Alright so with some decent time here in Colombia (im not even gonna say how long ive been here it scares me) i had gone on a good streak without any big noticable mistake with the spanish until the other day we contacted a family in the street, they gave us their address, i saw that they lived in the sister missionaries area, and i told them that two little peruvians will pass by their house with the same black ties that we have, i said ties instead of name tag, they looked at me weird and i pointed to my name tag and said ´´ya these black ties with our names on them´´ and i didnt realize what i was saying till we walked away... a veces me equivocarme aún...
We had a killer ward party on friday, a mini talent show, the sister missionaries, my comp and I, and our ward mission leader sang an unorganized mix of hymns that really didnt turn out well at all haha but oh well, we had cool santa hats and thats what matters right?? But i love ward parties in colombia, every single one ends with super loud salsa music and then all the members get up and dance and us missionaries stand and watch them surprised to see that even the 96 year old lady in the ward is dancing haha, then us missionaries go home at 9 and rumors say the parties usually go till at least midnight haha, gotta love the colombians!! Más que todo los caleños!!
So as i said a bit last week we had a handful of really good investigators stop progressing, and ended up having to stop visiting everyone of them, which was tough, but we are in high spirits, but now the tough thing is that its happening in some other areas in the zone as well and so my comp and i are doing all we can to help keep the zone animated (theres no substitute word for ´´animado´´ that satisfies me in english, it means like ´´encouraged´´ or ´´pumped up´´) weve been planning all kinds of fun things to do in zone meetings this week, and one of the most interesting things weve been doing is studying faith vs. discouragement. Our leaders in the south american northwest area have promised us lots of results if we work a certain way, mainly working with the recent converts and less actives to find more investigators, but a lot of missionaries have done it, and arent seeing the results promised, yet, (key word ´´yet´´ there) so its easy to get discouraged a bit, but im learning, as preach my gospel mentions briefly in the first chapter, that discouragement damages faith.. this week i learned that it works vice versa as well!!! So my comp and i have some fun stuff planned to up the work a bit and spread the christmas cheer, the best way being of course singing loud for all to hear!!! But ya that and i plan on making the motto prhase of the missionaries here ´´only fools get discouraged´´ haha AWESOME!!! So ya next week ill have some good stories about how it goes!!!
Sé que, como Moroni nos enseña mientras que analiza la historia del hermano de Jared, que no debemos contender simplemente porque no vemos, porque no recibimos ningún testimonio sino hasta después de la prueba de nuestra fe... entonces la pregunta es, ¿hasta cuándo mantendremos esa fe? Sé que con tal de que no la perdamos, no nos desanimaremos, sino que nos volveremos aun más firmes en nuestras creencias y llegaremos a ser más como Nuestro Padre y Nuestro Hermano mayor, Jesucristo. Siento privilegiado por poder testificar de Él en este tiempo navideño, y lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
los amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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