My first week in Guaduales here in the great city of Cali has been awesome!!! So the transfrs worked ihn my favor cuz theres a couple here that had already been taught all the lessons and was working on their plans to get married... So i did my job haha and completed my fourth wedding in the mission!!! They got married friday, we threw a party that night with the ward, and saturday they got married!!!
Alright church was interesting yesterday, heres the scoop!!
K so this ward im in now is apparently the biggest ward in the whole misison, I WAS SHOCKED!!!! Hahahaha the chapel is huge yes, but more surprising was that it GOT FILLED!!! wooowww hahaha i felt a little bit like i was back in the states, and even so in a huge ward!!! So after being in two really small branches for 9 months, this has been a change, the missionaries dont do anything on sundays here haha, the people are all endowed and know how to magnify their callings, the high priests and elders quorums have their own separate meetings and are both full of like 30 returned missionaries each quorum... WOWWW!!! So its really cool!!!! The only problem is that the people, as strong and experienced of members as they are, are real busy with their work and family responsabilities during the week and feel like they already served their missions and arent as excited to go out to the lessons with us... But i accepted the challenge!! i made my biggest goal yesterday to meet as many members as i could and schedule activities in their houses and set days to have them to go visits with us, and most sort of half hesitantly agreed for a few hours here and there, but i know that what my comp and i do, even though we are the young unexperienced ones in this ward, i know what we do is the most important work and that these members will be reminded of that as they feel the spirit in the lessons with us!!! My comp and i are WAYYY STOKKKED to get these members more pumped up about the misisonary work!!!!
Alright, SWEEEEETEST thing EVER this past saturday!!!! The elders in villa gorgona, my first area in the mission, asked for a bit of help the other day, so even though we had very very little time, we caught a but out there for an hour on saturday and i went with one of them to visit a famly that I FOUND A YEAR AGO!!!! my trainer and i were the first missionaries to visit them, and i saw that all their kids have gotten baptized!!!! Hollly COWWWW this family has changed sooooo much!!!! They have a beautiful family, and they are all reading the scriptures every day and praying everyday and even doing family night every monday!!! The kids have suuuper strong testimonies, and guess who baptized them a few months ago... ÉLDER DARBY!!!! so ya it was increeeedibel to go back!!! So the only thing is the parents, as usual in colombia, arent married, and are a bit discouraged and havent been fully attending church, so we were able to motivat them a bit more with our tiestimonies and we put the marriage date anhd baptismal date with them and are just working on getting the paperwork for marriage!!!
Entonces si, ha sido una semana llena de bendiciones, y todo eso porque estamos trabajando en la obra más importante, la de la iglesia verdadera de Jesucristo, en los últimos días. Testifico de ello en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
élder Tenney
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