Winegar, Hayden

Painting of Hayden and his MTC companion Adam Rowe on the Charles Bridge

This week was great! We had a super awesome mission pday. It was good to see everybody and we also had a mission wide florbal tourney. I got put with my son elder olson and we won the tournament so that was a good time. Then we had mission conference and Elder Palmer from the presidency of the 70 and Elder McConkie came back. It was soo amazing. I always get soo much out of Mission Conferences and they are times that I will remember forever! One day I hope to be able to testify and carry the spirit the way that elder mcconkie and elder Palmer are able to. I don't know how to describe it, but everybody in the room could undoubtedly feel the spirit every time they stood up to say something. It was an incredible conference.  This week was the start of a new transfer and we started off with an exchange here in MB with my old comp elder Bonewell. It was a good time to just see the change in both of us in the past yearish. We can actually speak czech now haha. The rest of the week was ho...

Whats up!! This will be a super quick update! This past week was awesome, we had in person MLC in person in Brno on Wednesday which was aawesome. Then the next day the APs came to our area for an exchange and i got to learn a lot from them. I was with elder Mckinlay and he was like super sick, but he still managed to work as hard as he could and it was a good day. He's a beast. On Friday we went to a baptism in Prague with one of our friends Natalia and it was a great experience. She had a good time and will probably be put on date sometime this week. She knows that baptism is her goal, its just hard because it's such a big change in her life and she's a bit scared of it. We also had a transfer call and me and my comp are both staying here in MB for the next couple months so it will be a good time! This week we were able to start having a lot more lessons. It's taken a while but people are finally having second and third lessons happen and it's amazing. We've be...

Another amazing week here in Mladá Boleslav! We had some pretty funny and good things happen this week. I don't know if I'll be able to share the stories as well as I would like, but I'll try my best.  The week started off with a good exchange with the elders from Čbud, one of my favorite areas I've served in. They are awesome! We had some running sushi during pday which was a good time. Then i got to work with elder clayton for the next few days! He's in his second transfer, but already such a good missionary.  Later on in the week we had some pretty good lessons with our friend Natalie! She's doing super great and will go to a baptism with us this Friday to see what it's likes. She has gone from not believing in God at all and never thinking about it, to pretty much believing in God and seeing a change in her life because of it! It's been a little bit of a long process, but we will hopefully put her on bap date this week and hope she continues to progr...

Whats up! Time is really starting to fly and i learned a lot this week which was amazing.  This week I went on exchange with Elder Barta and he's only been on his mission for 6 weeks including the MTC. I learned so much from him because he is the most genuine person I have ever met. We had a lot of time finding on our exchange and every time he bore his testimony I felt the power coming from it. The spirit was soo strong in every conversation we had even if everybody say no to us. It was a great reminder for me to always rely on the Spirit even when I may start to get a little confident with my missionary skills or other things, none of it is important without the spirit. One of the coolest parts about the exchange is that his dad is from this small town of Mladá Boleslav and his mom is from France. When his dad became a member a long time ago, he got literally thrown out of the house. We had the opportunity to go visit elder bartas grandparents and it was soo amazing. They are sti...