Monday, November 6, 2017

Week 45 - Sarita Malaver Bapitsm, Temple and Bats

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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