Buenos Dias!
This has been a great week here in Primavera. This week we have been real focused on history. Mission history and family history. I will start by explaining mission history. This week a number of former missionaries returned here to Peru to visit their mission. Amongst them was Elder Maddocks. Andrew Maddocks served in the same ward as me in Milagro for almost 7 months and we had become great friends. Today the office Elders and I had a trip to the temple and we found Elder Maddocks there waiting for us. It was awesome catching up with Elder Maddocks and seeing a few other past missionaries.Makes me feel a little old now.
This week we have really been focused as well on family history. The idea is that one fills in their family tree spreading back generations by looking up old documents through various websites, finding important dates, etc. as to be able to take these names to the temple. The area goal is that every recent convert does their family history and is able to attend the temple soon after baptism, taking names of their ancestors to the temple to perform ordinances in their names. Yesterday we held a ward mission night where we set up a bunch of computers and we helped out all of the recent converts and members to fill in their family history. The goal was that every member could bring at least one name to the temple this coming thursday when we are going to have a caravan to visit the temple. The activity was a huge success. Jessica Quiroz has already found ancestors back to 1820 and many other members had huge discoveries. It is super fun to learn about where we came from and how that impacts our lives today.
This is going to be an awesome week and we will be able to take all of these names to the temple on Thursday.
In other news today we had the opportunity to go out to lunch with President Marble and his wife. We ate chinese of course.
The mission is awesome.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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