The Heat of Palmira

Whattssuppp family?!?!?!  Dang picture evidence of a good time you guys are having right now on the slopes, haha thats good im glad!!  Its ok i like the burning hot sun, right Will???  

haha k first off, JARED!!!  WOOWWW!!!!  MAJOR AIR on that jump!!!  AWESOME DUDE!!!!!  hahaha i realized the amount of air caught on a jump can better be measured by the expression on his face, particularly in the mouth, rather than the distance between his skis and the ground haha

Will i hear you man, haha ive learned though that on the mission its necessary to have weeks like that para que nos hagan ver què màs podemos hacer aun mejor para ayudar a las personas.... si tuvièramos mucha asistencia a la iglesia en primer lugar nunca tendrìamos que buscar maneras de mejorar tal como planear mejor y hacer mucho seguimiento como vos estàs haciendo con tu compa... asì que seguilo haciendo con esa buena actitud!!

Dang mom 3 miles!!!  WOWWW!!!  im glad the hip is doing better, and WAIT WHAT???  Vanessa and Jorge have another kid??  k im WAYYY behind on the family/cousin count...

Alright well its been another good week in Palmira, Colombia!!!  My companion and i keep doing something that Elder Grow from the 70 invited us to do a little over a year ago, and that is talk to every single couple we see in the street, and now it has payed off BIG TIME!!!  We have a family that is AWESOME that is progressing super well, seriously every time we go to visit them we walk out with the biggest smiles on our face, its AWESOME to see this family learn about their eternal potential that theyll reach with the guidance and council of a Latter Day Prophet and the Book of Mormon and restored priesthood!!  And now this week we met the sister of the dad of this family, and were SHOCKED when we found out shes married to the brother of the mom of this family haha, and they live in our area and were going to start teaching their family TOO!!!!  There really is nothing better than seeing an entire family as a whole accept the gospel!!

K so a really interesting experience this week.  Yesterday the mission leader in the branch got released, and he normally taught the gospel principles class.  but since he got released he didnt go to the class and they asked me to teach it, right then and there, like 2 minutes before the class started haha uh oh....  So i opened the book up to see what chapter we were to learn this week, and of course, well obvious, it had to be, i mean what other class would be harder to teach with two minutes of prep than, yup, the Fall of Adam and Eve....

hahaha so with the help of the other missionaries we started teaching the class, and the dad of this family were teaching had a lot of questions... we tried answering them, but werent having too much luck... then i realized we were going about it all wrong, trying to answer ourselves, and felt that we should simply go to the Book of Mormon... we read a few verses from 2 Nephi 2, testified, and the dad of this family literally BLURTED out ``WOOWW!!  I GET IT NOW!!!`` and then he practically taught the rest of the class himself and explained the entire lesson perfectly!!!  hahah we were AMAZED!!!  So ust goes to show, that the Spirit really does testify to our hearts and help us understand as we read and study the Book of Mormon, i cant even begin to explain how ive seen that time after time on the mission, and it still amazes me every time!!!

Alright well other than that all is good!!  We have transfers next week, but ill probably stay in this area.  We ate banana splits with the other missionaries today for pday and slept, it was nice, mom dont worry i put on bug repelant with DEET like 4 times a day and am eating TONS of garlic which the instructions you sent me last week say helps prevent SIKA, and no i dont no anybody with it here in this city actaully but well keep doing all we can to protect ourselves, all is good!!!

Me he dado cuenta aquì en la misiòn que el gozo que se siente al compartir el evangelio y tener experiencias espirituales es el ùnico gozo cuyo placer no se acaba con el tiempo... muchas otras cosas del mundo, que nos asombran al principio, ya con tiempo disminuyen en emocionarnos, pero el gozo que tenemos al compartir el evangelio, al aprender màs de èl, y al leer el Libro de Mormòn se puede aumentar cada vez màs.  Sè que es por ese gozo que nuestro Salvador, Jesucristo, pudo hacer lo que hizo por nosotros, y que tambièn fue por eso que Nuestro Padre Celestial pudo aguantar ver a su Hijo morir.  Testifico de que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador, en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.

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Èlder Tenney