Monday, January 29, 2018

Week 60 - Exchanges and A Book More Precious than Gold!




Buenos Dias!

This has been a great week here in Los Baños del Inca despite a slight case of the flu Sunday afternoon. This week the Elders from Celendin (a little village about 3 hours outside of Cajamarca) came up for companionship interchanges. For a couple of days this week I had the privilege of proselyting with my good friend Elder Torres from Machala Ecuador. He and I were in the missionary training center together and we are now in the same district. We had a great time proselyting and it is real fun to learn from his energy and excitement to contact. Interchanges really help Elders learn new ideas and break out of the routine that we occasionally find ourselves in. He is a great example for me of talking with everyone. One never knows who really needs the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and so the message deserves to be shared with everyone. Elder Torres really takes that to heart stopping anyone in the street to give a quick message. It is just awesome.

This week Elder Zapatiel and I have been teaching a family that live waaaaaaaay up a hill near by Baños, they are Luciano (35), Jaime (18), and Fiorela (14). This week we were teaching them about the Book of Mormon, which is a volume of scripture that teaches about and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. We were teaching them about the importance of this book in relation to the idea that it is an evidence of the restoration of the Gospel in these modern days when I remembered a talk given by the President of the church, Russell M. Nelson. In this talk President Nelson told about a story when he was on a visit to western Africa when an African tribal king approached him and initially began to ask him about the Book of Mormon through his translator. After explaining that the Book of Mormon is a second testament about Christ, the king left his translator and in perfect English began to express his gratitude for this book. He explained that anyone could give him jewels, rubies or gold, but nothing was more precious to him than more information about our Savior Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is another opportunity to learn more about our Savior and from a perspective of prophets here in the Americas. It is just awesome and something that we should value more than gold or jewels or any worldly possession. It is truly a privilege to share this message with the world. 

Everything is going great here in Los Baños del Inca. This past week Carnival has begun, so all the town is decorated with colorful streamers and we now have to be careful where we go and to choose our paths carefully. This month everyone, from little toddlers to adults, is on the prowl trying to get everyone else wet. Whether it is water balloons, super soakers, or even people driving by in pickup trucks with buckets of water, everyone is out and about trying to share the "Carnival spirit". Well it is lots of fun and it looks like one of these days we might start throwing water-balloons from our balcony to share not just the gospel but also the "Carnival spirit" with all those that pass by. 

Los Baños del Inca is awesome and this has been an awesome week here. 

Hasta Luego!

Elder Jack Vassau










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