My Birthday! + other stuff

¡Hola a todos!

¡Esta semana ha sido una locura! Fue muy interesante y bueno y todo eso.

So, I didn´t get much of a chance to write last week because I was busy for all of it. But I did get a moment, so I was able to write. But this week I have more time, the normal to be exact, so I´ll write.

Cool happenings, I got a haircut, from Elder Valenzuela, the same missionary who cut my hair before I went to Puerto Maldonado. He did a good job like the last time.

It was my birthday. That was cool. They egged me again but I was prepared with my rain jacket, so I only had to wash that and my head. It worked out good. President and Sister Herrera threw me a small birthday party in the office on Saturday before my birthday since they were going to be with Elder Uceda during my birthday in Puerto Maldonado. There was cake and ham sandwiches and some Tampico to drink. (to anyone who may have been to space camp with me reading this, Tampico! Drink it it´s the best!)

I also ate some of my cake with chopsticks, the sisters in my district gave me candies for my birthday, steak and potatoes for lunch, cake, popcorn and egg sandwiches for dinner. And we played with President´s daughters on Saturday for a little bit. (our p-day)

Also, Elder Yangali took me out to eat at Papachos the other night for my birthday, basically it´s a fancy tourist burger joint, but really good. I got the chaufa burger. It was really good. Elder Bever gave me some of his onion rings, so good! Long time since I´ve had onion rings. Let alone good ones.

And in the spiritual category this week, the conference with Elder Uceda was awesome! District meeting went really good as well. We talked about how people need to use the Atonement of Christ to fix bad decisions they´ve made in their lives. Because the natural man doesn´t want to change, and can´t either. Once a natural man is presented with a new situation, he makes a decision and that´s it for the rest of their life! They cannot change, they don´t have the power to do so, we may think they can because we change everyday, but if you look at the roots of it all, it´s because of Christ and His Atonement that we can change, because He can help us change for good, left to ourselves, we´d be nothing, we´d quickly deteriorate and become a horrible person- Because without Christ, we could not do good, we would choose evil and badness because there would be nothing else.

So, when you decided as a kid that you didn´t want to wash the plates, you would never do it unless you used Christ´s Atonement through His power and decided AGAIN, made the same decision over again and decided anew to wash the plates. The same thing applies to every other decision you´ve made in your life. Without Christ, we could not and would not be good or choose good. So go and choose to be good, have Christ work in your life to be able to make more of yourself than you ever could.

(I don´t have scriptures to back this up right now, but I feel that it´s true, study it out yourself and ask God to help you understand what you need to know)

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher