Alllllllright im starting this email the same way i think ive started every single other one, by saying how INCREDIBLY FAST the time is absolutely FLYYYIIINNGGG!!!!!!! MY MISSION IS A QUARTER OF THE WAY OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ahhhhh man just makes me wanna work sooooo much harder which im really not sure is possible but i will find a way!!!!!
Wait wait wati hold on a minute though, rewind, tell me i havent just waken up from a coma, ive been out six months??? And mark is as tall as dad and will? And will is turning in his BYU app??? Will was in what third grade when i left??? and seems like just the other day you told me you bought a boat (had to type bought like 3 times before i got it write, dang my enlish is draining down the go) and now its already winter and you are skiing?!?!
Wow, well all is ``suuuuuper fine`` here in Buenaventura!!!! i say ``suuuper fine`` because thats what everyone says to me here. I dont know why, but all the english teaching books and classes and all here teach that the word ``fine`` means ``good`` when really it just kinda means ``not bad...`` so when people try to talk in english a bit with me and i say very slowly ``how are you?`` or ``hows it going?`` the say with a big smile ``fine`` or ``really really fine`` or ``suuuper fine`` and ya its kinda funny...
Ahhhh man though it is soooooooo dannnngggggg hot here!!!!! So i started, haha no joke, wearing a littel hand towel under my belt that im always wiping myself with and which i keep on my lap during lessons and stuff to wipe the sweat, becuase im seriously always, always covered in sweat from 11 in teh morning to like 8 or 9 at night when it finally starts to cool off just enough to sleep... haha my comp actually started doing it too, keeping a little towel on him too to wipe the sweat and all, hes been here 2 months now and is still sweating just as much so im just gonna have to get used to it... the people alwyas feel bad for us too though, the natives dont really sweat and are used to it, but they like apologize and stuff as they see us sweating sooo much haha its.. ummm.. great
Holy cow though besides the heat I LOOOVVEE It here!!!!! We had another incredible week!!!! So we had a baptism planned with an investigator whos awesome, a friend of the one really good family in teh ward who actually moved in with them for some time, planned for next saturday, but they planned to leave this week for their vacation, so we moved up the batpismal date and did it yesterday!!! OHHHHHH and ok perhaps the coolest thing about Buenaventura, and one of the reasons i wanted to come here, theres no baptismal font in teh little chapel so we go to A RIVER TO BAPTIZE!!!!!! Yup, thats right, call us the sons of Mosiah, pics on teh way...!!!
So ya her baptism was swweeeeettt yesterday and shes already getting a strong testimony and even thinking about the mission!!! (shes 17) Alright now though, for maybe one of teh COOLEST EXPERIENCES ON MY MISSION!!!!!! We went to visit a guy whos a friend of a member and who already went to church with this member a few times, the elders never visited him before cuz he lives really far, but i felt like we should visit him, so ya we go and sit down with him and get to know him a bit and start teaching him and share a lesson and all... and at the end of teh lesson he told us the most incredible thing!!!! He said ``you now what, i was sleeping right before you guys knocked on the door, and in my dream when i was sleeping i saw a gringo with bright blond hair, and when i answered the door i was a bit shocked cuz i realized you, Èlder Tenney, were the gringo i saw, so i invited you guys in a know you guys have something very special for me...``!!!!!!!
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WHHHHAATTTTTT?!?!?!?! HOW INCREDIBLE IS THAT?!?!?!?!?! Ahhhh man ok ya so you dont really get much of a better example than that that The Lord is indeed preparing people to hear this message!!! so ya weve kept teaching him since then and now weve got his baptism planned for this saturday!!!
Alright so a random little funny thing about Buenaventura, so just the architecture in general in Colombia isnt anywhere as good as what weve got there in the states, and its even worse here in Buenaventura, so the steps on every stair case are super uneven, so you have to be looking attently at your feet anytime you go up or down a few stairs... so ya i had some pretty good falls this week haha, some aweosme moments when everyones jsut laughing at the dang gringo in colombia whos on teh ground holding his knee not knowing wether to laugh or cry...
Alright well ya thats about it for this week!!! Todavìa no puedo explicarles acerca de quì tan bonito esta ciudad es!!! Es increìble!!! Creo que la Caìda tocò algunas partes de la tierra màs que otras partes, y Buenaventura aquì casi no se tocò, que quiere decir que la naturaleza aquì es casi iqual que lo que se nos describe de la gardìn de Edèn!! Les envio algunas fotos muy buenas que saquè esta semana! Otra evidencia de la divinidad de Nuestro Padre Celestial y Su Higo Jesucristo que crearon toda esta belleza para nosotros! Es mi testimonio en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
nos vemos
Èlder Tenney
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