Quillabamba!

Good afternoon, I hope that you´re all well. Life´s good though here in Quillabamba.

The sector, it´s much better here than in Puno, good in Puno, but better here. We have a couple people with baptismal dates and a couple with a marriage date! We helped them plan that a little more last night. We´re also getting lots of references from the members and we´ve taught quite a few people this week. I´m really excited to be here and be able to do a lot more with investigators than in Puno I was able to do.

Our companionship, Elder Carlson and I get along well. We´re both pretty in sync, we work well together but we can get better at ping ponging in lessons. I feel really bad for Elder Carlson though, he wants to end his time in the mission here and with me showing up and not ending in April now we are both pretty sure that he´s going to have a change. Unless we make history and finish together as a companionship.

I´m doing good. My spirits are nice and high and I´m excited to work a lot more in the obvious parts of the salvation of others here in Quillabamba. I´m really happy to be working more.

I gave a talk last week, not yesterday, but my last Sunday in Puno I gave a talk about peace, it was a good talk. We have peace when we live the Gospel and let Christ into our lives, then we can be calm and sure.

Quillabamba is great! The climate is much more chill than Puerto Maldonado, but I just love the jungle, and I prefer the town parts sometimes. (small country mouse city mouse reference)  But I like the people here even more! We´ve gotten a handful of references and I haven´t even asked for any yet!

I´m making a very concentrated effort to learn everyone´s names when I meet them and it´s going well. I know many people´s names now and I´m getting to know people. Things are good and I´m really excited to keep working here in Quillabamba.

This week we´ll be going to Cusco for consejo de lideres and we´ll come back with hopefully better ideas of how to help the zone. It´ll be fun at the least. :D (I´m going to do exercises with Elder Lewis!)

I can´t think of anything else to say other than the Gospel is true and Jesus loves us all.

Take care y´all!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher