JETTING JOINTS FOR JESUS

Mommacita and family!!!

This week was the best week ever!!!! So first of all Soeur Eyre and I went on exhcanges in Guadeloupe!!  I sent some pictures of that!! so fun and so much learning happened, and a lot of travel which makes you a little tired, but you dont get to rest! You just go straight to work!! But its the work that I love!!!! or maybe, Soeur Eyre and I like to call it TEACHING. Teaching is so fun!!!!

So Guadeloupe first day was in Moule with the sisters. I was with Soeur Guernsey my old companion, second in Abymes, I was with soeur Dorsan my old companion, third in Goyave, back to my area!! I was with Soeur Vance one of Soeur Eyres old companions!!!  That was tuesday, wednesday then friday. Overall it was awesome!!! I learned a lot and just tried to help hasten the work with all these Soeurs! ! I figure Tressa and mom will profit from this paragraph, the most in wanting to know what I did this week.

But then we got back and we were really tired!! but we didnt stop! We had the greatest weekly planning session, where we just had all these amazing goals, and we just went out and preached to people!! This sunday at church I realzed that if I've done all i can to teach the doctrine clearly and invited my investigators to act, I"ve done my part. But some amazing things happened this week!! Wo we went to Rose saturday night with that awesome family the Occoliers, and we taught about the priesthood and Frere  Occolier gave her a priesthood blessing! She was so appreciative! That was the first time I had been there for a blessing for an investigator of mine and the spirit was so strong!! Even thought she was still sick she came to church again!  It was testimony meeting and someone bore their testimony about how grateful they were that the missionaries knocked on their door, and Rose looked at us and smiled!! After she said she wanted to bare her testimony about the priesthood blesssing she got! She was telling her awesome member friend (my temp 65 year old comp Soeur Saint Catherine) that she couldn't sleep all week, but the night after she got the blessing, she slept SO GOOD!! ROSE IS AMAZING!!!

Then sunday afternoon we were down in the bourg of Vauclin which is like the boardwalk kind of, so beautiful!! Anyways so we get out and I'm like Soeur Eyre lets go talk to this guy!! so we do! His name is Cristophe!! and hes 19 and I said 'Cristophe the Lord needs you to serve a mission!' so first of all, Soeur Occolier had told me that she has this vision of someone from Vauclin serving a mission!  Soeur Eyre and I have been looking for this someone!!!! anyways so we start talking to Cristophe, and he just like gets it! an honest seeker of truth!!!! He said 'what about all the people who aren't baptized by this authority?' I dont know that wasn't a good example of a question he had, but it was awesome! We showed him where the Occoliers lived and it started raining so we had to pull over and teach him some more, haha but it was just aweosme. SO PREPARED!!! This morning he sent us a text with some more questions he had! so great! Then after that we ran into this girl Melissa who was smoking, but we called her to repentance and she jetted it! jet in french mean throw. JETTING JOINTS FOR JESUS! thats what Soeur Eyre and I said.

Anyways this week was awesome. I love preach my gospel, its so right! I'm just trying to teach with power and authority and build the church here! We're looking for kingdom builders!! and the Lord will give them to us! This work is all hingent upon our faith!! I'm also looking for a less active family. I'm gonna find them and bring them back, I just know it!! anyways, this week was the best.

Love you all! Have a good week!!

Soeur Tenney

"Happy New Years"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

What a long crazy week!! First of all, we watched the movie "Frozen"! Then Soeur Eyre and I were just so excited for christmas and to see our families! So that was fun but a little distracting! haha but it wa good. however! Christmas eve we insituted a new tradition in Martinique!

Like I said last week, we had the genius idea to go caroling with our members. Well it ended up being the member family in Vauclin with their cute little baby Eve (sorry i forgot to take a picture) but it was so amazing! Well, first of all the Occoliers were like 'les soeurs, its christmas eve, everyone is at catholic mass,' so that was a little hard to see people. But we ended up seing their neighbors! and one guy definitely told us to go away he was watching tv haha it was just funny because caroling is just something that no one does on Martinique. They've only seen it on american shows! but then, we saw this family that we have never managed to talk to the parents, but we know that they are there, and Soeur Occolier was so ecstactic! We went back a couple days later and the lady, Natacha, she said  'i loved the singing so much i wanna hear your message i just have friends over right now!' So we're going back later this week :)  Then we went and caroled to brother Occoliers sister who has a twin sister on a mission! She's not a member though! and then she came to our ward christmas party! But ya anyways the fruits were so amazing! REAL GROWTH PEOPLE! I am owning my mission!

haha anyways, I'd like to fill you in on Rose!!!!!  She is our miracle that came to church a 2 weeks ago? I don't know how, we fasted and she came. Rose has been baptized 6 times, in 6 different churches! haha b\But she is still looking for her misson in life! So we finally got a hold of her (she works a lot, she's totally awesome and she's got it all together) and she had read SO MUCH! She was even spitting preach my gospel back to us! She was like 'when you read this book you better understand the bible!!' I was just amazed at how awesome she was, what a serious awesome investigator! and she was so sick but still came to church this sunday just for the first hour!! But anyways Soeur Occolier, the member, came with us to teach the first week and bore testimony about the book, and we told Soeur Occolier at the christmas party how rose is reading and loving it, and Soeur Occolier, the member she started crying she was so happy! She loves sharing the gospel so much and really wants a friend to be baptized!!

So this week was awesome! Christmas, family, Martinique! I LOVE MARTINIQUE! and I LOVE MY FAMILY!! Mission and family are 2 wonderful things. This church is so true and this work is so lead by God. I know He can perform mighty miracles according to our faith diligience and obedience! Happy New Year everyone! I"ll be on Guadeloupe!

 je t'aime!!

Soeur Tenney

The doctrine of Eternal Marriage

Everyone!

 

This week was awesome! Crazy!! So starters, I've got some traditions for missing your siblings wedding on your mission seeing as this is my second and that Souer Eyre was my companion both times! So soeur eyre is familiar and so am I!!

 

Anyways so that day was awesome! First we had a meeting at the church and then after we went to this munch at Minas (rhymes with Divina, because she got married on saturday!!) and had our personal and comp study on ETERNAL MARRIAGE!! so we did this last time too and it was more like  a young womens thing, 'what qualities do you want in your husband' blah blah blah hahaha but this time I just really searched out the DOCTRINE!! Thats been our big push this zone conference the doctrine! so the doctrine is your family can be eternal when it is done by the Priesthood and you both keep the covenants you have made. Ya!!! DOCTRINE! so Braden and Nina- keep your covenants!! it was wonderful I am getting so converted to all the doctrines of this church :) and the best part was that that night we had a rendezvous with someone who was baptized when she was really young, so shes kind of an investigator, but shes married (rare in the west indies) and we got to teach her this concept! the spirit was so strong!!! I was so grateful for our studies and for marriage! so yaaaa!! Braden and Nina married! being put to use here!

Other miracles and exciting news :) My dad emailed me last week and was like, TAKE ADVANTAGE of the christmas time!! So soeur eyre and I have been trying to do this!! So we've tried to think outside the box and stuff, we've been sharing that video, but finally we decided! Well, we were talking and sharing a spiritual thought with a member and soeur eyre just had this amazing idea to go CAROLING with all our members to all our amis and their amis!!!! so we went straight to this other member family and told them right after (this part is hilarious) and soeur Occolier, the wife was like SO EXCITED! because shes got this 6 month old baby and shes trying to teach her some good christmas traditions (so cute right) haha and she was lie SO EXCITED to do that with us, not sure if the husband really was, haha but still! He loves missionary work so he'll be up for it! So we're gonna do that christmas eve! and christmas days we have so much good plans with investigators and members!  I'm excited!!! the best part of that story was after we shared this spiritual thought with sister Occolier, she was like 'les soeurs!! I have something for you!!' because she was so exctied! and she searched in her fridge for like 5 minutes (i dont think she really had anything hahaha) and finally came out and gave us 4 yogurts and was like 'i hope you profit from this!' and we were like 'we will!!' and after we left we laughed so hard because she was just so excited she wanted to give us something and it was yogurt! hahah anyways we thought it was funny.

But this time of year is the time to SEIZE THE DAY! We are just really trying to soak everything in. Today we get to watch frozen and thursday i get to talk to my FAMILY!! I love you and i will share with you all my stories and learnings so far :) I love you all! I love the Lord! I have a testimony of the doctrine of eternal life and what we need to do to get there! repentance! and keeping covenants :) thats it!!

Well i love you all have a very merry christmas! read 3 nephi 1 its the christmas story in America!

