I hope that you are all fantastic!
This
week has been great for us here in Sicuani. We accomplished a lot of
our weekly goals this week! Which is great since they're really high. We
had 62 contacts! We needed one more before heading home last night, and
we were contacting someone, but they ended up being a less active, or
member, so they didn't count. So we had to find someone else. We ended
up contacting a group of three people, so we got our goal! And we were
only one short of asking for references, we got 47/48.
We
had another lesson with Darwin, he wasn't reading the LDM, so he's not
progressing right now, but we plan to help him change that and come to
church. He was traveling this weekend, but he actually asked about
fasting, so we encouraged him to fast for answers and that we'd fast
with him.
Fasting is so interesting, you might
end up really tired, but you can keep going, and I wasn't hungry Sunday,
I was a little hungry Saturday night, but the power of our spirits when
we go without food for a purpose to help others, it's powerful! And
it's always worth it, so many blessings from it.
Last
night while updating the area book I had to move Ayben to old
investigators section. That was really sad. Because him and his 3
brothers have restaurants and they move around between them for each
month, and it's a new month now. But come October we'll be back with him
we hope! We're trying to help him get with other missionaries in Cusco
right now though.
We had a lesson with the
family Mamani, Shon and Ingrid are the kids who want to be baptized, but
with their parents working out of the city Sundays and not being able
to attend with them they can't yet. We talked about the day of rest or
day of the Lord, (Día de Reposo, Día del Señor as it's said here) and
they said they've been thinking about how they could find something else
to work here in the city. And that would allow them to attend church
with their kids. It's also really special when the Spirit tells you to
say stuff, it's powerful.
We're also working
with a family Arteaga, their son has autism or something to where he
acts differently. But his spirit! WOW! They've been attending church
again and we're trying to find ideas to help their son make it through
without being too disruptive, also helping the ward understand more. If
any of you guys have ideas here, they would be welcome. :)
The Gift of Tongues is real. And yesterday we talked about Gifts of the
Spirit, and I think a large part of them is kind of like the parable of
the talents, you have to work towards it to have it. And you can develop
ones that you may not be the strongest in. Just like a muscle.
Today
we're off to Cusco in a little bit to have a conference with our new
President of the mission, Presidente Herrera. It'll be exciting to see
how that goes, should be fantastic!
Go to
church, read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. then keep doing those
things, you'll gain more wisdom and be happier. I'm experiencing that
and it's how the Lord works. Commandments are the price for the
BLESSINGS behind them. If you were to buy a polo, you'd need to pay for
it, same with BLESSINGS and commandments, the prices are fantastic
actually, just do this little bit and a BLESSING, and this other small
thing, BLESSING! Just do these little things and HUGE BLESSINGS will
follow.
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Hurrah for Israel!
~Elder Fincher
~Elder Fincher
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