Week 82 - Three rings on the Doorbell and we found Rebecca!

Buenos Dias!!!

This has been an awesome week here in Primavera. These week Elder Torres and I had a super awesome experiencing while contacting. Last Saturday we had our conference with Elder Stevenson and so after that we were super pumped for missionary work and to get at it. The following day on Sunday we found a short time to contact by knocking on doors here in Primavera which is not something we do to often because it is not usually too successful. Also when I say knocking doors I really mean ringing doorbells to speak through little call boxes that all of the really nice houses have. Well we were passing by a certain house and we began to ring the door bell. Once... with no answer... twice... no answer... and we decided to ring for a third time just in case. That is usually our rule of thumb. One knock to see if they are home. Two knocks just in case they did not hear the first one. Three knocks just for the sake of it/for Jeffrey because Jeffrey Holland once gave a talk to missionaries telling them to knock a third time, if for nothing else, just for him. Well the thing is that after the third ring of the doorbell we were about to move on when we heard a reply. A young ladies voice responding that... she was about to leave... it was like the majority of houses we contacted so we really did not think much of it, but seconds later when we were nearly at the next house she replied saying "Wait! I will be right out"... (Obviously in Spanish though). A young mother answered the door and invited us in. She told us that she was honestly getting ready to leave but seconds before we had knocked on her door she had been praying for help to be more patient. At first she did not recognize us as her response when we initially introduced ourselves via telecomunicator, but then it clicked and she realized that she needed to attend us. We then spent a nice short while conversing with

Rebecca about the Gospel. She said that she was raised Adventist and her fiancé is Catholic but recently both of them began attending an evangelical church in Trujillo. They have one child together and after she was pregnant they realized that they had to change something to follow God. They stopped living together, he proposed, and they went looking for a church. Because of financial difficulties they are still waiting to be married but Rebecca is a person that just wants to do what God wants her to do. She then expressed to us how we were an answer to her prayers and that she would like us to begin teaching her and her husband. It was awesome. We shared a very spiritual visit and at the end on our way out the door Rebecca even told us that she was named after a LDS missionary that used to visit her family. It was truly a miracle how we arrived at her house just at the right time. Being a missionary is awesome for all of these tiny miracles that one sees. 

Well this week has been awesome here in Primavera. My companion (after more than 6 months here in the office) is NOT yet being transferred as we all had assumed. We celebrated his birthday last week and I made everyone pancakes. 

Here in Peru the people are a little depressed that Peru lost their first two games in the world cup, many assumed Peru was going to win it all. A real shame. 

The mission is going great and this has been an awesome week here in Primavera. 

Love,

Elder Jack Vassau