Groundbreaking and other things

Hola todos!

Esta semana tuve que decir a Elder Huallparuca chou. El ha sido llamado para ser el nuevo asistente. Es chevere, pero ahora uno de mis amigos está en Cusco.

Our zone leader, Elder Huallparuca got called to be the new assistant this week, so he went off to Cusco. It's kind of crazy, but cool.

In the sector, we're doing something still, but we're not doing much. I think it's mostly because my companion has been sick and not feeling well for a while now, but I also feel like we're not finding people and that we've lost almost everyone we'd been teaching. We are picking it up a little, but we're struggling. I know that the Lord knows what's up though. And as we're diligent He'll bless us with success.

This week we had the opportunity to attend the groundbreaking of the Temple of Arequipa! That was awesome! The talks were great and the ceremony cool to watch. President Herrera was there and the Seventy that was conducting was super nervous the whole time almost, I can kind of relate now, knowing that he's a normal guy like me that has received a call from the Lord. But something funny that he misspoke is that President Herrera is president of the Arequipa mission, not Cusco. :D But it was great to be there and see it all.

Also, there exists a fruit here that when it's a little rotten it smells like parmesan cheese. My brain was having a really, really hard time with computing that. Still does.

That's pretty much it, but I was reminded of a hard lesson that I had to learn by someone who I think still needs to learn it. We were talking with someone and they told us that they couldn't forgive someone for the way the other person acted, that they had to ask forgiveness first. But I remembered that I've felt that way before and am still prone to feel the same way.

At times I've felt that all of my companions were doing things they needed to ask forgiveness of me, but when I asked it first, I felt better. Even if they may or may not have rejected my apology, I felt better. Because I was doing what the Lord has asked of me:

9 Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the greater sin.

 10 I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men.

 11 And ye ought to say in your hearts—let God judge between me and thee, and reward thee according to thy deeds.

D&C 64:9-11

I'm not perfect, I still am quite prideful, but if any of you are waiting for another to ask forgiveness of you, take the step the Savior would take, and ask forgiveness of them, whatever it may be. He forgave those that killed Him, we can forgive all as well.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher