Yet another awesome week here in El Milagro. This
week we had the baptism of our best bud and 14 year old neighbor, Brando
Gallardo. He is the cousin of our pensionista's
kids and we met him a little over a month ago. He honestly wanted to get baptized
after only 2 weeks but because of a few complications with him possibly moving
away we had to post pone things until this weekend. He is so awesome and is
going to grow up to be a great missionary one day. To make the service even
better we invited our other neighbor, 16 year old Eduardo Castillo to perform
the baptism and help out his new friend Brando.
It is really so much fun working with the young
men here in El Milagro. It is not a huge group of boys who are active in the
church but it so rewarding helping out the young men because not only can I see
myself in them (I was there age not too long ago) but I also know how much the
gospel can change their lives. I know how having fun activities always helped
me while I was in young men’s so recently we have been working to try and have
some fun activities for the young men members and friends in this area and on
this subject... Young Men Missionary Movie night was born. On Friday, with 7
young men, about half members half friends, we all climbed into one tiny public
van and went to the church to watch a short video of the restoration of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ and to have a short lesson. It was so cool to see these
young guys share their beliefs with their friends, all the while enjoying
themselves with a nice little movie. Well sure enough the first thing they
asked afterwards was when we can do it again so it looks like Young Men
Missionary Movie Night is going to be a regular thing in these coming weeks.
This past week Elder Nuñez and I went to the Plaza
de Armas to pick up a package his mom sent him from Argentina, and sure enough
it was filled with Mate (the name of an argentine herb/tea and the special
cup/straw that you use to drink it) and it is fair to say now I am addicted to
my new mate he gifted me.
Well this has been another great week here in El
Milagro and I think we will see a few more baptisms this month before Elder
Nuñez heads off home.
Until next week!
Elder Jack Vassau
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