This was yet another great week here in Jordan. The weather
has started to change a bit. Cloudy, humid, and a light rain most afternoons
now but who knows for how long. Everyone says the weather this year is much
more extreme than in years past but yet again who really knows. This was an
exciting week in this area with some great new investigators. In reality I am
super excited for some of these people. One of them is named Rusber Flores who
is a 24 year old graphic design student. When I say student what I really mean
to say is student, father of 2, husband, and full time security guard. This guy
works all night, studies in the morning, and spends the afternoons with his
kids. He barely sleeps. To make his life a little more complicated he has an
illness that no doctor has been able to fully diagnose where basically he
cannot lay down or eat certain types of food or he has incredible pains all
throughout his body. Now that is a tough situation. We talked to him a bit
about his situation and told us how in these past two years he has really
realized his purpose here, that money is of no importance and that what really
matters most is his family. He also was telling us that over the past couple of
years in his various surgeries his only companion has been prayer and God and
that now he really wants to learn about what Gods plan is for him in this life.
This guy has a pretty difficult situation he has been delt, but he is making
the best of it and is using his challenges to get closer to God and his family.
We shared with him a bit about Gods plan for us in this life. The plan that he
has for every single one of us, that if we choose to follow, we will be happy
in this life and will be able to live with our families for eternity. It is
truly a marvelous plan of happiness that our Heavenly Father has for us.
Another exciting new investigator this week was a man named
Rafael Maco. He is a painter and lives by himself, and to say the least in his
life he has had his fair share of liquor. That changed though about a month
ago when he promised his niece who is terminally ill that he would stop drinking
for her, and that was over a month ago. In this time he has also been trying to
grow closer to his Heavenly Father and that is where some of his neighbors and
his brother came into the picture and introduced him to us. He is awesome and
has an incredible desire to change his life and to follow the perfect example
of Jesus Christ. His friends gifted him practically a library worth of church
books, magazines, and scriptures that he reads every morning for over an hour.
It is so exciting to see how the Gospel of Jesus Christ is really for everyone, and anyone who has the desire, in reality, can change their life to find peace
and happiness.
This week we have the baptism of Hermana Zoila. She had a
baptismal date in January but it fell through because her family is really hard
on her about her decision. Please pray for her this week that her family will
be able to respect her decision and her testimony and that everything will go
smoothly.
Well that is all for this week in Jordan, La Esperanza. All
is great here in Peru!
Sincerely,
Elder Vassau
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