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Well, i will start this email the way i think i always start, by saying its been an incredible week!!!! 

K imma get right to it, first i gotta hit you with the details from last pday!!!  WE DID THE COOLEST THING EVER!!!!!!  There is this place where the natives here have little wooden benches with wheels that sit on old abandoned train tracks, and then a motorcycle attached to the bench to push it, and with the motor cycle the people can come buy tickets and they shuttle the people into the jungle right before the mountains on the inland side of Buenaventura, SO WE DID IT!!!!!  We got shuttled in there and then hiked a bit to a sweeeeet WATERFALL!!!!!!  Ahhhhh man it was incredible, felt like i was in havasupai again, but with waaaayyyy more trees and thick greenery, and even hotter climate!!!!  So ya that was sweet!!

ANother fun adventure from the week, we had a service project for a family in the branch that lives up on the edge of the same jungle!!  They live in what is seriously a little log hut made completely by them, and even though it doesnt have water or electricity its actually suuuper cool!!!!  But ya so they need a path built through the thick jungle, so what did we do??  Thats right, we went in with machetes (how do you spell that???  The giant knives/small swords just incase i spelled that word sooo poorly that you dont know what im talking about) and started wacking away at anything (and anyone, no jk) in our way!!!  I think in an hour we cut down 14 trees of decent size, one of which almost fell on me, but its all good we are over that.... so ya it was an absolute blast, until we got to lunch...

So of course since theyre such nice people these members there, they offered us a big nice lunch, which was suuuper good, exept for one little thing.... I mean i cant complain, the poor people were giving us their very best, and yes it was very good actually, just a little different... ya they gave us pig with the skin still on it, and the hair.... i didnt even know pigs had hair.... or at least not thick and hard hair like this, it was like, ya im out of words, it was like shaved, the hair, but just lke a buz cut... so it was the first time my lunch had a 5 o clock shadow, but other than that surprise it was a great day!!!!

K shoot im already running out of time sorry, i had a lot more to share darn it, but one really really cool thing ive learned this week!!!  We have an investigator whos INCREIBLE!!!! absolutely INCREDIBLE!!!!!  We had a family night with him and his family this week (hes the dad with a wife and two young daughters, but they arent officily married, thats the delay right now) and he gave the lesson, and it was incredible, talking about how Nephi built a temple that didnt have all the nice decorations that the temple of king solomon had, but that it had everyting necessary and was a house of god, which makes it jsut as sacred an special, and he compared that to how we all have bodies very different, and how lots of people feel insecure becuase in some ways their physical apprearance might not be what society accepts, but they are still created in Gods image and are of equal importance and potential, and it was amazing!!  This is just one of many stories of this guy, but as we have listened to him so many times weve realized hes saying all sorts of stuff weve never taught him, and has all sorts of knowledge you dont just learn on your own in this life, no hes proof that The Lord prepares people not just to accept the gospel, but to carry it forth.  My comp and i think this guy will be a big leader who helps this small branch of buenaventura soon become a stake, its what The Lords prepared him for, not just in this life, but im sure he started learning a lot of what he knows in the prelife, and agreed to come to buenaventura in a critical time to help the church grow!

Entonces que pena por tener que irme tan pronto pero ese es mi testimonio, ni siquiera puedo estar màs feliz en la obra apresurada del Señor, sè que las familias pueden ser eternas, en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.

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Èlder Tenney