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
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