Piña and Happiness

At English class this week we were learning about how to talk about your health, so there were phrases like, "I have a headache" and, "I don´t feel very well" as well as "I need ..." so, for example, Advil, drugs, help, or something like that. But I only put these 2, "Advil" and "Pineapple" That was funny. No one, including myself knew why I´d put it on the board. But I did. Mwahahahaha!

This week was good, lots of citas fell through, but we were still able to have a successful week. Logros sucked but we still helped people.

The sector is good, we´ve visited a few people, we put a baptismal date for the 12th, but it fell through because the person didn´t come to church.

Our companionship had a bump yesterday and today, Elder Yovera feels like Elder Carlson and I are excluding him, we´re not trying to, but he´s felt that way. We had a short inventory this morning and we´re better now I think, but I´m going to try and help him more. Here´s to the best!

I personally am doing very well. I´m happy, excited and doing my best. Still imperfect, but that´s a status that´s not going to change in this life. But I´m doing good.

This week, let´s think what else we did...

We got zone polos! We did the Peru World Cup polo with our names and numbers on the back along with "Zona Quillabamba" They look really great!

It was also Hermana Arias´ birthday on Thursday, so Hermana Calvillo bought her flowers and gave them to us to bring in the morning as a surprise for her, I took advantage of having flowers in my room at night and took funeral pictures. Nerk nerk nerk.

Then the next morning we threw a party (surprise???) for Hermana Arias at their pension along with the Hermana Liders who just happened to be here this week. And then we went home and had a good day.

Hermana Kaori, the daughter of our pension made a dessert out of Jell-O, it was yummy. I don´t recall the name... mozaiko-Elder Yovera just told me.

We also found a new room for the hermanas in our branch since they said that they have a creep in their current house. So they´re going to be moved tomorrow.

A couple other things that happened. One is that we looked up requirements for marriage here in Quillabamba. The other is that I lost and found the SD memory card of Elder Yovera. Because it got wet at the waterfall Illapani he wanted to put it somewhere, so he put it in my first aid kit and then we left and I forgot he´d put it there. So when we were back at the house and he asked me for it I couldn´t find it. So yeah. I felt really nervous and really bad too.

I remembered that I´d opened my kit to get into the pension, so we went and checked there and didn´t find it. It´s lost, sorry man, there go all your mission pictures and your birthday video you made for your sister, sorry. Kinda sucks for you. Then we went to internet as he went to play soccer and when we got back to the house I remembered that I´d opened my kit in the car too to pay the driver.

So I called the driver and he said that he´d look for it. He called back as Elder Yovera was coming up the stairs to get to the room with Ronaldo who he´d been with. I finished the phone call and we went to go pick up his card, which the driver had found, without Elder Yovera knowing. The driver gave it to me, I gave it to Elder Yovera and we all left really happy and me very relieved too!

It wasn´t by chance though, I´d been praying all day in my heart that we´d be able to find it, and after enough time to feel bad about it God let me remember where it was and have a miracle happen! That was really special!

I can´t think of much else that´s happened this week. But it´s been good. Have a great one yourself!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher