October 26, 2010

why hellooo there!

 

okay okay i hear everyone is laughing about how i didn't know how colombian we acutally were.... but i didn't! haha :) umm the food we ate at the restaurant was some steak or beef that was really moist and fell apart easily, with potatos and they were both in that certain sauce with tomato. the taste was exactly like home. with white rice just like ya'll make. 

thanks for the package! it was super good. i still haven't finished everything and yeah i've shared a bit with my companion :) that's great that you like the new missionaries in the ward. i hope they're pretty awesome. are they both spanish? or did they just communicate with gramps as best they could with english? dad, you should take gramps to spanish church! maybe he'll be more interested if he understands it more haha.

 

good work being a missionary, mom! with both sharing the gospel and handling being stood-up :) so dad says ya'll got a new bed?? nice. my neck has been hurting many mornings. i think i just need a better pillow! mine aren't the greatest haha. i think i'll try and see if i can budget one in for november. i'm sure i can. wow that's a crazy diet guys! i'm glad that you changed it. i'm sure it will be a lot better for you two.

 

well things are going great here. i'm really excited because the missionaries in my district and ward are all determined to work better with the ward to get things rolling. we just got a new bishopric, i'm not sure if i mentioned that. finally i have the bishop living in MY area! we met with him for breakfast yesterday. he's a great man and i think that he seems very missionary-oriented. i think that we can get his support in working more with the ward. my companion and i are going to try and get to know all the members better, and the leaders so that we can put on missionary firesides or activities once a month. that's our goal at least.

 

i'm very happy to be here! i'm really looking forward to getting the conference issue of the Ensign soon. it provides such a strength to me to read the living prophets words. and the scriptures are awesome too. i'm glad you have set some great new goals for yourself dad! we learn out here that follow-up (or follow-through) is 50%! that's a lot!

 

i love you all. thanks for your spanish letter dad! i love it.

e. mUnOZ

Colombian Food Rocks! October 22, 2010

hey there!

mom and dad thanks for your emails! they were awesome. like always.
i'm glad to hear of your latest adventures. that's really neat that
you went to hang out with devin again. it all sounded like a lot of
fun. dad did you like my birthday card?? i thought it was pretty funny
so i hope you liked it. thanks for the spiritual thought mom. i really
liked it. you should teach about that in your next FHE :)


so a few fun things here. i went out to eat at a colombian restaurant
with a few other missionaries. it was awesome! so much like the food
mom and dad made back home. NO JOKE! i was so so surprised that the
plate i had was so much like what i've eaten back home. it's funny
because i didn't realize how colombian ya'lls food really was. since i
grew up with it. but here i am in chicago eating at a legit colombian
place and it's just like back home. so i really enjoyed that. made me
a little trunky though... we also have a really cool turf soccer field
near our house and we played there last p-day. it was really neat.
it's such a nice field and we hope to play there again today.


well, the work was kind of hard last week. but this week it's been
great!!! our friend Lazaro who has a bap-date came back into the
picture! we hadn't heard from him for a week but he's back still with
a desire to be baptized. i'm excited about that. We also were able to
set up some sweet appointments for the upcoming week! I really think
that there will be potential with them. One of them is an argentine
woman with a cool accent. My first time teaching an Argentine! I'll
let you know how things go.

So we were tracting and ran into someone who knew who the prophet was.
At first we were a bit confused and worried about who he was. Then he
smiled and said he was a member! Apparently his family has been
inactive for a little while. Thankfully the Lord put us in their path
and we found them at home. I really think this family will start
coming again. HE actually bore a strong testimony to US at the end of
our lesson. I'm excited to visit with them some more.

I love you all! Thanks for your love and support in all things!
E. mUnOz

October 13, 2010

hello there!

my birthday was great. i loved the package. and don't worry mom, on your instruction sheet you said to take a bunch of pictures so i did. i just got the Robinsons package yesterday and it was awesome. i miss them! they are such a cool family. tell everyone that i am doing great.

hey mom! i'm reading the same spot in the Book of Mormon in spanish! cool :) i love alma 26. one of my favorite chapters. i love how he boasts not in himself but in his God. i am not sure if it is in the same chapter, i don't think it is. but i also love how overcome with joy he is when they run into Alma. they talk to each other and so great was his joy that he passed out! and his joy was for the success of not only his work but all the success of his brethren. i really enjoyed that because i'm going to try harder and rejoice in the success of those around me as well. we are all trying to press forward doing the same work of the Lord and i want to rejoice for those around me as well.

that sounds like an excellent FHE! wow, that must be really cool to learn how to do some family history right on your own laptop. i would like to learn to do that when i get home. i'm glad that the youth activity went well! sounds like fun. from being out here on a mission and learning different things, i would LOVE to work with the youth. they are in such a big part of their lives. a lot can change for good and bad during those teenage years and the youth of the church needs all the help they can get. to learn how to be strong and the reality of the fact that they are God's children and should do things pleasing to Him. man i can't wait to experience what it's like to help out the youth!

devin is nominated for homecoming king!? sweet!!! have fun together in abilene! give devin a big hug for me!

well things are going well here. sunday was disappointing because our investigator didnt' show up at church. but i'm trying to press forward and rely on the Lord to show me how to best do His work. i think that Lazaro will still progress towards baptism. pray for him! and for the missionaries in your area. i love you all and i am glad to be apart of the Lords' work.

elder munoz

Happy 21st Birthday!
Derek opens his birthday package from hone!

To remind him that nothin is bigger than Texas!

Mom forced Derek to wear a crown! So proud that he did it!

Not quite 21 candles but it is enough to make a wish upon

Derek made the Fun Fetti cake that mom sent!

September 29, 2010

howdy family!

 

i'm glad to hear that everyone has been having a blast and all laughing together. that's great :) i can only imagine how crazy it gets when gramps, dad, and jeremy are all together. i was just telling my companion a little while ago how funny grandpa was. yeah i agree, if we had cameras following us around, it would be full of some funny stuff to watch ahaha :)

 

i'm glad that you have been loving the scriptures mom. i do too! i'm almost done with the Book of Mormon again. after i finish, i'm gonna only study my spanish scriptures! i've been studying them both, but i'm trying to fly through reading it in english. then i'm just going to only study in spanish. i'm excited about it!

 

i'll have to read that talk mom. i've been reading all the apotles talks, and President Monson's. i'm stoked about conference! i'm really looking forward to it. we should have some investigators coming too so that will be great. i'm hoping that they will feel the Spirit and power behing the words that the living prophets will speak and gain a stronger testimony of what we have been teaching them. i hope you all are as excited as i am. is devin going to be able to watch some of the sessions?

 

before i forget, sister flick sent me a package a week or two ago. can you please tell her that i said thank you very much and give her a big hug?? thanks!

 

well things are going really well. we have been working with many of those new investigators that i told you about last week. we have two people we are focusing most of our efforts on at the moment. one is a 19 year-old who has many great questions for us. he is sincere and very willing to learn. the other person is an older woman with a lot of spunk! she is still very alert and really sweet. they both should be coming to some sessions with us this weekend! :)

 

the work is going good. i'm enjoying it. we have been knocking a LOT of doors lately though and it makes me realize how much nicer i need to be to people who come to my door in the future. especially people from church! (ours or not)

 

alrighty then. i love you all and hope you are all enjoying life. take care and keep me updated on the rest of your adventures!

 

love,

e. mUNoZ