Transfer Week 6/26/2018

Hello everyone so this week is transfer week and a lot happened but after all of it I am still here in Deparo with Elder Mahinay, still as a DL and I am way hyped about it because now this is my longest area!!! Also because we have a baptism on Saturday and another one on the 7th of July. Also because next week Nova zone gets a TEMPLE P DAY!!!! I have not been to the temple in 7 months and I am way hyped to go back it is gonna be amazing. 

So earlier today Elder Richards and Morris and Meyer left, we played basketball before and then said goodbye to them. I am gonna miss those guys I am grateful for the help they have given me on my mission, Ill be happy to see them again after my mission cuz they are all really close to Utah. Anyways, this week was pretty average we did lots of walking and teaching and I got to do my first baptism interviews for three young men in Sampaguita ward and they all passed and are all awesome. It was elder Richards birthday so we bought him a cake and it was actually pretty dang good. Marc Salaverez passed his interview so he will be baptized on Saturday. I am way excited for him, and also his family are not members yet so hopefully this can be the turning point and they will start coming to church. This week for my workshop I was looking through D&C and in section 4 and in verse 4 it says the field is white already to harvest. I think it is really cool that it says here there area already people out in the world ready to harvest, the field is already white. I have seen this in my areas, the area can seem dead and nothing was going but when we look back to this verse we see that no matter where you are there are people ready to be harvested (baptized). This applies anywhere in the world. Hopefully we can all see the importance of the gospel and share that with someone who does not know. We are promised many many blessing if we do. 

Thanks for all your support I love each one of you, I hope you have a great week and this time my comp is working and so i have pics!! finally 

     

Elder Hunter Munk 

Mount Balagbag and Mga Binyag 6/17/2018

This week was a very very awesome week! First of all on Sunday it was Fathers Day, shout out to all the fathers out there!!! Also shout out to my dad, he is hardworking and puts the family first before himself, he is a great example for me and is a big reason why I chose to serve a mission Magaling Ang tatay ko. Also on Saturday we had 2 baptisms! Erle Ongsiako and Marc Stephen, they are both really awesome and I was way happy to see them be baptized, they will both be great additions to the church. It was really cool to be able to see them go through all the lessons and come to church and see their families start coming to church again and regain a testimony. Great experience.

This week was another rainy one. It gets really humid here to the point where my towel was wet for like 5 days and my bed sheets were wet so I had to sleep on a foam pad for a couple nights. The socks I washed two weeks ago just dried! Gratefully on Saturday the rain stopped and the sky cleared up it was a miracle because it was just in time for the baptism so people came and showed up on time. We pretty much focused on our part members this week and went to Erle and Marc everyday to make sure they were prepared and ready. Marc Salaverez is scheduled for the 30th and I am hoping that I dont get transferred so i will get to witness that baptism. It was a good week for work. 

Earlier today we went on a hike. It is Elder Richards and Meyers last P day today so because Elder Meyer is an AP he somehow got it ok'd and we went. We hiked Mount Balagbag it is San Jose Del Monte zone so it was like a 45 minute drive and it was up this really pretty mountain. It smelled so good and the mountain reminded me of camping it was awesome. Our mission is pretty small, there are tons of people but the area itself is tiny. its like the size of Davis County haha so we go on this hike and we take a trike up one of the hills, somehow we got up the driver just put it in low gear and cranked it back hahaha, but we made it up and there was a small village and a small basketball hoop so we played a little ball and then walked the rest of the hike. The top was sooooo pretty, my camera could not capture the beauty of it....by the way this computer wont let me download the pics so next week na lang. Anyways on the top you could see our entire mission, I could see Malolos and my first area haha, you could see Manila and Quezon city and the ocean as well....I never realized how many buildings are in Manila it was crazy. It was an awesome experience and it was like the first time I have done something like that since I have been out. 

I am really enjoying my mission, it seems to get funner and better each day. Remember though as members of this church we are all missionaries, you don't need a name tag to be a missionary. There are sooooo many people in this world who have no idea about the plan of salvation or the atonement and its importance. I encourage you to share the gospel to those people who dont know. Help them gain this knowledge and happiness, it might seem hard but it is worth it and it will help them more than anything else in the world. Love you all and hope you have a great week! 

           

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Elder Hunter Munk 

6/11/2018 Rain Rain go away

Hello everyone! 

So this week was pretty normal, but we had two baptism interviews for our investigators and they both passed so this saturday we will have two baptisms!!!! I am pretty excited because both of them are priesthood age so it will be a good addition to the ward. Erle Darius is 21 years old and he went to church as a kid but was never baptized so we reactivated his mom who was very less active and he was able to come to church and we taught him and he passed the interview, he is excited to be baptized and it is going to be a very good experience. Marc Bajar is the other one he is almost 12 years old and he is also a part member, his family was less active and so we tried ahrd to reactivate them and they finally started coming back to church, he was supposed to be baptized last week but we had to move it back because he missed a week of church but this week it will hopefully happen. We also have an investigator who we are preparing for the 30th and another for the 1 of July. I am really excited and really hope i dont get transferred again hahaha. 

It has been raining really hard for 3 days now, it is hard because lots of the houses here are not really built to be able to handle hard rain fall so yesterday at church we had very little show up. Hopefully it stops soon, rain here really effects the work. its hard to do laundry here because when it rains it takes forever for the clothes to dry haha thank goodness for fans. Anyways other than the rain its going good out here. This week should be a good one, and i will charge my camera so you get the pics of the baptism.

