Calling everyone to Repentance

People! the south of martinique is just full of love!!! in so many ways!!

 

first of all you got me who loves all these people so much she is really bold and calling everyone to repentance! i do it out of love people!! and you got my awesome companion who is so charitable!! so grateful for her! and we are just here trying to build the kingdom!!

then... you got our awesome new investigators nicolas!! he came to church last week with this sweet 21 year old member thalia and so we asked if we could teach him and he was pumped!! so we went and taught him and thalias house and it was so wonderful!! they are like falling in love through the gospel!!! its amazing! church like answered some of his questions and hes reading the book of mormon!! real growth! this is just the start of a much needed family in martnique :) im so happy!!

also, you got rose!! her mom actually just died so shes in france for 10 days but shes going to church there! but anyways she introduced us to her friend hector so we went and taught him one day when she was gone and asked them how they knew each other, rose is 65 and hes 79 by the way. anyways they met on the phone he called her for work and said he wanted to meet her because he liked her voice! then he met her and theyve been going out dancing and been friends ever since!! that was about 15 years ago! anyways,,,,,, its just an island full of love here! hes a little hesitant to be baptized and wants to wait for rose to get back to go to church but hes reading the book of mormon!!

also, theres this guy in the mission presidency his name is president eclar and he is wonderful!! he lives on gaudeloupe but he came to church in martinique and had a fireside. oh man, i tell you. it was wonderful. this work is ALL BASED ON FAITH!! we cant limit God!! if we need more Priesthood we gotta pray for it and find people that will fill callings!! man! it was just so wonderful because thats what me and soeur riley do all the time. we meet an older guy and we tell him, 'hey youd be a g reat leader in the church' then we teach em! or we find a youth and telll them the Lord needs them to serve a mission! its so fun!! anyways so president eclar told us to get some youth because theres not many in our branch and we had just found this super sweet guy nicolas and so us and soeur occolier went to teach him right after this awesome fireside! it was so awesome!!

also, ive been on the hunt for families, and this sweet family from vauclin came to church!! he sang in the choir at his church so they werent there for the frist hour but they came for the second and third and it was so fun walking in with that family!! it was alain and evelyne and their 11 year old son alain and there 2 year old alvin! the Lord answers prayers! i know that! ive been praying for families and they came! to churh! more news on them to come next week!

anyways, im just so blessed! the Lord has just been preparing me my whole mission and im just trying to serve him the best i can here! i love my mission! i love Martinique! I have such a strong testimony of this gospel and the Book of Mormong and Jesus Christ. Hope in Jesus Christ will help us conquer anything.

Je taime!
soeur tenney

"The BOOK is true"

hey fam!!

change!!!!! Im with sœur Riley now! and its awesome!! firstly, monday night before sis eyre left, rose made us dinner and told us she'd help us find a new apartment. shes the best!! and shes so excited for her baptism!! then that night we had a fhe with a convert whos never had one, we acted out the good samaritan for her. she loved it! haha

so then sœur Riley got here!  shes been in guiane for about as long as ive been in Martinique but we started our missions at the same time in Guadeloupe. shes awesome!!!!! its been so fun with her! she is so diligent and dedicated and a greazt teacjer! she just got finished training 2 sisters (she was in a trio) so shes just like got this whole mission thing Under control! the Lord is just really helping us both magnify our calling and our skills!! its so wonderful! we both know how long weve got left and its ust fueling us to really find and teach the prepared people the Lord has for us right now!!

so our area is basically just like the whole South of Martinique so its just like, 'where do we even start!?' our time is so precious! but we've got some rocks and some members who we go get referrals from, so thats awesome. this sweet member brought her friend to Church this week whos like already reading the book of mormon so were stoked to start teaching him! also, rose is wonderful! she read the whole plan of salvation brochure and basically taught herself it when we came there to teach her it! a scorpion bite her saturday night so unfortunately she couldnt come to Church the next day! haha but the tuesday before she came with me and sœur eyre to teach one of her friends, shes already teaching with us! she is so prepared! shes not even baptized yet!!

