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
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
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
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
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
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
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
I get so many inquiries as to how Jimmie is doing so I thought I would start a blog and let you know by posting pictures he sends as well as some of his e-mails so that you can keep up with him that way.It should be noted he was just transferred to this area, so there is not much to say. He was in a poorer area and I think he is adjusting to his new area. Here is a portion of a personal e-mail he sent me today that shows he is growing...
Hi mom!
I am doing GREAT!!! I am loving everyday and really and truly growing each day. I have rough days but all in all everything is great. It was great to talk to you.I have started a foundation for the rest of my life that really and truly been set for the rest of my life. I had a good christmas adn only got one more left......
Here is his e-mail for Week 21
Happy New Year!!!!
Here is his e-mail for Week 21
Happy New Year!!!!
How was Christmas for everyone? I hope everyone got to see their family because I didn't!!! Just playing. I had a great Christmas at a member's house and great dinner. Katie got me the perfect push up thing from the infomercials, and they work amazing. I am now getting ripped on the "get ripped work out" it comes with. Grandma sent me cookies which everyone loved, and I got a mando amount of food from the members here. California is great, the mountains are covered in snow which is funny because we can actually see them now. The air is usually brown here. My area is a tough one we dont have anyone we are working with, they are mostly all old jewish people or calvary chapel people that say they are going to pray for us so that God will have mercy on us. I was happy I got to speak Spanish to a guy and he wants us to go back to his house. He is the only guy that has told us to do that so I have high hopes. My new companion is good, he is kind of girly and a goober but I am doing my best to be nice. We knocked into Steve Howard's brother and brother in law the other night and they hooked us up with some soda. Pretty much I have concluded that the Howard Family all look alike, and talk alike, and pretty much everything. I am loving the mission and learning a lot.
Love and miss you all
Elder Watkins
Jimmie is the Great Great Great Grandson to Jacob Hamblin. This is him at the MTC Jacob Hamblin Building.
I was contantly concerned as mothers are, if Jimmie was doing okay at the MTC. When I got this disk with this picture on it, we were no longer concerned...... 
Many of you may wonder what they teach in the MTC to help these boys find the spirit and help them fight off evil forces.....well there you have it.....
Where our son is learning to be humble, love all God's children and building His Kingdom.
correspondence!
Ouch! I guess the perils of working hard!
Yes on 8.....looks like some missionaries help in the efforts there on Long Beach Blvd.
Jimmie just can't get away from the boats....
I will no longer worry about whether he is eating or not.....give me a break that is the largest burrito I have ever seen!
Jimmie and Elder Pearce taught this family and they accepted baptism. However; they backed out until after Christmas as they had to go back to Mexico and are returning soon. Jimmie was really sad because he loved this family so much and wanted to do the baptisms when they get back but he was then transferred.
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