K first things first, mom i am soooooooo sorry, soooooooo sorry i realized as soon as i took my first step out of the internet cafe last week that i didnt even wish you happy birthday, and ahhhh ive been mad at myslef all week for that haha please forgive me and i hope you had a great day!!! A
As always thanks for the letters!!! NOOOO WAYYY did mark run 3.2 miles in 20 minutes there in utah with that air?!?! THATS CRAZY!!!!!! And dang i cant believe grandma and grandpa already finished 3 years there!!! Im gonna miss being able to say here that my grandparents live in spain, i used to tell ebveryone here that and they always thought it was cool.... And wow tell me more with Jared!!! Really do you think youre seeing a light at the end of the tunnel?!?!?!?!?! Thants INCREDIBLE if so!!!!!!
Alright the weekly report!!! So tuesday i was leading the district meeting and we were discussing some problems with investigators and sharing ideas and all when one of the elders in our district whos working there in cali where the chapel is said hes had an investigator with the same problem that one of ours has, so he came here to Villa Gorgona the ext day and i went there to Cali, doing divisions, from wednesday to thursday morning, which was pretty fun to change things up a bit for a day! So hes training a greeny gringo there in Cali and it was fun to walk all around Cali talking in english haha, Elder Jeffreys his name and we had a good time and got some good work done there too!!! They have the sweeeeetest house there too there in Cali!!! Its not quite in the downtown part of cali which is really pretty, but its up on the fifth floor of a big building and has a sweeeeet view of the whole city and valley and mountains all around it which is really neat!! And ive learned im a total city boy, i slept like a baby with the sound of busy cars on teh street all night, reminded me of new york...
So ya thursday, my birthday, was great!!!! First off, interesting, all the misioanries in the mission had to go to the internet cafes to watch a broadcast from the president and office missionaries, they announced that we are going to establish what are called ´´pensionistas´´ in the mission, which are ladys who cook our lunch... they are going to call one lady in each area to make the lunch for the missionaries every day, and to be our guide for buying and preparing our food for dinner and breakfast evberyday since there have been so many sick missionaries, so ya presidnet pricolis really a smart guy and taking good care of us, dont need to worry about my health any more mom the mish is taking good care of me! Also, on regard of the mish taking good care of me, i did manage to get a little birthday celevbration in!!! The sister missionaries in our district asked us to go to their area tohelp them with a family night with a bunch of investigators and when we got there, they had decorations up for me and a cake for my birthday!!!! So that was really cool and suuuper thoughtful of them!!! To be honest haha i had just kept my expectations low and didnt think my birthday would be anything special here but nah that totally made my day!! i wrote them a note yesterday thanking them and telling them that youd be thrilled to know that the members are taking good care of me here!!!
Alright so CRAAAZZZY story from yesterday!!! Last night the missionary in cali calls me and tells me his comp is a little worried and needs to talk to someone in english,so im like ´´uhhh shoot whats happened?!?!?!´´ so turns out they had a busy night and were doing splits with members, so this new gringo was with a member and not his comp, and they knocked ont he door of some investigators who live on the second floor abov e a restaurant, and one of their sons is up on teh balcony on the third floor and he hops the railing and is standing out on the edge, holding onto the railing on the third floor, which aparently is something he always did before, but the railing breaks, and he falls!!!!!!! HES UPSIDE DOWN IN THE AIR, going to land ON HIS HEAD, when he hits the telephone lines, does a flip, and lands RIGHT ON HIS FEET!!!!!!!!!!!! i mean HOLY COWWWW!!!!!!! Wooooow what a miracle hahaha, he still fell over from landing on his feet so hard and broke his wrist, but other than that hes just fine, the phone lines totally saved his life!!!!! So ya just another typical day in Cali Colombia for ya....
Alright so really neat experiene this week! Dani and Lucho, who we put the wedding on for a little while ago and baptized, went with us to an appointment with another investigator the other day, and he was telling us he wouldnt be able to go to church with us cuz he had to keep working there in his little store he owns, when Dani, one of my converts, explains ´´dont you trust that The Lord will bless you with even more blessings and help you have even more success with your job, or give you blessings in some other way, if you can just exercize a little faith now and go to church???´´ So that made me sooo impressed with how much she has learned!!! Lucho her husband stepped up then too and the both of them started explaining perfectly the way The Lord works with us with commandments and all and it was soooooooo neat for me to see two of my converts now explaining the doctrine of Christ that has changed their life to other people as well!!! I cant even describe how neat it is to see, not that ive done anything, but just to know that through my efforts, perhaps we can say, theyve been able to feel the spirit and be changed and invite the light of Christ more into their lives, and, as Bednar says, even have desire then to put on the character of Christ and turn out...!!!! so ya that was suuuper neat for me!!!!
Entonces aquí tenemos la última semana y todo lo que me pasó en Cali, Colombia! Les dejo mi testimonio que, en las palabras de Niel A Maxwell, las que el Elder Bednar usó en un otro discurso, si no fuera por la característica de Cristo, la expiación no habría sido posible... somos todos nosotros evidencia de ese principio, ya que tenemos el deseo de compartir lo que nos ha impactado! Sé que no hay algo mejor de ese ´´fruto´´, digamos, que hace que uno sea feliz! Es mi testimonio, y se lo dejo en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
Les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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