5 more days at the CCM!

hello everyone, how are ya?

So I´ve had a few questions this week, first off, Elder Joseph from Haiti thinks I look like Michael Douglass, and I recognize the name but I have no clue who that is, so is he right? Can someone send me a picture so I can see for myself? What the heck is a wharf? Why does my neck only pop one way?

Anyways I forgot to write stuff down to email this week but I´ll try my best to make this as entertaining as possible. Elder Kotter and I have gotten a lot better in our lessons in Spanish with the help of the Lord. The gift of tongues is so real, and we work so well as a companionship. We just play off each other and take turns saying things that actually sort of make sense in Spanish. It´s like in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! when you get a double item box, and I´ll drop a banana peel of faith and Elder Kotter will throw a red shell of truth and scripture. What a guy, he´s so cool. I hope we get to see each other at some point when we get to Córdoba. 

I did a puzzle in the waiting room to get my immunizations checked off. it was of some little kids and a barn. I´m gonna be the travel leader for all the Córdoba missionaries, which sounds like a cool title, but it just basically means I have to bug everyone to have their bags the right weights. Yay me. I ate 15 rolls on thursday. We got to watch part of the Lion King in a devotional, so that was sick deans. I got to play a fish video game on the rowing machine at the gym in the morning, quality graphics, responsive controls, overall I´d give it a 3/3.

I´m getting a haircut later today, and I´m gonna ask for it as short as they are allowed to give me, cuz my hairs getting way too long. I´m sure I´ll probably look like Megamind afterwards, but I´ll send before and after pics and we can all make fun of me together.

There was a really cool devotional we watched by Elder Bednar, all about the Character of Christ and having Christlike love. He talked about how in every situation in the scriptures, Christ´s instinctive reaction was to turn to the welfare of others, never himself. I thought I had a good idea of that before, but Bednar gave so many awesome examples of Christ in the scriptures, as well as people nowadays that demonstrate Christlike love. It was really inspiring and I´m motivated to try to adopt that kind of love into my life, but it´ll take a while.

Thanks everyone for being so awesome, enjoy life back home without me, listen to Rappers in the Aisle and Dream of Mickey Mantle, love ya,

Elder Jenkins

¿A qué pasa, calebaza? - CCM

WhAts up fam, this is Elder JEnkins coming at you with anOther weekly update! This week was stellar as all of them are. quick question, who would win in a fight, Tony the Tiger, Cap´n Crunch, or Lucky the Leprechaun? we were arguing about this amongst the district, and my bets are on Tony because how many tigers have pirates killed, especially tigers that are smart and have great sportsmanship? and Lucky has magic, but its all defensive and evasive magic, so I don´t think he would have much offensive power against a tiger. but send me your rebuttals. 

This week I have learned a lot. Spanish became a lot more difficult to progress in, and stuff stopped making sense. also I'm tired one hundred percent of the time so that doesn't help me when I'm trying to focus. but I kept working hard and its turning out all right. Its crazy that I'm only going to send one more email from here until I get to Argentina. I'm stoked to leave, but I'm nowhere near prepared enough.

Cool experience from this week, One morning we got up early to run, and when we came back to shower, the water was freezing cold. We were all a little upset by it, but we carried on with our day, peeved at our cold shower. Elder Kotter was getting some toast at breakfast, and started talking with some new Elders from Haiti. Kotter told me that when he was putting Nutella on his bread, the Haitian elders were surprised and shocked by it. They were amazed that they could put their own nutella on their own bread and eat it, and that they could have as much as they wanted. Kotter shared that in our testimony meeting that night and it kinda put a lot into perspective. We were bugged that morning that we had a cold shower, and these Haitian elders had so little back home that they were amazed and grateful that they could have nutella on bread. So crazy. We started sitting with them and talking with them more, and they're really cool guys. They speak French and Creole, and a little bit of english and a little spanish, so basically our only real form of communication is the little bit of spanish we know, and the little bit of english they understand. It's super cool talking with them though, their home lives are so different than ours. Their dream jobs are being construction workers, and I cant handle a cold shower. Crazy. They're really cool guys and we have a cool handshake now. 

I don't wanna make this too long, but just know I love what I'm doing right now, and I don't want to be anywhere else. I love and miss you guys, and I know this church is true. Read your Book of Mormon, it's awesome.

Hasta luego, mis estrellas.

Elder Jenkins