Back to the basics 2/26/2018

Well hello everyone! I love you all and hope you had a great week! 

So i arrived here in Bagong Silang on wednesday and it was sad to say goodbye to Malolos. Yes it is very very very city here haha. So this place has a really bad reputation but so far nothing too crazy has happened. No i have not been robbed yet. We have heard some gun shots and on the news someone died in our area. but dont worry we are on the Lords errand we are gonna be fine. Anyways my new companion is Elder David from Cebu. He is awesome, pretty quiet and not very good at english but he is really good at oyms he has a way with words haha. So our ward is actually not a ward it is a branch, and a very small one at that. We are currently working on mapping everyone so we can see who is moved out and who is new. We had another Blitz on saturday. It is cool to see how the blitz has evolved. the first ever blitz was in my first area and me and Morris had a huge workload. Now it is so much simpler and easier. It was fun to work with the members and finding the less actives that are not mapped yet. Maybe someday we will get smartphones so it will be a lot easier to map. 

This week was good, we worked hard and it was good to be able to get comfortable teaching with elder David. We do not have much to work with but the Lord has us here for a reason and im confident that we will see some baptisms before we leave the area. I taught Lesson 1 probably 20 times from wednesday to sunday hahaha its good for my language though. Although it is tough being back in the city, im glad i am here. Hopefully this branch can become a ward and we can see the fruits of labors. Its gonna be a grind but im ready for it. The time is going so fast i cant believe that its already March! wow i feel like i just graduated last week hahaha. I hope you all have great weeks. Shoutout to all the homies on missions! keep grinding. Love you! sorry....still no pictures. 

Alma 26:12 

--

Elder Hunter Munk 

Bye Bye Malls 2/20/2018

Well well well, oh how the time flies. It is funny how the good times always seem to fly by. I am transferring back to the city..... sobrong pangit yung city talaga, grabe. Anyways I am really going to miss it here in Malolos. I am going to miss the open rice fields and the mountains and the long jeepney rides and of course the people I have met and the zone that we had. This has been the best time I have had on my mission by far, I loved it here. Elder Basa will no longer be my companion and he is staying in malolos to train. He is awesome I will miss him for sure. We have some baptisms coming up in March and a wedding for our investigators next week, I wont be able to see but I am happy they will be baptized and become members of this church. We had a great run together and hopefully he can continue that success.

My new area is going to be really fun...! It is in the Camarin Zone in the Bagong SIlang Ward. This is the most populous area in the entire country. It is considered the "ghetto" of the whole mission sooooo yeah its gonna be wild. Back to pollution and dog poop everywhere. Hopefully we can get that ward baptizing again and build up the area. My new comp is gonna be Elder David he is pinoy and he is only a transfer ahead of me in the mission. I am a little bit dissapointed that I am going back to the city but I know that there is a reason I need to be there with Elder David, hopefully I can find that reason before I leave again. 

This week was a really great week. We finally got one of our investigators to church and he had a really good time. We had a big stake conference to re-organize the stake here. Elder Bowen of the 70 was there and he gave a great talk about the sacrifice and atonement of Jesus Christ. One thing he said that was really cool was that no man could kill Jesus, he was the son of God and no man could kill him. It says in the scriptures "he gave up the ghost" Elder Bowen said that he was not going to die from the efforts of the evil men, he died when he knew the atonement was done and he died or, gave up his ghost, when he knew it was time. It was pretty cool and deep I did not really know that before. The entire talk was in english obviously and not alot of people could really understand him so it was funny to look around and see people sleeping and not really paying attention but hopefully the spirit carried the message into their hearts. Monday we said goodbye to sister Barrie and Va'atuitui becuase they are going home, we all went to Robinsons to eat and it was pretty good. Yeah so that was my week, The second I get a cord that works I will send a ton of pictures I promise. I love you all! I miss you all as well! Goodluck with everything this week hope its a great week. Remember, if you are committed you will learn from every mistake and you will learn from every dissapointment. Even your fears will make you stronger.

Thats all i got for ya today. Love you very big

--

Elder Hunter Munk 

Ang Aking Patotoo 2/12/2018

Sorry I dont have any pictures....I really tried but my cord is not working, next na lang! 

I wanna just share my testimony with you all this week

Alam ko po na totoo yung simbahan na ito, yung simbahan ni jesucristo na mga banal sa mga huling araw. Alam ko na totoo yung Aklat ni Mormon at may kapangyarihan sa Aklat ni mormon. Alam ko na mahal na mahal tayo ng diyos at tayo ay yung mga anak ng diyos. Alam ko na tinatawag ng diyos ang mga propeta para bawat isa sa  atin. Sa pamamagitan yung mga propeta malalaman natin yung mga salita and patnubay ng diyos. Alam ko na nakita ni Joseph smith ang ating ama sa langit at si jesucristo. Sa pamamagitan ni joseph smith ipinanumbalik yung totoo na ebanghelyo at simbahan ni jesucristo. buhay pa si jesucristo.  Sobrong nagpapasalamat para sa yung opportunidad na ito bilang isang missioneryo. Mahal na mahal kita. 

Love you all! have a great week 

-- 

Elder Hunter Munk

2/5/2018 Bukid Life

Hello everyone. I bought a camera this week but i forgot my card reader so there are not gonna be any pics this week haha sorry. 

This week was kinda bumpy in terms of our investigators and baptismal dates, in terms of being a missionary and serving the Lord it was a great week. This week we had nothing planned like zone con or zone interviews so we new we would have the whole week to figure out who is ready to be baptized in February. As the days went on we visited all of our new and progressing investigators and talked with hem to try and figure it all out. Elizabeth, one of our really great investigators, found out that she cant get married until March because her live in will be gone until then, it was hard to hear but she will be baptized in the future, on the lords time line. She gave us her siblings to teach though it was really awesome. Jefferson our other investigator told us that his mom said he cant be baptized anymore and would talk to us because she was busy gambling with her friends. It was tough to hear and I feel really bad for him. He has only been schooled up to 3rd grade but he is 16 so he cant really read all that well and its hard for him to understand our lessons. Another one of our investigators did not come to church for the second week in a row and he was busy playing in the championship for his neighborhood basketball team. So ya it was kinda rough but it will all work out in the end.

Other than all that me and Basa had some fun this week. One day we visited the familys in Calumpit and went out the the Bukid (idk the exact translation but it means like the rice fields and the working fields) Anyway we went out there and it was so awesome, the rice is all planted so it looks like green as far as you can see. its sweet. We walked a lot again this week and oymd and tried to teach good. Missionary life can sometimes feel boring and repetitive but when you can find the fun in the day its much better. Anyways thats all, im all goods here in Malolos. Congrats to all the eagles fans, football is over till next year. Love you all! 

--

Elder Hunter Munk