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Whhhattttsupppp?!?!  Im glad to hear everybodys weeks have been good!!! Its been another good week here in Colombia!!!  Heres the report:

First off, we welcomed a few new missionaries to the heat here in Buenaventura this week, and weve got a Little tradition for the neubies here.  Im actually not sure if i told you about this when i first got here in Buenaventura, but heres the story anyways!  o

We always have a welcome activity in the Little house chapel here so that the new missionaires present themsleves and all, then we play games and share a message and have a few refreshments and all... then we tell them we are gonna take a picture with them, setup some seats for them infront of the chapel, and have a few members sneak up from behind while they are looking at the cameras smiling and dump buckets of wáter on them!!!!  So that was pretty fun this week!!!

K sorry somewhat lame but thats really the only somewhat funny story i have from the week.  That and this computer keeps correcting words into spanish, doesnt just put the squickly line under the words like usual, but automaticallly corrects them to spanish haha, así que creo que valdría la pena solo empezar a escribir en español... but other tan that there have been army hummers with huge guns on top just stationed all over the city this week, not sure why, i asked one of the military dudes standing by one but he woudlnt tell me why, so what do i do then?  i look at my comp and laugh, knowing he would be annoyed with what i was about to do, and i asked the guy if i could get a picture real quick!  so ya that pic is on its way

Ohhhhh so i got my package this week too!!!!  Thanks a toooonnnn!!!!!  Alrready finsiehd off the Candy hahaha k as cool as some of the food is here, it was pretty nice to just simply enjoy some ormal Candy from home again!  And the music is incredible thanks sooo much!!!  And the ties, and the christmas card is neat, and the flashlight i needed, and the nerf guns are a blast!!!!  Last night the other missionaries were running late to their house and closer to our so they stayed with us and the 6 of us (cuz we are already 4 in our house plus them) had a quick pre pday nerf fight haha!!!

Aright so we went back to Cali this week, my comp and i, for the big leadership conference we hae everymonth, and it was really neat!!!  I learnd something big i was looking for this week!  I had been, honestly, pretty irritated before because our misión president is really big on prayng lots about the goals we set, so that they truly are inspired and reachable goals, and then doing everything posible to accomplish what we know The Lord has prepared for us to accomplish (Nephi 3¨7 and 17:2-3).  My comp and i have been setting way high goals, but feeling good about it, believing we are setting them with the Sprit, and then doing everything posible to be perfectly obedient and work as hard as posible and efficiently as posible to reach them, but we still have been falling short.... So i started to really wonder why, not sure what more we could be doing, or if we should lower the goals, or what, just confused and looking for ways to work harder, and then i found something neat this week!  I was thinking aout it lots during a lectura with the president and then a question popped into my head.  I stood up and asked the presdietne if its necessary to not just have faith in the message we have, but in the investigators themselves as well.  I explained that of course i know that if the people choose to accept our message they will be blessed and their lives changed, but that sometimes i walk out of lessons having explained everything as clear as posible, providing the people with spiritual experiences and leaving them with commitments, but doubting that they will actualy make the tough decisions to change their life.  I have been doubting that they will cancel their saturday night plans to get to bed and go to church in the morning, doubting that they will kick out their girlfirend, no matter how awkward, and doubting that they will ever change and stop drinking coffee after failing to doso so many times.  My president then opened it up to aninteresting discussion on the quistión, and ive been studying the answers the rest of the week since then, and ive learned a ton!  Ive learned that even though the people have their agency yes, and i cant control them, i must do a lot more tan just teach them and make them feel the spirit, but actually love them and have faith in them and tell them i know they will do it, no matter how many times they fail.  Adnd as ive been learning this,ive realized so much more that thats exaclty how our Lord and Savior Jesús Christ Works, and our Heavenly Father!  

Entonces, yo podría hablar todo el día de eso si quisiera, y sí lo hago todos los días como misionero, pero quiero dejarlo allí para esta semana!  También, como en la pregunta que hice a Grandpa Tenney la semana pasada, y sí hice la pregunta a todos, gracias por su respuesta Dad, he estado tratando de aprender aun más de cómo puedo seguir la guía del Espíritu, y me veo aprendiendo muchísimo!  Quiero prometerles que estamos en la iglesia restaurada de Jesucristo, y dejo este testimonio en el nombre de Él, amen.

les amo

nos vemos

Elder Tenney