Dear family,
 

Well dang it sounds as though the winterrose boys are just not having good luck with cars lately. I bet Morgan will have thighs of steel by the end of the summer though. ;)

Well, not a lot has happened since last Wednesday, we gotta see some cool stuff though and i finally got to see a sunset from by the beach. it wasn't as cool though because it went over the mountains in Malibu rather than over the ocean like i was expecting. still it was a super bomb picture.  Well, this week i got to go to the Tongan ward and we sat in front of the Na'a family and it was cool to hear about how their son is doing in Alaska. oh yeah, we had Elder Johnson of the 70 come down and speak to us all on Friday and that was pretty cool. he gave us a lot of tips on missionary work. This Sunday we didn't have any investigators show up so it kinda was a big bummer cause we worked hard this week to get them all to come. But what can we do haha.

Well, that was about it for this week haha. not a very long one but next one will have more going on. Thank you all for the letters and the prayers you send. keep em coming. ;) Hope you all have a good week.

Love,

Elder Channing E. Winterrose.

Hey there family and friends!

Happy Fathers Day!

Wow it has been a long while since the last email haha, just looking through my planner a lot of cool stuff happened. To start with, on last Wednesday i reached my 11-month mark and it was super weird! in only a month i will go from counting up to counting down and i am super excited for that haha. :)  Thursday we had our interviews with president and then took our car up to the mission home. on the way back home we drove down rodeo drive and i gotta see a Bugatti on the road! it was super cool. just one more thing to add to my dreams. on Friday we went up to the visitor center and one of the movies we wanted to watch was in English so i got to practice my translating which was pretty nice.

this week i have also been learning how to play piano but i only get to practice now and then for a few minutes. i can read it pretty much perfectly now i just have to get better at putting the paper to the keys. :)  Saturday we had a cool opportunity to do a bunch of service and while we were working on an investigators lawn at the first project, the neighbors were having a yard sale and i scored a cycle trainer for like 30 bucks! that was nice. Then we went to another service project to move boxes into this truck for a member in manhattan beach area. it was a ton of boxes haha. we filled an entire u-haul then there were maybe like 30 left sitting around. when we came back to his house he gave us a tour of his house.......
it was freaking awesome. it has 5 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, a 6 car garage, a pool house, an art studio, a library and much much more. :) it was the house of the week on this magazine called Digs. it was super cool. the guy was super nice too. he gave us wrist bands that say play hard and it's an ambigram so you can read it upside down the same. they are pretty cool. its all on larrywestover.com. I wish i could build houses like that one day. :)  Just yesterday we were driving around and we drove by EA's Headquarters and it was pretty cool. It is like every cool company that everyone has heard of is based out of here.Well that was all the exciting stuff we saw.

This week the work has been going good and we are working hard. It is a lot of work to keep up the momentum while everybody is making the transition to summer. We have some good investigators and i hope to see some baptisms here soon.  Today we got to go to the temple and it was great. I think i learn a bunch every time i go. It is always nice to hear people pray for us as missionaries and for our work specifically.

That sounds like a crazy accident that happened at britt's work. Just make sure to always play it safe and you will be protected.

As far as the ACT and all that i haven't talked to pres yet, but i will have to do it soon. Just remember, i have never done this before so i might need a little help. If you want to call pres and give him more details that might help us out cause i have no idea what to really tell him haha.

oh and about the pants, I had a member look on jcp.com for me and she said she couldn't find any but maybe i could get a new suit for cheap or something. Idk i need ideas. this suit is starting to look more and more crappy. :/ but if i get new pants i need them to have no cuff, that's what i meant, and a flat front. the ones i have are j ferrar.

Well, that is all for now. I gotta go email pres so i will see all you later!

Love Elder Winterrose

Hey family!

Well this week has been a pretty crazy week. we have been super busy this week with a bunch of stuff going on. Elder mitchell had a baptism up at his old ward on friday and it was good. we also had a baptism yesterday for elder Casper and Gunnels. We had to be there too. On Saturday we had a super fun activity with the ward at the park across the street from the church for Father's Day. it was a good one. we had a bunch of sports and games and tons of food. We played soccer for almost all day so i got a pretty good tan. :)

That is crazy how the weather is up there. i thought that at least by now it would be a little bit nicer. It sounds like all of you are doing a good job of staying busy then. I actually miss all of the projects we usually had going on. The other day elder mitchell was like, "who's idea was it to put the fridge door on this side??" and i said, " i dunno but were about to change that haha" so we spent about an hour pulling all of the hinges and doors off and putting them on the other side. it was most definitely a successful project. :) I just hope that every once and a while i can find something like that that i can use my winterrose ingenuity for.

Besides that this week had been a kinda slow one with the work and our investigators were super busy and not available for the week. We got a lot of catching up to do. we also got a cool new grill because our apartment manager is awesome and bought one for us. he told us to write our name on it so people will actually take care of it. we used it twice already. it works great.

Lately i have been thinking, my year mark is coming up pretty soon and i might need a few more supplies haha. one being a new pair of the black pin striped suit pants because they are my favorite and i kinda tend to wear them everywhere and for everything. they are kinda on their final stretch.  that is if you can find them.

Well, that is about all that is new down here in Inglewood but i am loving all of the letters and i miss you all.

Take care,

Elder Channing Winterrose

PS. If y'all feel like sending a package with candy and snacks and ties they are very graciously accepted. :)

pss. my pant size is 32 or 33 by 30 and Flat front is the best with no hem on the bottom :) thanks mom.

Hey there family!

whoa! Landon got married! congrats cuz!

Well this week has been just a little crazy. we had splits twice, i finally got to go with elder casper and it was great. Only one downside. I got in a car wreck on Friday right as we were leaving the apartment to go switch so it kinda stinks. i am pretty sure im not at fault and nobody got hurt just a little bumper damage but it has been kinda stressful getting everything done. I didn't let it put a dent in my day though haha. well, what else. .. we rescued elder casper and elder gunnels from a crazy hobo. we had a power outage on Saturday and gotta play with flashlights all night. Our appointment for Friday to go to the visitors center fell through for the second time so 2 weeks in a row. that was a bummer. Then I also met the a new family and talked to an investigator's mom yesterday - it was cool.

Well, sorry if this one is kinda short but i had to fill out a huge accident report form. :,(

Lately we have been teaching these two families and both accepted dates. now we just gotta get it all done by the 24th and it will be peachy! ( knock on wood)

so Tuesday was pretty cool, in the morning i invited that family to be baptized so that was 4 new dates and that night i invited one more kid we are teaching to get baptized and it was pretty cool. he might be ready by the 1st of July. :)

Oh yeah! i also got a new belt and it is working great. thanks mommy! :)
I made a super cool planner cover and i will have to send pics next time.

My comp is super nice and he's fun to work with. idk if i said it last time but he is from St George.

Well, i Love you all and i am trying hard to keep writing back everybody and so far i am actually keeping up with it so don't be afraid to send me a letter or a post card. :)

Les Quiero,

Elder Winterrose

hey there family!

I have to say when i read dad's email i smiled when he said he hadn't been doing much to develop himself spiritually and then said just family scripture study, prayer and went on to talk about how church went. The reality of this is that the three most important things that we can do to further our growth in the gospel is pray, read the scriptures and go to church. It really is the little things that count. :) One big part of being truly converted is if you have consistency in the little things. It may seem like it doesn't make us build our faith much but the thing is when bad things happen that would otherwise weaken your faith, they don't. Those three things are the most important for members because it is the strong foundation that we have to build upon. without those then we have a very weak and unstable foundation.

Well this week has been a pretty good one. lately we have been seeing the fruits of our labor and have 4 people set for baptism on June 24th. 2 families and hopefully the two husbands will start meeting with us too so it should be an exciting month getting them ready. i have already met the husbands and they are super nice. :) it is just a matter of getting a while to sit down with them. The work is going great in Inglewood.

Well, the news, Elder Blackham went up to Silverlake area which is like everything north of my first area in Downtown and i got a new companion named Elder Zachary Mitchell who has been out one transfer less than me and is from St George utah. He is pretty cool and a nice guy.

Monday was super sweet.  For a zone activity we went to a park to play a game called Battleship and to join a barbecue that the Tongan ward was putting on. The game is  played by having 2 teams on either side of a net with tarps on it so you cant see and having them all lay down except for 2 people who are throwing.  you throw water balloons across to the other side to try and sink the other people. it was tons of fun. the best part would have to be the food though. I was initially thinking maybe like a few Tongans would be there cooking for us but then i was pleasantly surprised when we showed up hahaha. They had a giant pit and they were cooking like 2 pigs on it and there were like burgers, chicken, steak and everything else you could imagine. When they cut the pig they just hacked it apart and it was gone in like less than 5 minutes hahaha. :) It was super good food.
that was pretty much the highlight of our week. today was elder Gunnels and Elder Gonzales' birthday today so we went to the yogolicious and had a birthday lunch. today i am going on splits so it should be exciting. :)

