The Best Week Yet!

Hola a todos! Familiares, amigos y a los demás!

Espero que sus semanas esta ultima fueron muy buenas y exitosos!

This week has been a ride, but wow, has it been awesome!!!

First, Monday the BIG NEWS! Already recounted that last week. After emailing was packing and a party with an awesome spiritual ending for district meeting.

Tuesday, sent off Elder Cubillas to Cusco at 8, then Trio and studies, 10:30 sent off Elder Quevedo somewhere, and then a different Trio of Elder Falslev and Elder Chang. Rescheduling the many booked citas for Tuesday and Wednesday. Most were good to move. Then at 5 off to Cusco with Elder Falslev, Elder Valensuela from my CCM group and Sister Davis, all training! Sister Nuila to Santiago.

We arrived and ate dinner, I have eaten some very amazing waffles in Peru now! And then spent the night in the room of the office like my first night, that was an interesting turn around.

Wednesday we ate breakfast, talked, studied and mostly waited for the training to start and to get our new companions... Then they came. And we waited more, then we started. Great training to start, but we were dying the whole time waiting to know WHO!

And finally they assigned us, I was the 2nd to last Elder to get my companion Elder Yangali! He's from here in Peru, from Huancayo, member of 1 & 1/2 years, super chevere, super animated to work and excited and really just the best! He's already got a lot of experience having been a ward missionary and is super, super ready and excited to work!

Then later Wednesday we planned for the week and ate at the Carbone, really good fries and chicken. And again slept in the office's room. Another start to a mission in the field!

At first I was really emotional as they say here, just full of every emotion, then anxious, then calm, then a little worried and now I know that it'll be awesome, I just need to keep leading like becomes a missionary. We really had the best week so far in my mission time!

Thursday we traveled and unpacked, studied and then had a great lesson with Erica's brother Daniel. And my first time calling the district to checkup in the middle of the week went well, I think my face is a little long for the cell phones, but I'm figuring out how to use it dispite the distance between my ear and mouth. :P

Friday was the first normal day this week as far as the start of the day goes, wake up, eat, study. Then English class where I used a couple ideas that Hermana Herrera gave me in Cusco to teach English. "What am I doing?" Then to make a choice between two options and move to this or that side of the room. And then in the afternoon we had a lesson with Tony, he's interested and we're helping him. Then we had a mission night at 7, Jeopardy with Prophets, Scriptures, Places, Scripture Mastery, People in the Book of Mormon and Family Relationships. And if the one team missed, the other team got a chance, and if they got it right they got to throw floor in the other teams' faces. It went calm to start, then..... Here are some pictures..... It was awesome though!

And Saturday we had 4 lessons! Candidad and Marco, Luzero, who now has a baptismal date for the 1st of October! As well as a new investigator Monica! We'll figure out later when to move it to since we forgot conference... But we're super excited to invite these people to come to Christ more fully and quicker! Also a lot of contacts!

Sunday was grerat as well, church was good, we talked to the youth about the importance of the family and family history work. Then we finally got our Ward Misison Plan made up to have activites to activate and visits to retain. Yes! Plans!

Later we visited with a member who has a lot of less active family to help them, and later with the Bishop and Hermanas, planned some things we'll be doing. Also in Ward Council we planned for an activity with all the missionaries in Sicuani proper to help the ward. And to end the day with the family Olivera. Great lesson on service.

I'm really learning to look for the good, we'll always fall short, but with Christ we can conquer!

Hasta la próxima,

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher