Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Week 25

HELLO!!!!

So the BIG news this week is that I have a new companion!!! His name is Elder Seitz and he is from Canada. So far that is the only downfall ha ha!, but I am excited to work with him. We are going to be having a baptism I hope and pray this next transfer. More big news, my family got baptized in LB that I taught. I loved them and they loved me so much. I am so excited for them. Life is going pretty good here, I'm still driver and I eat every night at members' house and we having success in a hard area. I miss all ya'll and hope to hear from ya!

Love Elder Jimmie G. Watkins

Monday, January 26, 2009

Mom Forgot

Well I forgot to post the last two weeks e-mails so here they are.

Sorry!

Week 24

Well Family and friends,
I am sorry I am going to make this short. The church is true, I am getting a new companion next Tuesday!!!! He does not even know that. We are going to be having some better stories next week.

Love Elder Watkins

Week 23

Hello !!
So hope you all loved last weeks e-mail, I tried my best to make it sound as positive as possible. So, this last week I was in my first earthquake!!!! We were in our ward mission leader's house and everything was just moving and I was confused on what was going on and everyone was just laughing because I had no idea what happened. We are currently working with an amazing non member family that is going to be baptized in the near future. Not in the next couple weeks or nothing but in the near future. Please pray for us and them that they feel the spirit and soften their hearts and want to change their lives. I am excited also because I jsut finished the Book of Mormon for the second time on my mission and I can truly tell all of you, that the Book of Mormon is truly the word of god and that Jesus Christ truly did appear unto the Nephites as a resurrected being. Ya the Bible is nice and the word of God and I love the stories especially Old Testament. But everyone has the Bible and look where that got them. i encourage everyone to really and truly pray everytime you finish the Book of Mormon and ask if it is true or not. you will receive an answer.
i love all of you and miss you
Love Elder Jimmie G. WAtkins

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Week 22

HELLO!

This week has been great. We had success in finding 6 new investigators. Including an amazing "GOLDEN" family that we hope is going to progress towards baptism. Not much goes on in this area like it did down in the Hood of Long Beach. But this week I started in the book of Job in the Old Testament and I have learned so much from the Old Testament and suprisingly from the few chapters that I have read in Job. If you ever think you have it bad, go read the book of Job and see what faith he had and hope of the Savior. Then you will not be sad anymore.

My companion is great, he has taught me patience and I do not think he knows it! He is kind of a late bloomer in the morning and kind of a quick runner at night towards his bed. He also does not grasp many things about being presentable so I have learned what I need to improve on in that area. Anyways he is teaching me a lot and I am learning a lot from him. He is also from Utah, so of course he knows a whole lot about the church. But we are having fun because I am now the driver of the car so the car and the passengers are safe. My Spanish is still pretty good surprisingly we have used it everyother day here so this has been fun.

Love ya and miss you all!
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins