Monday, July 3, 2017

We cleaned the house!

Hola a todos!

Estaba pensando, y creo que sería bien chevere a hacer una palabra de la semana en cada correo, así que comienzo con este que se ve abajo. ↓

Word of the week: orto; vegetable garden (in Italian)

I accidentally put that in the subject line of an email I wrote to Hermana Herrera. Instead of otro; other. Oops. But oh well. Live and let die.

In otro news, we´ve cleaned our house! It looks really, really nice. The Johnsons moved recently and we´ve inherited a couple nice leather love seats. They really spice up the room from what it´s been. So we had a major overhaul as well. It´s nice.


In related news, the reason we´ve cleaned our house so well is because sister missionaries are going to be sleeping there this week. NOT with us, we´re going to live with the assistants and zone leaders in Inti Raymi.

But there´s going to be a conference with all the sisters in the whole mission. Hermana Herrera wants to have it, so they´re doing it. I got to make a PowerPoint for it and I really like how it turned out. But it´s in Spanish, so you guys wouldn´t all understand it. Plus, I haven´t been able to upload it successfully, it´s just been from my USB that it plays correctly.

Other news, I´ve been very busy with office stuff and was able to have a couple citas this week that were really good. Also, the sister leaders in Inti Raymi are having a baptism this week! Hermana Mileni, she´s really cool, I was able to interview her the other day and she´s quite amazing. The work goes on.

Tramites in Migraciones also continue, getting close to done.

All in all, the gospel is true. I´ll share the little bit of my testimony I shared in fast and testimony meeting this week:

Scripture study is important, if we aren´t reading everyday, the differences will show forth quickly. We´ll get more frustrated, more tired, less happy and just discouraged. I know because I didn´t study too well a couple days for so much office stuff I was doing.

But, happily, repentance exists! And works! It works miracles even! We need to do it for reals and not just pray that our problems will go away, we need to act. But if we do, and when we do, God puts His hand in our lives to lift us up and help us along the way.

And then, the Sacrament, that´s what gives us the eventual remission of our sins. Because that´s a promise included in baptism, that our sins will be washed away. And the Sacrament is the renewal of that covenant.

Or to try and say it simply, when we get baptized, we get washed clean from all the mud and gunk that we´ve gotten on us through sinning. Then when we repent we climb out of the mud-holes we sometimes fall into after baptism and as we partake of the Sacrament we become clean by being washed again. A ¨mini-baptism¨ to say it as such. And we do that each week when we worthily partake of the Sacrament, we become clean to be able to return to live with our Father in Heaven after this life. And that´s made possible through Temples and the eternal blessings that await us there when we enter worthily.

Have a great week!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

P.S. Come sono i orto?

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