Conference and rumors

Howdy!

I´m not normal right now, that´s because I just had an all-day training at the hands of Hermano Yeremy Herrera. (pronounced with a J and not necessarily related to President Herrera.) It was good, but it was long.

Anyway, I really don´t have anything to say about the training, because otherwise I´d just bore you with the details of my office job and all the legalities. But I happily report that in the Mission Perú Cuzco we are as legal as possible at this point in time. I am very happy to report that God did a good one with me when we put stubborn tenacity in me.

Everyone dance with me to this awesome banjo/violin song! Oh, wait, you can´t hear it... weird...

Conference! The news we received Friday night at 7:30PM (6:30 Utah time) is that our prophet had passed away.

The rest of conference was good, even without President Monson being at the different sessions for his health. And in case anyone else is like the rumoring Peruvians that are here, President Monson is still alive, and while I can´t say that he´s healthy. I can say that he´s still the prophet of God on the Earth today, although what did actually happen is that Elder Hales passed on to the next life. And he willed be missed. But the work of the Lord goes on as well as in Heaven as in Earth. Now Elder Hales is preaching much more energetically and vibrantly. So that´s happy.

The messages in conference were all really good. I saw that God was weaving a tapestry of testimony of His Son and His Plan for all of us that was made even more beautiful by the final touch of making everything else really shiny and brilliant by saying that no topics are assigned. 

Think about that! The testimonies of Jesus Christ being our Savior and healer, of His ministry and love for each and every one of us. Of the Book of Mormon being the word of God, (really loved Elder Callister´s talk! burn all them critics!!  and that we really can live with God again because of all His miracles and promises for us.

It was really awesome!

Also, you all may not know, but the best someone who is not a member of the Church gets without the Book of Mormon is either overemphasizing a principle of the Gospel or a very general, yet incorrect idea of God, possibly idolatry in the name of worshiping the Savior or other similar things, without the Book of Mormon people simply don´t know God. Even Bible scholars don´t have the full picture, they usually don´t believe in the afterlife or eternal families or other key Gospel principles. Go and read the Book of Mormon and benefit from the eternal truths that it teaches us.

I hope that you were all able to watch, be inspired and uplifted and that we can all apply what we´ve learned to ourselves.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher