Week 6!!!!

So we found the peeerrrffeecccttt investigators this week!!!  And why are they perfect you ask???  ohhhoo lemme explain!!!  First off, they have an acoustic guitar, so i always play a hymn while my comp sings to start the lessons (idk if ive ever said this yet but my comp is a great singer and we sing hymns lots in lessons, way cool!)  Second, these poor people could talk for hours, sometimes they talk so much that we literally cant teach them, literally cant, they just cut us off and start talking, so we have to teach them with movies hahahaha how great is that????  We take a movie such as the first vision and movies about Christ to teach them everything!!!  They still talk a fair amount during the movies, but hey were doing the best we can with them... Alright best part of the story though, i put the cap to my pen on the wrong side of my pen, and then stuck my pen in the chest pocket of my white shirt (oh my goodness i hope i can explain this story well enough cuz it was literally the funniest thing in the world, im dying trying to type it right now, so ya heres some good suspense for ya, take breaks if you need to, thats what im having to do) so my pen made a good black mark all the way downthe top of my shirt to my pocket where i put it... i didnt realize it, but then the lady pointed it out to me... and then the lady, feeling like a genious, said to me ´´oh no hermano look, i have an idea, you can put the lid on the other side of your pen, and then it wont mark your shirt...´´ and she was completely serious, like she thought this was a brilliant idea that i had never known before hahahaha like anyone else would give me crap you know and say ´´ya nice one genious´ or something, knowing that obviously i knew, i just made a little mistake this time, but no this lady literally thought i had never in my life known to put the lid on the other side of the pen... but you know, im happy she got to feel like a genious for a little while... anyway i was dying for days after that, i barely made it through the rest of the lesson, so ya i hope that turned out as funny as it was in reality through my translation from spanish and via email...

Alright so other than that its just the same old life here in crazy Colombia, salsa music blasting from every building, loud motorcycles zipping around everywhere, occasional drunk guys chasing each other on foot through the street, hardly able to run straight (oh ya those are great haha) but occasionally some really sincere people with good hearts too!!  Such an interesting country, crazy contrast among the people, and the stuff that happens, but its always exciting here and i love it!!!  Theres this emergency alarm, huge tower, in the middle of the city that sounds off every once in a while, waaaayyy loud, not exactly sure what it means haha, but ya it went off a few times this week and whenevber it does cop cars go flying around all the streets, but ya dont worry too much mom haha im safe, especially in my little pub town villa gorgona here!

Two way neat experiences with investigatores this week!!  First, weve got this couple who are young and living together but arent married, but the parents of the dad are members and way fun people, and weve been teaching them, and the other day they straight up told us they have seen miracle changes in their lives since taking our lessons, that they have felt so happy all the time, and that they are really feeling themselves come to know the love of God for them, and that they want nothing more than to keep learning, so ya that was SOOO COOL to hear for the first time for me really from the mouths of my investigators!!1  The only problem is they arent married (thats a super common problem here) so we found their birth papers with lots of effort, some of them are getting shipped here from other cities, and we are planning a wedding for them (cheesy joke time: who says a missionary cant still be a love doctor right?)!!! 

Same thing happend with a group of brothers and cousins, teenagers, who live together who weve taught... one day i told them the story of your cancer mom, but of how your recovery and the help i received from The Lord all the way was such a testimony builder, and another day one of them told me that was super powerful for him, and he has changed since, normally he laughs a lot and isnt as focused during the lessons, but hes been doing a lot better now!!!

So ya im loving the work here!!!!   I cant thank you guys enough for preparing me my whole life for this!!!!  I couldnt be happier doing this work here!!!  Oh and i gave a talk in church the other day, and i taught on the enabling side of the atonement, cuz a lot of people here (or really everywhere in the church) really dont understand that, but think they have to have sins to receive the power of the atonement, so ya that was a sweet opportunity, and my spanish was definitely guided by the gift of tongues, my pronounciation was way better than normal while i spake, and even though i had notes to use if needed, i didnt use them much, but gave almost the whole thing with my own words, and everyone told me after that i sound like a gringo whose been out for at least a year on his mission!!!  So ya the gift of tongues, as with every other doctrine, is real, and since ive had this doctrine to bless me my whole life, i want nothing more than to use it to bless others too!!!

Sigan haciendo lo correcto!!  Con tal de que hayamos hecho lo que Dios nos ha pedido que hagamos, tendremos su amor y su gracia con nosotros en cada momento de nuestras vidas, la gracia que hizo posible por medio de la expiacion de Jesucristo!!

Les amo

Nos vemos

Elder Tenney