WOWOWOWOW another weeeeek down!!! And month!!!! and almost half year!!!!

HOOOOLLLYYYY COOOWWW times flying!!!!  And i can honestly say its starting to scare me, literaly, that times going so fast!!!!  IM TURNING 20 THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!  WOOOWWW it felt weird typing that..... i seriously cant believe it haha, so to answer your question dad yes time is going as fast for me too, if not faster, im hitting my 5 month mark today yes!!!  Almost a quarter of teh way done with my mission and i seriously feel like ive been here maybe 2 months at the longest!!!  Dang though haha to be honest this week it hit me, that before i know it the mission will be over, and man did that make me reeeallly wanna work hard this week!!  So ya its been a productive week thats for sure!!  Haha not that we werent already working really hard before, but im doing all i can to make sure the mission doesnt fly by without making the most of it!!!

K as always thanks a ton for the emails!!!  They are always sooooo fun to read!!!  Glad to hear youre all doing so well!!!  And winning so much hahaha hooollllyyyy cooowwwww did you seriously make 96 free throws mark????   And mark told me hes 6´2 in his last email, somebody please log on RIGHT NOW and tell me thats not true hahaha..... and NO WAAAYYYYYY dad did you seriously hit 4 of 5 half court shots hahahaha THATS INSAAAANE!!!!  Everybody in this little internet cafe thinks im a weirdo hahaha cuz ive been gasping and yelling ``no way!!!!`` while reading your emails hahaha but oh well, just helps me fit in here in Colombia to be honest.....  Dang though i was all proud walking into the interntet cafe today because as we played soccer at the chapel today for pday, i threw down some windmill and 360 dunks on the 10 foot hoop!!!!  haha pics on the way, but wow have i actually been seriously outdone this week basketball wise, mega congragulations!!!!  And NNOOO WAAAYYY mom did you seriusly win 2 of your maatches already in the advanced league?!?!?!  WAY TO GO!!!!!!  Will, tu español es rreee bueno tambièn segùn lo que me has escrito!!!  Me imagino que tu nota no solo en tu clase de español, pero en todos tus clases, son muuuyy buenos!!  Byu te espera!!  Y la misiòn te espera tambièn!!!   And as always im soooo glad to hear Jareds doing so well!!!  That stud is such a trooper he deserves the good progress it sounds like hes having!!!

Alright shoot im gonna throw it out honest here real quick and admit ive got a waaayyyy boring email this week... im afraid im just getting used to living in this insane country, and stuff thats crazy for anyone with a sound mind not from Colombia dont even make me blink twice haha..... but luckily i did get a lot better about pictures this week so ive got lots coming!!  But one story kind of funny real quick: The mission president called me the other day and told me that apparently there was a huuuge fight infront of the house of the sister misionaries in my district, and he told me that he had been calling them all morning but unable to get ahold of them and wasnt sure if they were safe.... shoot so he calls me and verifies that hes got the right number for them, i confirmed that it was the right number yes, and after a few moments of shared panic i remembered they told me the night before that they had a meeting with all the sister missionaries in all the zones here in cali that day, and when i told the president that, and that they werent answering the phone because they were in the meeting, there was a moment of silence and then just the most hilarious ``ooohhhhhh`` ive ever heard as he realized that all is well and that ya there was the big meeting for the sister missionaries that morning.... oh man so everyone loves that kid in class who subconciously blurts out ``ohhhh`` in school when they finally come to understand just slower enough than everyone else that its hilarious, well my very own mission president, who as ive said is a really smart guy, gave me the absolute best ``oohhhh`` over teh phone that im sure i will ever hear in my life hahaha so ya to make it even better his wife was in the meeting with the sister missionaries too and he told me hed call her to then talk to the sister missionaries, and to answer your question mom no the sister missionaries were just fine, it wasnt even anything that bad that happened infront of their house, and no nothing ever happens in front of my house im perfectly safe...

So ya like i said the email is waayyyy boring this week, sorry, but ive got a lot of good pictures on the way.  Tambièn algo muy interesante esta semana de lo que me he dado cuenta es que las personas, de verdad, aprecian mucho lo que hacemos los misioneros, que quiere decir que (``que quiere decir`` is a colombian way of saying ``which means`` incase there are any problems understanding that...) las personas reconocen bien la esfuerza de este mensaje que tenemos... Permìtanme explicar un poco màs.  El mensaje que tenemos les impactùa mucho a todas las personas aquì, y creo que de pronto es porque son pobres y humildes... todas las personas, aunque no asistan a la iglesia con frequencia, siempre quieren que compartamos algo con ellos, un ejemplo es que el otro dìa estàbamos andando a una cita, pero sin prisa, y algunos de los hombres jòvenes en el Barrio, miembros algunos pero no muy activos, nos pararon y nos dijeron que compartièramos algo, y al empezar a detenernos y sacar las escrituras, allì mismo en la calle, nos dijeron que nuestros mensajes siempre son fuertes y les hacen sentir bien, y me dije a mì mismo, que bueno que algunos jovencitos de verdad reconocen el poder de este mensaje y a pesar de que tal vez no estèn haciendo todo lo correcto, todavìa quieren escucharnos, y por què, porque las enseñanzas de Jesucristo por lo menos nos hacen sentir bien.  Les testifico que es asì porque este mensaje que tenemos viene directamente de Dios y es para nuestra bienestar porque Èl nos ama!  Lo sè hace 20 años esta semana, y lo digo en el nombre sagrado del Señor Jesucristo, amen.

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Èlder Tenney