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