Hurricane YUTU/Transfer Week 10/29/2018

Dear Parents, Families, and Priesthood Leaders of our missionaries,


As you may be aware, Typhoon YUTU is heading toward the Philippines, and Northern Luzon is the focus area where landfall is expected to occur. The outer bands of the typhoon are expected to cross the Quezon City North Mission Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Your missionary has been alerted to prepare for some possible heavy rains and wind. Their preparations will include preparing for possible flooding in some areas, checking their 72 hour kits, having emergency cash, drinking water, non-perishable food, and charging their cell phones. Every apartment has an evacuation plan, which is usually to move to the nearby chapel. Because typhoons always come from east to west, and because we are on the central and western part of Luzon, we do not experience the kind of coastal storm surges that can hit the east coast. Nevertheless, flooding from overflowing streams and rivers may occur in some areas. We choose apartments that are known not to flood as identified by the local members. You can email me at sfhughes@ldschurch.org if you have questions about your missionary.
We would ask you to pray for all those who are in the direct path of this typhoon.


Sincerely,
President Hughes
Philippines Quezon City North Mission



Hello everyone! So this is the last week with no pictures because on Thursday I am picking up my camera charger so we will be all goods. This week was the last week of the transfer, and sometimes when its the last week people get kinda lazy and dont work as hard because they know they are transferring but we have an awesome zone so that did not happen haha. This week we focused on getting our teaching pool to church. We have met a lot of part members this week who all "want" to be baptized they just run into problems mostly with pamasahe (money for transportation). We do have one who has a bap date for November his name is John Hari and even though he is super makulit in the lessons, he has come to church and shown his desire to get baptized. His cousins and family are the ones that are having trouble coming to church, we will keep working on them. We have come up with 2 plans that we are excited about for this next transfer. We have these 2 areas that are kinda close to the church, they have tons and tons of part members and they are all inactive (there are over 800 people in our ward and our attendance is only like 120) Anway, we also happen to have 2 really active helpful members that live there as well, so we are going to work with them a lot to get them to church and to help them feel comfortable with coming back to church. If this works it could result in like 5 completed families and around 20 baptisms. 

This week was a regular week, we got to go on splits with some of the Elders in the zone and it was a good experience. We have a busy week upcoming, we have transfers tomorrow and MLC the next day, we are going to plan on doing exchanges again on Friday. I am staying in Malolos with Elder Bryan fort another transfer. I am excited to meet the new missionaries coming into the zone. The mission is the best, our mission is killing it! Love you all, have a great week!! 

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Elder Hunter Munk 

The move and the DUNK 10/22/2018

This week we finally MOVED!!!!!! We have been waiting pretty much all transfer for this so on Wednesday we were all pretty hyped to move to the new house that we found. It was really hot on Wednesday so moving actually sucked pretty bad, we had to carry everything up 3 flights of stairs and it by the end of it we looked like we had just jumped into a pool, we sweat pretty bad. Also when we finished moving we realized that we did not have any clean water to drink, so we had to go to the tindahan and buy a ton of water. It took all day between cleaning the old house and moving into the new one, we did not get much missionary work done that day but we moved and our new CR is awesome so i took a nice long cold shower after it was worth it. 

Thursday we had MTC Exchanges again! It was in Valenzuela so it took forever to get there, but it was great. My companion was Elder Henry from Kiribati so he was not that great at english or tagalog but it was still really fun and we were able to teach a couple lessons and talk to a bunch of people. Also I threw down a sweet windmill dunk with some street kids haha (the hoop was like 6 feet high). The jeep ride home was the longest jeep ever, It was legit like 3 hours of just sitting and sweating on a jeep...but we made it home and the rest of the night went well. 

Saturday Jerrick got baptized!!!!! The turn out was pretty small (there was only like 6 of us) but it went well, and it was great to see him enter the waters of baptism. He really has a big future and a great support system with him. On Sunday he was confirmed and we also found some new people that we can teach that are part members. We also walked into a house yesterday and there was a kid that looked my age that said in English "hey bro wassup?" I was kinda shocked because it really sounded like american English but i did not say anything because a lot of people ask us that even though thats all they know in English, I responded in tagalog. Usually when people talk to us in english we try and mess with them by talking in fast English to them but this kid was responding normally hahaha then we say "wow your really good at english" and he says "Yeah cuz I grew up in America" Hahahaha me and Elder Bryan just laughed and then had a great convo in English. We are going back to teach him on Tuesday so we will see how it goes. 

Sorry i dont have any pictures but i am getting my charger on wednesday 

Love you all and hope you have a great week!!!         

