K well everythings going really good here in Tuluá!! Élder Zevallos and I are trying to keep the members excited, taking them to lessons and all and looking for the people who are really ready to accept the gospel and help Tuluá become a stake!!! wait que pena no sé si les conté de eso, idk if i told you guys, but Tulua here is about to become a stake, just need a few more priesthood holding tithe payers and BOOM!! so we, as we have been doing, are really looking tons for families with fathers who are ready to accept the gospel and can help reach the goal!!!
Arlight so one big piece of news here, they unbanned soccer and basketball here in the whole mission!!! (wait i did tell you guys right that a few months ago they banned soccer and basketball right? sorry i lose track of what i write and what not...) so of course all the latino missionareis were dyyyiing to play soccer today. We rented a synthetic soccer field right before lunch and started playing for like half an hour is all till we all realized how out of shape we are haha.... but ya im stoked to be able to shoot hoops again!!
Ohhh we had an INCREDIBLE lesson last night with our best family of investigators!!! WOWW!!! k so this family went to church yesterday for the second time and is progressing really well, a mom and a dad and their 13 year old daughter, and the parents are totally ready to get baptized, but when we tried to set the baptismal date like a week ago they explained that they want to get baptized with their daughtet and that she isnt quite ready, which was true, so this week we went lots with the young woman leaders and got here excited fo the treck the youth are going to do here and all, and then we had a lesson with them last night where we knew we had to set the baptizmal date...
So planning for the lesson, my comp and i were sort of stumped... i mean were decentish at teaching adults and young men, but cant seem to connect with this 13 yeard old girl... so after sitting there planning the lesson without any good ideas, we said a prayer, and my comp had the idea to simply ask her in the lesson ´´do you really want an eternal family?´´ to be completely honest, i thought that maybe wasnt enough, a simple question like that, without any scriptures or stories or testimonies or anything, but we went with it... we started the lesson with a hymn and prayer, and HOLY COW, when my comp looked at her and simply asked her that question, she lit up like wed never seen her do before!! She almost jumped and said that thats exactly what she wants!! She said the only things she wants is to not have to worry about losing one of her family members, and her mom started tearing up a bit when she heard that... we felt the Spirit bigtime, and took advantage of the moment and set the baptismal date with the daughter, then the parents, and BOOM!! WOOWW it was amazing!! My companion, with just 2 weeks in the mission field, recognized the inspired question we had to ask her, and it became completely obvious that that idea he had, to ask her that quiestion, was a heaven sent idea!!
Así que, testifico de que podemos recibir revelación en todo momento, si es que nos mantenemos en un plano aparte del mundo, un plano en que los susurros del Espíritu no se mezclan con las distracciones mundanas que nos rodean. Vi evidencia de ello esta semana, y aun más importante, lo sentí. Sé que ésta es la obra del Señor, y que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador, y lo comparto en el nombre de Jesucristo, amen.
les amo
nos vemos
Élder Tenney
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