Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Week 64
Well.. thats all folks.....not much happened this week hope all is well..
Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Love Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Week 62
Hola de California,
This week was great we had real good sucess in many ways and they were all great blessings that the Lord saw fit to give us. We had a great experience this week to be able to go on splits with the young men in the ward and Elder Danesh took the YM President and a Priest to a lesson and I went knocking with another Priest in the area of town that all the white people do not like to go and we call little meh-hee-co and lots of murders and bad stuff goes on there... so he was having fun and enjoying it.
(Dont worry mother everything is ok) It was quite ironic the first door we knocked was in a huge latino apartment complex and white people answered the door and I did not know what to say b/c it was weird to see them there. Unfortunately they didn't want anything to do with us and told us to go away basically and shot my whole dreams to ever be happy again. Just playing but the lesson that Elder Danesh was at went great. That family (Los Hernandez) is going to get baptized sooner or later they just need to get to church and that is the hard part, something ALWAYS comes up Sunday morning. We also had a great lesson with a girl (Corina) that went with a friend to General Conference in Salt Lake to two sessions. She loved it and stop talking about it and is driving her sisters crazy talking about it, she came to church on Sunday and with her sister and loved it. SO basically the Lord blessed us with being able to teach her and set a baptismal goal for the first of November and hope all runs smoothly as it has til then.
We are diggin the new pad and only one problem or two. Elder Danesh loves sugar stuff and leaves it out all the time(which is one problem) , and then the ants attack in full forces to wherever it is at. We finally got rain last night after 10 months of nothing!! We are all exicted and loving it. Hope all is well with everyone and would love to hear from everyone so love ya bye.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
This week was great we had real good sucess in many ways and they were all great blessings that the Lord saw fit to give us. We had a great experience this week to be able to go on splits with the young men in the ward and Elder Danesh took the YM President and a Priest to a lesson and I went knocking with another Priest in the area of town that all the white people do not like to go and we call little meh-hee-co and lots of murders and bad stuff goes on there... so he was having fun and enjoying it.
(Dont worry mother everything is ok) It was quite ironic the first door we knocked was in a huge latino apartment complex and white people answered the door and I did not know what to say b/c it was weird to see them there. Unfortunately they didn't want anything to do with us and told us to go away basically and shot my whole dreams to ever be happy again. Just playing but the lesson that Elder Danesh was at went great. That family (Los Hernandez) is going to get baptized sooner or later they just need to get to church and that is the hard part, something ALWAYS comes up Sunday morning. We also had a great lesson with a girl (Corina) that went with a friend to General Conference in Salt Lake to two sessions. She loved it and stop talking about it and is driving her sisters crazy talking about it, she came to church on Sunday and with her sister and loved it. SO basically the Lord blessed us with being able to teach her and set a baptismal goal for the first of November and hope all runs smoothly as it has til then.
We are diggin the new pad and only one problem or two. Elder Danesh loves sugar stuff and leaves it out all the time(which is one problem) , and then the ants attack in full forces to wherever it is at. We finally got rain last night after 10 months of nothing!! We are all exicted and loving it. Hope all is well with everyone and would love to hear from everyone so love ya bye.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Week 60
?Hola mis familiares como estan?
Life is going good... our new apartment is way clean and nice and after all that work I get to stay there for at least six more weeks with the start of the new transfer today. We have lost all our baptismal dates and investigators so we get to do lots of knocking and running by old referrals and potentials. Pretty much missionary stuff that isn't too exciting from the outsiders view. Yesterday was a good for me b/c I went on splits with the Zone Leaders to their area and they are in a Spanish ward and I finally was able to teach in Spanish after all this time not being able to do so. I had a great time working with the Latin people because quite frankly they are generally nicer than juerros (white people) and I got to eat amazing good food and ya the day was awesome.
I was sad to hear a couple of General Authorities were released b/c I had a small connection to them. Elder Mask and Elder Douglas Callister from the Second quorum of the Seventy were released. Elder Douglas Callister had toured our mission last September and I was listening to Elder Mask speak the night that Pres Hinckley died. So it was interesting to hear that both of them are being released.
Elder Baldwin was attacked by a pit bull yesterday and he was with Elder Danesh my companion on splits. So as they were talking with a guy a pit bull come charging at them and Elder Danesh grabs Elder Baldwin and uses him as a shield and hides and wouldn't let Elder Baldwin go. But nothing really happen the dog barely bit him and no wound or anything. So that is a funny story for the week and about my little boy in the mission.
