Thanksgiving???

Whatssupp family?!?!?!  Hows everything up in the states?!?!?!  Dang i had honestly forgot it was thanksgiving... but wow sounds like you had a great week!!  NO WAY did grandpa seriously ride 75 miles at that age!!!  HOLY COW!!!  WOW!!!  k and im not sure if there were other people at the dinner with grandma and grandpa or if my cousins have just grown so much that i dont even recognize half of them... alright well its been another great week here in Colombia!!

So the big news...

I did not..

not...

not get tansfered... (that means i didnt get transfered mark).  Transfers were this morning yes but to my surprise and excitment im staying a fourth transfer here in northern Cali, which isnt too common to stay so long in an area in this mission but honestly im glad, i love this area and all the people here!!!  And im STOKED to stay with my comp for another transfer, Élder Molinari, hes awesome!!  

Yes mom they told me early this past week that my package got here!!  I have a meeting in the office this week and should get my package then!! Thanks!!!  And yes one of the things i love about this area is the chapel is really big and nice here, and it has a really nice piano!!  there are pianists who play in sacrament meeting on sunday but i play on pday lots and before district and zone meetings and stuff i get to play every once in a while...

So they expanded the zone im in right now and my comp and i had to go look for a new apartment this week.  After walking all over the part of town where we had to find one in the blazing hot sun, we found a SWEET apartment on the fifth floor of a building  with huge windows all around and an incredible view of Cali and the whole valley here... we snagged a pretty good deal on it, cant believe im learning to do stuff like look for apartments haha its incredible how much you learn on the mission!  

We had a really cool lesson the other day with an investigator whos progressing really well, but has an injured shoulder that doesnt let her work too well and shes not earning as much money as she needs and all... her shoulder isnt getting better, and honestly its affecting everything else, even her spiritual progress... So i shared the story of how i dislocated my shoulder and how with that my grades fell, i couldnt do much living alone, and was maybe going to have to postpone the mission, untill i put all that aside, exercized more faith, and made a covenant with The Lord in the Temple, and then suddenly EVERYTHING got better... my grades went up, i went back to the physical therapy and they were shocked with how much better my shoulder was, and i did indeed recover in time to report to the MTC... sharing this story made me realize SO MUCH.  I thought about it all night and realized even more the purpose that that experience keeps having now in not just my life, but in the life of others here as well, and i realized that this is seriously why people are able to live such successful, happy lives with the gospel.  It makes me reflect on so many times, not just in the example of my shoulder injury, but so many times in which as everything started to fall, the gospel helped everything work itself out again, everything ends up better than it was before, and on top of all of that, i end up realizing even more that our Heavenly Father really does love us and watch after us in every moment.

Testifico de ese amor que Él tiene por nosotros, yo siento ese amor, que me infunde calma, y lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo. amen.

los amo

nos vemos

Élder Tenney