Jenkins, Joshua

Another week gone by!       Yo whats up yall?! Thanks for all the responses from last email and I'm glad a lot of you are doing good! Puts a smile on my face to see God bless everyone in little ways everyday. My week went by incredibly fast because we were busy, but yet I don't have too much to talk about. So this email might be a little shorter than most. But this week we traveled a lot because our area is so big and our miles reset. We went to Tulia which is a small town about 50 miles away from us, and also Floydada which is around 30 miles away I believe. The time we spent there was very fun and they're both very small towns, I liked the vibe of it because I'm so used to massive cities and suburbs. We met with cool members and some other cool people there as well.        We did 34 hours of service this week. We do a ton of work for this lady named Beverly Wall, who runs a ton of non-profit organizations like food banks and crisis centers and a...

Howdy yall!       This week's been a little slow compared to most weeks I've had on my mission. It snowed which slowed things down and also we had no miles to really work with (were only allowed to use so many a month) and we already are about to go over our miles. We did a ton of calling and met some really cool people over the phone and also had some other cool experiences that I will probably get to unless I get distracted or forget. But overall it was a good week!       We started off the week with a bang! We brought a grill down from plainview to Lubbock and cooked burgers for all the missionaries there and also our office and senior missionaries. There was a ton of people there and it was good vibes. Then we all hung out and played games like football and spikeball and basketball and other sports that involve using a ball so that was a good time. We slept over with some elders because we live so far away and we had zone conference in lubbock...

Another great week in the TLM!!       Well guys this week flew by very fast. We had zone conference on Thursday which was such an uplifting and awesome experience and I felt the spirit very strong. We taught some lessons and got really really close with some inactive members and we got them comfortable coming back to church so that was an amazing thing to witness. The work has been going really good and I love this new area that I am in so much. Something about branches are just so special and the love that I feel from the members is amazing.       In Zone Conference we talked a lot about the spirit and the book of mormon and also our sacrifices as missionaries. I have been thinking a ton about my service to the lord. I asked myself, and wrote about this a lot in my journal, If Jesus Christ were to stand in front of me right now and I were to ask him a question, what would I ask? After some thought I concluded that I would ask him, "Have I done en...

I'm running out of things to say for my intro so hey,       This week's been pretty wild. It started off with a normal p-day and a lot more goodbyes. Tuesday was a terribly long day. I got up at 5am and spent the whole day driving and unpacking and packing and unpacking and packing and more driving. I don't know what I was expecting plainview to look like, but it really lives up to its name. It's just a lot of pretty plain views. This new area is hugggggeeeee. We cover a lot of ground and we have a car now thankfully. There was a lot to get used to at first. Me and my companion are the only missionaries in our area and the nearest ones are about an hour away from us in every direction so thats going to be interesting, luckily me and my comp are getting along very well so it's not too bad. Our new apartment is extremely small. It's basically one big room with beds a small kitchen, a bathroom, and a laundry room and thats it. There's no couch and no where to s...

Howdy!!       This week's been crazy for me in a lot of ways. For the last few weeks I've been predicting that I'll be getting transfered to a new area this transfer. So this last week I assumed it was going to be my last one here in Odessa, so me and elder Dunn put in as much work as we could possible and just grinded so incredibly hard. It turns out I was right. I am getting transfered to plainview Texas and I'll be in the lubbock north zone with Elder Scott. I leave tomorrow morning. I'm so incredibly excited but also very sad to leave such an amazing area. I'll forever remember this area because it was the one that I started my mission in, and will be the foundation area for the rest of my mission. I've made life long friends, grew so much in so many ways, and made awesome memories. I love this area so much even though we've had our ups and downs. But this is very bitter sweet.       The past 2 days we had an amazing opportunity to have a gene...

Yo whats up yall.       Hey sorry for the late post, but hope yall had a great new year and celebrated as hard as we did! The elders got together again for another sleepover! We had poppers and glasses and sparkling cider and all sorts of fun games and snacks and music and stuff to do. We stayed up til 2am just messing around and having a good time. It felt like college a little bit. But this week was a lot better than last week which is super good. I also had some wack experiences this week as well.        Alright let's not waste any time. My wack story: so we were calling members one night trying to have them give us rides and come to our lessons. We called a couple people and no one was able to. We then called a recently returning member that we've been working with for a few months now because he expressed his desire to come on splits with us so we felt he'd be a good on the fly call. When we called him he was rambling off on something which i...

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 w...