Sevilla Semana Santa summer survivor

Hello everyone

Well it's official. I am a Sevilla Semana Santa summer survivor! I
tried to translate that into Spanish and in front of the whole ward I
said "I'm officially a Sevilla free-loader"...whoops. It's been a
rough one, but I could not have been more blessed by any other area in
the mission. It was worth every moment in the heat, seeing the
miracles brought by the refiners fire. Unfortunately, the time has
come for me to leave behind all the "armas" I have come to love here
and to bring the gospel to another part of Spain.

This next transfer, I'll be going to the beautiful beach city of
Benidorm! It's super touristy and ritzy and has also been described to
me as Las Vegas "but worse". Right now there are missionaries, but
both will be leaving and I will be going to start fresh with a brand
new missionary whom I will train. I kind of feel like Jonah going to
preach to nineva, or alma to ammoniah....and I'm kind of scared, but I
am sure that amongst the wickedness there are souls searching for the
truth of the gospel, and we will find them!!

The week has been pretty packed with exchanges and meetings. We had a
special meeting of trainers and I found out that both of the
missionaries I trained will be training as well! I guess I didn't do
too badly after all! :)

Awesome miracle: we were walking up the stairs in a building and this
kid was running around the stairs. We stopped him because we thought
he was the man we were looking for (we sound like policemen...) and he
told us we could pass by. We went by another day and it turns out that
he is 18, from chile and came to Spain because he is a professional
ping pong player!! I'm like, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN IN THESE 6 MONTHS!?
But other than that being awesome he is one of the most willing to act
people I have ever met! We asked if he would say the prayer ar the end
and I was ready to respond to his excuses for why he couldn't but
before I could even fold my arms he was already praying! He is really
awesome and I can tell he will be a great investigator. I'm sad I
won't be here to see his conversion.,,or to play ping pong with him.
We were going to play today but it couldn't happen...I would have won
anyways.....just kidding.

I would say the worst part of the mission is leaving those in the
areas you have served. At least when I left my family, I knew exactly
when I would see them again and that they wouldn't go anywhere; yet,
in this case, you never know when you might cross paths again. It is
hard, but I couldn't imagine if I wouldn't have left my other areas to
come here, which means there are miracles yet to happen in this
benidorm!

I hope you all have a great week. Pray for me so I can find my house
and we don't have to sleep on the beach .... That would be tragic now
wouldn't it....

Love,

Elder Jenkins