Hola a todos!
Esta semana ha sido buena. Pudimos hacer unas citas más y ¡ya estoy por terminar los tramites! Estoy bien feliz.
Questions from one of my cousins that I´ll answer for all:
How do you like Perú? Have you had any intense/scary stories?
Only
sometimes do things get ¨intense/scary¨ and I can only think of a
couple times. When a dog bit open the door of the taxi I was riding in,
when a crazy drunk guy with a knife chased some other missionaries and I
was eating dinner as they got to the pension and when all the lights go
out. Besides those I don´t have anything come to mind, there´s more,
but nothing spectacular.
--
Well,
this week we went to visit an older lady that Elder Yangali and I
contacted. The cita didn´t happen, but Elder Lewis taught her in the
door and we found out that she´d been baptized 30 years ago but had
since stopped coming to church. We had a spiritual doorstep visit and
set up another cita but when we called to confirm the cita they didn´t
want us to come over. Lesson learned, don´t call to confirm citas, just
go! Maybe once you´re teaching someone you can confirm the citas, but
until then, just go!
What else to talk about? Well, let me think...
Oh! I think that the story related to the title of this week would be wise. Here goes:
So,
since I´ve been in the office things have happened. Good things, bad
things, silly things, sad things, crazy things and other things. All in
all, many things have happened. But up until now, there has been one
thing that has not happened. And that is the end. The thing that is the
end is soon to happen... And it will happen soon... Very soon....
In
other words, there´s been lots of experiences that we´ve had in the
office since I´ve gotten here. Including tramites, I´ve done lots and
lots and lots of tramites. And now the end is near. Now don´t get me
wrong, the tramites will never end, but the end is near.
All
boiled down to simple language. This Tuesday I´m going to go to
migraciones for the last time until a week or two down the road.
Thinking about it, I´ll need to pick up what I drop off, but after that,
the tramites will only be happening little by little each transfer.
Because THE END OF THE BACKLOG IS NEAR!!! I´m going to go pick up 10 new
foreigner´s cards for 10 missionaries. And then the back log will be
done! I won´t be going to migraciones with other missionaries for a
while until the new ones get approved in the system. For meanwhile I´ll
just need to renew some of them and cancel the ones for those
missionaries finishing the mission. I feel good!!!
I
also got another tramite done for a Brazilian sister that has a fancy Ç
in her name. Which makes paperwork terrible! Because all the documents
needed to have that letter, or not. We decided to have them not have it.
Then they said it needed to have it, and this, that and the other thing
happened and so this Thursday I finished the process that took 2 months
that normally is done in a day. I´m happy about that.
The
lesson I learned from that experience though, is that success is so
much sweeter after failure, after failure, after failure, after
failure.... and after another setback and another and then finally it
happens. And WOW! It feels so good!
The more I
think about it, the more that this office job is teaching me spiritual
truths. Because if you look at it, is that if you didn´t know the
context of the paragraph above this one, you could assume I´m talking
about many different things. Now imagine this one. You´re at the side of
your Heavenly Father in His Kingdom, and he asked you how your mortal
experience was, and you tell Him, ¨The lesson I learned from that
experience though, is that success is so much sweeter after failure,
after failure, after failure, after failure.... and after another
setback and another and then finally it happens. And WOW! It feels so
good!¨ And you´re there with Him and His Son and your family, and WOW!
It feels so good!!!
Hurrah for Israel!
~Elder Fincher
~Elder Fincher
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