Soeur Tenney

Fasting brings miracles

THIS WEEK!!! ohhhhh what a week!! well were teaching this guy who loves English, thats actually how we found him. We were doing our emails speaking in English and asked us to come talk to English with him but we told him we'd teach him about Jesus! Anyways,  we reflected on this at an awesome members house as we were teaching him and he was telling the members about how we met and after we left Sœur Eyre and I decided to only speak french!! Ne parler QUE le Français!! So we started that this week!!!! woah! so awesome!! sometimes, Sœur Eyre really likes to chat and she gets a little frustrated so at night we'll speak English, but its been so amazing!! Seriously, I can express myself so well in this language!! its easier for me now to speak French! I LOVE FRENCH!!  anyways, just thought I'd keep you updated :)

So, this week, well these past couple of weeks, we've had a little trial of our faith, we've had a hard time getting our investigators to Church and having serious investigators!! so saturday, we started our fast, FASTING BRINGS MIRACLES! i love fasting :) so much!! so we fasted for PEOPLE AT CHURCH!! and for referrals from the members!! I will tell you, we were feeling a little discouraged! and that is not good! all our plans had Fallen through but fasting! I have the faith that that brings miracles!! so I was ready for my miracle! So sœur eyre was just like, we need to go somwhere new!!! We go to this completely new place and before we get out of the car we say a prayer and I said  'Heavenly Father, we are fasting, we expect miracles, and we want people at Church tomorrow!' so the first door we knocked on we said, we are missionaries.... and her name was Rose! and she told us  'oh i studied with missionaries in France 20 years ago!' (shes about 60) and we said 'the Church is here on Martinique! Will you come with us tomorrow?' and she was said, 'ya why not!!' So we gave her a book of mormon and said see ya tomorrow!! So she followed us in her car all the way to Church the next day! ROSE!! she is so beautiful! It was like a miracle following us all the way to Church! I love Rose! she has beautiful french! and it was fast and testimony meeting and she was reading her book of mormon while the others shared testimonies about it. ahhhhh i just LOVE this branch! I love Martinique! there are just some beautiful Martinique families that I will just always remember forever!!

 

plus!! so many members in our area brought friends to Church that were going to teach this week! oh yes! its so wonderful!! i am so excited! the Lord is a Lord of miracles I know that!

This week is zone conference and we will be in Guadeloupe for a little. oh ya momma and I got the chirstmas package! so many chirstmas décorations up at our house! so wonderful! and one of our invstigators who wants to serve a mission, marvin, he wants to come caroling with us on Christmas, so im excited! CHRISTMAS IS SO GOOD! this week we have also made snowflakes and hot chocolate while listening to hymns one night, so ni ce:) i love Christmas and im so grateful for the birth of Jesus Christ!

 

I love you all!

Sœur Tenney

"CHOPPED"

WHAT A WEEK!!!!!

first of alll.... CHOPPED!! (my favorite tv show) but no this is referring to my hair! before my mission i always was scared i would just chop my hair mid mission like every missionary and look at me i did it! everyone loved my hair too, so sorry everyone! haha but its so nice and fluffy and easy to do now :) and it'll all be back before I'm done too, so I'm obsessed!! I cant believe that was this week, that was the beginning of this week that's like old news now!!

So then we got back and tuesday we had zone meeting and soeur Eyreand I and the zone leaders got to teach it, and it just got me so excited and pumped!! We just felt so united and we are going to have 10 baptisms by the end of this year! faith precedes the miracles!!! its going to happen!! so that was tuesday :) also after this meeting we went and saw this girl in the hospital who can't see or hear and sang to her and I just felt so loving and nice to her. it was so nice!!

so anyways! wednesday was such a good day! we started off with some contacting and right after we said the prayer soeur eyre was like 'i got it; today we're gonna talk to 100 people' and we were just like YES!! we were like running up and down those apartments trying to talk to as many people as we could! and we met some AWESOME people!! such an inspired goal, oh man!!!!!

So satruday, we had a baptism and afterwards, we didn't have much time to preach but we went to this one protuguese woman that we found because of our 100 people day!! haha so we went to her with this member who we thought spoke portuguese, but he didnt, hahaha but anyways she was so humble and could understand our french and had 3 little boys, but anyways we taught her and she was saying that her husband has a closed heart; but he walked in half way through and started listening and was so into it and excited to read the book of mormon by the end of it! and then we prayed on our knees with them and their 3 boys as a family and with the members and the spirit was just so strong!! its hard because the church is so far, but they have a car and they're gonna try and come this week!! so stoked!! that was amazing!

