Thanks for all the birthday emails!

I don’t have much time for a big email this week I actually got a lot of emails that I’m trying to reply to … 35 actually. I’m sending home my Christmas card today!

Zone conference was like a party! Way fun! I love our President and his wife so much. We had a lunch, watched Christmas videos, and had like a four hour devotional. President told us a little about his life story with pictures, then we got our packages! Way COOL.

Birthday was good! My comp made french toast! We had an investigator come to church named R****. He’s this middle age black dude from Trinidad that I honestly thought was homeless. We asked him if we could meet with him and he said “how about I just come to church on Sunday?”  Way cool! We met him at the bus station and his long dreads were all tied up and he was wearing a suit! We watched the Christmas devotional from the Conference Center for Sunday school and Priesthood! I think he really enjoyed it. He said he would come back for the whole time next week and that we could call him this week also!

M***** started to move into his new apartment! And he’s going to Histoinia(Estonia?) with that member this week! The member owns his own business and is taking M***** along for some work! We’ve taught him all the review lessons and he’s come to church both weeks so we just need to hear from the Stake President about when he can be rebaptized!

Love you all and thanks for all the birthday emails!

Elder Winkel

Visited Detmold again with Elder Barrios (from Timpview) on exchanges! So much fun!