Hello everybody! I know that most of you guys watched general conference like 2 weeks ago or a week ago but in the Philippines it was this week. I was so excited for conference and we all woke up extra earlier just to be able to prepare our journals and prepare spiritually to receive the revelation that we need. We watched the priesthood session first on saturday morning and it was awesome! We heard about the change in elders quorum and it was awesome because it will help the church here so very much. It will make the wards more united and the service easier to organize. Also it will help recent convert be able to be around those that are older and the younger elders in the ward. My favorite talk in priesthood session was by Elder Christofferson. It was about the change in the wuorum but he also shared a cool story about a family that lived in Lehi back when Utah was still being developed. The kids all got sick and died but the father still had to gather the crops from his farm. It really hit me hard when the members of the church helped gather the crops and helped serve him. It was a very sad story but it was very powerful as well, this church is a church of service. On saturday morning and afternoon my favorite talk was by Lynn G Robbins about failure. It was really cool and I was able to really relate it to me and my situations I have gone through and am currently going through, it was an amazing talk. The time goes so fast when you watch conference on the mission because you do not want it to end. And it really flew by.
On sunday we watched conference all day again. I was taking notes on all the talks during conference and I did not want to miss anything. My pen was being difficult and the ink was not coming out and so i could not write with my pen and it was actually making me pretty mad. I decided to just put the notebook down and not write anything down, just focus on the feelings. about 30 seconds later President Eyring said in his talk something along the lines of, it does not always matter if you get to write stuff down and it is not always that important, what is important is the feelings and revelation you get in the moment you get them. Just then I realized that I should not keep taking notes and I was reminded that note taking is good, but the feelings and revelation you get while watching are more important to remember than the actual words themselves.Conference came to an end and it was a great last hymn by Motab they always end with a bang. I cant wait for october, conference is really like the super bowl for me on my mission its the thing i look forward to most of all. I hope you all can read and study the talks of our prophets and apostles they are truly from God and can really help us with anything we are going through.
Well, the area I am in is vvery good. Our apartment is huge and really in a nice area, it reminds me of america. There are a ton of subdivisions in our area with rich philippinos who like to speak english to us so it is pretty interesting. The ward is good and this next saturday we have 4 baptisms coming up! It is going to be awesome I am so excited. Love you all! hope you have a great week!
Elder Hunter Munk
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