Elder Salmon (left home to Utah this morning)
ME!!!!! Fatter than ever from all the wonderful member food
Elder Smith
This week we have only one of those Baptismal dates actually happening. Her name is Ellen and it is a miracle story that all the credit goes to Heavenly Father. She is a sweet lil old lady that has been wanting to go to church for 20 some odd years and a WAY LONG story short, we are baptizing her Sunday.
Life is going good, Elder Danesh and I are still together we had transfers today and for some other odd reason, President Sexton put me as a District Leader. So now I get to do Baptismal interviews and trainings yay!!! All the interviews I do also are for the SPanish Ward so they will be way fun. Not much else is going on to report just normal ol' days as a missionary. Get up at 6:30am and go to bed by 10:30pm and get rejected all day.
Love Elder Watkins
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Week 54
To all those that are under the words of this e-mail...
Time is flying by WAY too fast and it is scary to think about it but things here are going amazing. In our companionship we have 8 baptismal dates and as a mission we have 35 of those and more are coming this week. Not all of them are progressing very well but it is crazy to think that we have 23% of them just in our area. That is a big responsibility on our shoulders and are working our hardest to make sure these people will feel the Spirit and make the decision of their life.
We are teaching a young lady who is about 23 and she is awesome. She just started going back to church and then some reason our Zone Leaders knocked on her door and taught her and passed her to us because she speaks english!!!! and thats what we cover so we were excited for that. But she has a baptismal goal of the 6 Sept a Sunday. We have a couple of families that we working hard with so please pray for us and the mission. This is the most we have ever had at one time in the mission and we are all way excited. My greenie is doing good and we are having some funny experiences b/c he is super shy and very soft spoken and that doesnt go very well here in California. Thank you so much for everything you all do.
Love ya!
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Time is flying by WAY too fast and it is scary to think about it but things here are going amazing. In our companionship we have 8 baptismal dates and as a mission we have 35 of those and more are coming this week. Not all of them are progressing very well but it is crazy to think that we have 23% of them just in our area. That is a big responsibility on our shoulders and are working our hardest to make sure these people will feel the Spirit and make the decision of their life.
We are teaching a young lady who is about 23 and she is awesome. She just started going back to church and then some reason our Zone Leaders knocked on her door and taught her and passed her to us because she speaks english!!!! and thats what we cover so we were excited for that. But she has a baptismal goal of the 6 Sept a Sunday. We have a couple of families that we working hard with so please pray for us and the mission. This is the most we have ever had at one time in the mission and we are all way excited. My greenie is doing good and we are having some funny experiences b/c he is super shy and very soft spoken and that doesnt go very well here in California. Thank you so much for everything you all do.
Love ya!
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Week 52
Dear Everyone that is under the text of this e-mail!
I have finally had a normal week after three weird weeks of not feeling like a normal missionary. Everything from moving apartments, getting a companion that we did nothing for a wek together, then having a half missionary for a week, and then being made a trainer and that made it awesome. We have had a crazy week on top of that. Our car broke had to be in the dealership shop for 3 days after they said it would take a couple of hours, then we rode bikes, and then my comp's bike had problems, so right when we got the car back we had to take it to a shop and drop it off there for the weekend and the problem is is that we have a larger area to cover and we have to conserve miles and we ride bikles half the time and ride car the other so I pray that this next week will smoothly and normally. But most likely not because that would not make it a missionary week!
In spite of all the things that have gone on we have a few baptisms that will be coming up sooner or later if ALL goes to plan and nothing else happens. I don't know if I told you but we have Knott's Berry Park in our area and it is funny because Elder Danesh is already making plans to go there after his mission but he thinks it is Disney Land and I have to explain a lot that it is not Disney Land. We are doing really good and the people here are great and feed us like crazy amazing food and there are a lot a good restaraunts around the theme park so we always get stuff from there like Outback, which we took Elder Danesh to so that he understands what American food is like. I finally finished the Bible and have started the Book of Mormon. I learned a whole lot about why the world is SO utterlly confused and does not understand the Bible or know God at all. If you have never read it ALL the way through, I would hope you do. Love you all and hope everything is good and ya...
