Dear Family,
I have something amazing to report.... I am in my greenie area!!!! Long Beach 1st Ward!!!! I am way excited to be here. If you want to send letters you can send it to my new address 1875 Cedar Ave #1 Long Beach Ca 90806 Sorry I have no time I will have great stories next week I love you all have a good one.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Post from Mom
On Christmas Day I got to talk with Jimmie. Oh how I needed that. He never fails in bringing a smile to my face! He got to talk to everyone, Dad, Justen, Courtney, Ronny, Katie and even Clark Anderson. We are so proud of him and his growth. He has not lost his "JIMMIE" personality (and all those who know him, know what I mean). However; he has gained a maturity and spirituality laced with the greatest sense of humor and confidence that in our wildest hopes couldn't have been better.
He only has 6 months left. We encouraged him to stay hard working and he said he would love to go back to his "greenie" area. Well I got a call today that he is being transferred back to Long Beach and his "greenie" area. He is stoked and I am sure gonna go out with a bang of hard work and touching the lives of all those he can.
For those of you who have kept up on his blog and or his work...thank you and don't hesitate to comment. He will love reading them when he gets home.
He only has 6 months left. We encouraged him to stay hard working and he said he would love to go back to his "greenie" area. Well I got a call today that he is being transferred back to Long Beach and his "greenie" area. He is stoked and I am sure gonna go out with a bang of hard work and touching the lives of all those he can.
For those of you who have kept up on his blog and or his work...thank you and don't hesitate to comment. He will love reading them when he gets home.
Week 72
MERYY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!!
I hope everyone can share the best gift they can give to someone else this year... thats their testimony of Jesus Christ and bring them church or do something for someone that really needs it.... and thats everyone that isn't a member or someone who needs to return to church. Share with them the witness of Jesus Christ's birth from the Book of Mormon and bear testimony of it. And if they reject you and say something mean... then you know how Mary and Joseph felt. Have a Merry Christmas and I hope all is well. Remember the address to send packages is still 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, CA 90815 and my name is .....
Elder Jimmie G Watkins!
FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!!
I hope everyone can share the best gift they can give to someone else this year... thats their testimony of Jesus Christ and bring them church or do something for someone that really needs it.... and thats everyone that isn't a member or someone who needs to return to church. Share with them the witness of Jesus Christ's birth from the Book of Mormon and bear testimony of it. And if they reject you and say something mean... then you know how Mary and Joseph felt. Have a Merry Christmas and I hope all is well. Remember the address to send packages is still 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, CA 90815 and my name is .....
Elder Jimmie G Watkins!
Week 71
!Salud!
My family and friends how art thou? Life is going good now that I am not all sick and inable to do anything constructive with my life. Ya on thursday I woke up with the flu (not the HINEY, H1N1, thats what i call it or the chancho) and it was not fun. Gave Elder Cluff a wonderful wake up call from the bathroom at about 3:30 am that was journal worthy. Saturday was El Dia de La Virgencita! or Day of the Virgin Mary and all the Latinos were playing all sorts of fun music for us to listen to as I sat in my recliner chair for 60 hours sick. Thats about how exciting it was for us. We should be having some baptisms hapefully coming up and just need all the prayers and support for them to happen. Anyways hope all is well and have Very Merry Happy Christma-Hauna-Kwanzi-kaughs!
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
My family and friends how art thou? Life is going good now that I am not all sick and inable to do anything constructive with my life. Ya on thursday I woke up with the flu (not the HINEY, H1N1, thats what i call it or the chancho) and it was not fun. Gave Elder Cluff a wonderful wake up call from the bathroom at about 3:30 am that was journal worthy. Saturday was El Dia de La Virgencita! or Day of the Virgin Mary and all the Latinos were playing all sorts of fun music for us to listen to as I sat in my recliner chair for 60 hours sick. Thats about how exciting it was for us. We should be having some baptisms hapefully coming up and just need all the prayers and support for them to happen. Anyways hope all is well and have Very Merry Happy Christma-Hauna-Kwanzi-kaughs!
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Week 70
Hello from Surf City USA!!!!
