Hola,
A great week here in El Milagro! This week we put together a super fun
missionary night activity in the church this week. It was basically all games
and music. We planned a full night of games and each of us four Elders was in
charge of two different games. We played charades, telephone, musical chairs,
blindfolded bobbing for apples, blindfolded partner eating competitions, soccer
with balloons, and we even brought a piñata. To make the night even better Bishop
Escobar brought his son's DJ set and I kept every nice and entertained with
some wonderful Disney music that I had (Thanks Tuck for the music). Well the
night was lots of fun and it was a great way for us to bring the members and
investigators together along with helping us to receive lots of new references
to visit.
This week we have been working a lot
with an investigator named Wilson Flores. He is the husband of a returned
missionary and they have two kids. He has never talked with the missionaries in
all their time together and she has been inactive since starting to live
together as well but recently, thanks to the invitation by their awesome 8 year
old son Victor and his Grandma, we have started visiting them. Originally we
started visiting Victor because he wants to get baptized, but we found his dad
and mom and they have started listening as well. Well this week we visited
Wilson with a couple from the ward that comes from a very similar situation
(she is a returned missionary and he is a recently baptized convert). Well the
lesson went super well and near the end of the lesson while we were explaining
a little bit about the Book of Mormon Wilson interrupted us and said "What
can I do to believe in this book". He
has seen how his oldest son who is about 20 and many others in his life have
completely changed after meeting the missionaries and beginning to read the
Book of Mormon and learn about this message of Christ. Basically he wants to
know if this is all true or not so that he as well can make this change for the
better. We were a little shocked at first but we went on to explain how we get
answers to our questions. In the book of James in the Bible it says that
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him". We explained that whenever
we have a question (lack of wisdom) all we have to do is ask God (pray) and he
will answer our prayer. In whatever moment we have the privilege to ask
God anything we need. We can receive help or answers to any need or questions
we have if we just humble ourselves enough to prayer, ask for guidance, and
afterwards get to work. We always, after asking for help, have to do all we can
to help ourselves, and after all we can do is when God answers our prayers and
helps us with the rest. In this case Wilson now just needs to read and pray and
if he puts in the time, God will respond to his question.
God loves us and wants us to be on the
correct path. He wants to help us with our challenges because he loves us, but
he loves us so much that he allows us to work to solve our problems so that we
can learn. It is pretty awesome stuff.
Well all is still well here in El
Milagro.
Sincerely,
Elder Vassau
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