Happy thanksgiving! So far we don't really have any plans, so we are
probably looking at a nice humble at-home thanksgiving with a baked
potato, bread and sandwich meat turkey....but I guess that's a small
sacrifice to be here in Spain, and I'll only ha to wait a year to have
my first REAL American thanksgiving meal.
This past week I said goodbye to my Chilean compadre and welcomed
elder Romano! He has been in 6 weeks so he still has that
"in-training" fire. It is interesting because its been a over a year
since I was with someone with less Spanish experience than I have, but
It's nice that the funny Spanish mistake stories aren't about me
anymore. In the very first appointment my comp dropped a nice little
testimony of how Christ can clean us of our fish:) we have developed a
plan to take advantage of it though; we call it "just smile and wait"
when he contacts people and they tell us they don't want anything, I
just blankly stare at them like I don't understand Spanish either and
then we just continue with the conversation. They just get this
helpless look on their faces as they frantically search for some non
existent escape route. The best thing about elder Romano is that he is
pretty fearless and just wants to work as hard as is physically
possible, which is MY favorite thing to do EVERY DAY! We have been
getting along great and I expect that this transfer will be more
miraculous than ever!
It's funny because I remember coming into the mission and trying to
explain to my trainer what vine is and how to dougie...Now my
companion is the one blowing MY mind. Yet he still hasn't achieved
explaining to me what is up with the whole throwing the water bottle
nor how to dab...(he's currently laughing at me because I thought it
was dapping...point made)
I have been blessed to witness an incredible miracle over the past
couple of weeks. So basically one of our big efforts in benidorm has
been the English class. I've never been a supporter of the classes, I
have kind of just always seen them as a way for missionaries to waste
time in the church waiting for maybe a convert to show up and speak
English with them, but I didn't really know what else to do when I got
here so we decided to give it a whirl. Well now we have about 8 or 9
people coming regularly and most of them aren't members! About 5 weeks
ago, a new guy from the Canary Islands showed up for the class, but
left right after the class before the spiritual thought. Then the next
week he stayed for the spiritual message. At the end, we found out he
was a programmer and we introduced him to one of the other class
members, also member of the church, who is a programmer as well. The
next week, they both showed up together and apparently had met before
to hang out. The next week, we had a baptism and so his friend invited
him and he came! All this Without even one appointment with him. We
finally got to talk after an English class and he expressed a lot of
interest in what we do and in learning more so this past week we met
with him and had an incredible appointment with him. We explained to
him Gods plan and how he could follow it and he told us how he really
just wants to have a family and feel like he has more of a purpose in
his life. We invited him to prepare for a baptismal date right there
and he said yes, and then just to make sure he understood correctly he
said, "so I would get baptized to follow the plan that God has for me
in order to one day return to live with him, and so that he can guide
me more in my life?".....uhh yeah, hit that one right on the head. He
came to church yesterday and loved it, even in a white shirt! The best
part was when in the class they asked who there was going to be a
father one day; I raised my hand, my companion as well, and then our
friend raised his hand as well. He's super awesome.
It's hard to think every day "oh my gosh, it's my last first weekly
planning" , or "oh my gosh it's my last 3rd day of the second week of
a transfer" but I'm truly enjoying every single day and my companion
is helping me stay focused until the end! Hope you all have a great
week. Eat a piece of turkey and lots of rolls for me :)
Love,
Elder Jenkins
I had to include the picture of my two trainees together...priceless
Elder Jenkins and elder Romano
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