The Week

whatttttttupppp family?!?!  

Alright well we went straight from playing soccer to this internet cafe, and i remembered my camera, so pics will be on the way, but i left my agenda in the house which has all my stories i was going to tell darn it... but i will do my best to remember what the highlights of the week were!

first off, just as typical day in Colombia, we saw a guy the other day riding on his bike backwards, sitting forwards but the bike was going backwards and his head turned around, and he was yelling out ´´EL MUNDO ESTÁ LOCO!!!  EL MUNDO ESTÁ LOCO!!!´´  

whoops, hahaha not sure what happened, but i pressed a wrong button trying to turn caps lock off and the letter got sent... alright so continue, haha ya the guy was shouting out saying the worlds crazy and all... the irony is obvious enough there haha... not sure how he didnt crash though, impressive enough, especially with the super bumpy roads here...

Another funny little thing, we had a way fun family night with some awesome members visiting a less active, and we were playing a game similar to musical chairs, when another member and i ran after the same plastic chair, the last one open, and i grabbed it and pulled it away as he sat down, so he totally fell haha but made an incredible recovery and grabbed the leg of the chair from the ground befor i could sit down, and then as he started yanking the chair my fingers got trapped in the super slim little holes in the back of the chair, and everybody was laughing as we ran in circles playing tug of war with the chair until everybody realized that i wasnt laughing, but actually almost crying, and just trying to get my fingers out, not even trying to get the chair anymore, so he realized and finally stopped and i broke my fingers free and they were bleeding a bit, but it was honestly so funny te chase and all that i dint even care we all just laughed together!  whatever it takes to get the less actives back to church right haha

but then even better that same night was we quickly left to get home on time and as i opened the gate to leave their balcony, i wasnt looking and totally nailed myself in the head with the gate, hahaha ahhhh it was just not my night, but oh well...

K so we had a suuuuper awesome day yesterday with a bunch of neat lessons and super good recent converts going to visit the investigators with us yesterday!!!  One of them is my own convert too!!!  It was absolutely incredible to see these young teenagers, three of them, who with just a few months in the church have increeeedible testimonies and understand the doctrine suuuper well!!!  Just goes to show what a special thing it is to serve in a plae where the church is soooo young and see how The Lord prepares the people and makes them strong!  It had been a tough week before because the people here in Buenaventura NEVER stop enjoying their weekends to go to bed, and as a result we have a really hard time getting them to church, but it was incredible to see yesterday my own convert teaching so well, had DC the worth of one soul ringing in my head all day and it was awesome!!

Entonces con eso concluyo la resumen de esta semana!  Las semanas están volando, como tenaz, mañana cumplo nueve meses en la misión!  La verdad pasa demasiado rápido y hay que aprovechar cada minuto aquí!  Siento la mano del Señor ayudándome en todo momento aquí, es increíble, y estoy tan agradecido por la confianza que mi Padre Celestial ha puesto en mi para que sirva la misión entre la gente colombiana!  Sé que aunque se nos ataca tanto por la muerte espiritual en esta vida como por la muerte física, Jesucristo conquistó las dos, y gracias a eso, según nuestra obedencia, seremos salvos!  Se lo prometo en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.

los amo

nos vemos

Élder Tenney