Reconciliations and other stuff

Hey all,

Good week, let´s start with a few details, then a couple questions and to finish the title´s implicated message.

This has been another good week, we´re working on finding people, I´m just not wanting to get outside my comfort zone and I´m realizing that I need to do that more to find people. But we´ve got some investigators.

Our sector is needing more people found to teach and more citas with those found. We´re trying, and slowly but surely getting better.

Our companionship is doing great, we put down on paper some goals to do together and we´re working on doing them so that we´re more united and have the Spirit more to guide us.

My spirits are good, I´m a lot happier realizing that I´m being better than I´ve been in the past few months, I´m feeling the Spirit more and interacting better with people.

What adventures have you had lately?

I made a 4 player chess board and had an interesting match with us 4 in the pension, we bought umbrellas and Elder Lozano´s broke in less than 8 hours of having it and not using it, we´re going to have a grand p-day this Thursday, and not much else.

What lives have you impacted?

I´ve been being more of an impact in my companion´s life from doing more to help the both of us. Also, we played soccer with the young men Saturday night after helping them clean the church and I think that we helped impact them for good, especially for my team, because I can actually play soccer decently and made 2-3 goals. :D

What did you learn from last week?

That we need to seek the Spirit to tell people hard things. And that we can reconcile ourselves to others. As well as exercise is amazing and gives you energy. A few more things, but that´s the general.

Okay, so reconciliations:

First off, we told our pension that we would be changing breakfast and lunch from her too to others, trying to give her a heads up so that it´s not a huge event when it happens (though it be at the end of the change). And she took it badly, I think it´s because we didn´t really try and see how to tell her in the best way. We´ve been getting back to normal terms the past few days.

Secondly, some sisters in my district have been teaching people outside of their sector, RMs would understand better, but that´s a no-no, you pass the reference so you can focus on those whom the Lord has for you in your sector. Anywho, I cornered them, err, asked to meet with them after a meeting we´d been in and they said okay. - We said a prayer and I expressed what I was seeing and that I thought it would be best for them to give the reference to the missionaries whose sector it is. They responded with a lot of things, but mostly a love for the people they´re teaching and so they want to make sure the other missionaries actually will go and teach the person. So we put a plan down to where they would go with the other missionaries to teach them so that it goes well. In total it went well and the Spirit was there to guide the meeting.

Thirdly, there´s a really, really annoying bishop in the other ward that is insisting that I do a baptismal interview for the sisters in my district so that an 8 year old whose parents are members can get baptized. Yet again, like the first case it´s a thing of order in God´s church. The thing that happened here is that I´ve not talked to this bishop and the zone leaders told me to tell the sisters to have him call them if he mentioned it again. Which is better than the option I initially had, to come in guns blazing and put him down. (guns being Preach my Gospel and pictures of the red handbook, blazing meaning burning him so hard, so, so hard.) I realized later that it´s even better that I didn't do that because that´s not with the Spirit and it´s not what Christ would do. So that´s good for now. And we´re going to see what happens. Sometimes people are just stupid and so you look for the shortest answer possible, which hardly ever involves love, so I´m growing and working on being better in that.

And finally, I never really appreciated Elder Hales´ conference talks because he´s always been an old man to me, so today when I read the insert to the November Liahona I got to know the man and realize just how great of a person he was and that I never appreciated that. So, avoid putting labels on a person to avoid them, rather, do yourself and them a favor and go talk to them, sometimes people are difficult in this way or the other, but as we love more (which I´m working on) we will be blessed and be able to bless others.

Take care and love you all!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher