Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas......( not really ) 12/18/2017

Hello to you all! I miss you and love you all! this week was pretty boring to be honest but ill try and make it sound really fun haha

So this week started off great, i introduced myself to the ward and ore my testimony. This ward is reeally awesome, there are so many members willing to help us with the work! We found a couplke new investigators on sunday and hopefully they can come to church and progress. Our progressing investigator is sister Lilia. She is awesome, she is single and like 50 years old. She is getting baptized on the 30th of December! We worked all week with members to try and familiarize the area, good times. We had a practice for our Haka we are doing at christmas conference and we practiced our dance for the stake christmas party. Saturday came and it was time to do the dance. We all got hyped right before and it kinda reminded me of football haha. But we nailed the dance, it went really well and everyone loved it haha. After we went to domines as a zone to eat, i went to pay for my delicious large ham and pineapple pizza only to find that i had no money in my bag....yes....i was robbed, AGAIN. and this time i was not the only one. onew of the sisters was missing her wallet. Its sad to see that people will steal from missionaries at the stake center. But its whatever forgive and forget. The weather this week was great! and it does not fell like christmas here at all. This week is gonna be packed with conferences and chrsitmas stuff so i am super excited! our bathroom is still broken so we run to the church whenever we have to go and they actually have toilet paper there! my tagalog rap is coming along, i might have a dope album at the end of my mission haha joke lang. Shoutout to my dad, Peyton, Pierce, Ashton, and all other people with birthdays. Shoutout to the mitchell rookie on the Jazz, i hear he is balling it up. Shoutout to LeBron for being the best player in the NBA 12 years running. And of course shoutout to my amazing family who i really miss and love! sorry, no pictures because no camera haha. LOVE YOU ALL! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Elder Hunter Munk

Its more fun in Malolos 12/11/2017

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great week, I love you and miss you all!

So as you know some crazy crap went down last week and I found myself transferring again to Malolos. Malolos is on the edge of our mission area, its close to the ocean so we have a lot of rivers, streams, and fish ponds. It is more province than city which is awesome, it means less cockroaches and more fresh air. I would send some dope pictures but I dont have a camera yet, sorry. So my new ward is Malolos 3rd ward. It is way awesome and the members here love missionary work. Last year they had the most baptisms in the whole mission, we got a lot to live up to haha. My new companion is Elder Basa, he is from Bacolod, Philippines. He is a stud and loves basketball, and likes helping me with tagalog.  

The first couple days here I went on exchanges with Elder Richards our ZL from South Jordan. We taught some lessons and met some members. One day we were walking in the giant rice field it was about 6pm and getting dark. We were walking to a house and all of the sudden this nanay (grandma) came out of the bushes and came up to us. Elder Richards started talking to her and she kept saying "its really late why are you here, its really late" We stopped walking and Elder Richards decided to go back to the main road. We hurried outta there and after he told me that he had a strong feeling not to visit that house before but he ignored it. After the nanay saying what she said he knew that we should not be there. It was a really powerful experience and a good reminder to me that we need to listen to the spirit always. If we had not listened we could have been put in a dangerous situation. I am so grateful for spiritual promptings and I know that I am constantly being protected especially as a missionary. Anyways, elder richards loves football, he played for bingham in highschool. He has a football and so every morning we throw the football around, its flippin awesome. We had a service project on thursday morning. We got these huge machetes and were cutting down trees and also catching fish and draining a rice field. It was way fun, and we all ended up in the muddy rice field running around and making a mess haha. Our house is nice and safe, although the toilet only works somedays, so we have to go to the church if we want to go hahaha. We have a mini hoop on our wall so we always play horse when were bored, and im writing a rap in tagalog with the help of elder basa, but who knows, maybe one day i will become a professional rapper in tagalog hahahaha joke lang. ITS ALMOST BOWL SEASON! hope all you college football fans have a great time watching games and i hope you all enjoy the weeks leading up to christmas. Anyway, its good here in Malolos I hope that I can learn and learn and learn while I am here. I love you all! shout out to all the homies on missions and future missionaries! Shoutout to the fam! This week Pierce (my future brother..haha) my dad, and my cousin Peyton have birthdays! Wish them happy birthday! thats all i love you and miss you, remember to read the Book of Mormon every day! Ingat po!  

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Elder Hunter Munk 

12/4/2017 Hide your kids hide your wife

Hello to you all! This week was pretty crazy haha, some stuff went down, but thanks to my awesome mission president and my awesome mission leaders I am all good now. 