Love you all, I want to testify of the Book of Mormon, it is true and the counsel inside that book is for everyone of us even now. There is power in the Book of Mormon, I would ask that you read it everyday and if you get the chance share it with someone who does not know the blessings it brings. the book of Mormon is true and because it is, the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints is the one true church upon the face of the world.  

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Elder Hunter Munk 

June na 6/3/2018

This week was pretty good, it was pretty much just your average week of missionary work. Wake up, study, go out and teach and talk to people and map, come home and eat and then sleep. Its awesome! Nothing crazy happened nothing unusual happened but it was a good week for mapping and teaching. We have 2 investigators that we have set up to get baptized on the 16th of June and another one for the 23rd of June. The mangoes are still falling and still taste good haha. this week is zone conference so I am excited for that and the next week is zone interviews so that is also exciting. The weather is weird here it rains every day and then becomes really hot, rainy season is coming soon. Still working hard and inviting people to commit to do things that will change the whole course of their life. I know the gospel of Jesus Christ is what we need to follow in order to attain eternal life. Read 2 Nephi 31 it is about the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Love this country and the people in it! Love you all have a great week!

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Mango season 5/28/2016

Hello everyone, hope you all had a great week. 

This week was pretty slow, since we have been focusing on mapping the last couple transfers we have a very small teaching pool so this week it was hard to decide where to go and what to do and try to juggle mapping and also finding at the same time. We were able to find a lot of members who we thought had moved out or lived in squatter areas with no address and that was good. We did find a lot of potential areas we can go back to in future weeks. We had a miracle on Sunday. We were only planning on like 5 investigators coming to church, when we got to church we counted 13. We had never met most of them and it turn out that one of our investigators brought them along to church, they stayed the whole time and gave me their address and we set up appointments. Another one of our investigators brought along his cousins and his less active dad, it was so good to see them at church. We taught some lessons after church and setup a baptism on the 16th of June and another one on the 9th of June. I am really praying that those will go through and that we will be able to teach them all the lessons and get ready by the dates. 

We did a lot of walking this week. Mangoes ( I think thats how you spell it) are ripe now and they are always falling out of the trees so we always eat them as we walk or as we are talking to people we sit down and eat mangoes with them haha. They are pretty good. It has rained here every day last week and rainy season is almost upon us, thank goodness because it has been HOT for like 2 months. Life is good, the mission is so masaya and awesome im happy to be here. Love you all hope you have a great week!

 

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Part Members Pa More 5/21/2018

This week was pretty stressful for me, mostly because we had been mapping the previous weeks and so our teaching pool was not the greatest and now I am trying to remember where people live and trying to decide who to visit and so it was tough not gonna lie. There was also a lot of good that came out of this week. We have a ton of part members in our area and as of now every single person that we are teaching are part members. It is a blessing because of course they have a really good chance of being baptized because their families are already members. At church yesterday we were sitting there and all of the sudden a girl from Bagong Silang ward came in and brought her cousin with her who is 12 years old, his name is Micheal. She said that she wanted her cousin to go to church so she came to Deparo ward just so she could introduce him to us  and so she could help him come to church. It was awesome, he is also a part member and we taught him after church, it went very well hopefully he can come to church on his own next week. After sacrament I was using the bathroom and Elder Richards came running and told me that some crazy nanay in our ward was looking for me. I came out of the bathroom and she saw me and started yelling " Elder Musk come over here hurry!" hahaha first I asked her who Elder Musk is and then she took a good look at my name tag and gave me a big kinda friendly whack on the arm hahahaha. Anyways she brought her son to church and pretty much told us that he has to get baptized in this ward in 4 weeks.... her son is 21 years old by the way. I just kinda chuckled about it and started talking to her son, Erle. He told me that he came to church as a primary kid but was never baptized, he said he wants to get baptized as soon as possible so we agreed to teach him once a week after church as long as he was able to get to church every week. The whole situation was weird but it was a major blessing, We pretty were given someone to baptize who already knows a lot about our church and has a desire to be baptized. It was awesome, the nanay after church made sure we knew and remembered to make sure he gets baptized haha, gotta love nanays. So this week we are going to focus on teaching and since we dont have to map anymore we will spend more time finding and getting referrals and finding investigators. My comp is awesome, we are both going home together, we have been out about the same amount of time. He is a lebron fan so im super hyped. He is a great teacher and has trained a couple times already so he is very capable and I am happy to learn from him this transfer. 

Hope you all have a great week! Mahal ko kayo, ingat kayo! 

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Elder Hunter Munk 

Elder Munk District Leader letter 5/16/2018

PHILIPPINES QUEZON CITY NORTH MISSION

Zabarte Rd., cor. Ilang-Ilang St., Almar Subdivision

Camarin, Caloocan City

16 May 2018

David and Stephanie Munk

348 Birmingham Ln

North Salt Lake, UT  84054

United States

Dear Brother and Sister Munk,

I am pleased to inform you that your son, Elder Hunter Stephen Munk, has been called to serve as a District Leader in the Philippines Quezon City North Mission.  We greatly appreciate his efforts in this mission.  His responsible efforts will be of great worth in setting goals, planning and accounting for the Lord’s work.

We are grateful for Elder Munk’s dedicated performance, his strong testimony and willingness to work hard to bring about success.  He is becoming a Preach My Gospel missionary and laying a firm foundation for the rest of his life.

Sister Hughes and I are blessed to have the opportunity to work with him in this great work.  Thank you for sending us such a wonderful young man.  We appreciate the love an encouragement you give him.

Sincerely yours,

Stewart F. Hughes

Mission President