Week 88 - Murga Family Baptism!!!!

Buenos Dias!!!

This has been one crazy week here in Primavera and I am just glad that I survived. On Monday Elder Valencia and I had the opportunity to take a group of missionaries to the airport as they were finishing their missions. That is always a very bittersweet moment. All are excited as they are on their way to see family that they have not seen in 2 years. On the other hand they are finishing their time as full time missionaries. We said some hard goodbyes and sent them off home. Tuesday morning once again we needed to be at the airport bright and early to pick up the new group of arriving missionaries. 16 missionaries arrived, 15 of which are foreigners, and 13 of which are from the USA. That meant that I needed to spend the entire week in the migrations office with them. To make it even better, not only did the missionaries not come with the necessary documents from Lima, but also in the migrations office all of the normal workers are on vacation leaving their replacements there slightly clueless. Too say the least it was a really long week seated in the Trujillo migrations office. In addition the migrations website that we use to make appointments was not working this week... What luck right? But in the end everything turned out alright and no one will be deported or ilegal. 

I think the only way I got through the week was the experience that we had on Sunday. After overcoming a few obstacles and required persistance and determination on their parts, Juan, Daniel and Jessica Murga were all baptized Sunday morning at 8 am right before the 9 am Sunday service. It was awesome. A little stressful to get everything coordinated and done on time before the 9 am church start time, but I think we pulled it off nicely and it was a very spiritual experience for all involved. Although many things came up on Saturday night to try and convince Jessica otherwise, she was determined to make the decision to be baptized. She came in at 7 am to have her interview and then we passed directly to the service. It was great to see how everyone welcomed them into the ward. 

To make this week even better Jessica and her two sons attended the temple with their neighbor Mercedez to receive a tour and now they are super excited to go back. 

Everything is going great here in Peru with Elder Valencia. This week we have seen some good friends go home and we had the privilege of helping a few new missionaries start their adventure. The mission is awesome.

Love,

Elder Vassau