What goes down must come up, sometimes

Neither the saying what does up must come down, nor it´s opposite, what goes down must come up is entirely true. And I´d like you guys to send me examples of both of them. This week I give an example...

Q: What are some blessings you've experienced this week? (question that a friend sent me this week)

A: I was able to achieve the childhood dream of swinging on a vine, I was also able to help direct a choir for district conference (like stake conference, but in a smaller district) and I think the biggest blessing I received this week was one of comfort. I got super stressed out on Friday night from lots of things that were happening, one of them ironically being the choir practice, and just lots of things piling up that stressed me out. There were also interviews going on with our mission president, President Herrera, that helped me a little when I talked to him, but I think as being co-responsable for making sure that went right it was another stress factor.

So, all these stresses piled up and I got to a moment where I just walked into the nursery room while no one was looking and sat down to gather myself again, one of my companions who was playing the piano thought I was with our other companion who I was going to be with, but he ended up going with another Elder to an appointment, so he thought I had stayed behind. And everyone else there that thought about where I was would have thought I was at the appointment. But I was having an emotional breakdown in the carpeted nursery.

And so President Herrera finishes his last interview and is calling my companion who left to the appointment to get a hold of the assistant who had gone with him to say they were waiting on him to eat dinner I knew that within minutes I´d have to leave and have everyone see what I looked like, (a mess) and I was being bombarded by the enemy as well so that I was feeling like I would be sent home dishonorably for not being with my companion (because that´s usually the reason that happens) and so I was getting worse and worse instead of getting better.

Then I hear them show up and Elder Johnson (who´s an older couple missionary) asked, "Well where´s Elder Fincher?" And so I knew my hour had come and I opened the nursery door and waved my hand like a little kid would on the floor, someone noticed and Hermana Herrera came over and saw me, then President Herrera entered the room and asked how I was and if he could talk to me. He found out what was up with me and all, said a couple words that were comforting and then he did something amazing for me in the moment, he asked if I wanted a blessing of comfort. I said that would be amazing. That´s where the real blessing came in at that moment, or the miracle I should say, because there were other blessings, Elder Johnson being aware that I wasn´t there, the kindness of everyone and others, but in the blessing that my mission president gave me I was blessed by the Lord, he was only the conduit for the Savior Jesus Christ to be able to bless me. From the moment in the blessing where I was told to be comforted I was. And I only got better. President Herrera then took me with them to eat dinner, and that´s always special. But the miracle there is that within 30 seconds I was able to feel good, that which for more or less an hour and a half had not occurred.

I know that the power of the Priesthood is real and that He who blesses us thereby is our Lord and Healer Jesus Christ, and so remember, whenever you need help, you can always count on the Lord, and on His ordained servants. <end Answer>

The rest of the week was pretty good, we did service for our branch president on Wednesday and we got the goal again of 7 new investigators this week!

My spirits are tired. To be honest I feel like I realized yesterday that I won´t be having anymore baptisms in the mission other than maybe one. And so I'm kind of discouraged knowing that, but I'm going to do my best to go on and finish the mission great how the Lord would like.

But nonetheless, I love the Lord, and I always do my best or at least try to do my best when I can´t quite get my very best out of me. But I know that we can all do good and help others, we can be blessings in the lives of others and act as Christ would were He here.

Other/summery of cool things that happened to me this week: I ate 100% pure cocoa, (bitter) I swung on a vine like Tarzan, (a childhood fantasy, i.e. never was going to actually occur, did it!) I directed a song in the choir for district conference, I went to another really cool waterfall, I completed 2 years in the mission, I beat Elder Carlson in a staring contest and other good things. I also taught the noche de hogar with the jovenes in the branch and talked about how we need to have a battle plan in place to thwart the adversary´s plan to beat us.

Be good, love God by loving His children and keeping His commandments and just be the best that you can!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher