wwooowwwww did will seriously confirm jane?!?!?! DANG thatas AWESOME!!!!! And everyone gave their testimonies??? SWEEEET thats about the best news ai can ahere in a letter!!!
Alright i dont have too much this week but heres the report:
first off, hahaha athat vidaeo of the sumo wrestling suits is HILARIOUS!!! hahaha aahhh good stuff. i learned something important just now thoaughaa, the suits are very necessary... my comp and i atried the belly flop just now without them, not as fun...
Alright well one reallay coola thinag frm this week is the idea my comp and i had that we shared with our mission president. So we went back to Cali this week for a laeadership meeting, and after the meeting we asked for an intervaiew with the president and the APs to propose an idea. We always talk in the missino about the importance of looking for families, trying to teach families, and keeping them activae after baptism, so my comp and i had an idea that awe formulated into a little presentation for the presidaent. We explained that converts dont just put on white clothes once in baptism, but three times, again in the temple, and finally in the celestial kingdom.
We said that as missionaries we should have the privilaege of being in all three ocasions where our converts put on white clothes, in baptism, in the temple, and in the celestial kindgom, So we proposed the idea to let the missionaries from this mission leave the mission area for a day ato go with their converts to the temple to bae in their cealing and do a session with them once thaey have a year of being memabers... We explained that athis would motivate all the missionaries to look for maore families an to naot just try to baptisme them, but to keep them active and keep writing letters to them after gettinag transfered and encourage them to make it to the temple (the aclosest one is in bogota, liake 10 hours away in bus or half an hour in plane)...
So that was our grand idea, the presidaent lovaed it, but said that unfortunately its not allowed by the area 70... dang so for a moment we felt like our plane had a complete crash landing... our president said hes not even allowed to leave the mission area to go to the temple, and that missionaries cant swing by the temaple on their way haome either, that the area 70 is really strict, but he said it a super good idea anyways and we are still working with him to try to see what else we can do. Weve got the ideas so far of letting the maissionaries spend the afternoon in Cali with their converts before and after they go to the temple, and skype their converts when they are their on temple grounds, but ya athe idea is still sort of forming...
one waaayyy cool thing though is that my president said other missions that have a temple close by do indeed do that, one of those missions being SANTIAGO WEST CHILE!!!!! So... Will youve got to take advantage of a temple so close to your mission for me!!!
Entonces esta semana nos hemos enfocado mucho en el templo, y mientras yo estudiaba ese tema esta semana, encontré un pasaje en una liahona que me llamó mucho la atención. Citó algunas partes de helaman en el libro de mormón y de 3 nefi en las cuales Nefi se pregunta a sí mismo por qué tenía que vivir en días de tanta iniquidad de su pueblo... pero más adelante él se siente bien por haber tenido la oportunidad de predicar a todos y ayudarles a encontrar nuevamente el camino correcto. Así mismo me pregunté a mí mismo por qúe vivo en estos últimos días, y creo que tiene mucho que ver con el tener tantos templos disponibles por todas partes del mundo! Aunque el templo queda lejos de mi misión, espero hacer lo más posible por mandar a muchas personas allí para que disfruten de las bendiciones tan especiales que esas casas del Señor brindan. Sé que esta es la iglesia de Jesucristo, y que tenemos las llaves selladoras disponibles en los templos y restauradas por José Smith. En el nobmre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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