Alright heres the week for ya!
So first off, we met a new lady this week and started teaching her, a friend of a member, who has a big family (always awesome to teach big families!) and ya so we just met with her, the family wasnt home, but ya as nice as she was, the poor lady struggled to answer the easiest of questions... We asked her just the basics right like how is her relationship with God and what role have religion and Christ played in her life, and she just sat there with the blankest face saying she didnt understand... we were like, ``uh, its a pretty easy question... just what do you think?`` and ya but then the best part is that in the middle of the lesson, this little bird comes walking out from the other room, tiny little bright green bird, walking super fast with its wings clipped so it cant fly... so we tell her and she explains its their pet and all and she goes and puts it back in its cage... Then after talking a bit more with her, out of no where we see the bird CLIMB UP ONTOP OF HER HEAD from her back hahaha!!!! The little thing came from nowhere, escaped from its cage again, climbed up the back of the chair and up ontop of the ladys head!!!1 So there we were, sitting with a poor lady with the blankest, most clueless expression on her face, poor thing unable to put 2 and 2 together, and with a bird sitting ontop of her head... Ya so she just let it sit there while we taught her a bit more, but it was pretty tough to not just laugh a little bit, the image in our head of this poor lesser intelligent woman, ignorant to everything, with a bright green bird sitting ontop of her head...
Alright so heres a good story from a few weeks ago, but that i think i forgot to tell you guys... we went back to Cali for our monthly leadership meeting, and for the meeting all the zone leaders had to prepare a funny and interactive way to train the district leaders on a number of things... my comp and i got assigned to train district leaders on the nightly phone call reports we do where we talk about the investigators in the areas of all the other missionaries, how they are doing, and how we can help and all... So my comp and i put together a little presentation we called ``the insecure boyfriend``, and we got up infront of all the leaders, the mission president included, and taught them that as district leaders, they have to act like insecure boyfriends... we taught them that an insecure boyfriend is always calling his girlfriend and has to know whats going on with every single other boy in her life right...??? haha so ya we taught them to be like that as distritc leadrs, to call the other missionaries and talk to them all about the investigator showing lots of concern and all... the President liked it haha
K one other funny thing about a gringo in south america is that latinos, since they have more colored skin, nobody notices when they blush... they dont even know what blushing is... its something totally strange, weird, unheard of, and even unearthly to them... and its the funniest thing in the world to them... so i dont know why its taken me ten months here to finally bring this up in an email, but ya theres at least one good story every week of a time when i blush and the whole world here laughs at me haha... its seriously kind of scary how funny it is for them, they just start yelling ```hahahaha se puso rojo, uhh pero rojìsimo... ahhh miren que tan rojo està ohhh que pecado hahaha`` and its kind of annoying but also pretty funny haha...
aRlight so now ive got a story moms gonna like, a big ``alright mom, you were right, thank you, there i said it``... kinda story haha. So mom always tried so hard to teach us manners right, and still does, and does it well, so mom be proud, your boy here always stands up and gives his seat to the women who are standing on the buses when the seats are full... not too many people do it here either unfortunately... but ya so it finally really payed off this week!!! My comp and i were headed to a batpismal interview an hour away in a bus and we stood up to give our seat to a few ladies who got on since the bus was full, and turns out one of the ladies we gave the seat to lives in our area, and HER HUSBANDS A MEMBER!!!!! So HOLY COW what a coincidence that definitely wasnt a coincidence right??? Ya so her husband and one son got on the bus too and we talked to them and all... the husband has been a member for years, but has gone a bit inactive recently, but we inmediately gained their confidence, address and all, and went and visited them yesterday and are having big progress on getting him back to church and teaching the rest of the people in the family too!!! So thanks mom for teaching me how to always be polite!!
Alright one other really cool story i wanted to share this weekis from one of our good lessons we had with a big family! The family has tons of little kids, a bunch of cousins who live together, and ya i find them super fun and all but they are indeed loud and make it a bit hard to teach... but its fun haha we give them our notebooks and colored pencils to draw while we teach the parents and all... but ya so we kind of hit a wall in the lesson... the lesson plan had fallen through and we didnt really know where to go with the lesson, wht to teach, how to address a situation they had... until an idea came to my head... i explained to them that probably my favorite question to ask my parents, to ask you mom and dad, is the question ``this is how i feel... have you guys ever felt like this? or has this ever happened to you?¨´´ and as i explained they said that thats what they love about their family too, that they can always relate one to another that way, and then i explained that thats why i love to pray, because Christ can answer that question better than anyone... He suffered there on the cross to be able to say with perfect exactness, ``yes, yes ive felt that way, i understand perfectly´´... and then give us comfort, help, guidance, forgiveness, power, and a perfect example from there
Les testifico que es asì. Yo sè que Jesucristo ha entendido Su papel que desempeñarìa en el plan de Salvaciòn desde la creaciòn del mundo. Sè que Èl sabìa que alguien tendrìa que sufrir asì para podernos dar ese consuelo de entendimiento, y sè que Èl lo hizo en Su infinito amor por nosotros. Sè que gracias a eso podemos orar a Èl y ser edificados por Èl, y ùltimamente volver a vivier con Èl y con nuestras familias para siempre jamàs. Lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
los amo
nos vemos
Èlder Tenney
ps sorry sorry sorry i left my camera in teh house and dont have pictures this week.... sorry haha i promise ill have good ones next week!!!
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