A Flood in the West Indies

Dear family and friends,

This is where I live on top of a hill!

Yes Mama, the place is so beautiful! and so ready for Soeur Tenney! As a mission we have been asked to FLOOD the West Indies with the Book of Mormon and I am just trying to tell everyone I meet about this wonderful book! It is so awesome! The Lord is preparing people to hear about this message, I know it!

We have been blesssed with miracles too. Niger! as we were fasting we ran into Niger and he is just so ready for baptism! The sisters had taught him before for a while and he came to church but last Monday he accepted a baptismal date and is just so ready to embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love Niger. He lives like literally in the jungle and his house has all these dirty stuffed animals just scattered around! I feel like I"m in a movie every time I walk up to his house. hahaha but i love it! I love teaching him, he is so prepared!

We're also teaching this members cousin Katia who is 25 and is just too cute! She texted us and asked us when we were coming again! And last night we taught her and she asked us if we could come back tomorrow! She is just the best! I pray for these people every day!!!!!!!!! haha I really really want them to come unto Christ!

The work is just exploding here!  Soeur Guernset and I can hardly keep our planners straight! But the members are so awesome and I am just blown away by the faith of these people, so humbling! I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers because he sent me here and I have just learned so much being here! I love my Heavenly Father and I try and serve Him with all my heart each day! Its a little tiring but I love it! This gospel is true! I'm so grateufl to be here! I love Martinique!

Love you all!

Soeur Tenney

 

 

                                       Living on top of the hill!

                                      Her new companion that is allergic to the sun.

Car life in beautiful Martinique

 Wow,

So so sad to leave Goyave! defintely shed a few tears especially after my monday night which was a family night with PRISCA!!! who calls me her grandma so I love that, then Lydia and her Cherie had us over for dinner. It was literally my little taste of celestil kingdom I will say. I love lydia so much she is such a miracle and blessing in my life.

So then after much hugs and tears hopped on a plane to Martinique! of course,  I shared the first vision with someone on the plane who lives in paris (sorry i cant get over how much I love my life!)

CAR LIFE!!!! I have a car now! so so weird. such an adjustment! Its about a half hour 40 min drive to the church and we live up a hill it is SO BEAUTIFUL!! Sometimes were driving around and I'm just like, this is too beautiful! im too lucky! Its pretty mountainous here and theres just houses scattered on the mountains; its so beautiful! and the people!!! are so nice and loving and, their french is so beautiful!!! I experienced my first car miracle!!!! We were lost and looking for someone driving around and then we see this guy, and the spirit was just telling me to talk to him and ask him for directions, so of course we did, and then voila! he wanted to hear our message! so we'll be teaching him this week along with many others!!! and the miracles just flow, my first day I was like how do miracles come when your not walking on the street all day, but they come ,even in a car!!!!!

So then, the ward, oh my! the ward! its so strong and so great! I was literally sitting in the congregation with all the members on the island of Martinique! Theres usually another group, but its fast sunday so everyone was there. fast and testimony meeting was so good! The spirit was so strong, I just already love all these members and they all say my french is pretty good so thats exciting! Martinique french is very beautiful, I'm excited to pick up the accent. There's this 19 year old member that we went aand taught and convinced her to come out with us. She's so beautiful, I'm already obsessed with the members and people here!

So, we're baptizing this transfer, we fasted this sunday for that and we're working our hardest to achieve that. and Heavenly Father is giving us miracles and people who are prepared!! There are so many people that i just want to baptize! so many good investigators already!

Also, one more quick miracles, Sister Guernsey and I were trying to decide where to go and who to see and we both made a decision and we ended up at this guys house teaching him and I was like 'ok were we supposed to be here' because the lesson was going just alright... but then, his friend comes up, Alexdandre and hes like 'hey! I've talked to missionaries before!! come teach me!' basically and he had like sweet rasta hair and I really want to teach a rasta! anywways, what another miracle that Heavenly Father is giving us because he knows were gonna baptize!

Anyways working hard! even if sometimes I'm sitting in a car driving around probably one of the pretties islands in the world!!! but life is good :)

I love you all! thanks for all the love and support!

Soeur Tenney

and sorry the pictures arent loading so next week i will send pics i promise! 

Island hopper

 

Hello,

Sister Tenney is now an island hopper!!!  After 5 months of Goyave, Sister Tenney is heading to Martinique! The other French island!!!! Ahh!!! They have beautiful very Frenchy French there so I'm excited! Theres exactly ten missionaries there and a senior couple. wohoo! My comp is Sister Gurnsy and she's allergic to the sun! so we're in a car!! haha car life! but hey im excited! However, I may have shed a few tears this morning while commencing to pack. I'm moving! I've got a lovely life here in Goyave and I'm moving!! So sad! such great miracles this week too!!

