Woohoo! I made it. To Mexico. Wazzup. This week has been sooooo long and tough, but holy cow its been cool. these keyboards are a little bit messed, so sorry for any spelling or punctuation mistakes, it takes me five minutes to find the darn semicolon.
Anyways, I've already progressed so much physically, mentally, and spiritually. Its like in Zelda where at the beginning of the game, you can hold like 299 rupees, but I just got the Big Wallet, so now I can hold like 699 rupees. And leaving for the mission field will be another upgrade to hold the maximum amount of rupees, or knowledge or spiritual growth. Basically, for all the non-nerds out there, I feel like I can learn and grow more and faster here, in every way, than any other time in my life. Cool Stuff.
Ive seen some people I know, Elders Parr, Hunt, and Lee; what studs. Ive met a ton of new people too, and everyone pretty much seems like the best guy (or hermana). Mi compañero is named Elder Kotter, and he's legit. We get along so well, even though we have practically nothing in common. He plays basketball and baseball, and claims to have no musical talent. So he makes up for my lakc of coordination when we play basketball, and idk I guess I make up for him not missing music as much as I do:) descanso en paz.
Español is coming along real well, its insane how much the new missionaries have progressed so far. Ive gone from knowing how to say "en el MTC usaré lo que no aprendí del señor menos" to being able to teach a 15 minute lesson about the restoration in only spanish. shoutout to the gift of tongues. The CCM (thats MTC in spanish if u didnt know) is nice, food isnt too bad (most of the time, please send me snack packages, Elder Jenkins, District 14D). The CCM president is the coolest guy. He'll always stop to talk to the missionaries, and sometimes after dinner, when we put our finished trays on the cleaning rack, hes back there with the employees doing dishes. Hes a great Christlike example. D&C 50:26 says: "He that is ordained of God and sent forth, the same is appointed to be the greatest, notwithstanding he is the least and the servant of all." That relates well to the CCM prez, and also to the missionaries. Weve recieved a sacred and important calling, and have been ordained of God to spread a powerful, important message, but were meant to be the servants of all. Everyone go read that whole chapter, its fire. I especially love verses 40-42.
In one of the classes, we were talking about how we felt the Spirit when we came into the CCM, so I thought back to what I was feeling, and I remembered feeling excited. We all feel the Spirit in different ways, and at that moment I realized that I feel the Spirit thought excitement, energy, and just my heart racing. Once I thought about that, I have been able to recognize the Spirit much more often, and I can identify when Ive felt the Spirit before coming here. Like at my setting apart, I was nervous, but during the blessing it all turned to excitement. I recognize that feeling now as the spirit telling me that these next 2 years will be awesome.
I dont wanna make this too long, but I know this is the true church of Jesus Christ, and the Book of Mormon is the word of God. Read your scriptures, say your prayers, and listen to the new Rappers in the Aisle live album, out now everywhere;)
Love ya
Elder Jenkins
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