Don't worry, I'm alive

sorry sorry sorry for not being able to write yesterday.... yesterday was a big holiday here and EVERYTHING was closed here, including all the internet shops, so they told us we could write today since we couldnt yesterday, but they are only giving us half an hour, so im sooo sorry but this will be a short and boring letter... I promise it will be better next week, but heres a funny story real real quick and something cool ive leared this week!

 

So the sister missionaries called us late one night last week and were freaking out!  After calming them down a bit my comp asked them what was up,. and they said there was a massive spider in their bedroom and they were scared to death and asked us to come over and kill it for them (they live just around the corner).  So we went over thinking like ``what are you serious just stomp on it or something).  So we get there (dont worry they waited outside while we went in, we arent allowed to be in the house at the same time) and they were there with their beds on the floor in thefront room where they study, all ready to sleep there haha because of the spider that broke loose in their room.  So we go into the bedroom, dont see anything, and then they tell us to start picking up the clothes on the bottom of the closet, and hooooollllyyyy cooowwww, after picking up a few shirts, this MASSIVE SPIDER, seriously the size of a full grown humans hand, started crawling up the wall!!!  Im sorry, but if im gonna be honest, i will say that i totally screamed and ran out of the room!!!  When i recovered and came back, my comp and i both got mops to move the clothes with and try to cruch it.  So we start trying to hit it as its running along the back of the closet (and scariest part is its eyes were like the size of pearl earings almost, HUGE, you could like see its eyes flickering around and stuff) and then it JUMPS onto one of theshirts hanging up!!!  It didnt crawl over onto the shirt, no it totally JUMPED!!  a good jump too!!!  So we carefully slid each shirt over to the other side of the pole where they were hanging until we found it on the back of one of them, batted it down onto the floor and stomped on it!!!  But woooowwwwww hahahaha i seriously cant even describe how big this thing was, alright well ya i hope you enjoyed that one!

 

K ive been re-reading a ton from last general conference and im pretty sure itwas Anderson who said that lowering our standards brings self contentment instead of self improvement.  I thought that went along well as well with Brad Wilcox`s famous talk about Christ grace, which helped me understand this week that the whole plan of salvation and Christs atonement and grace arent just to make us comfortable with sin, but to help us always improve, and thats something ive been trying to apply with everyone here.  Its easy for missionaries to say ``oh well we are doing our best`` as they get home a bit late or get up a bit late or arent as obedinet as possible.  its easy to think we arent perfect and then just be content that way, but thats not how we are going to become enough like our Heavenly Father to have infinite happiness being worthy to live in His presence.  Pero la parte màs importante es que no estamos hacièndolo solos!  Si es cierto que no somos perfectos, todavìa, pero si lo seremos gracias a lo que hizo posible Jesucristo!  Testifico de Èl, de Su divinidad, de Su expiaciòn, de Su amor, de Su ejemplo, y de nuestro potencial gracias a Èl!  Es por eso que estamos aquì todos, y que estoy re feliz en la misiòn!  Amo esta obra, y este plan de nuestro Padre Celestial, y lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.

 

les amo

 

nos vemos

 

Èlder Tenney