Buenos Dias!
This was an awesome week here in beautiful
Milagro. This week we had the wonderful opportunity to see two of my dear
friends get baptized. Julian Huaman (82 years old) and Pedro Benites (76 years
old). Both of them are nice senior citizens now, but are just the sweetest and
most fun guys. Both of which are still working full time. Julian works in
construction every day and Pedro in his carpentry shop. As the peruvians say,
it is some serious "Chamba". Julian I met for the first time about 4
months back with Elder Bedregal. We were just walking down the street one night
and saw an older man carrying bags of cement, which weigh a ton, and so we
decided to help. He, a long time ago, had spoken various times with
missionaries so he gladly decided to listen to what we had to say and from the
beginning he has had the desires to be baptised. From the very first week where
we began teaching him and we helped him a bit in his contruction projects he
has been attending church. Every sunday he walks for nearly 30
minutes to arrive to church nice and early. We have coordinated numerous times
for members to come pick him up in their cars, but every time when the members
stopped by his house to pick him up, he had already started on foot. He is so
sweet and just wants to get closer to God and Jesus Christ. He is
awesome.
Pedro Benites is our pension's Father-in-Law. He
met the missionaries over 20 years ago and basically everyone in his family are
now members of the church. I explained a little about his situation last week,
but Pedro has finally decided to change to follow what he knows is true, and to
set an example for his grandson. He is so funny... and short. He also greets us
with a big hug at about waist level followed by a comment about either my hair
being golden and he wanting to sell it or to my companion that the two of them
classified for the world cup together (Colombia and Peru qualified together
with a tie in the last match of qualifying). He is just awesome and it is so
sweet to see the two of them follow Christ's example.
Well another fantastic week with Elder Romero my
"Cali Pachangero". He is already an awesome seasoned missionary and
Milagro is the bomb.
Love,
Elder Vassau
fotos
1-2) Julian and Pedro's Baptism
3)Teaching Julian
4)Cumpleaños with the family Casanova
5) Baptism
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