¡¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!!

¡Hola a todos!

Espero que este año sea lo mejor hasta ahora en sus vidas, pero no lo mejor para siempre, hay que mejorar cada año.

This has been a pretty good week. And very interesting and growthful. (word?)

A really cool experience for the which a picture is later coming is that I couldn`t find something. (when haven`t we heard these kind of stories?) And that something was an envelope full of letters that I`ve written to myself over the course of the mission. Some for hard times and others for after the mission and the plane and stuff. But I couldn`t find it to add my most recent letter I`d written. But I knew I`d had them since I`d read some here in Puno. So I searched everywhere (not hard when you don`t have lots of room or furniture...) but I couldn`t find it. So, I said a prayer. What you`re always supposed to do, right?

And as I said the prayer, expressing my desires to be able to find these letters that are important to me. And in the middle of praying the situation played out in my mind that as I`d opened the middle drawer on my desk it`d fallen in the back by getting caught on the lip, and so it would be on the floor under the drawers under the desk.

I couldn`t check then because we had to leave. But that night when I came back I looked through my suitcases and then went into the other room and saw the desk pulled out a little like I`d done to remind myself. And as I pulled out the two bottom drawers, there was the envelope as I had envisioned.

Now, that may just sound like any other "I said a prayer and found my thing" story, but the cool thing here for me is that I had practically received a vision of where it was. And that was a huge blessing for me. God loves us, and when we ask, He provides according to that which we need.

And New Years was good. I got really sick and as I`ve told other people, I woke up with double dragon and then the rest of the day I was constantly in the bathroom. I barely made it out of bed to get to church to partake of the sacrament. I honestly only put my coat on so that I looked more or less good. But I was still in my PJs. The good thing is that my pants were black so I was just all in black besides my cream sweater. The first time in my life that I have not worn a white shirt and tie to church that I can remember, all the other times I`ve been well enough to change or too sick to go. I`m better today, but still a little straining on the stomach. I`ll be back to normal and great soon.

I hope that this year is the best yet for you guys and that you can all learn and become what God wants you to be, just like I`ve been learning this last week more about how to help people and what things are okay and what things are not. And how to help out when you see things that should change.

Love y`all!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher