Winegar, Hayden

This week was great! Tuesday and Wednesday were honestly pretty long days and we got a little wrecked street contacting. We didn't have too many lessons, but it was fun. Ever since school got out, it's been a little different finding and there hasn't been as many people willing to talk with us. We still found some pretty cool people tho.  Thursday we went to our bishops garden. Him and his wife are awesome. She picked flowers off of a bush and dipped them in potato sauce and grilled them on the campfire. It was pretty interesting and I probably wouldn't ever eat it again. But we had a good czech BBQ and that was awesome.  Friday was super awesome because we had our last Zone Conference with president and sister skousen! They are some of the greatest people on this planet and I am soo lucky to have served with them the past 20 months of my life. Their examples have truly changed my life and I will forever be grateful for them. The biggest thing I learned from them is how...

This was another good week. We had mid-transfers on Saturday night and I will be staying with my comp which I'm super hyped for. Things have been soo awesome here!  This will be a quicker one. We were able to see the power of faith This week which was really cool. We didn't have very many lessons This tuesday or Wednesday and so that meant tons of time outside on the streets the entire day. On Tuesday we street contacted 6 hours and we didn't find a single person that wanted to meet again. It was crazy humbling and I haven't had that happen in quite a while. But Wednesday we were planning our day and decided to keep our goals super high and trust that God would bless us with our efforts. That Wednesday was the most people I've ever found in one day on my mission! It was super cool to see how this truly is God's work and when we trust in him we can see some incredible miracles!  We were blessed to travel on Friday to Karlovy Vary a Cheb. Karlovy Vary is one of th...

This week was incredible! The work is absolutely moving here in Plzeň and it's been soo fun to be part of it. Last week we did a mission wide fast and all the missionaries got split into groups. We had a group of 3 companionships and we all fasted for each other and the needs of each area. Some of the things we fasted for were  - Help our investigators receive a testimony of the restoration and the Book of Mormon - More investigators to come to church on sunday - and to fast individually for our friends Petr, Oleh, and Francisco This week we saw some of the coolest miracles come from the fast! We had a lesson with Petr and it was amazing! We were able to put him on Baptismal Date for June 29th and it will be amazing. He has such a cool story, God really does work miracles!  We were also able to put our friend Oleh on Baptismal date for July 19th! It was an amazing lesson and it was soo cool to see how excited he was to have the feeling and comfort of the Holy Ghost with him fo...

Whats up! This was another really good week! It started off with a new friend we are teaching named Matyáš! We found Matyáš about 2 weeks ago and we were able to have a lesson with him. When I talked to him on the street, he told me that he had started believing in God 3 days before because of some life situations. He's a super cool guy, and the lesson was great. The coolest part is that we invited him to pray at the end of the lesson, and he said the most amazing prayer ever. We sat there for about 10 seconds afterwards and we asked him what he was feeling during that moment. Then he told us that it was the greatest feeling ever that he had never felt before. He truly felt like God was there and that God loved him. We then asked him to describe it and we were able to help him identify that it was the spirit. One of the coolest lessons of my mission and we should have another lesson with him this week.  We also had a lesson with another man named Petr. He told us how he's readi...

This week was one of the greatest weeks of my mission! I love this place. We had an absolutely packed day on Wednesday with 5 different lessons in the span of 3 hours. All of the lessons were soo awesome and we are teaching some incredible people. That was the most I've ever taught on one day my entire mission and it was great. It's been cool to see the miracles that are happening here in Plzeň.  Before all of those lessons we were outside on the streets and found a dead man passed out on this bench thingy. We like walked over to him and this other guy walked over at the same time. All of us were crazy confused and then we called the ambulance and everything. It was a crazy experience. After all of that, our senior couple took us to dinner on the town square and it was amazing! The best part of the week was Friday and Saturday. Friday we drove down to prague and had zone conference. It was soo good and i wasn't in charge of anything so I jusy got to sit back and learn. Stra...

Whats up! This was my first full week in Plzeň and it has been soo incredible! This place is truly amazing. We were able to have quite a bit of amazing lessons and had a lot of success finding this week. The past year I've been in smaller areas and it's been great, but it's been totally different working in a big area and street contacting here. Soo much different people to talk with I said bye to elder Rowe on Tuesday morning and trained down to plzen with elder ballsteadt. We are having too much fun. It's been such a good time, and I can't think of like any bad things that have happened This week. Every day we have had like 1 or 2 really good lessons with some pretty awesome people we are teaching. People have started to just say yes to us more on the streets and the lord is truly hastening his work here in Plzeň.  I've also been blessed with an incredible district and ran a Book of Mormon 5k this morning. It's been a good time.  This week our mission was ...