Lets start with christmas eve... twas the night before christmas, when, under a shady street light in buenaventura, two good little boys who believed in santa clause, and in Jesus Christ, had the christmas spirit tell them they should go to a distant land, half way to the north pole, to visit a man who recently started believing in santa again, and in Jesus Christ. They did not have any reindeer, oh no sir, they walked.
They walked through the candicane forest, and past the sea or swirly whirly gum drops, and through the lincoln tunnel, but as they walked, it started to rain, a rain storm most dreadful, undeserved by such good little boys. After miles and miles of putting one little foot infront of the other, the whiter and taller of the two said to the other, ``sorry for saying we should come out this far, maybe christmas eve will be better next year`` but, to the young boys surprise, his littel boy friend simply replied ``be of good cheer, im cold, im tired, but happy as could be``
The two little boys realized that christmas, and the work of Christ, arent about being warm by the fire or getting presents, but by giving one to another, the best thing anyone can give, the message of Jesus Christ, who gave us everything, even his life.
Alright im tired of talking/typing poetically... but ya it was a cool experience haha becuase we walked sooooo far and then the recent convert wasnt even home, and we were like ``dang seriously?`` and i told my comp ``shoot dude sorry for dragging you out here`` but he told me ``dude you know what, im cold, im tired, but im happy, not sure why`` and we both realized that here in the mission field we had had one of teh best and happiest christmas eves of our lives!!!
Alright next story for the week, ohhhhh thats right, call me Alma, BATPIZING IN A RIVER!!!!!!!!!! We had another baptism this week, and this time the investigator asked me to do the honors!!! pics on the way
Third neat thing from the week. The elders quorum president got really sick this week (thats not the cool thing), and so everyone showed up to the priesthood meeting and realized nobody had the lesson prepared, so i ran to the other room and grabbed a bunch of liahona magazines and flipped to elder Jorg (weird russian last name i dont remember) talk, i think in english its ``approaching the throne of The Lord with confidence`` or some sweet title like that, and with no time to prepare i just taught the lesson on his talk... and i did it in SPANISH!!!! Like holy cow, it used to take me two hours to prepare the lessons for elders quorum last year at BYU, and that was in english, and now i just last minute warning got up and did it in spanish!!! So ya, as you know its an incredible talk, ive been studying it in english as well (they gave the liahona in english to the girngos this week, so ya dad ive got reeds talk and will give it a look!!!), and ya it was awesome!!! Interesting to see how as missionaries try to forget themselves and help others grow, and edify The Lord`s church, He edifies and strengthens the missonaries!!!
Entonces vi un ejemplo perfecto de esa idea esta semana en mi propia vida! La decisiòn de servir la misiòn es la mejor decisiòn que he tomado en la vida preterrenal, y he visto las bendiciones! Fue un privilegio recordar un poco màs que normal a Jesucristo esta semana mientras celebràbamos su nacimiento. Les testifico que Èl realmente nos dio todo. Como Èlder Nelson (i think it was him who said this) nos dijo, Jesucristo dio cosas tal que nunca se habrìa podido devolver de su valor. Dio perdòn para el arrepentido, vista para el ciego, oido para el sordo, fuerza para el dèbil, y màs que todo, nos dio su vida. Lo sè porque he visto tales bendiciones no solamente en mi vida, sino en la vida de los colombianos aquì tambièn, y se lo tesifico en el nombre sagrado del mejor dador del mundo, Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Èlder Tenney
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