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Conference Weekend 10/14/2018

Hello everyone, this week was awesome mostly because of GEN CON!!!! Also because being on a mission is awesome and teaching and meeting new people is the best thing ever. We had MLC this week so we went down to San Jose Del Monte and slept at another elders house, it was a good time and then in the morning we made it to the office and had the meeting. On the way back we tried to go the "fast way" but....we missed the big jeepney that went to Malolos from SJDM so we ended up having to take a bunch of smaller jeeps that took soooo long. But it was pretty fun and funny to see the faces of the other missionaries when it was 9 pm and we were still on a jeep haha. This week we were supposed to move but the contract was not here on time so we pushed it back to this Wednesday. The highlight of the week was General Conference, it was amazing. My favorite talk was presdient Oaks in Saturday session. It was straightforward and true doctrine. I wish we put that talk on loud speaker to the entire world so everyone could hear it. Also I liked the talk of Elder Eyring and Elder Bowen who used to be the area president, last year he came to our house after a conference and gave it a blessing, it was awesome (we stayed up all night cleaning haha). The tabernacle choir at temple square killed it once again, they are amazing. There are lots of new changes but the hardest one for us to adjust to is gonna be trying not to use the word Mormon with the name of the church. A lot of times in my mission i have explained our church as the "church of the mormons" just because everyone know what a mormon is here. I will work on that, I totally understand why that change was made this really is Christs church and he is at the head of it. 

Our teaching pool is getting rebuilt and we have another baptism next week, Jerrick is gonna be baptized and we alos found a big compound of part members so we are gonna work on them this week and hopefully see them move up the stairway to heaven and be baptized!!! I love the mission, the work is doing great here in the Philippines. I am already excited for next conference! Love you all have a great week!

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Vince and Aron get dunked 10/8/2018

This week felt super long but it also feels like I emailed like yesterday so, I really dont understand how time works haha. This week we had lots of meetings and we Zone Conference, it was focused on developing our skills in teaching and the language and everything else we need to be good at as missionaries. I gave a workshop about extending commitments and the other zone leaders gave some really good workshops. President Hughes gave a great talk and gave us some good advice on how to overcome problems and make our weaknesses strengths. It was great and we were able to apply the process he gave us this week to help out some missionaries with their ward. 

We found this place on Wednesday that is crawling with part members...it ridiculous there are literally like 30 plus part members. It is in a really sketchy part of our area, all the houses are on water and to get there you have to walk on these sketchy wooden walk ways that feel like they are gonna snap when you walk on them. But we were able to teach some of them and invited them to church. I also took a look at the ward list...there are 800+ members in our ward and only about 150 active. So yeah I am glad we are not focusing on mapping or else that would be a headache! The leadership here is good though so they can handle it it is just gonna take a long time. 

Vince and Aron were baptized this week and it was a really good and really cool thing to see. Vince and Aron are both super shy and so it was hard to teach them but they overcame it and were baptized!!!! Great day. Sunday we had a bunch of meeting with stake people to try and help the organization in the stake and to help out the masipag missionaries we have in this zone. Our zone broke a record for investigators at church this week so we were super hyped for them, next week is GEN CON!!!!!!! cant wait and then the week after we have another baptism!!!! It should be a great week!

Love you all!!! 

     

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Baptism and Pandi Branch 10/1/2018

Hello everyone! This week was pretty busy, we did a lot of stuff that was kind of outside of missionary work but we are trying hard to fit everything in and trying to get as much work in our area as possible. This week we had a bunch of baptism interviews that we had to go to. The pamasahe here is so expensive that we ran out of money so we had to walk to an ATM haha, it was super hot and I got burned but its not bad and we got food after so it turned out ok. We had a baptism on Saturday, baptism of Charlene, she is 19 and already has a really strong testimony. Her brother Charles baptized her and the miracle was that during the baptism her mom walked in right as she was getting baptized so she saw her son baptize her daughter and I think it was a testimony builder for her. She had work and was running super late, but somehow she made it in the exact moment. On Sunday I introduced myself to the ward and gave a talk about missionary work. Sadly not  a ton of our investigators were able to make it to church but we have 2 baptisms on Oct 6 so I am not too worried. After we were invited to go to Pandi branch. It is a tiny group of saints who live way far from any chapel. The pamasahe one way is 28 pesos, for one person. It was a really cool experiecnce we met at a school house and there were lots of visitors from the stake but the actual member from pandi were only like 10. It was nice because we got a ride with the stake presidency so we had air con and I took that time to take a quick nap haha. This next week we have zone conference so we will be serving up a nice workshop for Malolos and Baliwag zones. It should be a good week. Love you and miss you all!!!

Alma 26:12 

Pictures     

Baptism!!!

Pandi branch

I found out my camera has a fish lens option hahaha

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Elder Hunter Munk