Posted by Minetto Family on Mar 30, 2010 in
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Well yep. So this week when i went into the offices on tues pres. hansen was there and i talked to him and i told him that i wanted to extend my mission…..yeeeeehhhhhhhh. oh ya. here is the story. So 2 sundays ago i got a call from the presidente at like 7:30am and we just started talking. So in the change when i would be going home is when they are doing the changes in the mission. And so he is asking about 7ish elders from my generation if they would like to extend there mission for 1 month…….it wouldnt be for even a whole change(6weeks-) but just 30 days, thats the longest you can do it. So he told mi to talk with the family and see what they think and just to think about it. But about 3 weeks before i got the call from pres i had been thinking about extending my mission but i had never talked to pres about it and i asked the presidentes secretary and he told mi that presidente wouldnt do it causeit would just be difficult for him and they really dont do it anymore. And that is what presidente told mi, that he really doesnt do it. but i talked to him and i told him i would love to extend my mission and he was like ¨lets do it elder minetto¨ . i cant even explai how stinkin excited i am to extendmy mission cause i love it here and didnt want to leave( no offense mommy and daddy). jijijjijj. But it just gives mi the opportunity to do more of the -Lords will and help establish the kingdom of God here on te earth.
-this week we found some sweet poeple. We have an investigator that is money and is gettting baptized this week, named marili. Her and her family lived in Gringo-Landia for a couple of years and so she speaks ingles pretty well. But she wanted us to start to teach her sister. so we did and when we got there her sister was so against the mormans and gettting baptized casue she said she was already baptized…..but by the end of the leasson the spirit had touched her in such a way that she is now getting this week with her sister and she even brought a friend to church that is getting baptized this week to. Its amazing how the Spirit will just change the poeples heart so quickly.
This week we also found a family that is gettting baptized this week. So we went to find a reference and they were not there and the next door neighbor is always outside in his wheelchair just enjoying the sun( reminds mi of gpa, loving the sun). We had always said hi but never talked to him. But this time was diffrerent and i felt prompeted to go tlak to him . Turns out he is a member and the only one of his whole family. But then his daughter came out of the house with her kids and they arent members. We told her that her dad was a member and she was alike ¨what….your mormon…uh oh¨ . But we taught them the 1st leasson and the spirit was super strong and now her and her daughters are getting baptized this week. I remeber dad would always write mi ¨just listen to the spirit¨ and that is all we have to do to beable to find our brothers and sisters that are waiting to hear this messege of joy. Its humblking to beable to be an instrument in His hands.
We had 2 baptisms of Irma and Esau. Esau is a little kid of 9 yrs. He is super great and almost didnt get baptized because his mom had alot of doubts( mom is not a member). But we cleared up those doubts and…she is getting baptized the 10th of april. Esau is putting a realy good example for his mom.
Irma is somehting else. She is one of the most breve and noble ladys i have ever met. SO she listend to the missionarys before but she never liked it. But mi and my comp went and there was something else different about her my comp would always say, he always said that she had changed and that it was her time. But shewas the only one from her family that would listen to us….the rest of them were catholic. And they would always make fun of her for going to church and try to convince her not to go. even her own husband. On the day of her baptiism we were there and she came in the the church alone and crying….so i started talking to her and she said that her whole family was trying to convince her to not go to her baptisim and her husband would not go with her. She felt bad cause none of her family went with her but she realized that she was dong something right and she knew it and she knew that God knew it. She has such a big testimony of the church and is soooooo awesome. The guts she had to tell her family that she was going to get baptized with them or without is something we can all learn from. She is a miricle and a example to all of us.
Well that is all. the zone is doing great and we saw oosooooo many miricles this month as a zone and will continue to see them if we relay on the Lord more. As a zone we were able to reach our goal off¡ 40 and we got 2 more. so we baptized 42 this month. The blessings are just flowing. Thank yo uall for all. the letters and everything.
Love you all long time
Elder Minettto
Posted by Minetto Family on Mar 23, 2010 in
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This week was a heck of a good time. So on wednesday we ahd a zone conference with another zone and i got to conduct. IT is always fun to conduct and all. We learned alot about knowledge and about how to find the escogidos. Alot fo the stuff that we learned in the counsol with pres. johnson. It was way good. And it was here in vercruz so i and my comp were in charge of getting alll ready……and so for the lunch…..we ate SUBWAY. Yes oh yes we did. everyone Loved it and we had cheese cake form costco. Hahahaha. we went all out . So neil said he craved chili…..well a funny thing is that i cant eat anything with out 2 things. 1. chili and 2. tortillas(but of maiz…corn). I put salsa on everything…pizza….speghetti….you name it…i put it on it.
