Water and Cara a Cara

Hellos to all the peoples,

In case anyone is wondering, I´m not becoming worse at English as my time in the mission goes along, (well, it is, but not bad enough to where I´d actually mistakenly write the words above which are weird, rather it is a side effect of being in the office, I´ve decided to leave it behind in the office though and not take it with me to the new area I´ll be going to.)

This week we have been without water for a good part of it, the FM group is supposedly taking care of a problem with the baptismal font, but they turn off all the water. It´s made me quite angry. I´m working on that. But today there´s been water thus far, so we´re alright. (at least our house still has water)

Questions from peeps:

How is the training going? Is Elder Spencer catching on? How much longer do you have for it? Do you know yet where you will be going afterwards? Hopefully it is going well. Wherever you are assigned to serve, you will do well there.

It´s going good, he catches on good, but there are a couple things that I may need to show him later as they don´t occur now, rather later. I have however long I need supposedly, but probably not much more than the first week of December. Thanks, I´m slightly concerned, but I´ve gotten more at peace with it.

Are the baptisms still lined up for this week? I hope that they are. Please send some pictures.

We taught Marco the rest of the lessons that he needed for baptism and told him that he needed to come to church before the sacrament to be able to be baptized, he indicated that he understood. Then on Saturday he passed his baptismal interview and we got everything ready to announce in sacrament meeting. Then he showed up 30 minutes late and missed the sacrament, so we had to postpone his baptism. And Raul who has been progressing well, hasn´t received enough lessons to be baptized the day he was going to be, so I´m a little disappointed and worried if I´ll be able to have a baptism here in Vista Alegre. But if they get baptized that´s great, whether I´m here or not.

Also, President Herrera has been on vacation all this week. Interesting, but not any different, he doesn´t frequent the office much anyways. (it was really a mission president seminar, but he went to Colombia, so, vacation)

He also announced that all the missionaries in the mission (I think, at least Cusco) would be watching the Face to Face event with Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard. In Español it´s Cara a Cara. And it was spectacular! They are SO FUNNY!!! You wouldn´t think it, but they are. And they gave some very wise counsel. If you didn´t, I would recommend to watch it, especially if you´re a young adult, but also everyone else can learn from it.

I can´t think of anything else there is to say, other than right now I´m kind of stinky because we had a Turkey Bowl where we played football. Not fútbol, football! I didn´t have a clue during the whole thing, but I had fun running and I moved the ball 10 yards one time, just open and went. Cusco, Inti Raymi and Sicuani all came. But the sisters didn´t play, they were told they couldn´t, some were not quite happy with that. But the sidelines were good for conversations between turns.

Anything else? I´m going to miss the office, but I´ll be happy to move on and see what other growth God wants me to have. Keep on keeping on. *distant thunder*

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

P.S. I´m going to have 2 Thanksgivings this week, double chance to be thankful! Like we should be all the times.