Baptisms, saunas and ruins

Hola a todos!

Ustedes son mis amigos. Espero que sepan cual especiales son para mí y aun bastante más para nuestro Padre Celestial. Él les ama a todos ustedes y quiere su felicidad. Para cada uno. ¡Sí! Aun a usted que está fallando en esa pequeña cosa. Él le ama.

This week, good. Crazy. Eventful. Happy. Sad. Disappointing. Exciting. Lots of different emotions and all that kind of stuff.

To start out with, we cleaned our house really well. I think I´ve mentioned this before, but really. It is clean! And the Sister Leaders cleaned it up after all the 14 sister slept in it who had been there. I like it´s cleanliness. Pictures:

Then, on Saturday the Sister Leaders (Hermana Barrientos and Hermana Soto {yes, the same one who had been in Sicuani with me in the district}) had a baptism! I had the great honor to baptize Hermana Mileni whom the Sisters are teaching. It was really special and the Spirit was strong at the baptism.

Now, the title is a bit confusing, only the last one should be plural, but it sounds better all plural, so yeah.

Now, sauna. Hmm.... So, we had a baptism on Saturday night in the ward (Mileni) and then Sunday morning we had a sauna. Or, in other words. No one had emptied the font and no one had turned off the heater for the water. So, it boiled. The baptismal font boiled. I can´t tell you how it looked, because the Bishop got to the chapel first and found that out. Fixed it up too. But we cleaned it up though and now all 4 of us missionaries knows how to work the stuff so it´ll never happen again. The Bishop wasn´t happy to say the least, but by the end of it all, we were all laughing at it and just happy that everything was alright.

Today we went and visited some other ruins by Tipon. I don´t know the name, but they were cool. It looked like an actual settlement.

Besides that all I´ve been dealing today with the first known group of missionaries who haven´t been able to go to Machu Picchu because of teacher strikes. So yeah, that´s crazy, but I think it´s done. The good thing is that people are taking it well, they´ll go next week instead.

God is good. Sometimes we don´t know why something is happening; but He does, and that´s what´s important. Someone in church yesterday compared it to an embroidery. Which for a child from beneath makes no sense, just a bunch of threads in a random conglomerate. But once it´s done, and we rise up to see the other side of things, it all makes sense. We can see the whole picture and that there was a great picture in design the whole time.

So, let us be patient in our afflictions. Let us be more sincere in our love and relationships with others. Let us lift and cheer one another. And then we can be content knowing that we´re doing good. And we´ll keep going until we get to the other side and we can see in the end what the whole picture is. It is grander than we can even imagine here.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

P.S. I got permission to write late since I had to do office stuff. :D