So this week, just.... ahh!! Missionary work is the best! I've gotten into the habit of writing miracles on the side of each day because we plan at night, but always there are miracles just trickled throughout the day as we're obedient! Like, for example, Soeur Dorsan got a fly stuck in her eye, and she was very scared, and she wouldn't do anything till we got it out, haha, so I was like 'alright, we gotta get this thing out before we can go to our appointments. So we go to Priscas house and she couldn't get it out, so then we went to the doctors and Voila!!! It was this woman who we met who is from france who loves Jesus! what a rarity! what a miracle! So I know we had to go to see her! and she got the fly out all for free!! haha so that was a miracle!

Also, Soeur Tenney got to give a discourse at church and it was great. That was how we got al our amis to come to church! haha but of course my favorite thing, my favorite miracle is my Lydia. I sat by her in sunday school and she just leans over to me, "I prayed that God would send me to the true church and I just know this is the true church, the Holy Ghost tells me that again and again," I'm so sad to leave Lydia! like so sad! but I know she is in good hands still and we will be friends for eternity :) 

The miracles our endless! mommy asked me to describe a sunday, we dont ride our bikes on sunday haha, Soeur Dorsan and I decided that. so this sunday we headed to Goyave meme, taught a couple of our great amis! Those were all solid solid lessons! ah i love teaching! Then headed up to the Valmy family to teach about seminary! Their mom is in france but we took a lovely photo, me and the Valmy boys that I think I convinced samuel to put on Facebook.

Miracles! happen all the time and I know I'm supposed to be heading to Martinique! More miracles will come! Car life will be different but still amazing! I'm stoked! I'm so blessed! 

I love this gospel and I love Jesus Christ! I serve Him with all my heart everyday! expect miracles! They come according to our faith!

 

 Love you all!

Soeur Tenney

 

Good bye Goyave!

The Holy Ghost speaks "Sister Tenney"

Dear family and friends,

 

This week! was zone conference! President and Sister Mehr are the BEST! I love them! I think my favorite thing I learned from them this week was that Heavenly Father speaks Sister Tenney. He speaks Sister Tenney! The Holy Ghost speaks to me in ways that I can understand! And I love that! I had this awesome study sesh this morning where I just felt like Heavenly Father was speaking my language! I love that! We also learned about spiritual gifts and that we need to ask Heavenly Father the spiritual gifts we need! and I did that! and he told me! So seek spiritual gifts to help others come to the kingdom of God and you will get them as you pray for them!

Lydia is just too sweet and cool. I love her! she came to the talent show this week! oh ya there was a talent show this week and I sang with another missionary "abide with me tis eventide" in french. I wasnt even nervous because it was in another language! that was so awesome! Lydia made a cake for me for the bigh at! haha 

Church was also just so fun, everyone is pretty much on vacatine, but our amis were there! Christian! this man that Sister Eyre and I raked his leaves forever ago came to church! service! it softens peoples hearts! He is so sweet and hilarious and frank! He says it like it is! He says hes gonna buy a white shirt though because 'that would be better!' haha I love church!

Miracles happen daily. I wake up and tell Heavenly Father 'I expect miracles today Heavenly Father!' its the best! being a missionary is a best!

 

I love you all!

Soeur Tenney

Search your spiritual gifts

Mema and Papa are there what!!! so fun!! I wanna come! ok! I will try and describe a normal day but this week has been a little crazy because I had to do OFFI which is like these doctor appointments for our visa> But anyway! a typical day! I wake up! do some stretches haha get ready... STUDY!!! I love studies!! but you know that! I'll explain friday! so we have a lot of studies to do because we are still training! so we study personally as a companion, lanuguage!! all the above! then we ate lunch, hopped on our bikes and headed to Goyave!! We ride down this hill into Goyave. Then we just teach people pretty much ever hour of the day! haha it is so fun! Friday night we had a Bokite appoinment, but the guy didnt come! But then a miracle! This other guy that we lost contact with was there and had a lesson over bokites! I love sharing the restored gospel with others!! Theres 22 missionaries on my island but 2 are the senior couple> two zones. I'm in a zone with all elders, its a weird adjustment but I deal! Theres 12 missionaries on Martinique, the other french island, and 6 on Guinia, the french part of South America, fun times!! We mostly eat like idk whatever we can make real fast, haha, grilled cheese, paninins, cereal, pasta, chicken! I make mesquite chicken sometimes!! Sometimes we get Bokites! just whatever!

