Vicenza!!

Well I got transferred to Vicenza and wow I am training as well! Ha it was fun being here in Sanremo the members were all sad that I was leaving because first it was an unexpected phone call and second because my companion and I began a lot of projects with the branch so that the members can have more spiritual experiences! But as for me I was excited and sad at the same time because I was leaving all of these awesome members that I got to know personally! Ohh well there is a reason why I am leaving! The Lord just wants me somewhere else because Vicenza is where I am needed right now! I want to share a cool story that happend to me the other day well on Saturday morning I had an appointment with a 27 year old young man and he is under house arrest and we began teaching him and during that lesson as we were explaining the restoration I got a random thought saying teach to his needs and that lesson was super spiritual and it was incredible! Mama Mia! But then after the lesson the young man said you know what when I was in jail I had a dream about this exact moment and for me that was mind blowing it strengthened my testimony that we today still and will continue to recieve personal revalation! It was a unique experience! Love you guys talk to you soon!

New Member!

So this last week I baptized my investigator he is such a stud he is super cool no lie! Anyways it was the best because first he is my first baptism that I have seen so far and because it was like the best Birthday Present ever! Haha Also I'm finally 19 its so weird but at the same time it just feels like another day went by so I don't know haha! So The members here are treating us (me and my companion) great! They are so excited about missionary work and we showed them how to talk to people so we have been receiving heeps and heeps of referrals so the work here is growing once more and it is exciting to see a branch come to life with a desire to serve the Lord and to do His work and it is definitely an AMAZING thing to see! Well I'm off to continue on with my work here in the Marvelous city of San Remo! I hope all of you are doing well here is a picture of me not knowing how to smile with my Italian investigator!.P.S. I was really excited and actually I can tell you all these things to justify my smile but at the end its a weird and awkward smile hahaha love you guys!

Feeling Grateful

So life here in Italy is amazing I love every single day I get to work here. The people are awesome except everyone is out of town for this public holiday that Italy has every year Ferragosto and its pretty much a week long and everyone goes on vacation haha so this next week will be an interesting week! Also one of my investigators is getting baptized this Saturday it is going to be awesome! I am so excited! I can't wait seriously.... also his family has gotten super interested too because they have been seeing the change in my investigator ahh I am so happy! One thing that I have seen is that the gospel does change people and it helps people come to closer to Heavenly Father its so awesome I am so glad and I feel honored for this wonderful opportunity to share the gospel! Anyways love you guys!

I am not sure what this is. He said he was messing around but I did ask him what the little pool is for. Maybe it is for baptisms? We will have to see.

News From Sanremo!

Work here in Sanremo is amazing the people are great and there is always something new going on! Our branch here has finally made a branch mission plan I am so pumped for it haha we have already begun seeing miracles it is amazing I love this work so much it seriously changes your view on life! It is wonderful! We have been going around to all the members homes to offer service and we have been getting heaps and heaps of referrals which is a huge blessing! This week in was a strange week because I have just been so busy with the work here that I kind of lost track of time because seriously I wish I had more time to do things haha but I realized that I am not on a mission to change my self or to say I went I am on a mission because I know for a fact that I am helping the Lord in his work and that I am representative of Jesus Christ! I love this work so much it has help me grow closer to our Heavenly Father and the other day I was sitting in meeting with my branch and I told them my feeling for this branch, I said that I truly want to make this branch into a ward it has so much potential to do it! Haha so they created this plan to become a ward it is truly amazing I love it! Well alright then I will share more of these wonderful experiences that I have. Love you guys, Anziano Jaramillo

Well this couple of weeks has been the best I really enjoyed this transfer it was super fun maybe because I had an Australian companion! Anyways work here is going great I love it! Also I'm district leader now which is crazy haha and senior companion haha so this next transfer is going to be awesome haha. The people herw are great and finally this branch is starting to grow a lot of the less actives are coming back and we are getting the branch to focus on missionary work, I really enjoyed that broadcast The Work of Salvation it was really inspiring and now everyone here in San Remo is really excited to do some missionary work. Anyways my next companion is from Rome so I guys I going all Italian next transfer one thing that I can say is that my English is going to get a little rough haha. Love Anziano Jaramillo

Speeches and Cookies

This week one of the coolest things happened. So my companion and I had a lesson with one of our investigators and that lesson was so cool because the spirit in the room was so strong I literally thought you could touch it, it was amazing and I know for a fact that if the spirit wasn't there that lesson would have gone south. For some cool interesting news I have a new Mission President and he is so cool He used to be a lawyer in Utah and he is great, super nice guy I guess there might be some changes in the mission like not wearing backpacks haha yeah we are going to switch to man purses yeah its going to be interesting the next half of my mission! Also this week I got the opportunity to give a speech for my companions brother’s wedding it was interesting I don't know how the wedding turned out now… hmmm It was FANTASTIC my companion and I recorded our speeches it was fun also my branch that I'm serving in is super fun and a tad bit crazy haha every Friday night they have this karaoke night with some dancing haha and it's pretty interesting to see the members not in suits umm yeah they are a bit off the wall lets just put it that way (cough cough) Haha also one day my companion and I decided to make chocolate chip cookies and since this is Italy we had to substitute some things so we made them. They looked good and they tasted good so we said hey lets go pass by our investigators and give them a spiritual thought and give them cookies so we did we went to a family and we surprised them and we shared the thought they started eating the cookies and they were like "there good but they could use some more flour, some more eggs, some more sugar but they were good yummm..... " then he coughed and left the room yeah I think I forgot to mention he is a baker maybe if it were someone else they would have appreciated them anyways he gave us a recipe yeah he really showed us up!!!

