What!!! Transfers!!!

Whattsupp family?!?!?!  Alright well, as the title says, you can probably guess, ya, IM GETTING TRANSFERED!!  So this was a surprise cuz i had only been in my last area for one transfer, and before they had always left me in every area for 3 or 4 transfers, but my new area should be WAY COOL so im excited!!!  Soooo... im getting sent to, GUESS WHERE WILL, thats right, TULUÀ!!!  Haha im going to the chapel of Wills companion, and maybe even the same branch (im not sure, there are two branches there)!!  the other big news, IM TRAINING A GREENIE!!!  haha so for today and tomorrow im in Pradera, a tiny little town just out side of palmira with anotehr missonary whos going to train and wednesday mornign we go together to Cali to pick up our greenies, and then wednesday afternoon ill go to the new area in Tuluà!!  Should be GREAT!!!

I dont know anything about my new comp yet, just that his names Èlder Zeballos!

alirght so after that news, heres the week!  First off, we had an interesting lesson on tuesday, we were teaching the restauration to a guy and his sister, all was going well, then their grandpa came and started listening too.  After a short while, he started to share an experience he had, and as he did, got waaayy into it, and stood up and was almost shouting as he told the story... and by the way these people have two parrots in cages towards the back of their house, so as he raises his voice, the parrots started making SO MUCH NOISE hahaha they started yelling and stuff, i didnt know parrots could make such loud noise, so somehow our spiritual lesson turned into a yelling fest of an old man and green parrots.... it was weird, i didnt know what to think or do, but ya he calmed down, we left a commitment for them to read the Book of Mormon and pray, and finished with a prayer... the family went to church yesterday though so all is good!!

K, another funny thing about Colombia, so our old house was on the fourth floor and had an elevator (a good sturdy one that i trusted), but so in colombia the people on the first floor always, ALWAYS get into the elevator to go up before letting the people already in the elevator out... no matter how full the elevator is, we get to the first floor, the doors open, and are about to step out when people come flooding in and cram us, and then we try to work our way out... doesnt make sense, its like tying your shoes first then trying to put them on...

Something ive realized im not too good at but have been getting better at, i often worry about the lesson we have scheduled at a certain time and we only have like 10 minutes to quickly finish the lesson were in and run over to the other one, and ive learned that that my anxiousness to get to the next lesson doesnt let my comp and i follow the spirit as much... We had a cool experience with that this week, a young couple we contacted was finally home, so we went in to share something realy quick, but they were asking really really good questions and we wanted more time to explain everyting but had another suuuper importnt lesson in like 15 minutes, so instead of worrying about time, i tried to trust in The Lords timing a bit more, and follow what i felt we should do, not what my logic told me we should do... so my comp and i looked at each other, and nodded in agreement that we shoudl postpone the next lesson a bit and teach the whole first lesson... we did so, and WOW it was a spiritual lesson, and commited the couple to read the book of mormon and pray about its truthfulness, and they commited and all... then we went and arrived to the next leson like an hour late, but, the dad of the family there had just barely gotten home... had we gone when we had inicially scheduled the lesson, we wouldnt have even been able to enter the house... pretty cool how The Lord makes things work out, even cooler how we feel when we try to listen more closely to that guidance!

Espero que una de las cosas que màs aprendo en la misiòn sea eso, el poder escuchar al Espìritu y reconocer de verdad sus susurros.  Sè que de esa manera, no se cumplirà lo que nos parece ser lo mejor en el momento, sino lo que serà lo mejor para todos de largo plazo, y sòlo El Señor ve eso... Sè que podemos ser dignos de esa guìa del espìritu gracias a la expiaciòn, y lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.

les amo

nos vemos

Èlder Tenney