Buenos Dias!!!!
This has been another awesome week here in El
Milagro. This week we have been continuing to working a lot with our
investigator Sarita Malaver. She is super cool, and this past monday we
had an awesome family home evening in her house. We invited all of the young
adults from the ward here in El Milagro and with a group of about 12 people we
watched a short movie about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It
was rad. To make it even better after the video we had a little testimony
meeting where everyone had the opportunity to share their testimony about the
restoration and about Jesus Christ. Just about everyone shared their testimony,
even all of the young adults who nearly never come to church. On top of that,
at the very end, Sarita shared her testimony about Jesus Christ and how she
found the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the misisonaries at exactly the right time
in her life when she needed his help the most. It is trully awesome to see some
grow their testimony. It just goes to show that everyone has a testimony of
something. Your testimony is what you believe and know to be true. Although
many might not have the best relationship with their Heavenly Father, everyone
atleast knows, feels, or believes in something, and what we need to do is hold
onto that something until it begins to grow into something more. In the Book of
Mormon there is an awesome scripture in Alma that talks about this very idea.
In Alma 32 it says, "27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your
faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of
faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work
in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion
of my words."All we have to do is act upon what we believe or atleast the
desire we have to believe and whatever testimony that one has, whether it be
big or small, will grow into something awesome.
In other news this week on friday my
companion and I decided to try and be a little adventurous and decided to see
if we could run from Milagro all the way to the beach. Supposedly my companion
had walked it before in a couple of hours so we thought if we got up early we
would be able to run it in no time. Well we left our room before the sun came
up and we ran for about an hour and a half over sand dunes and through chicken
coups until arriving to the beach. it was awesome. I think the first time I
have been to the ocean in a while. Well this same day in the afternoon we had a
surprise service and ended up helping our Frank's family and Gian's family,
both of who are young men who in Frank's case is a recent convert and in Gian's
case is preparing for baptism. We helped both families carry bricks from the
street to the second and thirds stories of their respective houses. In total we
ended up, between Elder Alcarraz and I, moving well over 2000 bricks in just a
couple of hours. It was super fun, but to say the least we were a little dead
that day afterwards. It was all worth it though to help out these families, and
we even got to enjoy a nice bbq with Frank's family on sunday.
This past saturday I also had the
privilege of eating cuiy (aka guinea pig) for my first time since arriving here
in Peru. It is a super famous and common food from the mountains here in Peru
and it was actually really good.
Well Milagro is still awesome and we are seeing
lots of milagros here in Milagro.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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