DID YOU GET THE PACKAGES??? – 2/15/2010

Hola famila y amigos.

Hello hellos and hello. So this week was pretty sweet. We had sooooooooo much fun and just worked vary hard. SO it has been pretty cold here and all. But its going. Im still loving it and everyone makes fun of mi cause im the one who has the most cold here.

Not sure if i wrote this last week but that one family, the familia Dominguez, Last week one of there sons who went to BYU and was a MTC teacher made us Fettechini Alfredo. Cause the dad and i had a little bet going on that if we baptized over 10 for the month of January, then he would make us that cause i told him that it was by far my favorite food and it really doesnt exist here. And so one day he invited us over and it was Shrip Fettechini with a oil salad and Martenellis and oat and grain bread. I was in heaven. AHHHHHHHHHh. And yes i took a couple of pics. Hahahahaha.

Well the Lord has really been blessing this area and using us a His tools to help alot of people and its a humbling expierrnce. Cause as we allow the Spirit to guide us, we are able to find those people who are willing to ^listen to His voice and not harden thier hearts^.

This week we got the opportunity to baptize 3 people. One of those was a man named Ivan. He is a politition. (i think that is how you spell it). But he works with another member and he is awesome. Our ward mission leader gave us the reference and told us he has already been to church and he was sure if we invite him to get baptized he would do it. SO in the leasson we had on tues, we invited him for the next week, but then the ward mission leader, Duval, said to him? `Ivan i would like to challenge you to get baptized this week so that you wont be any longer without the Holy Ghost? and so that you can recive more blessings`. And mi and my comp just looked at eachother like, You are da man. Hahahahahaha. Showed us up. That was a testimony builder to have more `mission urgency`.

Also we got to help mauricio and the hna maria luisa. They are great. They live n a colony where we have been workng alot lately . Its funny cause in this colony there are like 30 members of the church and the colony has like 100 people in it. And they were all inactive almost. But we have helped reactivate almost all of them and we keep pulling baptisims out of it cause these members, when they get reactiviated they feel something so espacial that they want to share it so they are just firing references at us left and right and Mauricio and Maria Luisa are from that colony. Its great. When we go in all the kids yell? `hermanos, hola hermanos` and everyone knows us. Even the dogs. Hahahaha .

But this week was great and i have seen soooooo many miricles in this area. This week i talked in sacrement mtg about courege.It was great. I learned alot upon preparing it. Like how the best missionaries in the Book of Mormon, Alma and Amulek, has sooooo much courege that they went in to the temples and churches of the other religons to preach. We dont(thank goodness, even though it could be fun) but they Trusted in the promeses of God that if we just OPEN our mouths and trust God, He WILL help us. He has to help us. THis i now is true and i promise you all to just to OPEN your mouth on the bus or in the store. Its not easy, but we got God on our side. Give it a go and see the blessings come. Love you all sooooo much and thanks for all the love and support.

Love you all long time

Elder Minetto