Week 103 - Light the World!!

Buenos Dias!!!

This has been an awesome week here in Buenos Aires. This week we had our ward mission night which was a huge success. Here in Peru Thanksgiving is not celebrated so we decided to organize a missionary night where everyone could come and share something spectacular... Desserts. Who does not love a good dessert. Well the activity was called friendly desserts where any friend, member, or whatever person from the street was welcome to come and enjoy some good arroz con leche, mazamorra, flan, gelatina or a number of other free desserts. Along with the desserts we played a get to know each other game/scavenger hunt where the first people to finish the game/get to know everyone would be entered in a raffle to win christmas themed prizes. It was a great blast. At the end we switched it up and turned the chapel into a movie theater to show the new church videos for the "Light the World" December Christmas project. It was an awesome way to end the night and invite everyone to serve this holiday season.

This week Elder Anchiraico and I were also able to have interchanges with the Elder from Central. Both of them came here to Buenos Aires to help us with the ward mission night which was a good fun. This time around I was with Elder Romney who is from Spokane Washington. He recently has 4 weeks in the mission field so it was a good time. 

On Tuesday we had companionship exchanges with the assistants here in the mission. Elder Peterson came here to Buenos Aires while my companion Elder Anchiraico went out to Tumi. Elder Peterson started his mission here in Buenos Aires almost two years ago and so it was fun to spend a day with my good bud where he started everything off. 

Saturday night Elder Anchiraico and I had a super cool experience. It was about 830pm and we were out looking for a referral that we received. We were having a hard time finding the address when we pass by a man and his wife who seem to be unloading porceline tile and bags of cement from a Taxi. We passed by without thinking much but my companion had the strong impression that we needed to go back and offer our help to move all of the material inside their house. The man gladly accepted and I can understand why. Each bag weighed 25kg ( 55lbs) and each box of tiles weighed 30 kg (66lbs). We spent a good 15 minutes moving all of these inside his home. A little bit of work but I do not know how the man could have done it without us. After finishing the service and after I ripped my pants Lionel invited us in for juice and cookies as a form of giving thanks. As we began talking to him we presented ourselves as missionaries and said "you know what? The other day I met some sister missionaries who were just the coolest. They came to my house and we talked in the doorway for over 30 minutes. They were super cool. I told them I would go to your church and they even left me with a pamphlet. He then went and brought out his pamphlet. Sure enough there on the back of the pamphlet were the names of the two sister missionaries from our ward "Sister Chatwin and Sister Baldiviezo". What an awesome coincidence. Not wanting to steal the sisters investigator we then began to ask if Lionel had any rentees that would be interested in listening to our message (he rented a few apartments). He responded by saying that there was a venezuelan family that lived in one of the apartments that he would love to present us to. As he led us to the apartment when the venezuelan family was we heard a knock at the door and sure enough it was the sister missionaries. They arrived just in that very moment. Well we left Lionel, now very content and impressed, with the sisters and we began to teach the venezuelan family that lived out back. Carlos and his wife Del Valle. They are the best. They are a very humble family from Venezuela and they not only were super excited to receive us but they also came to church with us yesterday accompanied by their daughter Robeudys. It was such an awesome miracle how a little act of service opened the door for us to teach this super cool venezuelan family as well as helping the sister missionaries gain the trust of their investigator. It was amazing and it was most definetly a situation guided by the spirit. 

This has been an awesome week here in Buenos Aires and this coming week we have our zone conferences. The mission is awesome. 

Love,

Elder Vassau