hey there!
yeah i had a great week here in chicago. it's a little strange being back here in my old area. but it's good to see the members again and we're trying to work really hard so that we can grow the work. i'm not going to lie, it's less stressful as a district leader than it is as a zone leader. i feel like i can focus better on my area and i am responsible for less missionaries and have more frequent contact with them so that's cool. i enjoyed the time that i was called as a zone leader though. i learned a lot over those months. so my very first apartment caught fire due to an unattended grill or something like that. crazy huh? that happened to some missionaries on like the 1st of this year. but we have a really sweet new apartment now though. i really like it.
thats awesome that you are hitting the gym! sometimes it's hard to start when you don't do it for a while. so yeah all the missionaries got dvd players for the apartments. we have been given the preach my gospel training videos and we use those a lot for examples and to see how we can better our own teaching skills. it's really neat and i think it's effective! and i'll be able to use p90x in the mornings too so that will be cool!
thats great that gramps is getting so many blessings! i miss him and i can't wait to talk to him in spanish more. he's gonna have to teach me the Colombian accent though because everyone says that it's awesome. everyone thinks that it's a beautiful accent. has he gone to church at all? how come he doesn't want to get baptized??
well things are awesome. i miss and love you all. but i love this work. we went on exchanges on monday. i went to another elders area and we had a great time. the Lord helped us see miracles. we were knocking doors so that we could find them some new investigators and we approached a family that was trying to blow us off saying that they were catholic and believed in the virgin mary. but we didn't let it phase us and began talking to them about prophets. the woman we were talking to seemed touched at some of the questions we had for her and she agreed to listen to us. we taught her and her mom and they loved what we had to say. the elders are going to visit them again tomorrow i think. and on Sunday we saw miracles in our area too! we were trying to reach our goal of new investigators and we needed two more for the week. and we only had like an hour left of proselyting time. so we went to work!!! we started talking to people and knocking doors. i recognized one house that we got to and i had taught there before, but they didn't progress. maybe it was now their time to listen to the gospel! turns out they weren't interested... BUT! we kept going and the very next house we found a whole family that listened to us! they were really nice and we have hope for them. they are going to meet us at the church this saturday so that we can give them a tour and teach them a little more. i hope that they feel the spirit and want to come to church sunday!!!
oh how merciful the Lord is. blesses us when we are trying our best.
i love and miss ya'll tons!
elder derek munoz
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