Buenos Dias!!!
This has been an awesome week here in Primavera and today has been an awesome birthday. I will first start with the birthday update... yes I am 22... I feel so old here in the mission. It is as if everyone looks at me and thinks "Oh look there goes old uncle Elder Vassau" haha. That is alright though. Last night we started the birthday celebrations with a cake and today the festivities continued with a visit to a waffle house. What are the odds that there is a waffle house in Trujillo?!? Well it was actually really good and I am sure we will now turn in to very regular customers. As for the rest of the day I think it is just the usual. We played some soccer and in the evening we will get right back to work. That is just how the mission is.
This week has been a really awesome week. Yesterday we had a really cool experience doing a little bit of spontaneous service. We had decided to go visit an older lady that we had met a few weeks back. The plan was just to go to her house, knock on her door to see if she was home. Well right before heading out the door, as usual, we prayed and this time we specifically asked for more opportunities to serve our neighbors. Well, keeping that in mind, as we approached Dorothi's house to knock on the door we hear someone say "Hey Hermanitos, over here". We quickly turn around and there is Dorothi at her neighbors front door asking for to borrow a ladder. Why a ladder you might ask? Because she had locked herself out of her house. It was a rather funny looking situation. Some old lady trying to use a ladder to reenter her own house. We took this situation as an answer to our prayers and so I offered to climb up the ladder, hope over her wall, climb through the window, and basically break into her house for her as to be able to get the keys out. It was a really funny, rather strange act of service, that allowed us to do what Christ would have done. I mean there are no stories of Jesus Christ breaking into someone's house for them but I think the idea here is service. Afterwards Dorothi invited us in and we shared a quick message with her. It was awesome.
Another awesome opportunity we have had this week was while visiting a young couple, Karlo and Rebecca. Well the plan was to teach this couple about God's Plan of Salvation, but the idea is that we should never teach structured lessons but rather everything in the Gospel of Jesus Christ can be and should be applied to the needs of each person. God's plan is indeed something personal fo each one of us. We began teaching this couple, who began to make big changes in their lives a few months before there their baby boy was born, about God's eternal plan. How it worked though was we just asked simple questions and as they thought about each question the began to explain to us God's plan. It was so awesome to see the spirit work within them. We would ask a question, they would begin to think, the gears would begin to turn, and you could see a light in their eyes as the knowledge of God's plan and this sensation of familiarity came over them. Before coming to this Earth everyone accepted to follow God's plan, come here, receive Earthly bodies, and be tested. Each one of us was taught this plan and therefore as we begin learning more and more about God's plan it begins to feel like such a familiar thing, something we have known all along. Yesterday we had the opportunity to see Rebecca and Karlo discover that sensation for themselves as they began to feel the truthfulness of God's plan as they figured it out for themselves.
Everything is going great here in Primavera. This has been an awesome week with Elder Valencia and I am sur e this next week will be just as fun. 🎂😇😎
Love,
Elder Vassau
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