Jenkins Kid Farm: October 2012

Oct 30, 2012

Food Demands From A Starving Boy!

If you read my last blog post, then you'll appreciate how funny this is! Hey, like I said, he's obsessed with food!

Excerpt from John's missionary letter this week: {He gets home NEXT week!!!}

I can already visualize you all waiting for me at the security checkpoint with a big glass of eggnog (it's totally the holiday season) I made a grocery list of wonderful things I want to eat, I don't have time to type it all up (cuz it´s kind of long) so i´ll just put the most important items

Swedish fish
bacon
a gallon of milk with my name on it (not joking)
corn dogs
orange juice
lasagna
goldfish
peanut butter
Costco meatballs
redvines
a&w root beer (floats)
and last but not least, GUMBO!!!!!!!!!

If anyone talks to me about chicken or rice, I just might possibly maybe lose my freaking mind.

I´ll see you all in a week!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Fisher

I´m on my way to buy a boatload of silly hats today.

I CAN'T WAIT TO FEED HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oct 28, 2012

Postcards From Peru {a mother's account of a missionary son}

As some of you know, I've had a son serving a full-time LDS mission in Peru for the past two years.

We have not seen him in person at all for TWO. WHOLE. YEARS.

If you're a mom, you know how crazy and hard that is!

We've only gotten to talk to John on the phone TWICE.....the past two Mother's Days.

We got to Skype him ONCE, last Christmas.

Those were cherished moments like you can't even imagine,

where we were all huddled around the speaker phone or

smashed together in front of the computer so we could all fit into one Skype screen.

I didn't want to miss one single word he had to say!

{he talks with a Spanish accent now, which is truly hilarious!}

We've exchanged an email every Monday, where he tells us about the good,

and sometimes the not-so-good things that are happening.

We tell him what's going on with everyone at home, which honestly, compared to what he's doing and sacrificing, usually sounds so superficial and unimportant.

At times he's had awful health issues,

beginning with being sick in the MTC {Missionary Training Center} in Provo, Utah, where he learned Spanish, plus how to teach the people of Peru about Jesus Christ and the restoration of the gospel.

Then imagine adjusting to a whole new diet in a third-world country.

Yeah, that came with a whole lovely set of challenges!

{in his emails he talks about American food incessantly! He misses it!!}
{see the food list he sent me AFTER this was posted!}

{I don't think he'll eat chicken, beans and rice again for months!

He just wants IHOP, my homemade Gumbo, and a whole list of other things! lol}

He's suffered greatly for months from ingrown toenails that required surgery, only for them to quickly return on the other side of the toes.

I know, gross. But he's the first missionary that offered a Book of Mormon to the foot doctor! lol

He's walked up and down mountainsides so much that he's worn out his shoes and pants.

So what do you do when you're 6'3", tall and slender, you need a new pair of pants, but you live in a country where the population is very short?

Yeah, even new PANTS have been an issue!

After serving the Lord honorably and selflessly for 24 months,

after spending every dime he's ever saved in his whole life {for this purpose},

after giving up everything he's ever known and loved to go off to a country and a people and a language that he knew nothing about,

He's coming home!

NEXT WEEK!!!

We will soon be at the Phoenix airport celebrating, hugging and crying!

I can't wait!!!

Serving a mission has helped him to grow into a man, more mature and wise than the boy who left two years ago,

but he's never stopped being John!

Check out these pictures from Peru!

He's a character!!

He LOVES him some Peruvian Inca Kola

{anyone know where I can get more?}

DON'T MISS THE FULL POST...READ ON RIGHT HERE!

Oct 22, 2012

I'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY! {Glitter Academy recap}

Just the words
"GLITTER ACADEMY"
and you already know you're gonna love it, right?

There are a few truly awesome bloggy gals here in Arizona that organize these amazing events a couple of times a year.
This is the first one I was actually able to attend, and from what I hear,
IT WAS THE BEST!
It was definitely MY favorite! ;)