Alright sooooo it finally happened this week. I finally got sick. So ya i remember now that one of the llamas (yes mark, correct, they are called yamas here, funny huh... hahaha) sneezed on me at the zoo last pday, and im not sure if i remembered to wash my hands before eating lunch then after that... haha no jk that didnt happen. But i think it was just the burger i had for lunch at the zoo or something cuz monday night, exactly a week ago, my stomach started doing painful summer saults, i barely made it through the two family nights we had planned, and then at night as we were walking back i began to run, i will save you the details, but ya i got a bit sick and had to stay in the house all day tuesday and part of wednesday, but i took the medicine you packed me mom and now its all good!! So ya dont worry one bit about me, ive now got a little experience under my belt of taking care of myslef when i get sick too and ya all is good!! And dont worry mom i will be even more careful in the future now...
Alright, a bit of story time: So one sweet investigator weve got right now is an older man who has always loved reading the Bible and was thrilled when we found him and shared the Book of Mormon with him and invited him to church, hes already read like half the Book of Mormon and a whole Liahona magazine and always wants to accompany us to church and its really just too easy with this guy... kinda scares me... like it shouldnt be this easy... im waiting for some huge obstacle to come up with him... but anyways waaaaayyy cool to see the truth with him that The Lord has indeed prepared many people to hear the gospel, and as DC says many are searching for the truth but know not where to find it.... But ya anyways so this guys awesome and the funny story with him is this: So his wife and him are completely separate, havent lived together for like 30 years, but they arent technically divorced, legally, and shes a Jeohovas witness, and he wants to be dating another lady friend he has here in our little town, so according to the law of Chastity, he has to divorce his wife to be able to date this other lady and still be worthy of baptism, so ya thats what hes doing, and in short the way i say it is that weve got an investigator whose divorcing his Jehovahs witness wife to join our church... haha so ya way cool the progress hes making!!!
Alright so dont have any more funny stories this week, sorry, but i do have some really cool things ive learned!!! So one is that ive learned a TON on patience!! ive been studying it a lot in the scriptures, preach my gospel, and in talks from the Liahona, and ive really learned a lot!! One cool thing is that Christ, as he was being risen up on the cross, said in prayer to The Father, to forgive the people, for they knew not what they were doing.... INCREDIBLE!!! Christ, who had never done anything wrong, the only perfect one to ever exist amongst us, suffered more than all of us combined, and as the people brought this pain upon Him, he asked that they be forgived... Why? Because he understood its more peaceful that way... and thats what ive learned. When we feel things are unfair, when our patience is pushed, if we have faith in The Lords will for us which we know is the best for us, we can see that He has an even brighter future for us, and theres two paths to that brighter future, one where we fight in the mean time and struggle and are impatient and just create problems, or one where we endure peacefully, without creating problems, and then are redeemed equally in the future... So ya im finally really starting to apply what you always taught me too dad to just drop it, and forget it, when things happen to me that i dont think are fair, because this is taking the more peaceful path to the brighter future The Lord has for us!! So ya thats just one cool thing i learned from a sick bed and wanted to share
Another is that according to the just laws of men and the physical, carnal laws that bind us, as is constructed the law of Moses, if one man kills another, the life of that killer is required to create equality... i was reading this too in the scriptures somewhere, i think a reference from Jesus the Christ, sorry i dont remember exactly where, but anyways i read and learned that its the same with all things, that if someone is impatient with us or not receptive of us, we have to be the same way to them right? Thats what the carnal laws of men say, but the Infinite Atonement reverses this too! Not just does it save us from sin, or enable us in challenges, but reverses the laws of physics as well (something i learned last year at byu, it reverses entropy so that our corrupting bodies can be made whole again) and it reverses these carnal laws of men, and literally makes it possilbe that we can use our agency to not return with justice what other people have done to us, but that we can smile and forgive them and follow Christs perfect example! This is one way in which the Atonement changes us to help us become like Him, by literally making it possible to use our agency to forgive others and do good unto them, especially unto those who might not be doing good right now...
One more thing i learned, the mission presidents wife asked me to play three hymns for a big conference we have this week (Elder Grow from the 70 is coming, im stoooocked!!!) and i told her i would do it but was way nervous after getting off the phone with her because they are a bit difficult and the time i have to practice hymns consists of maybe 20 minutes before and after church and district meetings, which i didnt think would be enough to learn the songs, but ya so of course i prayed for help and as i was practicing them ive never been so focused in my life!!!! I learned the songs almost immediately, in like 10 or 15 minutes is all i learned them perfectly, and i know its because i was enabled with His power made possibel through the infinite Atonement!!! Preach my gospel says we are set apart to be missionaries, which literally sets us apart from the world and puts us on a higher plane than the rest of the world, a higher level of thinking, more seceptible to the Spirit (apparently this higher thinking doesnt work with spelling though haha ceceptible or however its spelled...), and ive felt that to be soooo true as ive learned soooo much in my personal study here on the mish and with my piano practicing!!!
Entonces si, aqui tenemos algunas cosas que han sido muy especiales que he aprendido!! Ya que tuve más tiempo en la casa esta semana con mi enfermidad, empecé a escribir algunas cartas hechas a mano para ustedes, y voy a enviarles ellas para que puedan leer aún más que he aprendido pero no tengo tiempo suficiente para incluir en mis cartas semanales... Pero como siempre sé con todo mi corazón que El Señor nos conoce y nos ama y quiere el mejor para nosotros, y por eso nos ha dado este plan de salvación, hecho posilbe por la expiación de Su Hijo Unigénito, y estoy tan bendecido por tener la oportunidad de servir una misión enseñando este mensaje!
Les amo
nos vemos
Elder Tenney
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