Buenos Dias!
This has been a great week here in Primavera. This week we
have been seeing lots of little miracles. There are two that really come to
mind. This week we have been making a real effort to use our ward directory to
visit lots of members. The thing is though is that the addresses here in Peru
are sometimes super complicated and mixed up. The majority of the addresses we
looked for this week do not exist or the people no longer live there... so
please any ward secretary please keep these directories up to date. That being
said we had been looking in particular for a member named Carlos Quispe. He is
an active member who always comes to church, however, recently because of possible
health problems he has not been coming. We have been a little worried and so we
went looking for his house, which according to what it says in the directory is
not a real address. After looking for about an hour or two on Tuesday with
nothing close to luck, we had kind of given up when yesterday while proselyting
in a completely different part of our area a man called us over. He was a
member who called us over and invited us into his home, and it turns out it was
Carlos Quispe. We had no idea how but the man we had been looking for all week
had found us, and he lived in the complete opposite part of the area. A little
miracle, and to make it even better, after sharing a short message with him we
are now planning to hold some small activities in his house to start teaching
his grandchildren who are all young adults and teenagers. It is going to be
pretty awesome.
Another little miracle that happened to us this week was
with this couple we have been teaching Isabel and Carlos. Isabel has been a little
frustrated because her spiritual progress is being blocked by the fact that she
is not married and that her husband, do to a past divorce, is really afraid to
get married. She was so discouraged that Thursday she had reached the
point where she decided that she was going to tell us to stop coming to visit
her and that she was no longer going to attend church. Some serious
discouragement. However that very same night she had a crazy dream. The people
here in Peru are always having super cool and crazy dreams. Well her dream was
like something straight out of Revelations. She dreamed that it was raining
fire over the entire Earth, and the only people unaffected were her and her
family. You can interpret it as you want, however she took it as meaning that she
has to stay in this path to follow the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ even if
it is really difficult right now. The Gospel is what helps FAMILIES enjoy
blessings here on Earth and enjoy eternal life together and I think she really
understands that. Even though everyone is imperfect these blessings today and
for eternity are available to all her work hard to follow the Gospel. Friday when
we went to visit her she was newly energized to attend church, read, and now
she even wants to attend institute religion classes on her own account. Way
cool to see her re-energized and ready to continue working towards marriage,
baptism, and eternal life. Just another little miracle.
Well this has been an awesome week here in Primavera,
Trujillo.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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