Still alive! And Semana Santa (Easter)

Hola a todos!

Que tal? Esta semana fue bueno, pero también raro por la Semana Santa, pero bueno.

This week, it was pretty good, but Easter's almost not celebrated here. Semana Santa or the Holy Week is huge, but almost no Easter. It was good though.

I'm honestly a little lacking in the memory banks on last week, because today we had a "Grand P-Day" Or, we came from Puerto to have a multi-zone conference and a p-day with President and 4 whole zones. (or, for no RMs, 70ish missionaries) We played tug of rope, a couple hula hoop games and hand ball. Which was basically soccer with hands and a yoga ball. Our team won that one, we were tired, but happy. I got really sunburned though, because I forgot sunscreen. Be wise, learn from your mistakes. Do not become a human tomato in physical or other form.

The conference yesterday was really good. We learned that by living the Doctrine of Christ (not doctrines rather, Doctrine of Christ, as is found easily in 2 Nephi 31, and 3 Nephi 11 and 27) you are able to remove stress from your life, because Christ will help us and we will remove burdens that are in us from not repenting or not having faith in Christ or from not following the Spirit or from not keeping covenants or from not enduring to the end.

In other words, as we have faith in Christ, that will lead us to repentance, which leads to covenants that we keep and are blessed for keeping, with those covenants we receive the Holy Ghost as our constant companion to guide us and we can endure to the end with all these blessings. All of these pieces or principles will help with at least one form of stress that we can have in life, but as we live His Doctrine, we are free and at liberty, from all kinds of bondage, including stress.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

P.S. I was in an airplane to Lima exactly a year ago at this hour! I'm a year in the mission! Woo!