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Alright well all is good here in Colombia!!  

A pretty cool story from this week>  My comp and i showed up to one of the lessons and the people hadnt gotten home yet, so we had a few minutes to spare...  they have a short little brick ledge just outside of their house perfect for sitting on, we could have easily just sat and waited 5 minutes for them to get there, but we decided to take advantage of the time and knock on a few doors.  We said a prayer, walked over to the other street where we still hadnt tracted, the first few people didnt let us in but after knocking on a few doors we knocked on one where a really shy, nice but depressed looking lady anwered.  We said hi, presented ourselves, and we noticed through the doorway a big picture of a young man on the wall on her house... we felt like we should ask her who it was, she said her son, we asked if he was home and older than 18 to go in and teach a lesson when she explained he had recently passed away and tears began to fill her eyes... We quickly pulled out some pamphlets of the plan of salvation, tried to comfort her with our testimonies real quick, and then promised to return later on and teach more... 

so ya long story short the next day we went back to visit her and taught a lot more and she seemed soooo much more happy and cheerful, she presented us to her daughter and like 7 granddaughters and most of them went to church with us yesterday and loved it and are coming to the realization of the fact that The Lord really does love them and has a plan for them!!!  nothing makes me happier than to see a family come to understand the reality of this plan.  its perfect.  Every aspect of it makes sense, and every part of it is made possible by Christ!  We went back the other day and shared the story ´´he took my lickin for me´´ to teach the part of the atonement in the plan of salvation!

Other suuuper exciting news around here is that the stake president is working tons with us to have the ward Ceibas split and have Villa Gorgona get its own chapel!!!  Villa Gorgona is where i started the mission, a small little town just outside of Cali, and the members there have to pay a fair deal of money to take a bus half an hour into cali, but pretty soon now it looks like there going to get their own chapel!!!

Entonces eso es todo lo que tengo por contar esta semana!  He estado estudiando muchísimo la caridad.  Me llama mucho la atención la definición que se da en el diccionario de la biblia que dice que la caridad es el amor más fuerte, más que solo cariño, y me esfuerzo cada día más por entender cómo puedo desarrollar este atributo y utilizarlo más para buscar oportunidades de servir a los demás, a fin de estarle sirviendo al Señor.  Sé que es el amor puro de Él, el cual hizo que Él pudiera sufrir tanto por nosotros y hacer posible este plan de felicidad.  Testifico de la realidad de este plan en el nombre sagrado de Jesucristo, amen.

les amo

nos vemos

Élder Tenney