October 3rd 2011, Letter

 To see the other photos mentioned look at the September 26th letter. 

Well Hello,
 
To explain the pictures for those who do not understand them, I bought

a new watch, it cost a little less than $5. But it only worked for 5 

days. There is a sign in Manila that reads "If it is made by a Filipino

it must be good." I have determined this statement to be false. But 

they are still good people. The bathroom is in Puerto Prinessa, it is 

at a shuttle Terminal. My shoes are doing okay, one of them has a 

little hole it the bottom, but I am going to try to fix them.
Anyways, those are my revisions/updates from last week.
 
This week turned out to be a very successful week in terms of
fulfilling our purpose as missionaries in the Quezon branch. We are
being heavily blessed in this area and the members (our investigators
are more active in missionary work than our members... but the members
are still good. :) ) are very helpful when it comes to inviting
people.
 
We had an experience a couple weeks ago, it is something that I feel I
should not ipaliwanag kasi sagrado siya, but I will give a brief
outline. We received 7 referrals in one day and contacted all of them,
all except for one family were not willing to listen. But the one 

receptive family invited us back. We taught them and gave them a very 

powerful promised blessing. One of those things you feel nervous 

promising people sometimes because it is something "far-fetched" or 

something that just usually does not happen. But we felt that it would,

and it did. She came to church yesterday walking with her daughter, 

no one went to get them, and no one invited them. (They were not home

the last couple times we tried to visit.)
 
Also, I have a fun story, it is a little gross I guess, but I got sick
again, for the second time on my mission. On Wednesday I got diarrea,
and that has continued on until now, the first day it was bad, I mean
BAD. On Sunday we fasted, in lay man's terms, nothing entered into my
stomach, but everything exited. In the last 5 days I have lost a lot
of weight (my cheek bones are sticking out! haha). I ended up getting
a fever (only 103) and really bad chills. I was shaking so hard at
first I could not walk. I received a blessing at midnight, and took a
cold shower, drank a lot of water, threw up 6 times (I counted)  and
ended up falling asleep at about 3:30 this morning. I woke up
completely exhausted but I felt good at 6:20 this morning. And decided
to lie in bed for a little bit. I taught my district meeting at 8 and
we have been out and about getting things done. We have had so much
success in the last little bit I do not want to get sent to a
different area, and my companion is ready to transfer to a new area,
so he stayed up with me until 3:30 doing what he could to make sure I
stayed here.
 
I am not really sure by the way I tell stories or by my experiences if
it sounds like I have matured at all, but do not worry I have :) I am
improving everyday, I think missionary service is different in the
Philippines than anywhere else in the world. We take everything
seriously and work hard, but Filipinos joke about everything, and
cannot stay serious for more than 7 seconds. (From what I have
experienced)
 
We had a baptism on Saturday which turned out alright, I got to
baptize them, Judeth, Maria Eliza, Priness Ann, and Salvador! I forgot
my camera, but if I remember next week I will send some pictures.
 
Also, I am going to watch General Conference on the 8th and 9th. It
will hopefully be available in my area, if not we have a 1.5 hour
drive to Narra.
 
Dad, there is good and bad here, but not a lot of ugly, well maybe I
am just not noticing it :) Because totoy  (Pronounced Toe Toy, 2 year
old crazy child) broke my glasses on Saturday haha, but they will be
easy to fix..
 
I love yous :)
 
Elder Munk