Elder Hunter Munk

Monday, October 23, 2017

High Gear 10/23/2017

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is doing great, miss you all and I am praying for you all as well! This week was a grind for sure but the rewards were amazing.

This week was work, work, work. We decided to kick it into high gear this week. Our teaching pool was getting small and some of the people we were teaching were not keeping commitments. We found everyday this week. On Wednesday we found like 5 investigators and we both got home that night, we were all sweaty and tired and decided we can do better. The next day we tried even harder and although we did not find as much we both felt really good about our efforts. This week weather wise was good, it didnt really rain as much and the cloud coverage was nice so it wasnt too hot either. Friday was another good day, it was pretty hot and we walked around like crazy, nothing too exciting happened. Saturday was one heck of a day. We worked from 10am to 10pm, we walked around back and forth in our area over and over. We found 8 new investigators and we taught some less active members as well. It felt good coming back to the house and flopping on my bed knowing that my efforts were noted by the Lord. Overall this week we found 19 new investigators and 7 of them came to church. I really hope that they have the urgency to keep coming to church and reading so they can have the testimony they need to get baptized. Please pray for the Mciver family if you can, they are a family of four who are really good investigators, we need them to come to church. Sunday was crazy and we pretty much across our area to our church right at starting time, we walked in all sweaty and breathing hard and we got some weird looks haha.

Last night we found a spider on our wall that was legit like 7 inches from end to end. We all freaked out and when Elder Morris finally got the courage to throw a shoe at it, the egg broke and out came hundreds of little baby spider. hahaha iti was nasty and none of us could sleep until we sprayed our rooms with bug killer. nasty. Hopefully this next week we can get another 20 investigators. The grind is real sorry for no pics, maybe next week. LOVE YOU ALL remember to read everyday. ingat po

Elder Hunter Munk

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Crazy cool week YO 10/17/2017

This week was jam packed and to be honest I cannot really remember everything, but I am gonna try my best to get it all

So the week started off with splits, I went with my district leader Elder Batilong and we taught some people, after he took me to this mountain top and the view was so awesome. The air did not stink and I could actually see the mountains! it was beautiful. The next day was our mission tour with the area president Elder Bowen. He pretty much said that obedience is the most important thing we can have because if we are obedient we can ask God for things and honestly say to ourselves that we are doing our best. It was a great meeting and he gave us a formula to follow: Obedience + Faith = Miracles. And the next day we tested it out. we did everything exactly on time and when we went out we found a women who was looking for the LDS church. She wanted to be accomidated (baptized) into our church, miracle!. Hopefully that works out. I know that obedience brings miracles.

So one of our investigators, Alaysa is 17 and has a kid. SHe isnt married yet so before she can get baptized she has to get married or stop living with the man. We invited her to baptism on November 25 and she said "maybe next november" WHAT???? she seemed like the perfect investigator, she comes to church and even pays her tithing, we are not giving up on her yet. Hopefully she will realize the importance of baptism and accept it in the Lords time.

This week is rained really hard and both of my shoes got soaked. One pair already has mold on them but i wear them anyway. There was a little bit of flooding in our area but nothing too crazy. Today we played basketball with our zone and said good bye to Elder Uhler, he was a great ZL and missionary. I have 6 more weeks until my training is up, the language is hard and slowly coming. Sorry for the jumbled email. shout out to all my friends in the field and my cousin for getting married!! love you all!

Elder Hunter Munk

Monday, October 9, 2017

Conference Weekend in the Philippines 10/09/2017

Kumsta po tayo!!! hope your week was dope!

First of all, shout out to all my brothers out in the mission field, I love you guys, your on the Lords errand and your doing great things! Also shout out to my fam bam, especially my mom she is a baller.

Now here we go, so the week went by very fast. We had to go pick up some stuff from the mission office and go to a bunch of meetings, so i was very stressed and at some points I felt lazy, but we worked as much as we possibly could. One of our investigators who has trouble keeping commitments decided to read one her own, she read like 9 chapters of the Book of Mormon on her own! wow! her faith is increasing and hopefully she can open her heart to the spirit and gain a testimony of the gospel. We have four investigators who are really progressing and they are doing great. I was so excited for conference weekend, and it was the greatest weekend of the mission so far! I loved all the talks and i felt the spirit so strong, some of the talks that stood out to me : Elder Zwick, he talked about seeing things through Christs eyes, it was awesome. Elder Callisters talk about the Book of Mormon was awesome as well and it reminded me of my Grandpa Munk, the testimony was so bold and straight forward it was awesome. Conference was definitely the break i needed. If you did not watch it I strongly suggest taking time to watch it next session and reading the talks in the ensign.

Me and my companion had to do laundry and so we decided to mix our laundry together and do it all in one big load. bad idea. we started at 8:00pm and ended at 1:00am. hahaha i got a good workout from scrubbing and I fell asleep really quickly after that. The weather was great this week, it only rained a couple times. My joy for the work is increasing more and more every day. I have been able to read the Book of Mormon almost twice through since the mission and the love i have for people and my family and the power i have to resist temptation is stronger than ever. I hope you all make reading the Book of Mormon a priority every day. Nothing bad will happen from reading and the prophets tell us that reading the book of mormon and gaining a testimony of it is more important than homework, sleep, or work. I encourage you all to test God, read and see if he doesnt bless you for it. I know he will

Love you all sooooo much, stay safe and I will take to yall next week.

Elder Hunter Munk

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Conference Weekend?? 10/2/2017

Kumusta! Hope you all have had great weeks!

