This week was great and was full of walking, my favorite :) This week we set out to finish the CMIS of our ward and to go to every house hold in the ward and map them on our GPS. We had a lot still to do at the beginning of the week but we were able to get to all of them and complete the CMIS, we have all of the households mapped and now we can switch our focus back on finding part members and investigators again! Through all this mapping we have found some people that are active members but do not have a record, they were baptized but the record was never made or was lost so they need to get baptized again so they can go on missions and so they can go to the temple. This Saturday we have a baptism for a very great member name Winssy Joves, she is awesome and will make a great missionary in the future years. Hopefully this will go through and she can get a new record. We have also found a lot of part members who we will be coming back to this week.
We walked a ton this week, and this week just happened to be the hottest week ever! (not really but it felt like it). One day we were walking from the very top of our area, it was pretty dang hot and we had not eaten anything that morning (we were in a hurry). We start walking and looking for jeeps but there were none, we continued to walk. Somehow we got to talking about Hires and Mo' Bettas and some our our favorite places to eat, and we realized that we were really hungry. We were dead and we had to stop and rest and get some water and food in our systems, so we decide to go into this really nice looking cafe. Now in the philippines they love to advertise things that are not really what they look like, for example the pictures on the menu looked amazing and the food looked like it was gonna be really good, but it was sooooooooo bad haha. It was maybe the worst meal I have ever had in my entire life and the worst part was, it took like 30 minutes to make. We kinda just chuckled at the situation and smiled and chewed through the pain haha, we walked home and sat in front of the fans for like 20 minutes trying to cool off.... it made me think of how temptation sometimes looks soooo good. Sometimes we see something that looks so fun and so popular and everyone is doing it and so of course it will be good, but after we do it we realize how bad and how unsatisfying it really was. I thought about that for a long time, I played back the times where I made that mistake in my own life and I realized how important and how thankful I am for the atonement. Of course we should always try our best to stay away from temptation and not participate in those bad things but we are human and we mess up, but we also have the atonement to fix the wrongs we have done. I am so thankful for the gift of the Atonement.
I hope you all have a great week! I will have pictures of the baptism next week! Ingat kayo!
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Elder Hunter Munk
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