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 Baños, 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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