¿Mi Primer Consejo? ¿O no?

Howdy peeps! What´s cookin´?

This has been a good week, our sector was a little neglected, but it was good on a whole.

Our sector has a couple people that we´re working with and we´re going to be working on finding more people.

Consejo was cool, I wasn´t completely sure what to expect despite having been to parts of it before, but it was good and I think what I took out will help me and the other missionaries.

How did you see the hand of the Lord in your life this week?
It came in the form of pain but it prevented worse pain. The ride from/to Cusco and Quillabamba sucks, bad. Imagine the switchback part of Provo canyon going up that one peak to Big Cottonwood or something, now multiply that by 3 1/2 - 4 hours and add 1 1/2 - 1 extra hour of mostly normal country roads and now you know what it´s like to go from Quillabamba to Cusco. Well, I was in a car without sufficient leg room for me and so I got quite stiff and sore. But I didn´t end up getting motion sick because I was crammed in that spot and just didn´t move. So that was nice.

On Tuesday we had a noche misional or mission night and we had the people there act out a scripture story and then we talked about how the scriptures help us in our day to day lives. The first group acted out "The parable of the 4 Virgins" and our group acted out the parable of the Good Samaritan. It turned out pretty good. Then we played Caballero.

Wednesday we traveled to Cusco and that was a little rough, but Elder Carlson and I switched seats at a pit stop and I got the middle, my stomach was better and I just had to have my hands on the shoulders of the seats in front of me to be able to not get tossed around and thrown into Elder Carlson or this old lady sleeping next to me, and for my stomach. My arms were sore after the fact, but my stomach was good.

Thursday was consejo, it was my first time there.... as a zone leader. But not my first time ever, having been in the office I frequented parts of consejo. It was pretty cool, but not as spectacular as I thought it might have been. Good stuff talked about though and I often commented. I do that... :)

Then as Elder Carlson was doing fondo de zona afterwards I went and did a vaina with Elder Ordoñez as we volunteered to take a package to ship to Lima for Elder Larsen the financial secretary. It´s a surprise though, so I can´t say what happened, but there´s a picture of a part of it around 6PM on the 1st. Maybe that picture can be found. jejeje

We went to citas with Elder Ordoñez and Elder Lema after that in their sector. They´re the zone leaders in Inti Raymi now. Then we ordered pizza and that was delicious. Also, I took many selfies with the zone leaders, knowing that it could be the last time I see them in the mission.

Friday was divisions with the assistants and that was good. I was with Elder Peña and Elder Carlson was with Elder Coil. Those were good, learned, had spiritual experiences and good all.

Saturday was the car trip I explain above. And we had a cita when we got home. Also, it was fast Sunday, so Saturday´s lunch was a pack of vanilla crackers about 5-10 crackers less than a pack of saltines would be and then I fasted until yesterday at lunch. That was fun.

It was a good week, we learned some new stuff, we´re getting along better and we had some fun while we´re at it. Yup, I think I like being a zone leader. Also, Primary Children´s songs are so underrated, they´re great!

Have a great week and until the next,

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher