The French Princessess of BEL AIR

FAMILY!!!!!!

I'm with Soeur Eyre!!! About 50 times this week I would just look at her and say 'i literally cant believe your my companion again!!' its the best!!!

So fun fact. Mom, who was speaking about princesses this week. We live on a hill and its called 'bel air' so we've given ourselves the name 'the french princesses of bel air!' hahahaahah!! so that's me and Soeur Eyre! The french princesses of bel air!! its just so great that were together. We are so much different from the first time! We both know the language and have developed teaching skills! Its just... the resources! We have a car!!!! So its just the best! We have to stay under kilometers though and Soeur eyre and I want to be exactly obedient, so were doing a little car fast! haha its just so fun! But anyways mom, get me that license as fast as possible! BECAUSE! next week Soeur Eyre goes to trinidad to get trained and then straight after she will do training for the other sisters, so i will have a temp for 2 weeks and her name is Maeva!!!!! She is 19 and less active, but she's not gonna be after 2 weeks with me!!!! hahaha no seriously she was one of the first people I met here, and I just have wanted to help her.  I am SO EXCITED for 2 weeks with her before she goes to paris to just help her solidify her testimony! she came out with us Saturday, and she is just so excited and cute!  The members are so excited for her to do this too! IM PUMPED!!!!

Remember how when I first got here I was like 'the field is so WHITE!!!!' Well that's Soeur eyre now! and its perfect! Except this time we're being smarter! we're finding through the MEMBERS!! for example, ok well this branch has just like the STRONGEST MEMBERS!!! so this return missionary invited his friend WHO HAS A FAMILY  to church the other week, and I remember thinking 'oh man I wish Soeur Eyre could teach them with me' well we finally got the frere in the church to set up a meeting with them and the man is just so prepared!! so we are really hoping this family will progress and we are doing our best to help them!

haha I cant believe Soeur Eyre is my comp. with a car!! We are so capable! Its so fun! I feel so much smarter now! The Lord has just been preparing us to be together in this wondeful area!!! not to mention its Sister Eyres birthday this week.. wohooo!!!

Love you all!

The Book of Mormon is true!

Soeur Tenney

 

 
 

 

Reunited and it feels so GOOD!

GUESS WHAT!!

Soeur Tenney and Soeur Eyre are reunited!! We're back together as companions!!! What the heck! crazy!! haha that was the craziest call ever! My companion is just switching with her, so she'll be on foot! But I know that that's where the Lord needs her, she'll be great :) But mama that means you really gotta get me my license because soeur eyre will be gone for a little in trinidad because shes the sister training leader and I"ll have to drive with a temp! I'm excited! I  hope its Maeva a 19 year old girl who is just the cutest thing ever! anyways

So this week was good!! the other week we met this guy who; while we were backing out, he came up to us and said 'hey who are you, are you Mormons? come teach me!!' So we went back and taught him. Then this week we found him a ride, and he came to church!! Soooo that is just a miracle!

We taught Gratiant Lucienne and Jade the word of wisdom this week and they just accepted it and loved it! We even roleplayed with Gratiant what to say if one of his friends tries to give him wine. He said no!! so that was wonderful :) they're wonderful. They need to get married! We saw Jade after church and she said that she wants to be baptized :) We're gonna fast this week for the 8th or the 15th of november. I LOVE JADE!!!! She is so cute and hilarious and awesome just like Tauna.

I just can't believe I'm in a car! Im so grateful! its so crazy! And now Soeur Eyre and I will be together again! I really cant believe it. I know this is where I was supposed to be with Soeur Guernsey :) shes the best! She's a really good cook. I have some good recipes for you family when I get back.

I've just learned to rely on the Lord! and everything will work out!

I love you all and I love this work!

 

Soeur Tenney

"Be BOLD"

Hello friends!

This week was good! President and Sister Mehr were here, and we had interviews, and they came to church! Sister Mehr came out and taught with us! She is so great! Oh my! And my interview with President was just awesome. I said 'President I want to baptize' and he said 'ok, be bold' so I'm working on being bold and patient this week :) thats how I could get better!

So we have this super cool guy we're teaching that we met while he was drunk, but we gave him a Book of Mormon! Another Book of Mormon miracle! We meet him at a bus stop and we pull up chairs :) Its so fun! Being a missionary is so fun! He hasn't come to church yet, but he's so stoked to read, and for our rendez-vous.  He would come to church, its just his car won't go all the way to fort_de_france (we live far from the church) anyhow so what a great miracle!  Jade and Lucienne and Gratiant are still a great miracle in my life. I love them!!

So this week I realized, 'I can speak this langauge!' haha so now its just hard because sometimes I blabber does that make sense? I'm also just really working on listening to the spirit to help me know what to say, not just blabber on like a crazy person. I love sharing the gospel! its so great! 

We also watched this marraige video with Fabrice and he just really felt the Spirit. We've been trying for a long time to get him to understand the Spirit, and after the movie he was like 'I understand! I understand the spirit!' He also didn't understnad why we keep asking him to read the book of mormon, but I shared my testimony about how i learned the BOok of Momron was true and that really touched him.  After he said 'I will read it!' so the Vauclin is doing so good! The vauclin is great. Miracles await us everyday. Great things await you (thank you tressa :)

I love you all! I love this gospel!!

Soeur Tenney

Favorite part of the week was...

Dear Fam!

 

 This week was great! Soeur Eyre came and I just always love that :) shes so good! such a good missionary! she just fixed me right up! i love her!

This week we've been really trying to find people that are ready to EMBRACE the gospel like my patriarchal blessing says! We found this boy that accepted a baptismal date on the first lesson! what an amazing miracle! the Lord really is blessing us! 

My favorite part of the week was conference. wow! I was crying when Jefferrey R Holland talked about how President Monson walked through the terminal in his slippers. He is so loving! What a man of God! This church is so true! I know that the Priesthood is restored! I took Elder Ballards advice I think is was and am trying to strengthen my testimony of Joseph Smith. What a blessing! Joseph Smith has done so much for us! He is so awesome! The talk about the parents too. One of the apostles just exactly described dad I was dying. 'leading the family in prayers, scripture study and vacations' haha! I thought that was too perfect!!!!!!

Missionary work is so great :) in a car too! what a blessing! President and Sister Mehr come this week and I'm excited to take them to our amis! pray for them!

I love this work and I love Jesus Christ!

Soeur Tenney

Cherish the good moments

 And Petty Coats...

Theres this mormon tabernacle choir song that says that line and I don't know what it says before but its always in my head. oh man! this week was hard! sometimes its hard. I felt like the little current bush and God is just shaping me into what I need to be! I'm just focusing on what I can learn and always looking ahead! Cherishing the good moments and just helping others have this light I have! I love the gospel!!

But, highlight of the week was Friday night. Jade!! we were with the YWs leader, she came out and worked with us, and e went to Jades and Jade is just so funny! she super reminds me of tauna! with her parents shes all shy but when it was just us she was like hilarious!! she was like 'its the weekend ladies come on in!!' haha of course all in french. Anyways so we decided to just start the personal progress with her. and it was amawing! I think it was individual worht? just the first one? and she just loved all the scriptures and at the end she had to read dc 82:10 the worth of souls is great in the sight of god. and she was like 'this verse is short but we learn a lot, that God loves us all and we are ALL worth it to Him' and she was just like marveling at how great God is. it was really just a wonderful gospel discussion :) I was so happy. and then it was sunday and they werent there!  but then classic Lucienne and Jade they walk in right before sacrament is about to be over and Lucienne was like sick but she was like 'Jade MADE  me come to church!' haha so Jade is just like super star progresing and really just EMBRACING the gospel! I love it! Im so happy! I lkove them so much!!!!!!!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!! they are so great :)

Then last night while i was studying on the patio on top of the hill looking over the Vauclin, I've just been praying for more power. to be better! I dont know I felt Satan just trying to discourage me a lot this week. But of course Heavenly Father speaks to us through the scriptures and Preach My GOspel is scripture haha anyways so I was reading in PMG and I read about the power and authority of our calling. We get power when we do a lot of things but some things that stuck out to me was when we PRAY for people, and when we LOVE people! And I just love that. Because if theres one thing I do its I pray for these people!! and I love them! so I have power :) and I should not doubt that :)

Missions are so great. I love serving the Lord. Im learning SO MUCH!! Heavenly Father is just making me a better me :)

 

Je vous aime!

Soeur Tenney