Entries by jcwinkel@gmail.com

I Stand All Amazed

Simply put I am nothing but thankful for my mission. It has been such a rewarding experience. I was given a chance to grow in the best way possible, by being stretched. I have seen the dark, but more importantly I have seen the light. The light that the gospel can bring us. I recently […]

Cheers

So, this week we I got to see Berlin for the last time… Also got to see my boy Elder Burns, and a bunch of my other friends. We were blessed to have a great meeting with Elder Charles from the Seventy, he’s right now the Area Seventy in Greece, and for a time was […]

Wonderful

This week went well, we kept ourselves busy enough. Saturday night we went and took our dinner hour to play some basketball at the park, we played with a couple guys (safe to say we won;)) Afterward taking a drink break, I talked to one of the guys we played with about the NBA. I […]

Tote Hose

This week I went on exchanges with the Elder Allen in Groitzsch. We promised their 16 year old investigator and her mom that we would make them some American pancakes with some good ol’ Aunt Jemima high fructose corn syrup. To sum it up, they loved it. So it was a good time. We also […]

First Week in Halle

First week down in Halle. Tuesday night we overnighted in Hamburg to say our goodbyes to Elder Adams 🙁 also got to drive Suicide Sarah for the last time. Halle a good city, about 200,000 people, it’s in East Germany so the people very honest, so I guess that’s a good attribute. Not much is […]

Halle

Well well, happy 4th. I’ve been transferred to the city of Halle! There I will spend my last 6 weeks of sleeping on an old ikea bed! I think it will be really good, something new to keep me going. This week had some good service, we helped a family move into a giant old […]

Joyously

This week I went on exchanges with Elder Matis in Bergedorf, we had the nice whole day to do some finding. It was a good time and we found some contacts and hopefully found some people that are ready to hear more. Elder Matis is great, we talked basketball the whole time, ahh it was […]

Happy Vaters Day

Simply said, I’m thankful for my dad. He’s a cool guy. It was a hard week but we had some good things happen, we had a zone training meeting in Hamburg, and right after exchanges with the zone leaders. As good as always with those guys, I was with Elder Germann. We did some finding […]

Glückauf

This week we saw many cool things – we did a lot of finding, finding, finding. We found some cool people who are interested in the gospel. We found a little family from Syria who luckily doesn’t live in government housing for refugees, and they speak pretty solid English, with a bit of German. They […]