Service and hikes to WATERFALLS!

Howdys all around!

This week was full of service. We helped with a move and we made a crutch for a member who needs crutches to be able to put their leg in a cast and we´ve been doing small things too. We´ve also had some great citas and we put a new date this week! Hermano Jean Pier is now preparing for baptism on the 24th of March.

Our sector is progressing, we´re finding new people and teaching well.

My spirits are super good, I´m feeling the Spirit more, I´ve been getting up on time recently and things are just going good despite trials as always.

How is being a ZL? I bet it is both challenging and rewarding. How is the area? Are your new glasses working well? How was the training? 

It´s good, I can be  more of a leader like I´m used to, but it´s great.  helping out people more. The  area is good, we´ve got some really good investigators and we´ve put  date this week! Yes, they´re slightly crooked I think, but they´re good. Training? Consejo? Chill, other thing, I don´t know what it´d be.

We made a crutch!

Yuli who is (Julie) seated had a something  happen to her ankle playing BB and now she needs to put it in a cast, but needs crutches before the doctor will do that, so we made a crutch and we´re going to do another one today if they have the wood. That was super fun, I really like my brain too and the Lord´s inspiration because He inspired me to know how to do the thing, everyone else helped.

Also, we helped a new family move into where our pension lives and they´re super open, so we´re going to be teaching them once we´re back from Cusco this week after a multi zone conference. We talked to the guy yesterday as he invited us to eat at his restaraunt (first time I can remember eating at a restaraunt on a Sunday, the second was that night when our pension took us out to eat pollo) 

Jean Pier like I mention arriba should be getting baptized next Saturday and that´s super awesome! He´s coming to district chior and doing the best he can with studies and all, he´s super cool.

Today we hiked to some really cool super big waterfalls, one was 86 meters or about 300 feet and I think the other was  bigger, We went right down to the cascade and it was like being sprayed by a fire hose almost bu t very misty and spray-y. I got completely soaked! like 100%, even though I had my waterproof jacket on to begin with. I took it off because it didn´t really help.

That´s about it for this week, enjoy yourselves in good things and until the proxima semana!

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

¿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