Asuntos de la Semana

So our biggest goal has been a bit different this week, but really really cool!!!!!  WE didnt get as much time, actually hardly any time at all, to teach lessons to the investigators and less actives and recent converts and all like we normally do, but we worked A TON this week with an aweosme member whos about to serve his mission as well!!!!!   So most of the week we were running errands all over town from one health clinic to another to get all his helath paperwork done and pick up all the results as fast as possible!!!  Its been awesome to see how excited he is and all though and kinda re-live the life of filling out the papers haha, feels like just yesterday i was in that process as well, even though its been over a year now!!!!!  So one day was really interesting though in this whole process with him.  One day after lunch my comp didnt feel to good, came donw pretty sick and had to go rest all afternoon and night in the house.  Luckily the other missionareis who live with us were able to go on splits with us, so i went with one of them and the member and the other missionary stayed with my comp, but there was just one small problme here.... it is a WHoLE new world, whole new language entirely the spanish you have to know to be able to fill out medical papers and all...... long story short i struggled big time haha trying to figure out what tests we still had to do and how we could get the results and what the results meant and all in spanish, but i learned a ton!  My good friend Graham from BYU always says ``theres no growth in the comfort zone, and theres no comfort in the growing zone`` haha well i learned that this week, it was tough having medics blurt out all sorts of big words in spanish to me, even worse over the phone some of them, but i leanred a lot!!!

A quick funny story from the week.  Most of my pants are a bit too short now, they barely touch my shoes when im standing, and when im sitting... ya its bad... but dont worry mom im getting that fixed.... but ya so i thougth i was just growing, got stocked, until i had a member lend me a tape measure and realized im still the same height.  I asked the member why my pants are too short then and she showed how my pockets always hang open too and explained that im not getting taller, but rather just that my legs are getting fatter... fatter or stronger, not sure which of the two, i prefer the latter, but ya just kinda funny to see how the mission changes you... i also floss my teeth now almost every day...

Alright i had a really neat afternoon yesterday on some visits with a recent convert to the church.  After a few visits he just started to tell us how much he loves his life now in the church.  He explained us a bit about his past, and how much he and his family have changed now (all of them a recent converts), and long story short, a man who had quite a rough life in Buenaventura Colombia a year ago, we walked him back to his house at the end of the day and there was his wife making food with one of the sons, both super happy, and at the same time the other son and a daughter arrived who were out doing visits with the other missionaries, and its hard to put it into words, but its just absolutely incredible for me to see how happy the families here are now when they accept and adopt the gospel in their lives!!  Every single member here in Colombia is such an incredible example of how blessed each and every one of us can be thanks to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and His father`s plan which He made possilbe!

Doy mi testimonio que este plan se creò desde la fundaciòn del mundo por Nuestro Padre Celestial, y que sostuvimos a Cristo como nuestro Redentor y Salvador.  Sè que gracias a ello, las familias pueden ser felices y eternas, en el nobmre de Jesucristo, amen.

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Èlder TEnney