Hello everyone! This week was packed full of great things; here are a few:
🔹7/7/15 TUESDAY Deandra and Nadira:
On Tuesday we taught the Restoration a few times. I felt like I was in the MTC, but I loved it. Deandra is a woman from Jamaica that we taught for the first time. She's amazing and she basically bore her testimony on prophets. We received permission to go out of our area to her home, but unfortunately we have to pass her off to the Bushwick Sisters. It is okay though because she lives in Brownsville, which to me is one of the scariest places in NYC.
Another woman we taught on Tuesday is Nadira. She is a single mom of five kids. She's from Guyana and super humble. Also, she's a little bit in love with me.. Haha. Everytime I see her she just tells me how much she loves my hair, or my skirt, or my shirt.. Etc. it kind of creeps me out, but she has five kids! She can't have a crush on me, right?
🔹7/8/15 WEDNESDAY Interviews with President Reynolds & Senney's year mark.
Wednesday the 8th was Sister Snow and I's year mark of being companions together! I can't even begin to tell you how much I love her. She's changed my life and my mission. She flys home on the 22nd of July, but we will be reunited at the airport in four months. Haha that'll be a great reunion.
We also had interviews with our new President, President Gary Reynolds. He asked me some pretty basic questions about my life, family, and mission. Then we just talked about how I was doing and what I plan on doing/who I plan on marrying after the mission the whole time. It was weird, but good. Haha President Reynold's is SUPER nice. I love him. He's a lot different than President Calderwood, but just as great.
🔹7/10/15 FRIDAY Blessing Deborah Perez's house and Sister La Rosa
Friday morning we ended up going to Deborah's house with the Elders in our district. She has had some very real, scary experiences with the adversary. So the Elders exercised the Priesthood in which they hold and blessed her home.
Friday night we went and saw Sister La Rosa. She returned back to activity this year and we are SO excited because on Thursday we are taking her to the temple for the first time. She is receiving her own endowment and she's very prepared. I love when people make covenants with the Lord. It's also a tender mercy for me to be in the temple while Derek flys home to Utah.
There are going to be a lot of great things happening on Thursday!
🔹7/11/15 SATURDAY Ariel Dixon, our trip to Lynbrook, and Free Slurpee day!
Well happy 7/11 day! Mostly to Dawn, I know she shares my love of Slurpees. 
(random, but I want a Slurpee machine at my wedding reception). Sister Snow and I of course got free Slurpees, it was delicious.
Later in the day we ended up going to Long Island (with permission). We went with a recent convert of ours, Ariel Dixon. She just moved down there so we introduced her to the sisters and gave her a church tour. Their chapel is so nice and about 3x's the size of ours. I think I'm going to go into shock the next time I'm inside of a Utah church. Buildings in NY are interesting, but I love them. Kind of like the people.
🔹7/12/15 SUNDAY Our Branch just did a 180.
Sunday was crazy. We got a new Branch President out of the blue.. I can't go into much detail but there is some devastation in the branch and it's really struggling right now. The saints here in NYC have it really hard. But I have faith everything will work out.
🔹7/13/15 MONDAY Nancy Yakobiszin. She's coming to Queens 
Well, today is going to be good! I'll have to send a picture later but we are meeting Nancy, our investigator from Riverhead, in Queens. She's taking us to lunch and it's going to be a really good time! I miss Riverhead a lot, but I'm not sure if I'd like to serve there again.
That's all folks, hug Derek for me,
Love Sister Tenney
Here's some random pictures of the week, there's not many pretty things in my area to take pictures of. So I just take pictures of myself.
1. The temple I'm going to get married in.
2. Sister Snow wants to be a paparazzi when she grows up, so she practices.
3. Best companion ever.
4. Egyptian.
5. Literally 2 minutes ago. Waiting for the bus.
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