Glory to God!

Here I`ll quote what I write President Herrera every week, because this week it`s kind of funny:

"Good afternoon President Herrera,

Well, I figured I`d write you one last time since I can still.

This last week was very good, Hermana Estefany got baptized! That was really cool and spiritual. I`m so glad that God let me be here to witness that miracle.

The sector, well, we left it with 2 converts more and a few investigators, though Elder Yovera with Elder Chinguel will need to look for new ones too.

My health, I`ve had butterflies in my stomach for a day or two now, but I`ll be fine once I wake up on Thursday I think.

My spirits, I`ve been good this last week and I`m excited for the future. Though I`m really glad that I`ve written down already many things because now my brain isn`t working in that aspect.

My companionship, well I left it good and I`m excited to see who my new companion will be, though I`m not going to stress about that for now.

Thank you so much for everything President! It`s been marvelous and I`m really happy to have completed honorably the mission despite all the temptations that Satan was always throwing at me, when we trust in God we are better.

I love you and wish the best for you, and as you said this morning, we need to keep in touch.

Thanks,

Elder Fincher"

Now, this will be my last email as a missionary, and I`m happy, I`m satisfied and I know that I did my best because I`ve done just that, and when I haven`t I`ve repented. Or tried to at least. And for God, that`s enough. But glory be to Him for giving me this grand opportunity to become a better person while serving my brothers and sisters.

I love you all, I`ll see many of you very soon and I wish the best for you.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord`s church upon the Earth, the Book of Mormon is true, the Gospel of Jesus Christ guides us in our small steps daily and the Plan of Salvation gives us the big picture to be able to trudge through the day by day hassle as well as joy of life. God loves us and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to atone for us so that we can become eternal families and live with God again in His presence eternally in complete joy.

Until we meet again,

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

Our God is a God of Miracles

You´re all doomed!!!!!!!!!

Your doom is coming!!! 

You will all be doomed when you try to talk to me, I keep saying this in Spanglish, or worse, it´s 100% English words, but not grammar, AKA Spanish grammar with English words. For example: Right now Elder Carlson showed me some sheet music for playing at the White Night we´ll have this Saturday, but it was in English, so I said, "Yes! We should do this for the Noche Blanca, but are there Spanish letters? It should be in Spanish." I meant to say lyrics,  but in no moment did that occur in my brain, I had to just pull it out. YU´RE DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This has been a very, very good week! We got a reference from the other branch in Quillabamba of Estefany and she´s progressing super fast and super well! She reminds me of a convert that we had in Puerto, Hermana Almendra who is very strongly active from what I hear and I´m super excited! We put a baptismal date with her for the 12th and she jumped on it right with us! She´s gone to church already a few weeks and this week she went to 5 hours of church! She went to all of Quillabamba branch and then principios del Evangelio and 3rd hour in our branch in La Granja.  We´re super excited for her baptism and we´re helping her get ready.

That´s the only thing  that´s really  happened in the sector this week, other than we did a chapel open house that wasn't very well attended, but I think we got 2 great investigators out of it  for Quillabamba, so it was worth something.

My spirits are good, I´ve got ups and downs, but I´m good. I realized that I´m pretty much trunky, but I ´m still working and doing my best. Trunky is a state of mind in the house, so, you can still work, as Elder Schindler said, it´s like the force, it can be used for good or bad, so I decide to be a freaking Jedi and go be good!

 We had no water Friday and Saturday, so we showered with a bucket Sunday since there was precious little water pressure. That was fun.

Also, we moved the Sisters in La Granja since they had a problem at their old house.  After we were done moving everything to the 5th floor (Elder Yovera and I alone practically, Elder Carlson had a baptismal interview and the sisters tried to help, but only small stuff) I died.

And  yeah, our Heavenly Father loves us so much and I ´m really grateful that He´s given us the opportunity to teach Estefany and that she´ll be able to get baptized this Saturday before I leave Quillabamba! I want to ask all of you the favor of praying for her progress in following our Savior Jesus Christ and coming unto Him by being baptized please!

I think that´s it for this week, other than sorry for the extra spaces, the keyboard I ´m using is broken.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher