Our courage will pull us through - Dean Funes

I'm gonna need a lot of courage this next week I tell you what.

This week ended the transfer, and we got the call Saturday that Elder Oliveira is leaving Dean Funes and I'm staying to TRAIN A NEW ELDER. Holy Frosted Flakes. I'm really nervous but really really excited. I'm in Córdoba right now, and tomorrow we'll all meet in the mission home to pick up our sons. I'll let you know next week who it is and where he's from, because nobody knows yet. President decided after doing interviews with the trainers and newbies. It's gonna be awesome.

Another funny highlight this week is that we were at the house of some people we're teaching, and one of the girls was doing their homework, which was to describe one of their friends, in English. She asked for help, and I helped her describe me, translating when she didn't know the word or grammar. She was naming off adjectives like "tall, white, fun, SKINNY" and I said "Muchísimas gracias" because I'm fatter than I've ever been but working hard to lose the weight. Éxito. 

This week was good, finished off some good work with Elder Oliveira. Everyone go read the story of the Brother of Jared in the Book of Ether. Great great stuff.

Cool spiritual experience this week, I've been reading Doctrine and Covenants, trying to finish before the transfer ended (I did) and as I was reading, I kept having weird bad thoughts of doubting that some of the words really came from God, and not just Joseph Smith. I felt really weird and bad so I prayed and asked Heavenly Father to help me know that Joseph Smith was a prophet through the Doctrine and Covenants. The next day in personal study, I read Section 135, where the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith is announced. As I read it, instead of having the weird doubts of, "Hm what if he just said that to..." to realizing and knowing that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and he "sealed his testimony with his blood." Really really cool, I also listened to various talks about Joseph Smith and now all those doubts have gone away. He's a prophet.

hope you have a lovely week. Stay scrumptious.

Elder Jenkins