This week we got the opportunity to have 2 baptisims. on e of a joven named Vicente. And a kid named Emmanuel. Vicente is a miricle. This is the story. So when i got here we went around and visited alot fo the recient converts and we visited a family that my comp and his last comp baptized. And i asked my comp if all of the members of the family were members. he said no……vicente was not. And he said he didnt want anything to do with the church and always hid when they went over and just didnt want anything. I felt the impression to find him and teach him . So we finally fond him home one day and went there and tought him the Plan of Salvation. And we a put a baptisimal date for the next week. And he accepted. As we walked out of the visit. My comp said ¨he has changed soooooo much and i can even believe it¨ . His own familiy couldnt even belieive it and he got baptized this las week. THe funny thing was that we had no water in our church…so we were going to go to the beach nd baptize but it was kinda dark so we ran to another church and just jumped in on there baptisim service. hahahaha. but they go tbaptized….that is what is important.
So the zone is having miricles in it. i have never seen anything like it here. So as a zone we are at 30 baptisims for this month and this week we have 17 baptisims planned as a zone. I was talking to the asistantes and the they told mi how this zone has never seen anything like this.. I can really see the Lord working with us a s missionaries so that we can be untied and work as a team and do the Lords work togehter. I can not begin to tell you guys how much that revelation is real and that if we just look for it and it is a true desire of our heart…it will be reveled to us. SOrry i didnt have that much time this week. but miricles are happening and they are testimnoies to i every day that this is the true and only church and the only way we can make it back to the presence of God.
But i love you all and thankyou all for all the love and support. Let mi know what happens in sac. mtg and how the other misionaries are doing.
Love yo uall long time
Elder Minetto
p.s. The title is because i got fried by the sun today . WE played soccer and football on the beach as a zone.
Posted by Minetto Family on Mar 16, 2010 in
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Well this week was something else. First. Mommy and daddy I took money out fo the card . 400 pesos to buy the neew bible that came out….i had to because the mission was getting on mi because I ws like the only one who hadn’t bought it yet. It cost mi 355 pesos. I hope that’s alright….if not I will tell God I will buy his bible later…jijijij. Nah just kidding. Also about that homecoming talk with katelin…..i get home july 1st. around there and she gets home in agosto. Do I have to wait that long, If I do that’s alright, I would just prefer to do it right when I get back… but we have got some time and I will do whatever. Hahaha.
So my comp is the man. We are having soooo much fun. We do luchas(wrestling) in the nights when we get bored. But he reminds mi of my tongan friends back home. Like karl and mau. He acts just like one and does everything the same. Its so weird but cool. And we are just killing it and having a blast.
So this week we really focused on finding a lot of new people to teach and just get the tank full of peoole to teach. And this week the Lord blessed us with 16 new people to teach. They are pretty good but we have already dropped a lot of them because we are now just teaching and trying to find the people who are READY to hear and accept the gospel. And that is why it is sooooo important to testify, cause the ready people will hear the voice and not harden there hearts. So in our contacts we just do them really short. We just say “we are representatives and give a short short short testimony and invite them to listen.” And in that moment they will have heard the voice and they choose then.
Had a really cool experience with something like that with a lady named Irma. She is an lady about your age mom and actually reminds mi A LOT about you. And she really had the desire to learn and stuff and my comp and his last comp were teaching he for awhile…but they dropped her cause she didn’t progress. But we went back and in the 1st visit put a baptisim date with her and she kind of accepted it. So we did the 2nd visit and she told us she still didn’t really want to get baptized this 27th of march cause it was soon. So normally we would have dropped her cause it wasn’t her time. But I felt that there was something else. The rest of her family doesn’t want anything with the church. Just her. So we went back for the 3rd visit. But that morning I was studying and I got done and said my closing prayer and got the super strong impression to go teach Irma about the temples….something we don’t ever teach…really never in the 3rd lesson. So I verified with the Lord to make sure that was correct revelation for Irma and felt yes. So I told my comp and he just looked at mi weird and said…ok if you say so. So we went. The first thing she said to us was that she didn’t want to get baptized on the 27th. So I testified to her that if she just listened to our message and after still felt the same…we would then change it. SO we had one of the most spiritual lessons ever. WE helped her understand that there she can be married for all eternity and she could be sealed to her family forever, and there is no other place on earth where that can happen. And the spirit touched her in such a way that she completely changed and was like I want to get baptized the 27th. She went to church and loved it. If we just seek the revelation for each one of our investigators and use one of our strongest tools, testimony, the people will be CONVERTED instead of CONVINCCED, and that is what the Lord wants.
