Chile!

k wait first off, thanks a toooonnnnn for the letters, and no dad hahaha lectures, belive it or not, are the emails ive been wanting lately hahaha seriously ive been studying the awesome emails in personal study with the scriptures youve given and stuff and applying it and all your advice and support, and that from mom and will and mark and jared have been suuuuper helpful, THANKS A TON!!!  And mark joseph in egypt has beeen suuuuper fun for me to sutdy lately!!!!  and thats soooo awesome that Jared made it in time for wIlls call!!!!!!!  and mom keep resting the head, im praying for you!

 

alright a bit of a shorter, less exciting letter this week, but here it goes

 

First off, ive gotten pretty into making juice with the INCREDIBLE fruit here, my favorite is mango with milk and sugar, and im getting waaayyyy good at cutting mangoes really fast jaja, but earlier this week i made a huge batch for all the guys in our house, but the first guy who drank it just about gagged and i was like shoot the milk must be rotten or something, and now hes gonna be sick, but the milk was fine, and then i realized i poured in salt instead of sugar....  ya the gringo side of me is still young and alive, not quite colombian yet....

 

Thougth i was getting pretty good at soccer too, until last pday we went to play and almost the whole branch was there, and i ran out on the court first and tried a new move i had learned, and then made a rather incredibel trip... the outside of my foot rolled over the ball, but then the ball some how rolled under my legs and my whole back, kind of cushioning my fall, but just making my fall look absolutely hilaaarious hahahaha my whole body rolled over the ball and then i just hit the ground pretty hard with like a ``huhhhh`` thud hahahaha infront of EVERYONE and we all laughed together and it wa sgreat!!!

 

ya well thats about all the funny stories from the week... we had a super neat day one day this week though!  In the whole mission weve got a new goal to put baptismal dates with everyone, absolutely everyone, even just contacting people in the street, our goal is to just, before anything, just testify boldly of Christ and then ask people if they want to follow His example and get baptized, and its been suuuuper neat!!!!  I used to think we had to explain everything first, explain the restored authority and all, that people had to know what they were doing before itd be apropriate to inviten them to be baptized, but ive seen now that its not about understanding at all, thats the power of the Spirit, we just have to testify, and they ALWAYS feel the Spirit when we testify of Christ, and then even if they dont know what theyre getting into, they often accept the invitation just because they want more of what they are feeling.  And then after we put the date for their baptism and all, they act wayyy more commited to everything we teach them and invite them to do, which is awesome because a lot of people here have lacked a bit of commitment...

 

But ya so i went on splits with elder Darby yesterday as well to help him and his comp start doing this goal with the baptismal dates and it was AWESOME!!!! In just two hours we found four new investigators and put a baptismal date with three of them in a big family!!!  

 

Entonces, sè que la fuerza de esas fechas bautismales que estamos poniendo con la gente es gracias a la veracidad de todo lo que ha hecho nuestro hermano mayor, Jesucristo.  Sè que Èl expiò por nuestros pecados, pero que aun en ese momento, cuando estaba sufriendo, Èl estaba feliz, porque no estaba pensando en sì mismo, sino en cada uno de nosotros.  Dejo mi testimonio en Su nombre sagrado, Jesucristo, amen.

 

los amo

 

nos vemos

 

Èlder Tenney