año - general la madrid

On Wednesday I'll hit one year in the mission. It's gone by fast.

I'll share my favorite quote I read this week for my spiritual thought: "It was asked me by a gentleman how I guided the people by revelation. I teach them to live so that the Spirit of revelation may make plain to them their duty day by day that they are able to guide themselves. To get this revelation it is necessary that the people live so that their spirits are as pure and clean as a piece of blank paper that lies on the desk before the [writer], ready to receive any mark the writer may make upon it." - Brigham Young

Have a great week! 

Elder Jenkins

We had a church openhouse for everyone who wanted to see what it was like, and we had a great turnout

Asado with the zone

farfal, kotter and I in a kettle

AUTHORITY - General La Madrid

Good week here in CBA. Ill share a quick fun experience I had this week. We had exchanges with the zone leaders, and as we were waiting for the bus, a guy came up to us and asked "What is the sword of the Spirit?" He caught us off guard, but told us that we had it in our backpacks. he said "the sword of the spirit is the Word." He continued to cite scriptures and talk loudly at us, getting us all hyped up saying stuff like "you are a man of GOD. You are a man of POWER. Your body is FILLED with AUTHORITY!" He wasn't a member of our church, he just really loves Jesus. He didn't even let us talk enough to ask his name. He talked to us like this for about 10 minutes until our bus came, and continued to yell to us as we rode away. It was a solid experience, and it definitely got me hyped up. It got me thinking about the calling of being a missionary, and the power and authority that comes with it. I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve, and now that I'm officially HALFWAY THROUGH  MY MISSION, I'm excited to make the most of the half I have left:)

Elder Jenkins

Great Week - General La Madrid

Great week. there are lots of highlights, but I'll share my favorites.

The first is that we were able to visit a kid named Emmanuel in the hospital. Emmanuel is a super sweet 10 year old kid who has cancer, and wants to be baptized. He's currently in the hospital, be we went with our ward mission leader to go see him and talk to him about the Plan of Salvation. He's honestly the sweetest kid, and as he improves his condition and we get the ok from the doctors, we'll be organizing his baptism:)

Next, we were able to help a family from Bolivia that we're teaching build their house. there's still a lot to go, but we dug some trenches

Finally, this week, we visited a few inactive member families this week. It was a really spiritual experience for me to hear their experiences of their conversions, and their testimonies that they still have, and their desire to go back to church, but their challenges and fears in returning. I shared a scripture from 3 Nephi 17 with them that I really like. It says:

6 And he (Jesus) said unto them: Behold, my bowels are filled with ^acompassion towards you.

7 Have ye any that are ^asick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or ^bleprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will ^chealthem, for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy.

8 For I perceive that ye desire that I should show unto you what I have done unto your brethren at Jerusalem, for I see that your ^afaith is ^bsufficient that I should heal you.

9 And it came to pass that when he had thus spoken, all the multitude, with one accord, did go forth with their sick and their afflicted, and their lame, and with their ^ablind, and with their dumb, and with all them that were afflicted in any manner; and he did heal them every one as they were brought forth unto him.

I used this scripture to describe the state we're in sometimes, we're sick or afflicted  physically or emotionally or spiritually, but Christ is always ready and willing to heal us. We just need to have faith and come to Him, like the scripture says.

Love you all, have a great week

Elder Jenkins

ceiling of a museum

visit in the hospital

digging trenches

vroom - General La Madrid

Hey everyone! great week this week, Elder Ortega and I have been a ful working hard every day. He's had lots of good experience working with members and has showed me some good ways to teach and work with them! Its been great, he always has great ideas and the fire to work hard! He keeps us busy for sure! 

small highlight from this week was playing ukulele on the roof of our apartment on a Sunday afternoon as the sun was going down with orange trees on either side of me while waiting for the zone leaders to call to give reports and boring stuff. the mission is the greatest, it keeps you busy all the time helping people in the most rewarding way, and then gives you a few magical moments to relax and feel good about life.

That's gonna be my spiritual thought this week: APPRECIATE THE SMALL THINGS IN LIFE! God gives us so many blessings and sometimes we don't even realize how much he's helping us. Try hard to acknowledge when things are going well, or when someone gives you a small act of service or when the moon looks pretty or whatever. All good things come from God, so try to recognize and give thanks for all the good things in your life! There are more than you know!

Elder Jenkins

(PS: this past weekend was the year anniversary of the Rappers in the Aisle concert and EP release, go give the classic jams a listen)  

Literally the only picture I took this week was of the lego car I made.  Sorry mom