K, haaaannndddssss dooowwwwnnnnn im starting this weeks story sesh with the jeepetas!!!! K so the hermanas (sister missionaries) in our ward work in a city similar to ours outside of Cali a bit too, but its a bit nicer, and we went there on wednesday to help them track and find new families and people to teach (first time i actually tracted here haha upside of serving as a gringo in south america, we almost always have lots of investigators and dont need to track much...) and in their city they have what are called jeepetas!!! They are jeeps,but a bit bigger than normal, and they are like taxis, but you stand on the push bar on the back and just hold on to ride everywhere!!!! haha soooooo funnnn!!!! So ya from the main road we rode a jeepeta into their town, and after, at night, we rode all the way into Cali to the chapel for a ward mission meeting!!! Holy cow it was sweet to be holding on for my life haha on a big main road with the craaazzyy drivers here, but to also be pulling into Caliat night, all lit up brilliant with its lights, was gorgious and soooo cool to think that this is my mission hahaha riding on a back of a car with the wind in my face and all pulling into a big busy but fun city after a good afternoon of doing The Lords work!!! k shoot the only problem though is that the flash wasnt working for some reason on my camera, so one of the hermanas took some sweet pictures for me on her camera but i havent gotten them from her yet, sorry i will get those to you when i can...
alright i had my first mission conference this week!!! Was awesome!!! Got to bus down to southern Cali for it, a part i havent been to yet and was cool to see!! It was with our zone, a big zone in Cali with a weird name i can never remember, and the buenaventura zone (buenaventura is a suuper poor but super popular and fun zone across the mountains right on the coast) and it was super fun to meet lots more missionaries!! Especially gringos who not only spoke waaay good spanish, but could understand the natives perfectly haha... so ya we did some really helpful practices and the APs gave some cool tips, and we got some sweet lectures from the president and ya it was a great experience!! Got us way amped!! The president is awesome, hes super calm and always talks really quite and can be a bit boresome haha to be completely honest, but thats only if you arent listening very carefully, because he is a quite genious, he always has suuuper neat teachings and all... i like him!! His wife is super funny too haha and shes always a really good energetic teacher as well!!
Alright this goes to will mark and jared specifically: LEARN TO CITE READ THE HYMNS ON THE PIANO!!!!! hahaha ok so ive been playing the piano in sacrament meeting in church, and no they havent been letting me choose the songs, yes ive had to cite read them haha and the first week was a bit rough, and i told them ´´look sorry but im really not great at cite reading (was a bit difficult to explain what that means in spanish haha)´´ but they told me it was fine, that nobody else can play and it was a privilege to have me play, even if i dont cite read perfectly... so ya just as i thought i was getting better at cite reading, yesterday one of the counselors in the bishopric said he had an assignment for me. He told me to practice a bit after district and zone meetings during the week, and to call him with four songs i can play saturday night before church on sunday... which really means: ya we were wrong, your cite reading really is quite poor, and we gotta stick with the songs you can play better hahaha... but oh well its better for me too that we do it this way... so ya keep practicing cite reading guys... haha
i need another favor haha, do you guys by chance have a copy of the book ´´he took my lickin for me´´? I would really like to use that book to teach about the atonement, so if its not too much work, could you by chance take pictures of the pages and send them to me so i can print them out, translate, and use them to teach??? if its convenient that would be awesome thanks!!!
So after a bit of a drought we finally have got another baptism on the calender this saturday!! And we might put a second one for the same day!! Weve got an appointment with a young kid whose a cool guy and who knows this gospel is true and always comes to church, but keeps telling us he doesnt feel ready to be baptized, he doesnt know why, so weve got a big lession planned and the APs are trucking it out here to Villa Gorgona to teach it with us and try to get him a bit more excited about baptism... so ya other than that the work is going good!! Como siempre, la problema es la asistencia a la iglesia aqui en villa gorgona ya que la capilla es muy lejos, siempre nos animamos mucho durante la semana mientras estemos ensenando mucho y encontrando muchas buenas y receptivas personas, pero nuetra esperanza se cae cada domingo cuando tocemos las puertas y nadie nos contesta y nadie quiere acompanarnos a la iglesia, pero estamos haciendo lo que mas podamos y tenemos algunos investigadores que estan progresando bien and deben ser bautizados con un pocito mas tiempo!! Gracias por todo!! Somos bendecidos por hacer esta obra!! Siga haciendolo!!!
Les amo
nos vemos
Elder Tenney
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