Sunday was the primary program :) and i was the pianist. I always play every sunday wherever I can, by the way, what a good skill to have!! Anyways so it was the primary program and these kids are just so funny! it was so classic!! haha but then sunday afternoon was just like the best! we live far from the church so we took pb and j's (gross) haha but we didnt want to drive all the way back home, so then we went to find some INACTIVES!! inactive hunting! i love it! so we met this one who is so cool! she couldn,t talk but she took a rendezbvous with us for this week, then another who was sweeet!!!!!!!!!!!! her name is Yolette, and so in my setting apart I remember, it said i was going to rescue so i just really look out for those inactives. This girl had laughed at us the 'mormons' the first time we met her. So we saw her sunday afternoon and we had woken her up from her nap and i was just like 'this girl is going to let us in!' so she was like 'ahhh nahhh i dont really wanna talk to you, you can tell me what you wanted to tell me right here' so then i was just like' uhh can i have some water?' haha and she let us right in!! less actives are weird because its the commitment, isnt baptism? what do i do? haha but she said she would read the book of mormon and were gonna come back and garden with her!! everyone is an investigator I decided!! haha

Oh ya and speaking of less actives, papy omar, we watched the restoration video with him this week and he told us hes like a baby and hes just waiting to die! but he still wants to go to church!! his neighbors are investigators though so were trying to get them to bring him;

One more story, so rodrigue, super awesome rodrigue!! we kept calling him and he kept cancelling our rendezvous!! we were so confused! and we had the perfect member lesson for him and soeur eyre called him and hes was like' j'arret!!' which means im stopping!! and we were so so sad!! but then we saw him yesterday and he was like' what the heck why weren't you there!?' and we told him we kept calling and he said no! but then we realized, it was a different rodrigue in our phone!! haha anyways we felt dumb! 

But then today was thanksgiving meal and i brought our famous brie tradition and the elders loved it!! i thought soeur eyre and i could be the only ones to eat is but the elders loved it! what a hit! and soeur eyre made rolls!

I'm grateful that the gospel is restored. im grateful for the doctrine that is true and perfect. and im grateful for the book of mormon. and IM GRATEFUL FOR MY FAMILY!!! i love you all so much and think about you all day and talk about you all the time to soeur eyre and my amis!! I love you!!

Soeur Tenney!

Communication with God

Mom!!!

 I'm gonna give you the day by day because I feel like I never do that!! So tuesday we headed off to trinidad! it was suppoesed to be 2 flights but we took the airline LIAT aka Late If At All There (tahts what we like to say) haha so we missed our connecting flight and had to stay in the airport for about 6 hours. We got free food and we sang hymns with all the elders. But i was sad to miss the fireside!!! so we got in super late tuesday! then wednesday was when we heard from president mehr!! he recapped the night before which was just emphasizing to us that we teach to help people get to the temple, not just baptism! so we need to set those expectations right at the beginning! so that was the fireside, but our day!!! oh my goodness!! it was so good! so full of the spirit and being around all those other amazing missionaries. Its called mission leadership council, we al just counciled together!!! Oh man the Spirit was just like testifyihng to me on how I could be better. President Mehr every few hours would be like 'what are we going to change' and id write that in the side of my notebook and write what I was going to change. Oh! so fullll! of light! makes me want to just go convert everyone! and be exactly obidient!! The testimony meeting was last and basically every mlissionary bore their testimony. It was awesome. And right when the SPirit was so strong, President Mehr talks about his water tower on his mision. How he was made district leader and so he went on this water tower to just commune with God. I loved that so much. I know that if there is one thing I am learning from my mission, its communication with God. I have such faith in prayers! He talked aobut water tower as just a time to be really grateful and just to openly communicate with God and theres no way that your thoughts are not the Spirit. I love that. I feel that early on in my mission I have learned this concept and it is just what keeps me going every day. Every night I just get to communicate with God, let Him lead the work!

So that was my favorites. Nervous to be doing exchanges in the near future with other Soeurs, I will learn a lot.. but so excited!!

