February 6, 2010

Dear Family,

OK. Here we go. So this week was great. On Sunday I gave a talk in sacrament meeting in Portuguese of course on Fe (Faith). It went well I thought. As a district we have made a goal to do English fasts on Mon, Wed, and Saturday. It is hard, more quiet, but good for us. Devotional this week was by Elder Hinckley. It was awesome and he reminded me of President Hinckley so much. This week in the TRL we taught the first lesson in Portuguese. It went well. I cold tell the Gift of Tongues working in me. We have been going to the Referral enter where we make outbound calls. I stress "out" with it because I do not like talking on the phone and these are really people! But it is good for me. I talked with an atheist which was interesting but went well. And he agreed to receive a Finding Faith in Christ dvd. Visa's are coming in. I just heard that 80 came in yesterday (Thurs.) What a miracle and a blessing! Thanks for sending that talk. It is very interesting, and I love it. So people have been stressing the atonement a lot. So I have been searching for better understanding and a stronger testimony of it. The best missionaries in the Book of Mormon knew the atonement. So there is this quote I came by from Neal A. Maxwell. It says that as we get on the path of steady improvement (discipleship) we will become more righteous and go through a process of 1) acknowledging Jesus, 2) admiring Jesus, 3) adoration of Jesus, 4) emulation of Jesus. I am trying to move on this path. Anyways, kind of cool I thought. I love you all. Love hearing from you and how things are going. I KNOW this gospel is true with all of my heart.

Love Always, Elder Munk