Love
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
Life is going good... our new apartment is way clean and nice and after all that work I get to stay there for at least six more weeks with the start of the new transfer today. We have lost all our baptismal dates and investigators so we get to do lots of knocking and running by old referrals and potentials. Pretty much missionary stuff that isn't too exciting from the outsiders view. Yesterday was a good for me b/c I went on splits with the Zone Leaders to their area and they are in a Spanish ward and I finally was able to teach in Spanish after all this time not being able to do so. I had a great time working with the Latin people because quite frankly they are generally nicer than juerros (white people) and I got to eat amazing good food and ya the day was awesome.
I was sad to hear a couple of General Authorities were released b/c I had a small connection to them. Elder Mask and Elder Douglas Callister from the Second quorum of the Seventy were released. Elder Douglas Callister had toured our mission last September and I was listening to Elder Mask speak the night that Pres Hinckley died. So it was interesting to hear that both of them are being released.
Elder Baldwin was attacked by a pit bull yesterday and he was with Elder Danesh my companion on splits. So as they were talking with a guy a pit bull come charging at them and Elder Danesh grabs Elder Baldwin and uses him as a shield and hides and wouldn't let Elder Baldwin go. But nothing really happen the dog barely bit him and no wound or anything. So that is a funny story for the week and about my little boy in the mission.
Love
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
Week 59
Hi!!!!
Sorry about last week, I could have swore that I had sent that email. I had written one and had intentions of you all knowing what is all going on in with me. SO here you have this now.
This Sunday, after the Afternoon session of Conference, we are having the baptism of Samantha Sakely and we are all way excited. It was going to happen this last weekend but it all just could not happen. Lots of prayers and fasting efforts have been answered with this baptism and the Lord has been working with this girl for a long time.
We moved apartments these past couple of days. All I have to say about that is a couple of things. ONE, dont be suprised if I come back with the plague or some kind of new species of disease b/c that apartment was probably the worst apartment in the mission. People may love the missionaries but I lose my faith everytime I have switched apartments, ITS GROSE! and TWO ..... HALELUIA WE RE OUTTA THERE! It took almost 18 hours of work to clean that thing out and throw all the crap out of there and semi straighten it up. Now we are in a brand new awesome clean apartment with underground parking garage, tennis courts, and bbq's!!! I am way excited but also not b/c transfers are next tuesday so anything can happen and I hope and pray I dont lose this new place after all the hard work we did to get all the stuff there.
I am doing great Elder Danesh is still his wierd Guayanese strange self but I gotta love him.!
Love y'all
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
Sorry about last week, I could have swore that I had sent that email. I had written one and had intentions of you all knowing what is all going on in with me. SO here you have this now.
This Sunday, after the Afternoon session of Conference, we are having the baptism of Samantha Sakely and we are all way excited. It was going to happen this last weekend but it all just could not happen. Lots of prayers and fasting efforts have been answered with this baptism and the Lord has been working with this girl for a long time.
We moved apartments these past couple of days. All I have to say about that is a couple of things. ONE, dont be suprised if I come back with the plague or some kind of new species of disease b/c that apartment was probably the worst apartment in the mission. People may love the missionaries but I lose my faith everytime I have switched apartments, ITS GROSE! and TWO ..... HALELUIA WE RE OUTTA THERE! It took almost 18 hours of work to clean that thing out and throw all the crap out of there and semi straighten it up. Now we are in a brand new awesome clean apartment with underground parking garage, tennis courts, and bbq's!!! I am way excited but also not b/c transfers are next tuesday so anything can happen and I hope and pray I dont lose this new place after all the hard work we did to get all the stuff there.
I am doing great Elder Danesh is still his wierd Guayanese strange self but I gotta love him.!
Love y'all
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
Week 57
?hola como estan?
We have had an interesting week. We had a kid show up to church that has autism and he loves coming to chruch but he wanted to have a new shirt and tie before he went. SO we went to Salvation Army and got him a shirt and I gave him a zip up tie and a ride to church. We also have a random homeless kid that is a member that got kicked out of the military and his mom has a restraining order against him and he like follows me around church all day and talks REALLY loud. Yesterday we taught a little compound of homeless people that want to come to church so they can get money to stay in the motel but it was funny to feel like some preacher to those people. Hopefully they come to church so we can baptize them, maybe. We also are moving apartments this week because it is disgusting because wonderful missionaries have taken care of it. We ahve tried so hard to make it nice but it is passed the point of no return, and when i told President about the rat he said that, that was the last straw. We have 6 baptismal dates so far right now and have the next one scheduled for 2 weeks from now and are way excited for it. Love you all and hope all is well.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
We have had an interesting week. We had a kid show up to church that has autism and he loves coming to chruch but he wanted to have a new shirt and tie before he went. SO we went to Salvation Army and got him a shirt and I gave him a zip up tie and a ride to church. We also have a random homeless kid that is a member that got kicked out of the military and his mom has a restraining order against him and he like follows me around church all day and talks REALLY loud. Yesterday we taught a little compound of homeless people that want to come to church so they can get money to stay in the motel but it was funny to feel like some preacher to those people. Hopefully they come to church so we can baptize them, maybe. We also are moving apartments this week because it is disgusting because wonderful missionaries have taken care of it. We ahve tried so hard to make it nice but it is passed the point of no return, and when i told President about the rat he said that, that was the last straw. We have 6 baptismal dates so far right now and have the next one scheduled for 2 weeks from now and are way excited for it. Love you all and hope all is well.