Well the zone is doing awesome. My zone and elder carters zone are tied up so far for the month and both our zones have the same baptisim goal for this week of 12. Hahaha. We are having a blast. The zone is really growing and beginning to be one big family and work as a team. And I know that is how success is achieved.
Well I love the mission and really thank you all for the love and support and hope that you all can share the gospel and give the people what they are looking for but they just don’t know where to find it. And we have it.
Love you all long time
Elder Minetto
Posted by Minetto Family on Mar 1, 2010 in
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WEll well well. This has been something else. So i am here in my new area. My new area is called LAS BRISAS. its a really cool area…..hahahah play on words. So its stinkin hot here. bueno. not really. But compared to xalapa…….its hot. Its really flat and all so that is a little nicer but im already shedding the pounds. Hahahaha. Oh and yes we got the packeges, thank you sooo much and elder del Rincon LOVED his package. He was freaking out and all the elders were sooooooo jealous. Elder Del Rincon said that it was the FIRST package he has ever recived in his whole mission and he has more time then mi in the mission. But he loved it. Thanks for that mommy and pappi.
So my new comp is named elder castillo. he is from san luis Potosí. Its a state here in México. He is way cool. He has about 13 or 14 months in the misión. He is really good and he is almost my height. Not like my last comp. But he is cool. He actually reminds mi of a Tongan. Hahahahhaaha. But we are going to have fun.
Its going to be a great challenge this zone. Because it hasn’t been doing to good for the past like ½ year or so and so that is why im here. And it has soooo much potential. There are a lot of elders really really good here and just need to come out of there shells and get out of there comfort zones and get to the Lords work. It is going to be a blast. I heard a phrase one time that is ¨there is no growth in the comfort zone, and no comfort in the growth zone¨. So that is what we are all working on. We have some really good goals and with the help of God, we will reach them. These are goals that we set by asking God. Its cool.
So I had a really spiritual experience this week. We had the Zone leader’s conference here in the mission office. So we were talking about putting a goal for the next 4 months for the mission because they are going to split the mission when I end my mission and making a new one. So we were putting goals for the mission and deciding on the number and an elder said ¨why don’t we just ask God and see what he wants us to do¨. So in my whole mission that is what we have been doing my whole mission. Before we put a monthly goal as companionship we always ask the Lord and then get the number of how many he wants us to baptize. So we did a prayer right then and there as zone leaders. And the president. And when the elder started to say the prayer I felt it and I felt the number of people we needed to baptize as a mission and how many the Lord wanted us to baptized. President stood up and wrote the number on the board and it was the same one I felt and then the elder prayed again to confirm with God if that was correct. And I wish you could have all felt what was being felt on that day inside that room with al the zone leaders. It was a experience I will NEVER forget and they are times like that that we all need to hold on to during those difficult time. When we have problems and just are feeling bad and loosing hope…..we need to remember those times when we felt the spirit the most strongly and build our testimony with them. That is why the prophets in the Book of Mormon are saying ¨o remember, remember¨
So this week mi and my comp worked super super hard. It was crazy. My comp told mi he hadn’t seen these numbers in a while. This week we were going to baptize but there was no water in the church and the bishop just told us to wait until the next week. We were going to go to the beach and just baptize him there but decided in the Lords house is better. His name is icidrio. Also this week we will have a couple more baptisims. But it’s a different type of work here but just awesome. Like it says in Preach my Gospel ¨there is no substitute for hard work¨. This week we just listened to the spirit and followed the impressions and we put a lot of baptisimal dates. What we have been helping the zone a lot right now is just putting baptisimal dates in every moment. In the taxi in the bus in the store….especially in the first leasson. And in the street contact.
I love the mission and all the things we are able to learn if we are but humble and listen to the whisperings of the spirit. We just need to work like every day was our last day….cause one day it will be. I lava you all a lot. You all rock. Thanks for the letters and packages.
Love you all long time
Elder Minetto