It all started when I got to the new apartment in Lagro, as you know, I am white, and here in the Philippines when they see white people they think rich. So the first night in Lagro me and Elder Talamai went to bed, while we were sleeping someone broke into our house and took our wallets, cameras, watches, our phone, and our dvd player. lucky for the robber, we slept through the whole thing haha. No, but my watch was right next to my head so the robber must have been like 6 inches away from me at one point. Crazy. When we woke up to a missing window and a hole in the door we realized that we had been robbed. I feel bad for Elder Talamai because he goes home in January and all his memories and photos from his whole mission are gone. Anyway we used someones phone to call the mission president and he told us that maybe the Lord kept us asleep, looking back on it it was probably a very good thing that we were asleep because he probably had a knife or gun and so it strengthened my testimony that the Lord protects his missionaries. He got everything sorted out and we were moved to La Mesa Ward in San Jose Del Monte. The house is really nice and the area is all subdivision which is good for safety but bad for finding (subdivision folk dont really like hearing about the gospel). The ward here is aweesome! they are all really nice and willing to work, the area is really different from the city, i can actually see a little bit of mountains! The people here are nice and I am thankful that it all worked out. One of our fans doesnt have a cover on it and I cut my finger open on it, and the next day Talamai cut his elbow on it haha. It might go down as the worst week of the mission haha. Oh ya and just a few minutes ago I found out I am getting transferred again....to Malolos. well, so far this mission has been nothing short of an adventure, I am curious to see what the Lord needs me to learn and what I need to do. My new companion will be Elder Basa, he is filipino and I hear he is really a good guy. Hopefully I can stay there for a while! haha well three months in the field and already 4 areas, and three companions hahaha. The lord must have a great sense of humor. Oh well, I love you all!!! I hope you all have a great week! thanks for the emails! Be SAFE! 

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Transfer Week 11/28/2017

Kumusta sa Inyong lahat!

This week was Thanksgiving and also transfer week. I found out that I am being transferred to Lagro ward in Fairview zone, so I am in the same zone and stake just in another ward. Me and Elder Morris my tatay are splitting. My training is over and it is time to move on to greater pastures. My new companion is going home January 10 so in another 6 weeks I will have another companion. crazy stuff.

So this week was a really fun week. We had Thanksgiving on thursday and we all put away like 500 pesos for it so we could all have a feast. We made mashed potatoes that were divine. Also we got some chicken and rice and some soda. It was a great thanksgiving with my three fellow kabahays. On friday we had zone conference that lasted all day. It was really good and we learned about ITA's and how we can invite people to commit. Also about companionship unity and the atonement. Here in the philippines it is hard to stay focused during the sacrament because all the kids run wild and as a missionary it is easy to worry about investigators. So we made up some ways we can focus. For me, I am going to try and read through the sacrament hymns during the sacrament. The sacrament is so very important to us in our lives and I hope you all can find ways to focus during the sacrament. Anyway the week was very good. Erwins baptism is still up in the air but since I am leaving I wont get to see it but it will happen someday. Our bishop met with us and we worked out the bumps in our realtionship and he is willing to work with the missionaries again! thank goodness. We fed our left overs from thanksgiving to a dog across the street and he almost bit us in the process haha. Looking back on thanksgiving there is so much to be thankful for, all my family members, all my teachers, friends, and people I have met on my mission so far. I am so blessed and I just want to thank all of you for all your support and love. I hope you all have a great week, mahal kita 

Pictures: 

1: our thanksgiving feast

2: my thanksgiving plate

3 and 4: before and after of the mashed potatoes​

11/21/2017 Craziness

Hello Hello Everyone. This. Week. Was. Crazy.

but it was also good too.

So this week we had a temple p-day, so we had a long week before our next p-day. The week was good until Saturday then everything went crazy. We had another blitz in the Lagro area. it was really fun, i took some of the young men and just went door to door and went finding for a couple hours, it was good for my tagalog and it was fun to see the young men help out with the missionary work. We did not find anyone too interested but we found an old guy who told me he wanted to join the church so he can have "many wives"...hahaha i could not help but laugh when he said that. Erwin our investigator had a baptism date for November 25th so he was gonna go get interviewed saturday night. yeah, he never showed up for the interview. Also we found a stray cat trapped in the church and Elder Morris chased it around for like 20 minutes trying to get it out hahahaha. the cat had no grip so it was slippin around everywhere, we finally got it out after Elder Morris trapped it in a mop bucket and kicked it out the door. 