Then Thursday we took like 5 flights to get home, stopped in Guadeloupe I got to see some missionaries there that I know and love, then headed home!! 

ohhhhh we were so fueled to work!! next day was a day full o fmiracles!!! so first of all, theres these 3 sisters in our area that got baptized when the were really young and they dont really remember why and we learned that the dad wanted them to be baptized, and we FOUND THE DAD THIS WEEK!! his name is Omar! Papy Omar! (thats what they call grandpas  here) so we found him! i have repeatedly told soeur eyre that i was velma 3 times for halloween and whenever I dont have my glasses on i tell her 'i droppe my glasees! help me!' like velma! haha but this tiome, in our missionary wxork, we were velma and shaggy! we had to like figure out when he got baptized and why! papy omar is in a wheelchair so we came by and visited him after church and gave him a book of mormon and hes stoked to come to church! papy omar!! 

then, his son in law lives in the same neighborhood and he is just so prepared! he was like 'im looking for faith that can move mountains!!!' so we tolmd him to read the book of mormon and were going to bring back another manwho this gospel has changed his life and faith, and then another grandpa in the same neighborhood! the fatherin law the rodrigue who i just described, who remionds me a lot of granpda, he let us in and he was like' im searching for the church of christ, i know he will come back to his chrurch and im searching that church' so he tolmd us he will read the book of mormon with pleasure and that he will get baptized when he knows its true!!!

so the Vauclin is still in full boom! i love it here! the miracles are everywhere! i learned from trinidad for me personally, I need to eliminate fluff!! the doctrine changes lives! I need to make sure everything im doing is somethign that will make someone grow closer to chirst thorough baptism. oh yes. I love missionary work!!

So that was my week. Also in trinidad my contact just deiceded to kill me so i wore glasses and my right eye was red the whole time, i was pirate eye it was funnny hahah i love you family and friends!

Soeur Tenney

Sacrifice is so great!

THIS WEEK!!!

This week was great!! oh! Soeur Eyre, she is so good! She just helps me be the missionary I want to be!! I love it so much! She is amazing and I am just so grateful for her!

so this week we were trying to stay under our kilometers so we took a bus to district meeting... oh man.. haha, but obedience!! So we took a bus and ended up sitting front seat, they're more like big vans, anyways we sat front seat, so naturally we started talking to the driver, and his name is Roro! so Frere Roro, so we asked him 'would you like to receive the remission of you sins?' and he got all quiet and was just like 'whens church' what a miracle find!! So we went and taught him, and he has some weird beliefs about after life, but he said he was going to church, however he didnt show up. But today on our way to our pday activity (this part is just funny) we see him, and his bus, and he's in the middle of the street on a round about, so we pull over in our car to go talk to him and he waves to us and kinda walks to us and then stops behind a palm tree in the mddle of the street to go to the bathroom!! Soeur Eyre and I had no idea what to do!! haha but anyways he said he slept in too late to come to church but I just that that was hilarious. hahahah

Next miracle! We went to visit Soeur Pluton, shes 77 and her husband is unfortunately inactive and we were hoping to talk to the husband too! but he wouldnt talk to us. Anyways, we walked in and the first thing she says is, 'les missionaries (missionaries) I just killed my cat!' it was so sad! but also i wanted to laugh, haha but anyways it was sad, but the Lord had sent us the missionaries to support her while she was sad about her cat! haha but that wasn't the miracle, so we decided to fast for her husband and Soeur Eyre had never met him. After church we were on our way to see another less active and behind us in the car is Frere Pluton!! so we wave to him and pull over and talked to him for a good while!! That was amazing! He said he was waiting for God to tell him to come to church and we said 'Frere Pluton, 'God sent us here to tell you to go to church!' haha so good miracles.

By the way our area just doubled! We just took the elders area who are moving to a foot area, so now we have like double the members, less actives and investigators!! So much trust the Lord has in us! soeur Eyre and I feel it! But we are purifying! We are getting rid of any little thing that takes away the Spirit so we can be more powerful teachers and have the Spirit more :)

I love this work! Last night i was studying about sacrifice, the topical guide in the french book of mormon is so great!!!!! anyways so I was studying sacrifice and it said something like, 'the true church requires us to sacrifice everything or it wouldn't be Christ's church' im probably quoting that wrong but anyways something like that but thats so true! So many people here need to learn the lesson of sacrifice!! We have to be willing to sacrifice everything for God! I have definitely learned that! Sacrifice is so great :)

Well, life is good. Martinique is good and Soeur Tenney is good and happy! I love you all! Read the Book of Mormong everyday it will change your life!!

Soeur Tenney