Elder Jimmie G Watkins
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Week 56
Hello.......
Let me begin by saying that this email will not give justice to the blessings and the experiences that we had this past week... so I will do my best.
I will start with of course the baptism of Sister Ellen Gernertt. Yes that is her name and that is why we call her Sister Ellen. Her baptism was great, we wanted to have Elder Danesh do the baptising but she chose me for a reason, and this will be the short version. Last week on some night when we were teaching her, she started talking about her husband when he had died in the hospital. She had said that he had been very happy when he died because the Elders from the LOS ALAMITOS ward had given him a blessing and it had made him not suffer. So as she was saying that it took a couple of seconds to click in my brain but then I ask her when the blessing was and she said April of this year. And then the memory of a man, that I had no idea who he was and most likely would never remember until then, that I had given his last blessing before he died, while I was in Los Alamitos in APRIL. And I realized that it was this same man that she was talking about. And then I told her that it was me that had giving her husband his last blessing in the hospital and now I am sitting here teaching his wife and about top baptize her. So we shed a tear and a half and baptized her. It is like the church is true or something.
Then some fun stuff....
On Sunday the church was infiltrated with a possum and it took all 6 of us Elders in my district to get it out and not get bit. It was awesome and it was funny because the Spanish Bishop asked us just this week to help with cleaning and we all think he knew about but didnt want to tell us. We all think it is some Spanish ward conspiracy because it was on top of a tall shelf in the dark. So we will ask him and see what he says.
This morning we were kept up by a mouse that was dragging things around the kitfchen and everytime we got up to kill it was no where to be seen. So I am way tired today and anxious to kill him.
We have met most likely the happiest guy in the world and almost the nicest I would say.His name is Juan and has commited himself without us asking to do everything that we would have asked him to do. We are very excited and cant wait to baptize this guy.
We should be having a couple more baptisms coming up super soon so please be praying for us and everything has been great.
Love you all
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
Let me begin by saying that this email will not give justice to the blessings and the experiences that we had this past week... so I will do my best.
I will start with of course the baptism of Sister Ellen Gernertt. Yes that is her name and that is why we call her Sister Ellen. Her baptism was great, we wanted to have Elder Danesh do the baptising but she chose me for a reason, and this will be the short version. Last week on some night when we were teaching her, she started talking about her husband when he had died in the hospital. She had said that he had been very happy when he died because the Elders from the LOS ALAMITOS ward had given him a blessing and it had made him not suffer. So as she was saying that it took a couple of seconds to click in my brain but then I ask her when the blessing was and she said April of this year. And then the memory of a man, that I had no idea who he was and most likely would never remember until then, that I had given his last blessing before he died, while I was in Los Alamitos in APRIL. And I realized that it was this same man that she was talking about. And then I told her that it was me that had giving her husband his last blessing in the hospital and now I am sitting here teaching his wife and about top baptize her. So we shed a tear and a half and baptized her. It is like the church is true or something.
Then some fun stuff....
On Sunday the church was infiltrated with a possum and it took all 6 of us Elders in my district to get it out and not get bit. It was awesome and it was funny because the Spanish Bishop asked us just this week to help with cleaning and we all think he knew about but didnt want to tell us. We all think it is some Spanish ward conspiracy because it was on top of a tall shelf in the dark. So we will ask him and see what he says.
This morning we were kept up by a mouse that was dragging things around the kitfchen and everytime we got up to kill it was no where to be seen. So I am way tired today and anxious to kill him.
We have met most likely the happiest guy in the world and almost the nicest I would say.His name is Juan and has commited himself without us asking to do everything that we would have asked him to do. We are very excited and cant wait to baptize this guy.
We should be having a couple more baptisms coming up super soon so please be praying for us and everything has been great.
Love you all
Elder Jimmie G. Watkins
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