Is This Even Texas Anymore?

Hola amigos y Familia 


     I hope yall had a very merry Christmas and were able to see family or just enjoy a great day. I want to say another huge thank you to everyone who sent me something, you're the best! But as for my Christmas, well we will get to that later. Anyways this week had its up's and it's downs for sure. We started off a little rough cuz my tire was still popped (i changed it dont worry) and it was also extremely cold. We hit a cold front and it was terrible, I don't remember Idaho even feeling that cold. Plus the wind made it 3x worse. Gotta love biking in the cold. But this week was chill because we didn't really work much as it's the holidays and it was freezing. 


     If you know me pretty well you would know that I'm pretty blunt and like to keep things real and straight. With that being said this week and the past few weeks actually, I've been struggling here and there. I wish I could say that getting myself buried in the work helps, but it doesn't do it all the time because eventually those feelings you hide come back up and you have to face them. These past few weeks I've been working incredibly hard and maxing out my time as much as possible and really pushing myself to my limits, and for some reason I just don't feel the joy coming from it like I used to. I obviously implement fun into my work as much as I can because, well its me and if I don't, I think I would go crazy, but lately I have no motivation and it's been hard. Now I know that all this has to do with change. I'm adjusting and growing and changing and I'm just being tested right now so I'm not worried and I'm going to keep pushing and working hard because if no one else is going to do it, I will. The mission is testing me in every single way and it's really showing me how strong I am because it can get really hard and discouraging at times, but the good always outweighs the bad. 


      My Christmas was really good however. I think I've been homesick even though I don't feel homesick, maybe my body just shows it in different ways. But Christmas eve we had a member dinner that we were at for 4 hours!! This family was super nice and made things just so fun and I felt at home. I love their family and their company. That night we had a massive sleep over with all the elders (8 of us) and just "partied" all night it was so fun and I have lots of crazy videos of our night and also the dinner. The next morning we woke up and some elders opened the gifts they brought over, others like myself laid in bed tired, trying to get up. Then we got ready and went to church. The rest of my day was just doing chores and calling the gang. But it was a good day and good vibes to be with the boys and of course spend time with the family. 


     We met with Joseph on Thursday after a couple of weeks of not meeting or seeing him In church. We were biking around for a few hours in the freezing cold and I forgot my gloves and my face was frozen and it was miserable. I called Joseph and just begged if we could crash at his place for a little bit and warm up and we wouldnt take up much of his time. He agreed and we biked over. We caught up and just had small talk and he seemed to be in better spirits which was really good. If you don't know he was our most progressing person and just recently started pulling back slowly. After talking for a bit we showed him this really good talk about following the voice. In this talk it mentions a lot about not listening to the storm around us and listening to the voice (god) that's gonna get us home. After playing this talk he was super emotional and I've  never seen him like that. Let me remind you this guy was a previous gang member and doesn't show much of even a smile. But he told us he understood the message and he needs to start reading the BOM more and it was what he needed to hear. It was a great lesson. And we were all just so happy at the end of it. 


     Well that's all I got this week. I love yall and pray for yall all the time. I'm still doing good out here but never gonna turn down extra prayers lol! Yall take care and have a Good one! 


Uce! -elder Jenkins 


4300 Esmond Dr. Odessa TX 79762. Appt #20 


Pics: (might not be in order) 
1: Christmas grub 
2: bussin chrsitmas food
3: goofy ghetto Christmas tree 
4: gang at IHOP 
5: my dawg for sure 




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