Monday, September 4, 2017

Elder Calderon and Randomness

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

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