He's So Happy when he's Dancin'

I have no idea what this was for but he sent it to me! haha Elder Jaramillo and his Companion performed the Napoleon "Delight" for something.

Portofino Pics

Some Pictures from the MTC

This Past week was SPEEDY!

Wow this week has been super crazy I got transferred to San Remo. Nothing really happened, this week has been intense but I will share this cool miracle that happened with one of my investigators. On Monday we as in my companion and I were teaching a lesson when the lesson was over and he accepted the invitation to be baptized he left, when he left he dropped his pamphlet and I saw, so I picked it up and I was sort of confused and then I walked out to the street and I looked to see my investigator all the way on the other side of the street my goodness! He was far so I looked at companion and I told him hey I’m going to give this to him right know because I want him to read it tonight I am not waiting till our next appointment so I ran and ran and ran running as fast as I could down the street an everything was falling out of my pockets like all my pass along card and my white handbook I’m lucky that my wallet didn’t fall out of my pocket haha but at the moment I didn’t care all that was on my mind was that I needed to get this pamphlet to my investigator that was my priority so I finally catch up to him and I begin telling him a bunch of things without breathing and he’s like bro calm down gave me a hug and was like you need to breathe then you can tell me so I breathed and I told him hey you dropped your pamphlet haha and he was like awh thanks I was wondering where it went and I didn’t want to go back because I needed to catch the bus for work but thanks so much he then gave me a hug and he was like also don’t worry I’m still getting baptized haha it was sweet!!!! The only bad thing is that I prepped him but I won’t see him get baptized ugh ooh well I’m needed elsewhere haha.

First Real Blog Post!

A’ight a’ight right know I’m in San Remo it has been a crazy week wow bizarre so last Thursday I received a call from my mission president telling me that Friday morning I need to pack my stuff because I’m going to be in San Remo, so Friday I went and it was a long train ride wow haha. So when we got to San Remo my companion and I got picked up by a member and then from there we went to the apartment to get dropped off and from there to the hospital because one of the elders was sick so we had to go help the other elder with missionary work and then we went to pick him up and went off to work my goodness that day was super long. In fact this week has been super long because while this was happening the two elders here in San Remo were moving so we had to help with that and run some errands. I rode a bike; it has been awhile since I have ridden one and dodging cars was so.... AWESOME!!! haha I loved it haha so that’s what occurred this week for excitement hah! One miracle that happened to me was that later that night when I arrived which was Friday we had a companion exchange because we were rotating with taking care of the elder so I was with a different Anziano and we had to teach a lesson riguardo the gospel of Jesus Christ and we were teaching it to a family and it was amazing I loved it and I the member that was there was a RM from the Rome mission in fact he was an AP and he helped so much with the lesson and honestly I was super glad he was there because i have never met this family and he already knew them and it was good then I bore my testimony and we invited them to be baptized and they accepted it which was awesome haha. Then on Sunday I met a 70 and he was so cool he was at stake conference and it was really good and I understood all of it because he spoke English haha but there was also another general authority he is an Italian and he also gave a wonderful talk. Anyways that is my craziest week I've had so far haha!

Loving the Scriptures and The Spirit He is!

I've been getting so in tune with the spirit its so cool we're like best budds. Work is really good there is a lot of cool things happening haha like we are going to see a baptism its so great I cannot wait it has been to long! I cant tell you his name or anything about him because I like to build suspense but also its against the mission rules ahaha. Time is flying by and its intense haha but trials happen and that is when I have gotten close to Heavenly Father and prayed the most and I have seen the awesome blessings that come from it wow its incredible haha also when I obey the commandments including the mission commandments I have seen as I keep them people find us instead of us trying to find them haha wow each day my faith continues to grow maybe someday I'll be like the Brother of Jared haha that's my goal its a big goal but anything is possible. One cool thing as well is that every time I read the Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants I learn something new and it amazes me that there is still more scriptures wow mind blowing.

Piece of My Letter to Share

Right now I am in Genova, it is nice here. The first week I was here I was amazed that I was living in Italy but then I got used to it ha,but I have gone to some amazing places wow! Pictures do not do anything justice! Literally your probably better off coming here and seeing it in person! Right now I'm on my second companion he is okay sometimes I just want to kill him, when he gets on my nerves and sometimes he gets grouchy when we don't communicate well but both of us are getting better, i have definitely picked up humility and patience! haha The food here is good sometimes I just want a nice juicy steak or a hamburger! ooohhh welll.

GOT A LETTER FROM ITALY

Words of Inspiration from May 15th

When life is not easy get down on your knees and pray, like in 3 nefi i thin its 18 it talks about prayer i encourage you to read it! so the other day i saw a miracle i was in a lesson with this lady named maria and she was telling me about how hard her life is and how its so challenging well i shared it with her and she began to cry the spirit was so strong i felt it i was burning so much and i have seen the power of prayer and asking Heavenly Father for guidance wow i know you know that he will help you with faith everything is possible ( ethher begining chapters also ether 12.

Some Pictures From the First Day