hey there familia!
things are going great here! we invited another lady to be baptized and she said yes! she's a sweet older woman. her son and his family are members but she for the longest time, didn't want anything to do with us! haha she was sweet but didn't want to talk to us because she was Catholic. but we started talking little by little and with the help of her son, she agreed to actually listen to our message. she has incredible faith!! she knows that God answers prayers and already feels she recieved an answer about joseph smith. it's a little hard because she is not scripturally knowledged at all. so she doesn't understand even some basic stuff. that only means we have to teach very simply and explain the truly important things.
we've also made a great breakthrough with another woman and will hopefully be able to set a date for baptism with her too. she has been taught by many different missionaries, but only now understands the importance of prophets and the Book of Mormon. we found out some of her other concerns and i think we'll be able to really help her overcome them. i've been trying to be better about LOVING the people i teach. and showing that love. and i think it's truly helping, especially with this woman just mentioned.
wow mom. that is one crazy hat!!! how the heck did you make it? or where did you buy it?? haha you are such a fun person. i'm glad that you won.
it sound like the family is enjoying the company of Kat's family. that's great to hear. i can't wait to meet all of them too. they seem so country! haha i love it. i want to get some cowboy boots too! so i'm not left out. i heard that the river walk was going to be shut down for a few months for cleaning or something. is that true?
don't worry ma, i'm not sick. like you guessed i've been blessed to stay healthy so far and hopefully it stays that way.
guess what?? elder ferrel, or now travis, came back to chicago with his parents! he's the companion i had before elder john. i was with him for 4.5 months, the one from texas. they came back to visit during his spring break. they took us out to eat and came to our ward last sunday. it was good to see him and meet his parents. he's such a funny, big bear. haha
well i haven't mentioned yet, but we just had transfers and elder john and i are going to be staying here and doing one more transfer together. so we'll do at least 4.5 months together like i did with elder ferrel. guess what's crazy about transfers? him and i are the ONLY companionship in our zone not changing! out of 12 comps, we are the only one. we're really excited about the change. not that we won't miss the old missionaries, but we feel like we are going to get a great fire in the zone. sometimes you just need to get a fresh mind in the area to make great things happen. and we'll have 5 of the companionships training so they will bring "greeny fire". hopefully this zone will be seeing a lot of success in the next few months.
i love you all! miss ya'll tons. i think for now i'm doing good mom. i can't really think of anything i need except that i ran out of candy... just sayin ;)
until next week,
elder derek munoz
