Buenos Dias!!!!
This has been an awesome week here in El Milagro
with Elder Romero. This week we have had the privilege of seeing Sarita Malaver
enter into the waters of baptism. Sarita Malaver is a single mom who I met
about 3 months ago with Elder Nuñez. She is a single mom and met her thanks to
her cousin Elton. He is a returned missionary who lives in Lima but decided to
travel all the way here to Milagro one day to introduce us to Sarita. Although
she has had lots of challenges along the way with her daughter getting sick,
her family giving her a hard time, and a work schedule that just wanted to make
it near impossible to attend church, she was able to overcome these challenges
and get baptized on Friday. During her baptismal service she shared her
testimony where she talked about how we arrived in her life at just the precise
moment. When we first met her she had recently undergone some serious problems
with her then boyfriend and father of her daughter and was really suffering
emotionally. She spoke about how the gospel perspective has helped her not only
overcome her obstacles but also to change her visions, goals, and joy that she
has here on Earth. She now knows that her family can be eternal and that our
Heavenly Father is with us to help us overcome obstacles whenever we need him.
It was awesome.
This last week we also had the joy of being able
to attend the Temple with our ward here in Milagro which is always awesome.
Something that I noticed at the temple really helped me to realize that God
always has a plan. At night the temple is completely lit up and you can, just
about any day of the year, see a swarm of bats flying around the temple. Many
visitors get confused thinking that at first they are birds then when they
realize that what they are watching are bats some of them get a little shocked and begin to blame the bats on the cemetery nearby. I know the real reason
there are bats around the temple... and it isn't because the temple is right
next to a cemetery... it is because God put them there... to eat the bugs.
Anyone knows that at night, especially in places where it is nice and warm,
bugs always swarm to lights (aka the temple lights). Therefore God put the bats there
to make sure that anyone can walk the temple grounds without being annoyed by mosquitoes
or any type of bugs. It is truly a divine design so that anyone who attends the
temple can enjoy a spiritual, bug free experience :) Hahahaha.
In other news last week for Pday our district did
a mini museum tour in Trujillo with a member of our ward named Larry
Ascoye.
We visited a few colonial museums but I think the
highlight/slightly scary moment was the toy museum we attended. It was full of
ancient toys from all around the world... and I am pretty sure we saw a few of
them move.
Well this was an awesome week here in El Milagro
and my companion and salsero Elder Romero is doing awesome. Today we are going
to the mall and we are going to eat Chili's WOOOOOOOOH (only in Peru is going
to a Chili's an adventure) Wish us luck.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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