Jenkins, Joshua

What's popping homies!?       So this week's been crazy. We had Thanksgiving, (hope yalls was good) transferes, and I'm homeless and a few more things as well so buckle in as per usual. First and foremost, I hope yall are doing well and had the opportunity to be with family and loved ones during the days of holi. It's always a special time to see those that we love and be around their company.       Alright alright I'll get to the good stuff... So we killed elder ili :( My best friend is going to India. We dropped him off on Sunday and I am homeless and homieless. I'm kinda bouncing around from place to place spending the nights at different elders apartments because they are awesome and also because I can't be in my apartment alone. But it's been fun. I'm gonna miss that guy so much we got so close and now he's gone, but he trained me well. My new comp moves in with me on Tuesday. His name is elder Dunn and no one knows much about him so I'm...

Talofa yall!       Man It wouldn't be Texas without some bipolar weather. The other day it was super hot and sunny and nice outside, then we woke up the next morning to snow and chilling 30° weather. Now the snow didn't stick but still. I don't ever remember Texas being this cold for the 11 years that I lived here, but whatever. All the elders here have been dropping like flies coming down with some kinda sickness but it's nice for us cuz we've been stealing the cars that they don't get to use the days they are sick, so that's been nice to have a warm place to be in. This week was overall a good week.       I wanted to give an update on my health situation. It's been getting slightly worse with more symptoms, but my doctor appointment fell through last week so the entire week I had to push through the pain and carry on like everything was normal. It's been hard but forgetting myself and staying busy helps me keep my mind off it here and there. I d...

What is up you beautiful people?     Hope yall are doing good! Man this week was a blur, I swear I just sent my last email so I'm sorry about this one being a little later than usual. This week I barely remember what went down and even looking back in my journal, and things I wrote down I don't remember doing any of them. It's the weirdest thing ever. I don't know if I've got early onset dementia or if this week was just really that fast. It's kinda wack.       Anyways, I've been enjoying my mission so far. Still tryna take it all in and get the best out of everything. This week we had zone conference and it was really good. I felt like I needed to be better and improve myself and my work. Which Is crazy becuase I've been a workaholic and going hard non stop, but I feel like my best, needs to be better. It was good to hang with some more missionaries and smoke them in pickleball and baseball. It's always fun when we get together. I've also still ...

Hey yall I'm still alive!       I don't have much to say about this week. Not a whole lot happened. We're still out teaching lots of people and biking our butts literally off. A bunch of Elders (including me) also did the one chip challenge. It's the world's hottest chip and it tasted awful, but it wasn't really that spicy.  But for the most part there's not much I have to say.       This week we got 6 people to church which is really good! And that was a miracle because in terms of work this week it wasn't our best despite our hard work and best efforts. Biking really killed our work. It dropped our progress tremendously and it's been a grind to bike around and try to continue meeting who we were and doing what we were before we started biking. We met with Joseph and asked for him and his family to be baptized again. We are setting the date and goal for him to be baptized by November 26th! So thats dope! Stay tuned for that! We also did more...

Jesus Christ is my rock. He is my savior. He is my foundation. In life we experience many hard times and trials. Sometimes our burdens can be too hard to bare on our own. Knowing this, Heavenly Father gave us his only begotten son. Through Him we can be saved and have someone to follow and trust in. Someone who will be there for us when we feel alone. A scripture I have been loving a lot lately is Helaman 5:12 which reads; "And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." I love this becuase we are told how to recieve st...