Week 19

Wow. It's going to be a nice break writing an entire letter in English
after a week of speaking more Spanish than I ever have in my life! I
look back to those days in the mtc when we had "Spanish fasts" for a
day and just laugh at how difficult I thought that was. Now it's like
everyday is a Spanish fast. The worst part is my patience level is at
an all time low after a whole day of trying to speak another language
but when I get mad I can't really say anything because all I know to
do in Spanish is talk about Jesus.

Sorry I don't have any really funny Spanish mistakes or crazy
missionary work stories to tell this week. Elder Striebeck and I spent
the week trying to get on our feet, introducing him to people in the
area and setting our goals for what we want to do over these next 5
weeks. I can already tell that I'm growing a lot from this
companionship and from having to take the lead until my companion
learns the area.

I'll end with this story. So 10 weeks ago, more or less, elder Whetten
decided to make a giant bowl of gazpacho for elder van Leeuwen.
Gazpacho is basically tomatoes, vinegar, and other spices all blended
up and chilled. Well, 5 weeks ago I saw the bowl on the bottom shelf
of the fridge and told elder VL that he should eat it or throw it
away. 2 weeks ago, Elder Van Leeuwen and Whetten left. 1 week ago, I
was going to make cookies but for the life of me couldn't find the
giant bowl. 3 days ago, I was looking on the bottom shelf of the
fridge for my apples and saw the bowl....I removed the bowl...I
uncovered the bowl of what I thought was gazpacho. What I found was a
giant bowl of half frozen gazpacho and half frozen mold. The bad thing
is, I'm sure that not even close to the worst thing people have found
in the missionaries fridge...

Well, like always, I hope everything is going well in all of your
lives. I can't believe how fast time is flying! Pretty soon I'll be
counting down the weeks instead of counting them up, but that not a
day I'm looking forward to. Until next week!

Love,
Elder jenkins