Hello Familia,
well last Thursday i had my first zone conference. i really enjoyed it a lot! it was something different, we all (the missionaries in the zone) got to get together with the mission president and learn a lot of things. we actually learned a lot about finances and keeping a budget and living within your means. what i really liked about the zone conference was they were teaching us things to learn on the mission, and how to apply it after a mission. the mission president talked about maintaining finances with your future spouse and home purchases and what-not. he based a lot of it off of what Elder Marvin J. Ashton taught LDS families about how to stay financially smart. they gave us a pamphlet that the church put together based on his talk. anyway we learned other things too. it was really spirtitually uplifting about always working hard to find people who are ready to accept the gospel.
things have been going great for my companion and i. i really have been blessed to start the mission in the area that i'm in. there's a LOT of work to be done here. we have a mission goal of teaching 20 lessons every week. while many other misisonaries have been struggling with this, Elder Rios and i have been able to meet it and this past week we had 23 lessons! we were really excited about that. altough we know that numbers are NOT a measure of success, we are just thankful for the work the Lord has given us and thankful that we have been able to reach our goals.
we have been really working with a few solid investigators, and trying to always find new people to teach. we found a family that has been really kind and listens intently when we teach (we've taught them twice). on this next appointment we hope to ask them to work towards a baptismal date.
It's been great working and teaching the members too. many of the members in our area i just realized are "recent converts" because they haven't even been members for a year yet. we've been meeting regularly with one family that is very strong and humble. they are SO kind to us. we just taught them about family home evening and what it is. we put on the first one they've ever had. it was so much fun and something that i never considered i'd be doing as a missionary! i just never really thought about all the things that i would share and teach people! i loved having FHE with them. i taught them a game too, the rythm game that we call in our family Matthew Mark Luke John. the one where you pat your legs, clap, and then snap while calling out the names or whatever. haha does that even make sense? well you know what game i mean. well i taught them that and they LOVED IT! they thought it was so much fun and we laughed a lot. what's funny to me is that the game actually went really horribly! haha only because it's a RYTHM game and you are supposed to say the names on the two snaps. they didn't really understand that and there was really no rythm to the game. so people just got out if they missed calling the right names or didn't realize it was their turn. i thought the family was so cute the enjoyment they were having. it was great.
well i love it here! things are a lot of fun and i really am so so grateful that it's finally my turn to serve a mission! there is nothing that makes me happier than the gospel. and i get to share that with people every single day. take care and know that i love you all!
love,
elder munoz
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