Love Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
I have finally had a normal week after three weird weeks of not feeling like a normal missionary. Everything from moving apartments, getting a companion that we did nothing for a wek together, then having a half missionary for a week, and then being made a trainer and that made it awesome. We have had a crazy week on top of that. Our car broke had to be in the dealership shop for 3 days after they said it would take a couple of hours, then we rode bikes, and then my comp's bike had problems, so right when we got the car back we had to take it to a shop and drop it off there for the weekend and the problem is is that we have a larger area to cover and we have to conserve miles and we ride bikles half the time and ride car the other so I pray that this next week will smoothly and normally. But most likely not because that would not make it a missionary week!
In spite of all the things that have gone on we have a few baptisms that will be coming up sooner or later if ALL goes to plan and nothing else happens. I don't know if I told you but we have Knott's Berry Park in our area and it is funny because Elder Danesh is already making plans to go there after his mission but he thinks it is Disney Land and I have to explain a lot that it is not Disney Land. We are doing really good and the people here are great and feed us like crazy amazing food and there are a lot a good restaraunts around the theme park so we always get stuff from there like Outback, which we took Elder Danesh to so that he understands what American food is like. I finally finished the Bible and have started the Book of Mormon. I learned a whole lot about why the world is SO utterlly confused and does not understand the Bible or know God at all. If you have never read it ALL the way through, I would hope you do. Love you all and hope everything is good and ya...
Love Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
Week 51
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL....O!
So I have cool news.... I am training a greenie starting today. He is from Guyana in South America! This is way awesome, his name is Elder Danesh. His full name is Danesh and nothing else so it is pretty easy to remember. I am way excited to do this and it will help us both out. I dont know what President was thinking putting a greenie with me, if I were him I would keep them away from me. Just playing I really am excited and finally I can just have a normal transfer for the next 4 weeks and not have anything else go weird on me for all I know.
The Buena Park area is great we had an awesome experience yesterday. For some reason I felt that we should go ride on the bikes for the day so we rode on the bikes while we worked and we met a lot of good people and I actually like it better for the fact that we talk to lots more people than we would if we were just in the car. But as we were going home I accidentally took the wrong street and I was like DANG It! but something told me keep on going and so I did even though it was the longer way home. As I stopped at the next light to cross some crazy blonde lady rolled down her window in backed up traffic and told me to ride out in the middle of traffic and go talk to her. I was yelled at her and said YA RIGHT IM NOT STUPID! Then she said no meet me in the parking lot next to where we were. So we met her and she told us to talk to her friend in the car and we met her and she was super nice and wanted to say a prayer for her. As we got done she asked us if we wanted lunch so she bought us lunch and and we taught her the first lesson right there in the COFFEE/ sandwhich shop and she was moved by it and it so happened that her friend was a member and that she had just visited a ward in Huntington Beach on Sunday for the first time ever. She is now getting in contact with the missionaries in San Juan Capistrano. It is amazing how the Lord puts us where he needs us and guides us to His children who are ready. pretty much the church is true!
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
ps: yes my comp is black
So I have cool news.... I am training a greenie starting today. He is from Guyana in South America! This is way awesome, his name is Elder Danesh. His full name is Danesh and nothing else so it is pretty easy to remember. I am way excited to do this and it will help us both out. I dont know what President was thinking putting a greenie with me, if I were him I would keep them away from me. Just playing I really am excited and finally I can just have a normal transfer for the next 4 weeks and not have anything else go weird on me for all I know.
The Buena Park area is great we had an awesome experience yesterday. For some reason I felt that we should go ride on the bikes for the day so we rode on the bikes while we worked and we met a lot of good people and I actually like it better for the fact that we talk to lots more people than we would if we were just in the car. But as we were going home I accidentally took the wrong street and I was like DANG It! but something told me keep on going and so I did even though it was the longer way home. As I stopped at the next light to cross some crazy blonde lady rolled down her window in backed up traffic and told me to ride out in the middle of traffic and go talk to her. I was yelled at her and said YA RIGHT IM NOT STUPID! Then she said no meet me in the parking lot next to where we were. So we met her and she told us to talk to her friend in the car and we met her and she was super nice and wanted to say a prayer for her. As we got done she asked us if we wanted lunch so she bought us lunch and and we taught her the first lesson right there in the COFFEE/ sandwhich shop and she was moved by it and it so happened that her friend was a member and that she had just visited a ward in Huntington Beach on Sunday for the first time ever. She is now getting in contact with the missionaries in San Juan Capistrano. It is amazing how the Lord puts us where he needs us and guides us to His children who are ready. pretty much the church is true!
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
ps: yes my comp is black
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