so we rescheduled the interview for sunday morning. He said he would be there...yeah he didnt show up. We rescheduled again for monday morning after calling the president and pulling some strings...yeah, he showed up! and long story short, he has to get his baptism postponed to at least Dec 2nd. So it was hard for us to deal with, the ward was asking us all sorts of questions and we had to repeat what happened over and over. On monday we found some and visited him to try and figure out some stuff. On tuesday we went finding and we found this crazy guy who tried to speak english to us (we could really understand him too well haha) He thought we were 'born again' but we assured him that we were the mormons. He was really funny and at the end of the lesson he pretty much forced us to tell him our first names so he could pray for us. When he found out my name was Hunter, he started making jokes about how i should hunt anyone and how I shouldnt shoot anyone at night...hahahaha ya it was whack for sure. Today We went to the temple. ohhhhh man i love going there so much. It was a much needed brake from crazy missionary life. Tomorrow is thanksgiving and we will probably eat chicken and rice (like always). Friday is zone conference, and next wednesday is transfer day....im kinda nervous to see where I end up or who my new comp is gonna be. Yeah. thats it. I would like to encourage you all to go to the temple as much as possible. So many good things come from temple attendance including personal revelation. Always remember to read every day and pray always. Pray works talaga. Thats all Love you All. 

Pictures 

The Raymundo Family (they are awesome)

Our loaded food cupboard (hyped)

Me and elder morris at the temple

the manila temple 

11/13/2017 Pogi ako talalga

Kumusta po! Masaya ako para sa yung araw na ito sa magbahagi sa inyong lahat!

My week was a little bit up and down. The week started of great with our district activity, we went to an all you can eat dessert buffet. It was good for the first 10 minutes and then we all felt sick and had LBM's afterward hahaha. It was a good time. We had zone interviews this week and my mission president, President Hughes gave me a lot of good counsel on how to not worry about things you cannot control, how adversity is good and necessary. He is an awesome mission president. Wednesday it rained all day and we worked but no one let us in, they all came up with the excuse that its raining so we cant let you in.....yeah i dont understand either. On thursday we went on spllits with the Zone Leaders, It was awesome and i learned a lot of new vocab and teaching skills. It also rained all day. Elder Yates one of my zl's showed me a rap he wrote in tagalog. its dope. Friday it rained again and I did alot of language study. We finished the lessons with Erwin!! he should be getting baptized on the 25th if everything goes well. We also saw this cat kill a rat during the lesson it was crazy awesome. Elder Connell spotted us Macdo and it was flippin awesome, 12 chicken sandwiches and a bunch i Saturday was just another day, we had to drop the Mcivers because they were not progressing, we tried to visit the other investigators but they were all gone or they just didnt answer. Sunday was a little crazy, we had stake conference. the stake president asked all the missionaries to stand and while we were standing he said that these are the people who are going to progress the work, but we need members to help. He asked who is going to be a missionary everyday and everyone stood up it was awesome. The bishop of our ward doesnt like us though, he is not very willing to help us either. It is what it is, we are still going to work hard. On sunday night we had a tender mercy, we found a family of 4 who seemed really interseted and asked if we could come back the next day! hopefully they are willing to act. Thats all though. Love you guys, keeping you all in my prayers. Shoutout to the homies out in the mission field, shoutout to my fam bam. Remember to read everyday and be cheerful. Until next week.

p.s. someone please update me on the Jazz haha, i heard Mitchell is balling it up, k thanks

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Elder Hunter Munk

Doing it for the culture 11/6/2017

Hello everyone! Hope your week was as good as mine was!

So the week started off with Power Scrub, we cleaned for 6 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. Our house is squeaky clean now haha. The next day we found these kittens in a little patch of jungle, we saw that they were going to die so we took them and saved them from certain death. After, one of the street cats took it in so they are alive. Elder Morris and I tried really hard this week to work with members, almost all the appointments fell through, but the ward is helping us more and more. We found a bunch of less actives and hopefully soon our ward can start home teaching! yeah! I found this really good oatmeal at the store this week and I have eaten it everyday so far. Its awesome, banana and honey. We found some new investigators and we are sifting through some of the ones we have. One of them is named WIlfredo and he is very religious, but no matter how many times we tell him that the Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the ONLY true church on the earth, he does not seem to get it haha. We have set up a lot of baptism dates for our progressing investigators. The closest one in on November 25th. im excited for it , his name is Erwin, he is a trike driver and he had a bap date before he just didnt show up to the baptism haha. We met this one lady who tried to convince us that jesus christ did not exist and that there is a sun god??? the best part is after that, when she prayed, she ended it in the name of jesus christ. hahaha idk. The language is getting better and better each week. It rained every day this week, elder morris and I got 263 ITA's and were going for even more this week. Shoutout to all the homies out there serving missions, love you guys. Shoutout to the fam, love you guys. Remember to read every day. if you have questions email me becasue I dont have a lot of time to email haha. Love you ALL!   

Pictures: Elder morris chillin

A basketball tourney right by our house

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas (not really)

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Elder Hunter Munk