August 25, 2010 Letter

hey family!

oh man! thanks for all the emails. it was great to hear from all of you. sounds like things are changing in the munoz family. constant change. but that's good :)

 

well things here are great. it's only been a week so we're still trying to get things rolling along in our area. they had a baptism right before i came in and didn't have a whole lot more going on. but my companion and i have been trying to get to know all the members in our area and have been making contact with former investigators of the church. we have been doing really well and have several people lined up to teach :) i'm really excited to begin teaching these people. we made contact with a woman who used to meet with the missionaries. she lost her husband and has been feeling alone. we told her that we can help with the gospel! i was really impressed with her sincerity and i think that she will be receptive.

 

one thing that has been really cool though, that i feel like i'm learning to do, is be more BOLD. :) i've been better about telling people the way things are- "straight up" in modern slang. because this truly is the most important message that they could ever hear. so i need to not downplay that at all. "bold, but not overbearing" as the scriptures say. it's actually really fun to be bold and it's powerful.

well one awesome thing that happened is that we were knocking a street. we got finished with it and were unlocking our bikes at the house where we started. we already knocked the house and nobody had answered. but i noticed that the side gate was opened and we hadn't knocked the basement yet. so i told my companion i thought we should try it just in case. i was a little embarrassed because it was quite possible nobody would be there but i had a feeling, and i juust wanted to do it, just in case. turns out there was a family there and we have a appoinment to teach them this week! blessing of the spirit.

 

i love you all and want you to know i'm doing great. sorry this wasn't longer! thanks for updating me. i emailed dev too :)

e munoz

August 18, 2010 Letter

Hello,

well, the work in my old area was going great!!! guess what happened on monday? i'll tell you. we got to teach Amelia again. she's progressing fine :) at the end of the lesson we actually asked if she had any questions, and she did. very humbly and shyly, she said that we scheduled her baptism for next month and she wanted to know if she could get baptized SOONER! we were so impressed with her righteous desires. she's great. but we did tell her that we think it's best for her to wait because she still has a lot to learn. i know that she will be ready when her date comes, and the fact that we are waiting a little bit will help her have some more time to grow in her love for the gospel. okay but that's not all that happened! later that day we went to visit Magdalena. she is the one with 3 kids who are members, and she wants to be a member, but isn't actually married to her "husband". well we've been trying to encourage them to get married and trying to start working with Juan to get him interested in the gospel. well last friday he said he wanted to start learning! and then he came to church on sunday! and then he was there for our lesson with the family monday night! the lesson went well and we could all feel the Spirit. so we invited them to get married so that they both could get baptized. they said yes!!! AH! we were so excited about that! it was so awesome. we were thrilled. i had to tell so many people :)

 

so that happened monday night and transfer calls were going to come tuesday morning. i had a feeling that because of what happened the day before, the Lord was going to send me off as a joke because i had been.... slightly complaining for a change of scenery. haha and it happened. i've finally left my first area and now i'm in Logans Square. it's still in the city, just north of where i was serving. on the chicago north mission side! i'm really excited to be here. and yeah i'm still on a bike. my companion is Elder Ferrell. he's awesome! he's from texas too haha and he's actually one of the missionaries that i met at the mtc LAST year. i slept on the top bunk and he slept on the bottom! haha and my old companion, Elder Melton is in my district as my Zone Leader! is this cool or what?? i feel like this is going to be a blast and Ferrell and i are going to be so blessed in the work. we will work well together. i think that i'll probably be here for a long time because the mission president likes to keep people in areas for a while. so i might be here all winter if i'm here 4 transfers!

 

i love you all family! i hope you are all doing what you can to build your relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ on a daily basis. because that's what we need to do. have growth daily.

 

until next time...

e. mUNoZ