Hope your conference weekend was awesome! I literally had no idea it was this week haha, its next weekend for us, we watch a recording of it because of the time difference.

Anyway, this week we did a lot of finding, and it went pretty well. On Tuesday we had a district conference but really it was more like a zone conference because one of the sisters in our zone got diagnosed with thyroid cancer I think. The zone leaders talked about burning our boats and being committed to the mission. He talked about taking it one day at a time and not wasting our time. Really if you think about it, when we waste time we are wasting the Lords time. It was really powerful and I am glad we have such good zone leaders.

We worked with the Rogers (couple missionaries) and the ward mission leader and we found 4 solid investigators and three of them are already coming to church and paying tithing and so hopefully they can be baptized here soon. The language is tough, its really slow but it helps me with my patience haha. The weather was good this week and it only rained 3 days. So on saturday before fast sunday we went to Macdo and bought a butt load of food. we kept it in the fridge and after our fast we feasted, it was awesome. Also, there is a dog on our street who is way aggresive and whoever owns it taught it to bark at people wearing white shirts, which is us. Elder Morris bought some Baygone and a lighter, we were walking down the street and the dog was barking and ran at us. Elder Morris pulled out the Baygone and torched the dog right in the face haha. It doesnt bark at us anymore. Today we went to the zoo for the district activity and it was awesome, they have so many animals there its crazy. Anyway yea that was my week. Im really looking forward to conference next sunday! Love you all!

Elder Hunter Munk

Monday, September 25, 2017

Cockroaches, Rain and the Blitz 9/25/2017

Kumusta! hope your week went very well! here is a little summary of mine:

So everyday this week it has rained, and when it rains here in the Philippines it floods. So Tuesday I went with Elder Uhler, the zone leader and we ran through the streets while we got soaked and it was actually way fun, we ran through knee deep water and he kept me laughing the whole time. We taught three lesson but since we were wet we just stood outside the door and taught them, it was funny. After we went to Macdo (mcdonalds) and I got a FAT burger and it was amazing.

Wednesday was kinda the same, I went with Elder Batilong our district leader and it started pouring right after we went out. So something about pinos: some of them believe that if rains gets on their head they will get sick, so elder batilong made us go back to the apartment and we studied there for the rest of the day. I got to know him very well, and he is an awesome guy haha. Thursday same story expect the rain stopped after lunch so we were able to get some lessons done. We ate at a members house and they are amazing cooks, the food was sooo good. The more and more I eat their food the more I like it. Friday my companion had a dermatologist appointment and we had zone interviews, I got to talk with President Hughes and some of the APs about my adjustments here. President Hughes is a baller, straight up.

Saturday was the blitz. Our whole zone got together in our ward, there were missionaries all over the place. I went with our ward mission leader who is an RM so he knew what he was doing. We contacted all day and some of the places we couldnt get to because of the flood waters. I invited a bunch of people to church and we taught one really good lesson. It was a really good experience. Afterwards our mission president bought us pizza, real good tasting pizza. OHHH it was good. Sunday we went to church all day and figured out what we learned from the blitz, we have our work cut out for us, hopefully the baptisms and conversions will start rolling in.

Because of the rain there are cockroaches everywhere. They can fly too so they are hard little buggers to kill. My companion likes to scream everytime he kills one, it s hilarious hahaha. So i think we killed like 16 in the span of an hour, its crazy but it keeps us entertained. Also i can almost solve a rubix cube, ive been practicing at night when i get bored.

OK THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: MY SISTER IS 21 TODAY, SHE IS THE BEST SISTER IN THE WORLD AND SO EVERYONE THAT READS THIS WISH HER HAPPY BIRHTDAY. k salamat

Love you all have a great week, remember to read everyday 💧🔥

Elder Munk

They did a service project at someones house, then went to Chilis.

Monday, September 18, 2017

9/18/2017 Mission Tour and Baptism

Kumusta! I hope that everyone is doing good!

This week was a pretty long hard week.

Friday we had a mission tour and Neil Anderson of the 12 spoke to the Quezon City mission and the Quezon City North mission. The church we went to was huge and there was like 300 missionaries there. I got to see Elder St. John, he is doing great. It was a great experience and i was able to see and meet a ton of missionaries in my mission. Later we did a lot of work with the zone leaders trying to find less actives, my zone leaders are really cool and they know how to work hard. There are a ton of cockroaches in our apartment so when we are bored we catch them and burn them, its awesome. Oh yeah and one of the zone leader loves to kick cats, and its pretty funny when he does. The area I am in has this huge market with fresh meat and fish, it smells so extremely bad. I sweat 24/7 and i am kind of used to it by know, its not that it is hot but the humidity is crazy so you sweat a lot. The weather is crazy as well one day it is sunny and another day it rains and floods.

On saturday I got my first baptism. I baptized Carl De Vera, he is a 12 year old and he pretty much is the only active member in his family. It was the coolest experience ever. We had to make the program and set it all up because sometimes our ward leaders do not really help. We have a couple progressing investigators but right now we are focused mainly on the less active and cleaning up the ward list. There are 500 people on the ward list but only like 100 people are active. Tagalog is hard but it is slowly coming, the food is whack as ever, the smells here are interesting, but every day i grow a little but more and love the people a little bit more, before I know it I will be a filipino haha. I encourage everyone to read the book of mormon every single day, it is an amazing book, it helps me and i know it will help you. if you have not read for a while take it and read a couple pages a day, i promise it will help. Love you all! Also i have a lot of pictures coming next week.

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Elder Munk