Hello family!
I am sorry I did not do so well at
emailing like I said I would. I hope you will forgive me, but we had no
time at all. We do not really have a preparation day today either, but I
have a few minutes right now :)
I am really excited! A family that Elder Querubin
and I had started teaching just got baptized! And he sent me the
pictures! I am super excited for the Laurel family, and another family
who they are related to will be baptized soon, they have been attending
church and attended their baptism as well.
I also get to go back to Palawan on Sunday, I will
not be able to go to my second ward, I am not sure what we will do about
our investigators. But we will still make it to our first branch, which
is the English speaking one. It is the biggest culture shock I have
faced on my mission, being in an English speaking branch.. It is weird!
I have been super tired, trying to fulfill my new
responsibilities, we had a few days where we went to bed at 12 midnight
and woke up at 3, just so we could get all the things done that we
needed to. We were given permission to be up as late as needed, so we
were not being disobedient :)
Elder Baltazar and I have the least amount of time
to spend in our area, compared to the other missionaries, with all of
the different things that we have to do. At the same time we are
expected to be the highest baptizing area, and to bring in the most less
actives back to church. When I got here we had 0 investigators with
baptismal dates, and 0 investigators that were progressing. Because no
work had been done in the area for the past three weeks. We decided to
be confident and put forth our best effort. We have only had 4 days of
work in the past couple of weeks, because of transfer meeting, and
taking care of the going home missionaries. The Lord has really blessed
us, in those four days, I have one experience I would like to share out
of many that have happened to outline a little bit of what happened in
those four days. Elder Baltazar and I just got out of a lesson and we
saw our car sitting there, (I have a Philippines license now!) and we
decided we should walk instead of drive, so we could meet some people
along the way. We turned around the corner and kept walking. We heard
some swift footsteps coming after us, and this young man was running,
and he was sweating, and breathing pretty hard. He asked us "Are you
Elders!?" we replied that we were, and he said in these words "Member po
ang Nanay ko! Pumunta kayo sa amin, binyagan nyo ako!" If you cannot
understand that then you are not as excited as we were when he said it!
In English he said "My mom is a member, coming to our house, I want you
to baptize me!" We taught them, and gave them a goal baptismal date, as
well as their neighbor who sat in on the lesson, and they came to
church! They were there before we were!
That was the most unusual and unexpected experience,
but there were many others. I had never experienced anything like this
before, it was crazy!
Anyways, I really love
you family, and I hope you are not upset with me, or frustrated with me
for being bad about calling and emailing..
Also thank you to Doug and Denene for their willingness to help out right on the spot! I love you both so much!
Love,
Elder Munk
Hello! My son Elder Gagnon is serving with your son in the Manila mission. There were also together on Palawan awhile ago. I have quite a few pictures of them together including a recent one of them celebrating their mutual birthday (April 11th) together...Let me know if you'd like a copy of the pictures and I will send them to you if you can give me an email address to send them to...or you can look at them on my son's blog at www.eldergagnon.blogspot.com P.S. I've enjoyed reading your son's letters :) Nancy Gagnon MM to Elder Christopher Gagnon
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