{"id":617,"date":"2015-11-30T23:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/?p=617"},"modified":"2016-03-07T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T02:28:25","slug":"mormonism-is-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/mormonism-is-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormonism is Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin again last week&#8230; This time we had to wake up at 4 so it was a bit of a long day. But because our train got to Berlin at 7, we had some time to do some sightseeing. We went to the Brandenburger tour, not very many tourists out at 8 so it was a cool sight to see. We also passed the French Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving was a little different &#8211; last year was McDonald&#8217;s, this year our ward mission leader took us to a Chinese buffet, and told us stories of when he was a mission president and such.<\/p>\n<p>A little miracle we saw\u00a0on Friday\u00a0was as we were doing some street contacting we talked to a Russian lady and she told us &#8220;I was wondering when one of you would talk to me, I\u2019ve seen you and other people like you walking around the city and none of you have talked to me yet!&#8221; Moral of the story, we have an appointment\u00a0tomorrow\u00a0and I\u2019m pumped!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful for the peace that the gospel brings to the soul, no matter the circumstances, it\u2019s always there.<\/p>\n<p>Elder Winkel??<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In front of the French Embassy<\/p>\n<p>Chinese\u00a0Thanksgiving<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"FrenchEmbassyBerlin\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin-1030x222.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin-1500x324.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin-705x152.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin-450x97.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FrenchEmbassyBerlin.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-619\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"ChineseThanksgiving\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving-1030x769.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving-705x527.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving-450x336.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChineseThanksgiving.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin again last week&#8230; This time we had to wake up at 4 so it was a bit of a long day. But because our train got to Berlin at 7, we had some time to do some sightseeing. We went to the Brandenburger tour, not very many tourists out at 8 so it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winkel.org\/hunter_WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}