At this crucial point of change, it's a good time to remind you that my aunt Teresa has made a super epic blog where she puts all my emails and pics and extra stuff, its really cool. check it out: http://
This week was real hard, not gonna lie. Hard is good though, it means you're getting stuff done. We've been working a lot with a family that's less active, trying to get them to get back to church and help two of their daughters get baptized. They weren't able to go to church on Sunday, but we taught a good lesson at their house after. We also invited a different boy from a different family to be baptized, and he accepted! When we meet with his brother, we'll also ask him to be baptized. They've come to church lots of times, its about time they should be baptized. Exciting stuff.
Highlight of the week was Saturday morning, when I got a call while eating my "Big-egg"TM (Patent pending) from my padre of the mission, Elder Farfal, who is currently in the office as the pensionero, or the person in charge of the apartments. He lets me know that him, his companion Elder Smith, and President Correa are gonna be at our apartment in an hour to paint and fix everything. YAY! It was super duper fun, listening to music together (You already know that Prez was jamming to some Rappers in the Aisle), painting everything so it looks super nice, going to get lunch with Prez and my padre, and singing hymns all together. It was a great time, and it was super fun to hang out with Elder Farfal again, it's been a while since we've seen each other. Also President Correa is a great singer and he gave me advice of what types of Argentine flutes I need to buy and learn to play before I go home. He showed me video examples. Now the pension looks really clean and nice, and we had time to organize it all today.
We got to eat an asado at a member's house, and we're gonna eat another one tonight somewhere else. Asado is just a ton of meat that's all cooked real slow and good. It's the best meat you'll ever have.
I'm writing today, not tomorrow, because we have a mission conference tomorrow, so we'll need to travel to Córdoba. It'll be great, its always fun to see other missionaries, and get trained by the assistants and President. I'm really excited.
This week I've thought a lot about how amazing the Atonement is, especially after tearing up teaching it to a family during an exchange in a different area. We watched the Prince of Peace video that the church made, and it's really powerful. It's amazing that no matter what pain or suffering or sin we're dealing with, Christ has already paid for it, we just need to "come" to Him into his "arms of mercy" and He's ready and willing to help us. Everyone be sure to be grateful for that huge sacrifice.
Hope you all have a great week, don't miss me too much.
Elder Jenkins
(PS, if anyone has an idea of what I should do with my subject lines, please help me, I feel lost now that I've finished the Pokemon theme song.)
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