Ok can I tell you about my week!!???? We got back a hold of Christine!! Shes doing better but still fighting off that chickengoonya. wasnt able to come to district conference this week but thats ok! shes getting better! Her testimony is still so so strong!!!!! then LYDIA!!! oh my goodness! Heavenly Father loves me too much by giving me Lydia, I love lydia! our lessons are so fun! she is just so cute and she LOVES US! At district conference this week, which she drove us to.. she leaned over and said 'I can tell i have the best missionaries' hahah shhh! dont tell the other missionaires! She loves us! Anyways saturday she invited us over to give us some clothes that were too big for her because shes tiny so i took this super cute wrap dress, but then.. miracle!! we thought of our ami Lily who hasnt come to church because she has nothing to wear, but then we went and gave it to her, and LILY CAME TO CONFERENCE WITH US TOO!! literally it was too perfecrt! Lydia drove us and Lily to conference! And Lily looked so cute and perfect like a mormon girl! Lily is this haitian that we kidna stopped teaching for a week because she wouldnt come to church and we didnt know why! but we felt prompted to come by this week and she came to conferecene! all the way in abymes! (thats far) anyways i was thrilled>> THRILLED!! I LOVE HAVING AMIS!! I love sitting with amis :) I was so happy, when they left I just didnt know what to do with myself... hahaha

Then it was district conference (like stake conference but were a district) and President Mehr spoke and it was just amazing. He told us to search for our spiritual gifts that Heavenly Father will give us to make us more Godly. We must earnestly search these gifts and we must ask Him what gifts we need! I know thats true! because I asked Him and I know what He wants me to be! Its so awesome and I'm just so grateful I got to hear that! 

And this week is zone conference so we'll hear more from him! I'm so excited to get spiritually fed some more and improve my work! I love missionary work! I love this gospel! I am so blessed!

Love you all,

Soeur Tenney

"COUNSEL" in all thy doings

Hello everyone!

 

This week was wonderfull!! HAPPY FOURHT OF JULY!! i love fourth of july!! i was on a split so i got to see s eyre fourth of july and its her favorite holiday and i love sis eyre so that was fun!!! but anyways, we did exchanges this week! with our sister training leader! shes on our island. that was awesome! i learned so much from her! our day maybe wasnt the best thing ever but i learned so much! so i think that was good! weve been asked to memorize alma 37:37 whichi is just so good! COUNSEL with the Lord in all thy doings! do we counsel with Him in all our doings? thats what we need to do!! anyways,so that was a good thing I learned this week.

And yes!!! Jean got baptized!! diligence! Sister Eyre and I were eternally happy! So fun! So great! Sunday was the baptism and that was just such a wonderful day for so many reasons! number one probably was Lydia! So she came to church of course! and she is just progressing so well! I didnt have to play the piano because this other elder was there who could play and me and sis dorsan sat on either side of her and she was like 'i like being in between you 2'! so awesome!!! and she showed the plan of salvation brochure to her husband and its his birthday the day of her baptism at the end of the month but he wants her to get baptized that day! because its her day with God! oh my! and shes been reading the scriptures! she is just such a miracle!! remmeber when she came because we fasted? i love that! and I just sat by her all of church and she just kept whispering to me and chatting with me in her beautiful french! more celestial happiness right there! she said she woke up feeling sick but prayed to God to be able to go to church because she knew she needed to. WHAT A MIRACLE! i love her!

I love the work! you know that! Goyave is so good and Sister Tenney is doing really well! everyone! invite your friends to be taught by the missionaries! were nice people!

 

 Love yoàu all!

Soeur Tenney

 

Jean's baptism

Walk by Faith

Family and friends,

 

THANK YOU so much for all the birthday wishes!! Package is not here yet :( but that just means we'll get to have another party!!! Speaking of birthday parties, so remember our miracle from the fast? YES!, well it was her birthday wednesday too!! So we went to teach her! Not only did she accept a baptismal date on our first rendezvous with her, but we also had some cake and ice cream too :) it was so awesome!! And she was at church again this week and shes just awesome! Her name is Lydia! She met with the missionaries 4 years ago, and she knows that the church is true!! Then, all my birthday was just wonderful. Everyone we saw in Goyave, we pretty much knew (typical) but then Soeur Dorsan would tell them its my birthday and we'd take a picture :) it was awesome! Unfortunately this internet place stinks and I'm limited in my sending picture abilities. But the birthday ended with coordination at a members house where they made me a cake :) BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!! so then the rest of the week was just all happy because my birthday was so awesome :) I"m just really happy being a missionary! Sometimes I come home and lay on our couch (cause theres NO WHERE ELSE for me to go haha) and just smile, and am happy because im a missionary and its so awesome!!

Also! you should know! a long while ago Sis Eyre and I were on the bus on our way to a baptism back when i could barely speak french and i tried to talk to this guy but sis eyre helped him and we got him to come to the baptism we were heading to! Anyways, he doesnt live in our area but the elders have been teaching him and hes getting baptized on sunday! what a miracle! the miracle of being diligent and talking to everyone! So awesome!!

Life is just really good. 2cor 5:7. FAITH!!! I love walking with faith! Everything we do as missionaries and even as members is just faith! I love it! I love all the things that im learning here!

Love you all!

Soeur Tenney

 

 

Lydia and I birthday celebrating!