Wooowww im typpping soooo fasty

Alright the letter to all!

Ive got a quick list of some things ive leanred this week just to get it out there real quick incase i dont have time to explain it all in detail, so ya things ive leanred:

1 You cant throw animals with a dust pan

2 The hiccups can be a n answer to prayes

3 Volcanos errupt in a way very different than humans

4 There is a direct correlation between agency and testimony

5 The spirit opens our eyes to see paterns of The Lords love

6 the word ``pattern``has two ``t``s

Alright, so, we were sitting in the chapel waiting for members for a meeting, and with nothing to do noticed the floor was a bit dirty, so we went and grabbed some brooms and started to sweep.  After, i went to get the dustpan from the little closet and when i picked it up it shook all over the place, and i was like what the heck, and then i saw a tail wiggling around and there was an iguana inside!!!!!  So i go inside with it to show everyone and one of the poor sister missionaries screamed sooooo dang loud haha (apparently there arent iguanas in peru where shes from) and i went outside to throw it over the pack fence behind the chapel and into the big jungle that lies back behind the fence.  However, even thoughy i thought i had it all calculated perfectly, the trajecotry and all of the iguanas flight pattern, when i swung the dust pan up (one with a long handle...) it just fell straight down plop onto the ground haha right infront of me, and i laughed for half a second, until it flipped over onto its feet and then RAN STRAIGHT AT ME!!!!!!  so what did i do?  ya i dropped the dust pan, screamed, and quickly ran back inside, slamming the door shut behind me, jsut to see a circle of everybody else looking all weird asking me what on earth had happend.... so ya that was fun!!!

alright the catholics in Colombia are nuts, im not saying its cuz their catholics, or because their colombians, not all the catholics here are nuts, but yes all the people who are nuts are catholic... alright so we were visiting a less active when his dad arrived (catholic, and nuts), and he sat down and started talking sooooo much!!!!  Just saying absolute nonsense, not criticizing us, just saying all sorts of nonsense stuff hes learned from the Bible, and ya we kept trying to but in and cut him off, to get him to stop talking for peets sake, when after like 10 minutes of him talking he totally hiccuped suuuuper loud, like his whole body shook hahaha, and so he quickly began to talk again, but hadnt even gotten 4 words out before he hiccuped agian, just as abrupt, and kept hiccuping, and trying sooo hard not to laugh my comp and i were then able to but in and then keep teaching the lesson!!

Alright, so i was feeling suuper good about my spanish for a while, coming up on my 8th month mark and all, when i got humbled in a rather humorous way the other day. To start companionship study we alwyas share what we learned in personal study, and i was reading in 3rd nephi during Christ`s death all the crazy stuff that happend in the Earth, and as i was explaining to my comp what my physics professor at byu taught us last year (that the darkness for a few days was probably a series of catastrophic volcanic erruptions), i thought the word ``errupt`` in spanish was ``erruptar``, so i started using that word a few times and after my comp began laughing i realized ``erruptar`` is a false cognative in this case and actually means ``to burp``, so in short i said that when Christ died volcanoes burped all over the world...

Alright besides studinng burping volcanoes this week, i read a talk from Elder Cook (i like his talks more and more the more i read them) called something like learning to tune into the music of faith or something like that from gen conference last year, and it has a line that really caught my attention that says ``the divne doctrine of agency requires a testimony of the restored gospel to be based on faith rather than just external or sientific proof```, and at first i just thought well ya of course a testimony has to be based on faith and not proof, but then i realized i had never thought of that connection before to agency, better said, to the ``divine doctrine of agency``.  after talking about it with my comp a lot weve learned that if it werent for the incredible gift of agency, our inability to choose and automatic must to choose the best would subject us to scientific evidence in making every decision and never let us choose to follow the better future where our spirits would direct us, aside from all scientific evidence.  Im not sure if that came out very clear haha but ya weve talked before about how according to the adversaries plan we wouldve been robots here on teh earth, but even if that worked out that plan wouldnt have worked (i know it wouldnt have for lots of other reasons as well) but we would have only been able to choose worldy prises here on earth as robots and never would follow spiritual indicators or recognize The Lord`s love which leads us back to Him.... ya super cool!!!!!

Alright and also ive just seen soooo much lately about how someone learns to recognize The Lords love, and the patterns that His love has, as they learn more about the gospel, this goes for all people, members, recent converst, less actives, and non members!  one neat story this week was with a recent convert.  Ive been studying more about something i read from Brad Wilcox before the mission that we arent just earning heaven here on the earth, but we are ``learning`` heaven.  The gospel doesnt just invite us into heaven, it prepares us to be able to be happy in The Lord`s presence too!!  We explained that this week to a recent convert who we were having trouble with, and it really turned thigs around with him!!  Now my comp and i feel like we have so much more love for him, and he is not getting along better with everyone in the ward and we can tell he is feeling more The Lord`s love in his life!!!

Bueno gracias por todo el apoyo que siempre me dan!!!  Enserio, desafortunadamente no todos los misioneros pueden decir que tienen familias apoyàndoles en su serivio misional, pero yo si puedo decir eso y muuuuuuucho màs!  Estoy infinitamente agradecido por todo lo que ustedes siempre han hecho a mi lado en mi familia para prepararme para la misiòn, y estoy aun màs agradecido por el sacrificio de Jesucristo!  Sè que Èl estaba dispuesto a darnos su vida porque sabìa que un dìa llegarìamos a ser como Èl!  Y lo comparto en el nombre de Èl, de Jesucristo, amen.

les amo 

nos vemos

Èlder Tenney