I got that letter from a girl on Friday, britton, so you can let her know i'm writing one back it just takes a while. ;)

Man it is funny y'all say it feels like you're still waiting for summer to come because i feel like i have been waiting for about a year for winter to come hahaha. :) the weirdest thing is that it is like the same temperature but people are all like " Yay! Its summer and now we can dress like summer now!" (even though it is like seriously the exact same weather) it must be a Cali thing. I met some guy that served in Jamaica with brad baird today too. it was cool. small world right?

well that is all for today, I love you all and i am actually getting better at writing letters back so feel free to test my awesome literary capacities.

Love, Alfalfa.

(Elder Winterrose) :)

Hola todos!

this week has been a pretty good one. it is always crazy busy getting ready for transfers and this transfer is no different. this last week we have had some mini miracles. we have a zone goal that is really pushing us to work more with the members.  this has been tough lately but it is really helping to make the work move forward even faster. we have kinda been the anchor out of the 3 companionships in our district this week because the zone leaders have been super busy. our prayers definitely payed off though. one day we were sitting there literally trying to find out how we could get one more member referral for our goal and the phone starts ringing. it was a brother from another ward who had been working with a friend of his and he wanted her to meet with us. we were like HECK YEAH! and the next day we baptized her...              just kidding. :) that would be sweet. we did have an awesome lesson with her and she came to church and brought a friend! our bishopric was on them like flies on the LA river. they were taken to class and everybody did an awesome job. Way to go Inglewood segundo! :)  anyways now we have like 4 new investigators from that.  the other mini miracle was on Thursday night we realized that we needed a bunch of member presents for the goal. we took a second look at our plans and realized we already had 4 member presents planned! it was sweet.
it is super cool how god takes care of his children.
so yesterday was really nice. after church we went to the wards piano recital and it was really good. the kids play like Mozart. :) afterward we went to the missionary fireside and it was really cool. we are going to be losing a bunch of super great missionaries. i got to see a few other people i haven't seen in a while and it was nice.
On our way there it was a super cool solar eclipse thing and it was pretty sweet.

Well, i'm glad all is going forward back at home. it is crazy how fast things change in the lives of the Winterroses. It is sad to hear daino was having a hard time with baseball. i hope he sticks with it and doesn't let it get him down. He is a great little player and i know he is probably the only one tough enough to play that position. Dang. i remember having that van like 2 weeks or something before we left. it will be super weird getting home and having that one. haha.

well, This week has been great. the members of the ward have been a big blessing lately and i hope they keep up the momentum. :)

I love you all and am glad to be serving on the lords time.
Every member a missionary. always look for opportunities of service.

Les Quiero,

Elder Channing Winterrose

Hey there family! sorry but this one is going to be a little short. right now i am re formatting my hard drive and i had to take a driver test but this week has been great!  We had a really fun activity dinner thing for mother's day at the chapel and it was a great missionary opportunity. it seems as though this week our members were also doing great getting investigators for us too. our investigators are doing all right but i always hope for more for them. it was sooo nice to hear from all of you and i hope you all have a great time.

I will write more next week i Promise!

con carino,
Elder Channing Winterrose

Okay, I'm going on double trouble.
i thought we would be more pressed for time but i guess it isn't that much of an issue. I LOVE FAST COMPUTERS. if you didn't already guess that about me. i just got done moving over 1,180 pictures that i had taken on my mission to the compy then back. I think i should probably go through them some time and delete a few hahaha. :)

I was wondering if anybody has good suggestions for Cd's that are good for missionaries but that aren't just Mo-tab. and if you feel so obliged send a copy my way. ;) Well, i think it was way sweet to hear from all of you. I love hearing your voices and it was funny having my friend Elder Casper call Daino. we recorded it haha. :) E. Casper was like you sound different! and Dain said, "you sound like your nose is all stuffed up!" we all busted up laughing. I miss you guys a lot but i remember what mom told me. Everybody says they miss you but they still don't wanna see you for 2 years. :) This has been a really cool ward and i am super excited for it while it is gaining momentum.

I like a lot what you said about faith and trusting in the holy spirit. if you have a good idea that you think is from the spirit, just follow it no matter what. Just give it the benefit of the doubt. God won't chastise you for at least trying to do what is right. :)

I hope you all continue to do what you know is right. if there is any doubt about it then just STOP IT.

Well, I hope you all enjoy my words of wisdom!

Love,
Elder Channing Winterrose