Saturday, March 31, 2018

Week 69 - Office duties, tender mercies, miracles, and just a little bit of stress






Buenos Dias!

This has been an awesome and very different week here in the mission office. It was full of tender mercies, miracles, and just a little bit of stress. This week as my companion and I went to pick up the documents that were going to allow the Elders to leave the country and head home on Monday we ran into a slight problem. About a year ago, we do not know whether it was lost or it was just forgotten about, his residency renewal papers were never done meaning he had been living ilegally in the country for about a year. Ouch. This also meant that he would not be able to leave the country on monday until he did the necessary procedure to renew his residency and then to cancel it. Considering we found out about this on Wednesday and Thursday through monday immigrations was closed for Easter week we had very little time to act. With a lot of phone calls and running to immigrations, lawyers offices, and the transfer of a few legal documents from Lima we were able to get everything done. It was a real pull off that was all truly coordinated by our Heavenly Father because we saw so many miracles happen that allowed us to pull it off. I think the most obvious of them all was when we went to go turn in the final copy of the renewal papers. We had put everything together that the Elder needed however we were missing Peruvian identification. We were not sure if it had been left in immigrations with the worker or if we had lost it so we decided to just go ahead with the idea that they still had it. We went back to turn everything in and it turns out neither us nor immigrations had the identification card... but rather some random stranger had found it in the middle of the road and right before we had returned, she brought it in. I still have no idea how the card got their or how the lady knew that she needed to come here to drop it off, but what I do know is that it was one of the many office miracles we have seen. 

To be honest the office life is a little different but you do see lots of little miracles that makes it so that everything works out alright. 

Today as well back in BaƱos, two investigators I was teaching for 4 months are getting baptized. Wooooooh. I will send the pictures as soon as I get them. 

Also today we have the wonderful opportunity to sustain our new Prophet Russel M. Nelson along with the two new apostles Gerrit W. Gong and Ulisses Soares. It is just so amazing to know that Godly calls modern day prophets and apostles to be special witnesses of Christ and to guide us away from spiritual dangers that we often cannot see. 

Well this has been another awesome week here in the mission and I am sure this next week will be just as awesome. 

Love,
Elder Vassau


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