This has been a bit of crazy but awesome week here in
Jordan, La Esperanza. First of all it was the first week with my new companion
Elder Angulo D´Leon. He is from La Paz Bolivia and has been out in the mission
field for about 14 months. He is awesome and is going to spend the next 6 weeks
finishing my training here. He has already taught me so much in his time here
about the importance of befriending everyone, not always the easiest thing to
do in another language. To say the least, I am SUPER excited for this transfer.
Great things are going to happen here in Jordan.
Another reason this week was crazy is because there were two
house fires... two house fires in our ward. So to say the least we were doing a
lot of service this week trying to help these families remove all the charring
of the walls and repant everything. Doing service is much fun here and it is an
opportunity to meet all kinds of people that in the streets you might not have
the chance to talk to. Luckily neither one of the fires were catastrophic and I
think almost everything is back to the way it was.
This week Elder Angulo DLeon and I worked hard to try and
familiarize ourselves a little better with some of the members of the ward here
and some of our investigators that Elder Angulo D'Leon does not know. It has
been a blast. Ward members can be a huge help for the missionaries in almost
all aspects of our work. And I really do not mind when members offer food to us
while we are walking in the streets. 😀 To say the least, the
food here is amazing. Lots of rice, potato, chicken, and aji. But just saying
the ingredients does not give nearly enough credit to the food here. I will try
and send some pictures of some of the dishes I eat during the week. Plates such
as Aji Gallena or Tacu Tacu. They are all amazing.
This week we had the opportunity to visit some of the
families with Bishop Torres, the bishop of our ward here in Jordan. He is
awesome and he has a son named Arnold who always likes to acompany us. With
Bishop we visited the Hermana Zoila. An older lady who had a baptismal date for
last month but it fell through because she was afraid what her family would
think. She is a very sweet old lady who in reality has a testimony of prayer
and all the things we teach, she just needs to have the determination to follow
through. Bishop helped her understand that by listening to us and our message
of Christ she is not abandoning her family and there church, but rather that
she is following Jesus Christ and the things she knows are true about him and
his Gospel. At the end of the lesson she even accepted a new baptismal date for
the end of this month!
One of the other reasons this week was a little crazy was
because I caught the gringo fever yesterday. I have been lucky that I
have not had any problems with food or anything but every north american gets a
little sick in the first couple months. I have actually been lucky that I was
just a little sick for a day or so and that with a little help from our
Heavenly Father I was able to continue to leave to serve and teach despite the
fatigue.
This week we also had the opportunity to visit and begin
teaching Hermano Kevin Lecca. He is a friend of some of the members of our ward
here and he loves to come to activities and participant intro barrio soccer
tournament. In reality he is basically professional and plays for Universatario
Trujillo, one of the football clubs in downtown Trujillo. As some of you may
know I really love watching and playing soccer, so it was a blast talking to
him about soccer and the gospel. Also ever monday we host a game in the morning
for all of our friends and investigators which is always lots of fun.
So much is happening here in this area. This week one of our
dear friends and recent converts Alejandro Cabrera recieved the Melchezidek
priesthood and we had the opportunity to teach him a little bit about it. Great
things are happening here.
Sincerely,
Elder Vassau
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