Life is going pretty cold here in sunny southern California. Yesterday and today have been WAY cold because it rained all day yesterday and night. It is neat to see today because all the mountains around us have snow on them and it actually feels like a winter now. We still had nothing to do on a normal monday afternoon so we resorted to knocking praying that someone would be nice and have compassion on us and give us hot chocolate or something. But,...... no nothing but normal rude people in the down pour. We did witness the tender mercies of the Lord as we were knocking we recieved a referral on the phone. So the Lord was watching out for us. We are planning to be having a baptism/s for the week of Christmas and we could use all the prayers possible.
It has neat lately for me, I have received letters from people that I have worked with and that have been baptized and how much they have a grateful heart to God that I had been able to teach them. That to me is the greatest thing ever to have received for this Christmas season. I want to thank all of you for the influence that you have had on my life in order to get me to where I am now. Please know that your influence on me has brought more children of God to his fold than you even are able to comprehend. Keep up the good work and love and have a Merry Christmas.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
17 DAYS til CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Life is going pretty cold here in sunny southern California. Yesterday and today have been WAY cold because it rained all day yesterday and night. It is neat to see today because all the mountains around us have snow on them and it actually feels like a winter now. We still had nothing to do on a normal monday afternoon so we resorted to knocking praying that someone would be nice and have compassion on us and give us hot chocolate or something. But,...... no nothing but normal rude people in the down pour. We did witness the tender mercies of the Lord as we were knocking we recieved a referral on the phone. So the Lord was watching out for us. We are planning to be having a baptism/s for the week of Christmas and we could use all the prayers possible.
It has neat lately for me, I have received letters from people that I have worked with and that have been baptized and how much they have a grateful heart to God that I had been able to teach them. That to me is the greatest thing ever to have received for this Christmas season. I want to thank all of you for the influence that you have had on my life in order to get me to where I am now. Please know that your influence on me has brought more children of God to his fold than you even are able to comprehend. Keep up the good work and love and have a Merry Christmas.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
17 DAYS til CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Week 69
Dear family,
Sorry this is going to be short but we re in a library and have limited time to write. As i got on the computer we started to teach a guy sitting next to me that kept on asking all sorts of questions and so we were losing time on the computer. He turned out to be a white muslim??? that was saying alot of weird things.
Thanksgiving was good, ate ALL day and got sick but was well taken care of. All of our appointments fell through b/c of Thanksgiving and now its all back to normal. Love all you and love to hear from you since CHRISTMAS IS 24 DAYS AWAY!!!!
Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Sorry this is going to be short but we re in a library and have limited time to write. As i got on the computer we started to teach a guy sitting next to me that kept on asking all sorts of questions and so we were losing time on the computer. He turned out to be a white muslim??? that was saying alot of weird things.
Thanksgiving was good, ate ALL day and got sick but was well taken care of. All of our appointments fell through b/c of Thanksgiving and now its all back to normal. Love all you and love to hear from you since CHRISTMAS IS 24 DAYS AWAY!!!!
Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Week 68
Hello Hello and Hello there....
Westminster is a lot different from Buena Park area, in that there are now only Vetnamese people and not Korean or Chinese. My new comp's name is Elder Cluff from Lehi, UT. Very big change from my little Guayanese boy Elder Danesh but we are doing great. We should have a bpatism coming up this week and are working our best to have a lot in Christmas. Elder Clayton from the Presidency of the Seventy wrote our President and said that we need to have a " White Christmas" in Long Beach Mission. Referring to baptisms and all dressed in white. We are all very excited for Christmas to be coming and hope people will listen around this time. I love you all and hope you dont miss me too much during the Christmas season. :) have a good week
Love,
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Westminster is a lot different from Buena Park area, in that there are now only Vetnamese people and not Korean or Chinese. My new comp's name is Elder Cluff from Lehi, UT. Very big change from my little Guayanese boy Elder Danesh but we are doing great. We should have a bpatism coming up this week and are working our best to have a lot in Christmas. Elder Clayton from the Presidency of the Seventy wrote our President and said that we need to have a " White Christmas" in Long Beach Mission. Referring to baptisms and all dressed in white. We are all very excited for Christmas to be coming and hope people will listen around this time. I love you all and hope you dont miss me too much during the Christmas season. :) have a good week
Love,
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Week 67
I got transferred to Westminster... right next to Huntington Beach.....lots of Vietnamese people. We are moving this week out of the apartment that we are in so if you send anything just send it to the mission address 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, CA 90815. Sorry have like no time to write.... new comp name Elder Cluff from Lehi UT.
Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
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