Alright so i realized one thing this week, why is that type of play called ``Hail Mary``??? Did a Colombian come up with that name??? cuz a ton of christian colombians, more than anything the catholics, worship virgin mary, its awful they have statues of her all over town that they pray to with lit candles at night... but ya haha so i just made the connection this week, is that the same mary that ``Hail Mary`` refers to?
K so you heard correctly dad, we had the activity ``Meet the Mormons`` this week and it was a BLAST!!!!! My comp and i dedicated a ton of time to that this week, spent all night thursday setting up tons of chairs in the cultural hall of the chapel, and all day saturday cleaning, testing the sound and video and everything, getting the popcorn machine setup (THATS RIGHT!!!) and setting up the entrance booths and all... it was AWESOME!!!!
So we had 600 seats setup in the chapel and cultural hall, and that was the goal, have 600 people there, in the end there were only 250 but still that was a huuuuuuge number!!!! At least half of them were investigators!!! So all week we had been passing by the members houses commiting them to take friends and all to the activity, which they did more or less, but the best part was also the worst part of the activity: we didnt get to see a single minute of the movie... but that was also the best part cuz of the 24 of us missionaries there, like 10 were handing out popcorn and soda and taking roll and all, and the rest of us were running, literally RUNNING, allll oooovverrr the place around the chapel yelling to everyone who walked by ``THE MOVIE THE MOVIE!!!! LETS GO LETS GO YOURE GOING TO BE LATE IT JUST STARTED!!!`` hahaha the people looked at us like we were so crazy and were like ``movie? what movie?`` and we just said ``GO GO GO THERES FREE POPCORN AND SODA HURRY ITS GOING TO RUN OUT!!!!`` Theres a big main road by the chapel where a ton of people were walking by, and we`d yell to the missionaries there at the entrance ``HOW MANY SEATS LEFT UP FRONT???`` and theyd yell ``ONLY · THEYRE FILLING FAST11`` and then the people were like ``oh shoot quick lets go check it out!`` hahaha and it was a blast i was shocked by the result, just by simply doing that with all the energy in the world a TON of people actually went in without knowing a single thing about the church and absollutely loved it!!!! There were some incredible comments afterwards from people who were simply walking to the grocery store or something when we insisted they went in and they saw it and loved it, afterwards one man said ``wow, i needed to see that, The Lord put that movie on just for me`` and ya and we wrote down the names and addresses and all of every investigator who went in and will be visiting them now to teach more!!!! So tell that incredible family at the end who are your friends now that it was a huuuuge success!!! Wooooow its incredible how The Lord is hastening His work with this!!! I didnt get a great picture with all the people cuz i was running around the street haha but i got one at the end after some people had arelady left, pics on the way!!!
Alright well other than that all is good!!! President Uceda, proz of this area of the 70 is coming this week to have a conference with our mission thursday and friday he has a leadership meeting with us as well, should be sweeeeet!!!!
Entonces es inreíble la manera en que el Señor realmente está apresurando Su obra, evidencia de que estamos en los últimos días. Las experiencias espirituales acá en la misión se nos aumentan cada semana, lo más chevere de esta actividad ``Conozca a los Mormones`` enserio que fue el espíritu misional que se sintió al promoverla a la gente. Se sentía que había personas guiadas por el Señor, caminando por los alrededores de la capilla esa noche, y se veía a medida que entraban. Se puede comparar bien con el sueño de Lehi, y siento muy privilegiado de tener parte en esta gran obra. Testifico de Jesucristo, el centro de todo esto, que lo hizo posible, en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Èlder Tenney
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