Buenos Dias!
This week was another great week here in
el Milagro. This week it is safe to say that I really learned part of the
meaning "What would Jesus do". When Jesus was a young man growing
up... he probably worked in Joseph's carpentry shop... which means every once
in a while I am sure Joseph, as any earthly father would do, made Jesus clean
the shop... and that is exactly what we did this week as a district service
project, We cleaned up a carpentry shop. Exactly more or less maybe something
that Jesus would have done when he was a young man working in Joseph's
carpentry shop. Maybe. Ok, it is a little bit of a stretch but well it was a
great service project. I forgot to take the before picture but just image about
2-3 feet worth of sawdust just about everywhere and piles and piles of
unorganized wood, basically that is what we were dealing with.
Well this week we have been planning our big noche
blanca of baptisms for this coming week, but it looks like the investigators
from our half of Milagro are not quite ready just yet so we are going to have
to postpone it a little bit. A little disappointing, but if it is not our Heavenly Father's will that they get baptized this week then it is not his will. God has a plan for every one of his
children. He prepares many in their own time to receive the restored Gospel of
Jesus Christ, but we all still have our agency to choose. Therefore we are
still super excited here in Milagro that the Lord is still preparing these
people and please keep them in your prayers. WOOOOOOH MISSIONARY WORK.
On another note, Elder Maddocks and I are still
doing our English classes every Saturday night and they are so much
fun. So far we have covered going to the grocery store, body parts,emotions,
and many other themes. This week we taught how to give basic directions such as
"go straight" or "turn right" followed by a game where
participants had to guide their blindfolded companion through a very basic
obstacle course. It was a ton of fun but the game was almost a complete
disaster with no one being able to give directions but oh well. I guess one
should blame the teachers not the students. In this case I think failure to be
able to follow directions was probably because of poor teaching but on
occasions it is due to the fact that the students are not listening to their
teacher. When students do not listen to a teacher they get lost because they do
not know what to do... basically they missed the directions. Well in life we as
heavenly father's children have the same problem. When we do not listen to the
guidance of our Heavenly father through the Holy Ghost, scriptures, and latter
day church leaders, it is as if we are not paying attention in class, and when
we do not pay attention in class is when we get lost. We need to always pay
attention to the direction and instruction of our heavenly father so that we
can always know exactly what to and if we do that and follow his instructions
we will never be spiritually lost.
This week we also had our La Esperanza stake
conference so it was lots of fun seeing my friends from Jordan and some of my
converts including Jerrado who is still doing fantastic.
Well this is going to be another great week here
in el Milagro and until next time.
Sincerely,
Elder Vassau
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