Hola a todos!
No
sé si ustedes han escuchado, pero mi familia se fue a Canada esta
semana, y estoy bien feliz por ellos para que pudieran conocer el país
en que servio mi hermana, es bien chévere. Mientras, yo estuve aquí en
Perú y pude conocer al ex-Presidente Calderon, ahora Elder Wilson
Calderon de los Setenta. Él es bien chévere también.
Well,
English time now, I hope that all of you guys are learning Spanish so
that when de repente yo utilizo una word in Spanish in a conversation,
ustedes me puedan entender. That´d be awesome if you could all do that
to be the best for you guys. Spanish is really cool.
Anyways,
this week has been good, prep for changes. I´m staying with Elder Lewis
in the office. It´s amazing! A lot of other people have changes. We´re
the same other than Elder Pinedo changed out Elder Ordoñez since 2 weeks
ago (they´ve both been here for these last 2 weeks). It´s about time
for Elder Ordoñez to leave the office after having been here for 7
transfers. Or roughly 310 days, or 85% of a year and 42.5% of his
mission time. He´s been here a while... Elder Daybell is going to be
here as assistant for the same amount of time... And I´m going to be
here for..... at least until the end of November, maybe January, maybe
February, maybe April................................
Well,
we had a Stake conference this week in Inti Raymi, and the ex-President
Calderon, (before President Harbertson) now Elder Wilson Calderon came
to visit us. He´s actually really cool, but President Herrera is our
mission president.
He talked about family and
mission work. He had the members think about people that they loved,
think about them being encircled by the love of God, being in the Temple
with them and then talking to the missionaries so that they could see
that same scene in real life. We got a couple references and I recommend
doing the same thing with the missionaries over there where you´re at
so that the life of your best friends can be blessed.
Anything else? A ver...
Tramites,
office work, planning for transfers, naming my cuy,
(Charlemagne{picture}) llama (Mason{picture}) and alpaca (Esau Caesar{no
picture}), sitting in a chair for most of the day and eating. That´s
about it. We did go to Qorikancha though, that was kind of cool, better
said, we went to the museum.
The cool things we
learned in the museum are that the Nephites (we went in with a
knowledge of the Book of Mormon timeline) may have done brain surgeries.
Or they dated the operations badly and they we Lamanites. Also, the
Lamanites got the idea to deform the skulls of people to make a prestige
system (Lamanites are called Inkas in world history) they also made
golden idols and the surviving beliefs from the Lamanites (Inka) are
somewhat close to the beliefs we have as Latter-day Saints. Different,
but kind of close.
Also, they´ve been making
ponchos here in Perú for a good 1000ish years too. They look pretty much
the same as nowadays. Also, Wiracocha was almost definitely Jesus
Christ by a different name, so, there are still some traces of worship
of the Savior here in Cusco. Cool stuff.
As far
as I go, I´m striving to be more obedient especially with going to
sleep and waking up, and I see the difference. Even though I couldn´t
sleep for hours last night, I´m only slightly tired, because I got to
sleep on time, even if it didn´t come on time. So, in conclusion, be
obedient and be blessed with the blessings that God wants to give you,
because He wants to, but we need to act. Just like you can´t reward a
child without them having done anything to deserve it, He can´t give us
blessings if we don´t deserve it. So, be obedient!
The end.
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Hurrah for Israel!
~Elder Fincher
