AHHHH how is everyone!!
I get so excited and smile every time I sit down to do
emails cause I just love ya'll so much!!
So this week was pretty good! Lots of random fun
things happen but really it's just great all the time doing missionary stuff so
ya it's always great.
Last P day we went to go fishing and there was a little spot
where we could go in the water! Fun fact- I'm pretty sure Tahiti is the
only mission that allows this, but we are allowed to go knee deep in the super
warm clear water! And it felt so so nice and I wanted more than anything
to jump all the way in haha but that would not be appropriate!!!
Also my companion caught a barracuda haha the animal life
here is nuts.
So this week for the English class I taught everyone Head
Shoulders Knees and Toes! Haha they seemed to enjoy it and they taught me
the French version!
Thanksgiving was this week! How was everyone's
thanksgivings I hope great. They don't really celebrate thanksgiving here but
they made an exception for us! We ate at a members house and get
this. They heard they were having an American over for dinner (me) and
they bought a turkey!!! Like no way! Haha so I got a little American food
along with all the fish and rice!
On thanksgiving, we asked the host what holliday we were
celebrating. He responded "is it Monday Black?" hahaha I love
Tahitians.
Speaking of, I decided wearing all black was necessary on
Black Friday, and made it through the day without heatstroke!!
It's crazy the connections I find here. Like I saw a
Utah State University t shirt at an investigators house! And an Elder
from Germany, who is serving with me in Tahiti, has been to my high
school. Like what are the odds! Neat.
The kids here are my best friends. They're all so
crazy and fun. One of the little guys always asks for a pencil so he can
draw scribbles. And each time he just breaks all the lead in the pencil,
and then cries because he wants to draw haha. So i better start carrying
around pens.
Spiritual thought!!! I'm trying to read the Book of
Mormon all the way through again, and I've decided the most repeated phrase in
the book is "Inasmuch as you keep my commandments, you will prosper in the
land. But inasmuch as you do not keep my commandments, you will be cut
off from my prescence." (That's God talking) And it is so
true. It's like God just wants to give us blessings. And those
blessings are free and awesome, and all we gotta do is follow the few rules
He's given us! So really if you think about it, commandments are
blessings not rules.
Loves ya'll s'much!!!!
Elder Jenkins
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