Soeur Riley and I are just stoked to be master teachers and build the kingdom. i love love love being a missoinary. i love all these members so much! Frere occolier, that sweet family in vauclin, gave this AMAZING talk on sunday about the Book of Mormon and I was just so fueled! He was like' if this book isnt true, the missionaries lose their time!! but i will tell you without the littlest of doubt, that I know this book is true.' the book of mormon is so true! sometimes i read in the bible to see how Jésus would teach and how he was and i get confused and just am so grateful for the BOok of Mormon to help me understand evething! i love this Church! i love my family! and im grateful for the miracles to come with sœur Riley!!

by the way, i cant find my camera cord so... ill try and find that and send you pics next week!

love you all!

Sœur Tenney

New companion

 what a week!!!!

first off, we received transfer calls and soeur eyre and soeur tenney i think are officially over. unless president decides to put us together again haha but otherwise, it was a good 4 transfers all in all. oh man. this girl! words cannot reallly even describe our relationship!!! we have gotten reeeeeally close these past 6 months together!!! she knows me better than anyone else right now id say!! but really she has just taught me so much! she taught me how to be a missionary and now she taught me how to be a leader. she is so wonderful!! I LOVE SOEUR EYRE WITH ALL MY HEART!!! im sad.

but also HAPPY!!!! because my new companion is soeur riley who is a girl i came to the mission with and we ended up staying the night together in barbados together! haha she was called french speaking but because i sped up my mission process i messed her up and made her go french speaking. woopsies!! but now shes my companion so all is well! we will be sister training leaders together just for the sisters in st martin so we'll be going to st martin together next transfer. IM SO EXCITED!! itll be so awesome! new companion! new goals! new ways to see some real growth!! thats what ive been obsessed with these days :)

but this week i went to st martin!!!! it was so fun! we were there thursday morning to friday morning then headed back. SO AWESOME!! the sisters there totally reminded both me and sister eyre of ourselves back when we started, they were both pretty new missionaries. i remember being in one of their spots literally and just thinking, wow ive got so much to learn!!  but here i was! sharing the wisdom!! so that was wonderful! the church there is AWESOME!! and it was so cool to preach in englsih!! i loved it so much! it was like making friends!! then i just came back and applied it to where i live! because french really isnt all that too hard for me!!

this week we had a house meeting with the Occoloiers, a wonderful amazing member family in our area. one of our recent converts and an investigator was there and it was AWESOME!! soeur occolier loved it she talked about it in relief society because soeur eyre and i had to surpirse teach that, but anyways she raised her hand, soeur occolier and said 'im so grateful for these missionaries parents who raised these girls just so excited to share the gospel!!' so momma! thats from soeur occolier! ill attach a picture! me and souer eyre wer both just crying. hahaha it was awesome. i loved martinique so much!! im so glad im staying! this place is my home! it is the best! oh ya soeur eyre is going to grenada! english speaking! shes freaking out haha but anyways!!!!

so this week :) rose :) so she came to church last week and shes a very sick and very busy lady but we went by saturday night and although her doctor told her she couldnt speak she totally talked to us hahaha so shes talking to us and shes like 'so at church, when they annouced there would be a baptism, the Holy Ghost told me I need to be baptized so I told myself I'd ask the missionaries when the next baptism was... so... when's the next baptism?' haha! so we told her she could be baptized the 31! woo woo!! she is so converted she loves the book of mormon and is already sharing the gospel with her neighbors! he came by and she said' hey me and these girls are gonna come over and give you a book of mormon ok!?' shes awesome! i love her!!

so ive just been obsessed with real growth lately, how i can really help build God's kingdom on Earth. so i hope soeur riley is ready because soeur tenney with the car is ready to build the church on all of the south of martinique! wohoo!! 

I love this church i know its true. i love teaching others gospel doctrines i learn the morning of and have such a strong testimony. And I love Jesus!!

Soeur Tenney

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