Hows it going?!?!?! Thanks sooooo much for the emails as always, looooove them soooooo much!!!!! Ahhhh mom im so sorry youvbe been sick, i cant say the same for myslef this week, ive been quite healthy and taking care of myself, dont worry haha, but daaaaang keep telling me more about this Bednar book!!!! Bednar is incredible!!!!!! I seriously look up to him soooo much!!!!! so in the MTC we got to watch a good amount of devotionals particularly to the missionaries in the provo mtc, and of course Holland is probably my favorite, but Bednar is a waaaayyy close second!!! He really is soooo articulate, sooooo smart... and you should try to look for some of his mtc addresses, idk if they are released publicly, but hes waayyy more animated in them and even said in one, that General conference is not the place to be cracking jokes and super loud and all, but that he will be more that way with the missionaries hahaha and its true, hes wayyy funny a lot of the time in these talks, but in a very particular, whitty, and still proper way, its sooo neat!!!!
And daaaang Dad and Will that riding sounds soooo fun!!!! Will that bike loooks sweeeeet!!!!! And mark im sooo glad to hear all is going well!! hahahaha i couldn not agree more about Gibsons classes, the same happened with me, i went through a fun run era in that class, and then finally started using the time to focus on other homework and all as well!!1 and ya listening to music is the best while studying the scriptures huh!!!! We have a little music player in our house yes with church music and even some efy music, I LOVE IT!!!! But my comp doesnt let us use it during study time.... he says its not allowed, bim not sure if thats accurate, but oh well... but ya so anyways i always try to get ready extra fast in the morning and start my personal study like 10 minutes early so that i can study for that time with the music before he turns it off...
So ya im sooo glad all is well!!! And know that all is just as well with me too!!! Wooooow time is flying!!!! im gonna complete four months on the mission this week!!!! Can you believe that!!!! already 1/6 of the way done!!! And as excited as i will be to get home and see you guys, im honestly not counting down, but counting how much time i have to still take advantage of this full time work!!!! But i read in a cool article in the liahona the other day that a member of the 70 had two missionaries tell him they didnt know what to do to help an investigator, they were doing the best they could, and he was glad to see that, cuz he knew they would then get home and at times be worried about what to do with a prospectice elder in the quorum who wastn super active, or a kid who wasnt super obedient, and he says they will be sooo much more prepared for that having served missions, and thats wayyy cool and makes me want to take advantage of the mission even more!!!!
Alright so not a whole lot this week sorry, im already almost out of time, but a few funny little things from living in Colombia. The other day we were sitting out in front of an investigators house teaching and a chicken flew out of the middle of nowhere and landed on my lap!!! I squirmed a bit, almost handing away my man card, until it fluttered of, dismounting me, and then finally regained my posure to find my comp and the investigator laughing at me haha...
Alright so a few funny stories first haha. There are always a few times when i wish there were another gringo with me, or someone else who speaks english... example number one: some kids were walking down the street selling stuff with a megaphone, and they asked me to say something in english, so what do i do, thats right, i ask to use the megaphone to do it haha, so i get the megaphone and start yelling out ´´ohhhhh you guys´ve got a fresh gringo here right out of the united states living it up in colombia!!! Whats he saying??? Nobody knows!!!¨´ hahaha and i was just laughing to myself as i realized im the only one who understands what im saying hahaha and ya, thats always part of why its awkward but even more funny, because im just left to laugh alone, by myslef, cuz the only times im with someone else who speaks english is in zone conferences with other gringo missionaries.. ( there are a few people here who know a little english, but not much, but they cant understand me at all when i talk in english, i have to talk super slow and clear with simple words for them...)
alright another case of this, a guy in the ward said the other day that he cant speak english, but he can understand it, and i quickly looked up and said ´´oh ya???´´ and he had no idea what that was that i said and i just started laughing alone haha...
the buses are still sooooo crazy... i love them So much though haha!!!! No jeepetas this paast week darn it, but this thursday we should be going to that area where they are agian!!
OOOOO ok so i gotta tell you this sweeeet analogy ive been using to teach the atonement!! Some serious inspirational help in coming up with this, and its a bit difficult to teach, im still working on making it more simple and clear in spanish, but ive been using soccer to teach about the atonement like this: First i ask the people what happens when someone touches the ball inside the goalie box, and they explain penalty and all... and i say k, imagine before we start a soccer game, we tell the other team that they can start with an advantage of 20 free penatly kicks, and they are stocked and take the offer, but weve got Christ, who is the perfect player, as goalie, and he blocks them all!!! So then we start the game 0 to 0, and when one of our players accidentally touches the ball inside the box, we tell them ´´no, no penalty, now you guys only owe us 19...¨ and we keep playing... I teach them this is how it is when we use the power of the atonement to repent, that Christ already payed the price, and that only Christ, the perfect player of soccer, the only one to live a sinless life, could pay that price... Then i ask them ´´but what fun would soccer be if we could always use our hands in the goalie box without a punishment?´´ i help them understand it wouldnt be fun, that the players still regardless must keep trying to do their best, and then i aks them if the players would get any better without trying and always using their hands in the box, and i teach them that even though the players dont have to suffer the penalty, they must keep trying to play by the rules so that its fun, just as we keep trying to live sinless so that we are happy, and that they must keep trying so that they improve theirs skills and becoem better players, and eventually become perfect soccer players, like Christ, just as we must keep tring to do our best and can one day become like Him!!!!
Entonces sí, ha sido muuuuy divertido enseñar eso en lecciones con investigadores y con meimbros, y les testifico que es verdad! yo se porque siempre disfruto ese partido de fútbol, que es la vida, cuando uso el poder de la Expiación hecho posilbe por Jesucristo, y que con tal de que yo esté tratando siempre de hacer lo que más pueda, estoy feliz, y así es la esperanza que tiene Nuestro Padre Celestial para cada uno de nosotros, y lo digo en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
Les amo
nos vemos
Elder Tenney
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