Alright so on my birthday we worked just like we always do haha, but it was cool our pesnionist (the lady who makes our lunch every day) decorated her house a bit and made hamburgers!!! haha that was awesome and they were really good!!! then we had 5 lessons with a member present in every one and found a bunch of new investigators!! And my comp surprised me in the night, we have one investigator right now whos AWESOME, a middle aged single lady and now her sons starting to take the lessons too, and my comp told her to pretend like she didnt want to take the lessons anymore, so we got there at her house, our last lesson in teh day, she immediately said there were a number of problems and she didnt want to keep having lessons any more... i was stunned... haha so trying to talk about it i told her that we should just talk a little bit real quick if shed let us in, she did, and they had the whole house decorated and a bunch of members there and they threw a mini surprise party for me!!! It was awesome!!! So we ate patacones, which are giant bananas that they smash into discs and deep fry, haha theyre SUUPER good, and we covered them in a guacamole type sauce she made, im not much of a guac guy in the states buts its pretty darn good here!!! So yes i had a great birthday!!!
Alright well last night we had an incredible lesson that i wanted to talk about a bit real quick!! Our leaders have been training us to work with the recent converts and less actives who are starting to come back to church in order to find new investigators throught them, and a recent convrt lady took us to visit one of her friends the other day.... so we visited her, seh came to church yesterday, and told us lots about how she and her husband dont get along at all about religious matters, she said he hates all the churches... So last night we swung by and found him infront of the house!!! We talked a bit across the front gate, and managed to buy ourselves what we said would be just 5 minutes talking with him inside... WOW!!! this guy TRANSFORMED within the 40 minutes or so that we were there!!!!! First off he started talking about how he despised priestcraft... he said leadership in a church should be sacrifice and that people should have jobs apart from that... so con mucho gusto we taught a little bit about tithing... side note: i love teaching tithing, surprisingly, it makes SOOO much sense to people here since its the only church that doesnt give the money right to the leaders... then we had barely started talking about how the church of Christ was lost when the apostles and peter the prophet at the time were killed, and he finished the story and explained the whole apostasy perfectly!!! but, he said we were still in apostasy, we shared the story of Joseph Smith and he immediately said ´´you mean the church of Jesus Christ exists again on the earth with a living prophet??´´ and he got suuuuper happy and commited to pray about it, and his wife haha at the end of the lesson was looking at us shocked, giving us thumbs up like ´´wow, you guys are the first ones to satisfy him´´ and it was INCREDIBLE!!! The spirit we felt there more than anything was suuuper strong!!!
I dont know if you guys have seen The Other Side of Heaven recently, theres a part that shows Colypoci teaching on several different islands, just teaching teaching and teaching while it has cool calm music in the backround, showing all the incredible proselyting he was doing, thats how my companion and i have felt laterly!!! I plain and simply love teaching!!! I love the challenge of explaining things as clearly as i can, i love showing how this gospel has helpted me so much and i LOVE the relieved, brightened look on peoples faces as they feel the spirit and realize we are teaching the truth and that its going to change their lives!!!
Que pena pero ya se me está acabando el tiempo pero estoy muy contento y siento sumamente privilegiado por esta oportunidad de servir como siervo del Señor!! Espero que ustedes también sientan tanta felicidad como yo al aplicar este evangelio no solamente a sus propias vidas, sino a las de los que nos rodean también! lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo. amen.
los amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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