Another great week down here in Zarzal Colombia, and heres the scoop:
So my whole mission ive had the goal of teachiing 20 lessons in a week with a member present, and id come sooo close sooo many times... i had taugh 19 a number of times and 17 or 18 several atimes... and finally we struck big this week!!! Well, actually, i still havent taught a20 lessons, but this week we managed to pull off 30!!!!!! So ya that was cool, we taught 30 lessons with a member!!! so please do me a favor and celebrate and all while you can, before will goes on his mission and breaks my record on his second day in teh field...
Alright so one awesome thing about the mission, besides the many typical awesome things about the maission, is that im getting waaaayyy good at cooking!!! Every sunday the missin presidente doesnt want the members to have to make lunch for us so they can spend the day with their families, so we make our own lunches, and im learaning alotsa!!!! (sorrya the ´´a´´ button on this keyaboard ais messed up and im sick of correcting it everytime it spits in an extra ´´aaa´´ so i hope you can just manage to understand with a few extra letter ´´a´´s haha.a..) So yesterday we fried steak and chopped it up with a spicy ´´ají´´ sauce, fried beans, made rice and chopped lettuce to throw it all together and make aaburritos!!! So we realized we didnt have tortillas aaopps, they practically dont exist in Coloambia, but ya so i just made crapes haha but tried to make them with more flour and use them as tortillas and they actually turned out really good!!! Pics are on the way!!
So in case you were wondering, there is now one more spice girl-singing latino in the world... We gringos are supposed to teach our latino comps english, so my comp and i walk around the house singing ´´if you wanna be my lova, you gotta get with my friends´´ hahaha and he loves it!!! hey abut seriously its got good application... i mean ato learning english, ive taught him how its actually ´´want toaa´´ buat how we say ´´wanna´´ and ´´you have got to´´ but we cut it down to ´´gotta´´ and ya its helping him learn!! Plus its got missionary application right?? Weve got to introduce the investigators to lots of members and make sure they have friends and a calling and all ato help make sure they stay active...
Alright aa super neat story from the week. On saturday we had our lesson aa´plan A and plan B fall through, so we decided to tract a bit... almost immediatenly my comp said he really felt like we should knock on a specific door, and then pointed across this little meadow area where we were... i aahad no idea to which house he was pointing but shrugged and said alreight lets go, and trying to follow the spirit we went, knocked on the door, and a young lady answered. After talking a bit with her at the door, i saw throughaaa athe door way ianside the house a picture of a man in a military uniform, and asked who it was. She said it was her husband and we were like ´´oh cool hes working in teh military huh?´´ when she hesitated a bit and said ´´ya lo mataron´´ (they aalready killed him). As is always the case in Colombia, the neighbors had the salsa maausic acranked all the way up, and we werent sure if we heard her right. Emberrased, we asked her to repeat herself, and she said ythat yes three months ago her husband passed away aafighting at war, and she aburst out in tears... aaheartbroken, humbled, and reminded of the importance of our job and the incredible blessings of the plan of salvacion, we aquickly atried to comfort her a bit and said wed be right back... we went to a members house close by so that he would go visit her with us and then we could enter the house and all... turns out that was inspired by the Spirit as well because the amember who went with us to teach her aaaknew her husband and was a huge help in comforting her, and she really shaped up a lot when he bore his testimony aabout how families can bae eternala... so the poor woman has two little sons as well, but we took them to church yesterday and it was INCREDIBLE to see how much the members embraced this young lady and her kids and all, she told us after that she felt something very special and peaceful foar the first time in a while, anad ya ajust proof that no matter what happens to us in life, the gospel will help us tahrough!
Sé que Jesucristo es nuestro Redentor, y ya que Él hizo un sacrificio infinito y eterno, logró romper las ligaduras de la justicia. Por eso, seremos redimidos por el dolor que sentimos, si no en esta vida, en la próxima con nuestras familias y nuestro Padre Celestial! aaEstoy infinitamente agradecido por esa promesa que Él Señor nos ha dado, y por la oportunidad que tengo de testificar de ello todos los días! Dejo este conocimiento mio en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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