Hola personas! Que tal?
Esta semana fue muy bien y también un poco loco, y la otra parte de esa frase, pero, fue lo máximo!
And
now, English. Unless you all desire that I should talk to you in the
native language here in Peru of Quechua. :P Or maybe you prefer German? Wie heissen Sie? Ich bin von Utah in der USA. Noka Elder Fincher. Or this? Kidohopshida.
That's probably a good idea, I should probably say a prayer to not be crazy. But yeah.
Anyway,
this was a good week, I asked my grandmother to help me with a couple
German phrases to talk to a family that's here from Germany building
their house. It helped a ton! I
was able to start a conversation with the family that we wanted to talk
to and he understood me and kept talking in German! :D I got lost, so I
finished with the last phrase she sent me "Ich spreche nur ein bischen Deutsch." :)
Then
later that same day (Thursday) we went to go help with a wedding since
our branch mission leader had asked us to help since his wife couldn't
because of something that happened. So, we went and helped a little with
the reception, they didn't have a ton of stuff to help with, we carried
a couple things inside, talked to people, greeted at the gates, and at
one point my companion Elder Quevedo and I helped the groom learn how to
waltz. That was fun, but a little weird. Not too weird, but it was. I
imagine only missionaries, who have been to weddings, will understand.
But it was good and then they fed us too. I took pictures of the food.
Filled peppers and a spaghetti salad like funeral potatoes but spaghetti.
Another
part, last night in branch council we were talking about Samuel and
Melany, they have a lot of doubts and questions. We were trying to find a
couple answers to questions they had. But anyway, we were leaving to go
to the appointment in the middle of the meeting after our part, asked
if anyone wanted to join us, and Hermano Macario joined us.
We
started the cita with introducing ourselves again since he was joining
us and there was another friend there of Melany. When it was the turn of
Hermano Macario he took a good 3 minutes talking about something I
couldn't even hear for the rain, I think he was introducing himself, but
took a long time to do so. Maybe it was a full 5 minutes.
Anyway, we have a
prayer and ask if they have any questions, knowing full well that they
did, they just needed to tell them. And at this point Samuel says that
he doesn't have any questions, when he had left us with 4 at the end of
the last cita. I thought at this point that we would probably not have
the greatest lesson or visit. The investigator wasn't asking any
questions when we knew of at least 4, we've got a talkaholic member with
us that I have no idea what he'll do, another person to add to the mix
that we've never talked to and they've never talked with missionaries,
and all of this together. I was very wrong with that thought.
(I didn't have it for too long either)
I
don't even know exactly what happened, but we started answering a
question that they finally said about something in the book of
Revelation. We were answering, then since they have a shop Samuel had to
attend and we never quite finished with the question. But Hermano
Macario started answering all the questions that Melany had and Elder
Quevedo was talking to the friend while I was only able to listen to the
Hermano answer question after question that we'd already tried to
answer.
(to imagine, we were seated like this:
Macario Samuel
Melany
Elder Quevedo Friend Me)
After
a little Melany didn't have many other questions so the Hermano started
on Samuel and I answered a couple of Melany that she had more. But
yeah, it wasn't a normal lesson at all, but the spirit was very strong
and we all left feeling great.
That was a great experience.
And
that's it for the week, other than it's raining a lot. But I don't
think it'll flood, the river's still low, it had come close, but that
was a couple weeks ago, it's low again. But there's still a couple paths
that get flooded.
Have a great week!
--
Hurrah for Israel!
~Elder Fincher
