Bueno entonces primeramente quisiera agradecerles por las cartas que me enviaron esta semana!!! Como siempre me encantaron bastante!!! Y sí jaja no estoy sorprendido, los que tienen para viajar fuera de este país (los cuales son poco aquí en esta triste pobreza) siempre van a Miami debido a que muchas hablan el español allí... alright haha i cant type in spanish fast enough, nor do you want the google translation that lets be honest cant quite capture the style of Élder Tenney...
alright but ya dang that sounds awesome your trip there!!!! We gotta go back then when i get home!!! And ahhhhh thats awesome that you got to spend the sunday night with Jared, honestly sunday nights with the family are the nigths i miss most... but dang also has mark seeeerrriiouuuussllyyy grown that much?!?! He looks just as tall as Will and Dad in that pic dad sent me:::!!!!!
alright well amidst a sweet storm here in Villa Gorgona, Valle Cauca, Colombia, i come in with some good stories this week for the blog and thw world!!! First, so the other day we were walking to a family night (the missionaries are famous for coming to peoples houses to hold family night, any day of the week, not just monday cuz they love them so much) with some other member friends and the members offered us mangos to eat on the way over!! So it was believe it or not the first time i had eaten mango before, because normally i just drink it in juice... but ya so i was eating and felt it starting to get stuck in my teeth, like bad... the mango is suuuuper tough here haha and after just a few bites it felt like i had a big old piece of dried out yarn in between every single tooth... and ya so i tried to pluck it out before we got to their house but didnt do such a good job... so the first thing i do when we get to the house is go to the bathroom to try with the mirror, but man was that stuff stuck in there good or what, you can tell steve wynn he did a good job of getting my teeth nice and snug together... so ya but even worse than that was when i got to the bathroom i saw that, k wait pause, HOLY COW I JUST HEARD THE LOUDEST THUNDER OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! haha sorry random side note, this is by faaaarrrrr the craziest storm ive been in hahaha going on just outside this little window of the internet cafe... k but back to the story, i got to the bathroom and saw that there was mango juice alllll oooover my shirt haha.... ahhhh it was dark as we walked over so i didnt see and/or realize that i was squirting the juice all over my shirt with every bite... so ya i just gave up and decided to laugh about it at that point, the family night being the last appointment of the day, and i just went out and told everyone to laugh at me for it and ya we had some good laughs together...
Alright so now im totally going blank and cant remember what the other really funny story was from this week, it will probably come to me right as the times up... but anyways a cool spiritual story from the week: We were in a lesson the other day with a lady who was receiving us well until the first time she came to church with us, after which she told us she really didnt love anything about the sunday meetings at church... so ya we are teaching her again on saturday and i, towards the end, sat forward and quite firmly promised her, boldly, that if she would try just one more time, and come to church with us one more time, that she would hear something there that will be an answer to a question she has had deep down, that has bothered her, but that she hasnt confessed to anyone, and that the answer would be so clear she would be shocked... so ya haha it was really neat for me though, i felt the spirit real strong in the moment and remembered an mtc address from Elder Bednar where he taught that as long as we are good boys and good girls, honoring our covenants and keeping our commandments, all we have to do is open our mouth... he goes on to teach that often we wont know what the heck we are saying, where we are going, or why, nor will we have a visionary spiritual impression, but that the spirit will indeed be guiding us... and i know thats what the spirit was doing with me in that lesson. So it was real powerful and neat for me to experience that promise from Elder Bednar, but for my comp on the other hand... ya i think he got a bit scared with how clear of an anwer i promised haha but oh well...
alright so now to fast forward one day to church with this same investigator, she came, adn after sacrament meeting walked into the next class with us, and whats the topic written on the board. yup. Chastity. at first im thinking oh shoot, what on earth did i promise this poor lady, but then i kept my faith firm and realized shoot, she probably really does have something shes worried about with this topic, adn thats why shes kept it secret, but ya so teh lesson was actually really well taught and i will have either a really good report next week, or a really bad one, but either way interesting haha, based on how the next appointment goes with this investigator this week...
Entonces como siempre muchisimas gracias!!! Les amo con todo mi corazón, pero sé que con este mensaje estaré con las personas a las que amo para siempre, y las personas acá en Colombia merecen saber ese mensaje glorioso también, y tengo el honor y gran privilegio de traérselo. Les prometo que es verdad, en el nombre sagrado de JESUCRISTO, amen.
Les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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