Judging, transfers and good friends

¡Hola a todos!

Aiai anchu? Wie geht ist dir? ¿Cómo están? Iminaya casianki? Guten haven. Allin punchay kachum. Buenas tardes. Allin tarde kachum.

I don´t know if I´ve actually ever said hello in English to you guys, so, hello! I hope that you´re well and that your week has gone well!

Well, I was talking to my dad and he mentioned that we need to make sure to love and avoid judging and all that talk. I thought about it a second and this is what I told him:

Oh! I learned about that one too! I don´t know how to mention the situation without making it into gossip, but the general idea is that me and another Elder would talk and talk and talk about something that we thought others should change, I justified it by saying it was ¨solution finding¨ but it was just gossip in the end. Because nothing was put into action, and so whenever I´d see the other missionaries I´d think they were terrible and should be better and that they were always taking advantage and everything. Turns out, they weren´t, there was just bad communication and I´d let my relationship with them go down the hill while they did nothing and I silently judged them. Good lesson to learn early!

The whole of this week was transfers and it was insanity. But, as far as I know, the only mistake I made was forgetting to give out the welcome letters that no one knew they were getting anyway, so I could toss them and no one would know the difference, but I´ll give them to the news as I can.

Also, I went to the airport three times on Tuesday. First, I picked up all the new missionaries with the office. Then at lunch time I went with Arian from Puerto Maldonado to send him to the mission. He´s off to Bolivia la Paz. He´s quite amazing. And then I dropped off Sister Valdebenito who was ending the mission and didn´t have a flight with everyone else the day before. And the rest of it was normal, but stressful.

I honestly don´t know what else to say, be good, have fun and I hope that you´re all doing well.

Be honest, be loving, be kind and read the Book of Mormon.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher