Elder Fincher has an imperitive update... *PICTURES*

I say that because I feel like I haven´t written all y´all much now recently. So, here´s an update:

Christmas party, basically the videos explain it all, but to explain the unexplainable: We got there, there were people that I knew (because at the Christmas party I met the last missionary I hadn´t met yet, being Elder Castillo. met him, now I´ve met all the missionaries in the mission. #OfficeLife) Juliaca came, Puno Central my zone and Bellavista the other Puno zone were all there. All the remaining office Elders in the mission (Elder Boelter, Elder Ordoñez, Elder Fawcett and I) are all in Puno, so we got a picture.

There was a really good spiritual start to it all and then each zone played the video that they filmed. Ours was really good until the end. But Bellavista´s was outstanding! Juliaca´s was alright. Then we all presented songs and presentations. Some zones did sketches we did a song and then a song dance thingy. It went really good, my foot went above many heads (please put the video in here). And that was that, I photobombed 1/3 - 1/2 of all the pictures taken that day by people, but it wasn´t with my camera, so just know that many people have me in their pictures now. :D I am a master.

What else? Christmas is next P-day, that´ll be interesting. Merry Christmas! ¡Feliz Navidad! Frohe Weihnachten! all them wishes!

I honestly don´t know what else has happened that´s interesting, other than yesterday for the third hour we attended the baptism of the Bishop´s kid who turned 8 on Saturday? Or maybe yesterday, I didn´t ask. But Saturday there was a party for him, don´t know.

Oh! Raul got baptized! I think I talked about that, but this week I have pictures because I found a place that likes my camera enough to read it and move pictures! So, yeah, pictures of that great day.

I finally ate with chopsticks again at that Chinese place! Because I brought the ones I´d bought there.

It was Elder Ochoa´s birthday the first Wednesday I was here in Puno, the 6th.

Our room when I got here was really, really sad. You know in the movies when the guy goes to boot camp and he´s in a small room with a bad paint job? Yeah, ¡Bienvenido a Puno! But we quickly solved that and had moved by Friday afternoon to a much nicer and closer to literally everything house. The old one is the green one (with shower faucets like the ones I have in my basement bathroom at my house) and the new one is the yellow/orange/redish one. It´s nice. And a bedroom and a study room!

Also, our pension takes us out to eat a few times for lunch, that´s kind of neat. No one else has ever done that.

Also, all the news came and I have many pictures of them, but you can find cooler pictures with descriptions on the mission blog: http://misionperucusco.blogspot.pe/ Cool stuff there, organized and explained.

The Johnsons also invited us over for dinner to have pancakes. AKA: Hotcake Hoedown. ´twas delishous!

I took pictures with lots and lots of members. I don´t know if it´s realistic to say that I´ll name them before I´m back.

Also, some amazing moms from back in the states (the only one I know for sure is the mom of a missionary who´s middle name is Layne) sent Secret Santa gifts for the missionaries! Thanks all of you amazing moms! (I don´t even know if my mom was in on that or no) You´re all the best! Especially my mom though, but I don´t know if she did anything there, but nothing can beat her, because she´s my mom! <3

And yeah, some pictures of Puno from different places, it´s really pretty actually. Just coldish. Like November/December in the house, without snow.

The sector is progressing a little bit, we´re teaching people in the street and we have some future appointments that we´re looking forward to, lots of finding right now, but there are people to be found, so it´s good. What´s sad is trying to get the dad of two people ready for baptism to sign their paper so they can be baptized, but he´s not willing to sign it, he says to baptize them and all, but won´t sign the paper. So we´ll be going back to talk again on the 29th and hope for the best with lots of prayer and maybe fasting too.

And I think that just about covers everything I have pictures for and not much else comes to mind that I don´t have pictures for. So have a great one, enjoy all you Christmas preparations and especially the day of, remember WHY we even have this day, remember all the WHYs and take a moment to be grateful for them. Have a great one and Merry Christmas!!!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher