and bore his testimony about how he wants to change his life! Ismael is an older fellow that is also blind, so this was a huge show of faith and courage.

So, we went and visited to him on Tuesday, told him that we're gonna prepare him for a baptism, and after some reassuring and some moral support, he said yes!

Other fun thing was interviews with president. He gave me super awesome advice and it was super fun as usual haha.

Crazy thing was that we had a multi zone conference! We had four zones come together, making us about 100 people in the church. It was super awesome being able to see lots of friends and old companions. Elder Bermudez and I also got to share some training workshops which was a blast.

One of the main topics that I could see in the zone conference and just the week in general is the importance of obedience. When we keep the commandments, the lord protects us. When keep exactly, put in the effort and live them, and encourage others to keep these commandments, we see blessings. I'm so grateful for the commandments and for the guide and trail they give us to keep our lives pure, clean, and joyous.

Apart from that, not too much has happened. We put Isabel Romina on date to be baptized, please pray for her cause she's still struggling with some things but she is beyond prepared and ready for a baptism.

Jesus Loves You. Share that love with yourself and others. Bye!

-Elder Winegar

pics yay yuhhh

Zone conference, exchanges, ihop study aaaaand I think ya. Byee also happy birthday again mom you da bomb

King day

Monday, January 9, 2023

What's up guys, hope everyones doing okay. Also happy new year!! We had a fun time with it and went to eat what everyone thought was a turkey until we found out that it was just a pig leg the size of a turkey. Either way it was very good and we ended up eating lots of it.

Also we were watching absurd amounts of fireworks from our house and ended up seeing a fire the size of two stories four blocks away from our house.

Today we went bowling, ate at the mall, played soccer and we gave an awesome zone counsel.

This week we will have interviews and a multi-zone conference.

Sorry this is so short, I was busy all day with Pday zone duties.

picssss- chinese food at mall, Skipbo on Christmas, splits, hat from E Schwab