Buenos Dias!!!
This has been another awesome week here in Buenos Aires. The weather is starting to heat up just a little bit, so it will soon be time to lose the suite coats on Sundays. This week we had companionship exchanges and I had the privilege of proselyting with Elder Rojas. He is from Santiago Chile. He speaks near perfect English and loves music, especially Jack Johnson. He reminds me a lot of my former companion Elder Nuñez. We had a great time contacting lots of people in the street and it was a great experience to feed off of Elder Rojas' enthusiasm speaking to people. One could say ''strangers'' but if we are all just children of the same Heavenly Father no one is really a stranger.
This week we saw a lot of spiritual progress in the Nicolle Cueva who we have been teaching for a little over a month now. Yesterday she attended church once again and this week we have been visiting her with some ward members Isaias and Rosalinda. They are both great friends from the ward and have been visiting Nicolle to read the Book of Mormon together. They have developed a great friendship and are helping her to have spiritual experiences. This week we were visiting Nicolle with one of her neighbors and we had a little bit of a humbling experience that taught us about the importance of verifying commitments we have extended. We arrived and Nicolle told us that she had only read a part of the pamphlet that we had left with her. We decided to begin to read a page in the pamphlet when all of a sudden, she stopped us and said "wait, I want to tell you something". We were so anxious to teach that we had forgotten to give her time to tell us about any spiritual experience that she had had. Well she began to tell us that after reading her pamphlet she went and looked for a quiet place where she could kneel down and pray. She found a nice place in her room, she knelt down and prayed, asking our Heavenly Father if what we teach is true. She said that as she finished praying, she became overwhelmed with a sense of peace and comfort. She said it was as if someone had come over and given her a huge hug. She said she took that as a sign of the Spirit and that she knows that what we teach is true. Although she is not yet sure about baptism, at least she knows that what we teach is blessing her life and helping her to change. Awesome right?!?
This week we also had a super fun family home evening with our Relief society president and her renters. We have begun to teach a family that is renting part of a member’s home. Well with a little bit of luck we were able to find this family with a little bit of free time this last week and we were able to begin to teach them. The Family Home Evening was an awesome way to help this family to feel the spirit and to enjoy time with positive influences. Sometimes we get so down on ourselves and we just need small simple things to lift our spirits. The family home evening was great, and it especially fun to be able to finish with a game that was a sort of mad libs game. We all had a good laugh.
Everything is going so great here in Buenos Aires with Elder Anchiraico. Stay tuned for some fun Elder Vassau planned Missionary Christmas activities here in Buenos Aires.
Love,
Elder Vassau
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