Hey everyone! I want to start out by telling everyone I love them, not like a big general love, but really for each of you individually I have really developed that love for people as individuals and wanted to start out by saying that.
A couple of days a go I was reading in Preach My Gospel (Mission Training Book) and in the back there are 57 Christlike attributes that it gives us a chance to rank ourselves from 1-5 on how well we think we are doing in those things. I have made a goal to perfect (the best I can) each attribute, doing 1 every week so I will finish in April 2012. Right around my Birthday! Does not really get much better than that for a birthday gift if you ask Elder Munk. And Preach My Gospel is for members preparing to serve on a mission and I felt that I should encourage Devin to do the same thing, I am planning on doing those in order starting last night, so if you start now we can share our growth and experiences together and I think that would be awesome. I will send you a personal email with more instructions for you. Love you Devin! Family! Do it too! But I have a special plan for Devin. If everything turns out absolutely perfectly Devin will be sitting where I am in three years! :) I am going to be honest I am biased and want him to serve here in the Philippines Manila Mission.
Also to answer my Mommy's question everything has been going better, I went through a few trials with my companion this week and really ended up growing from it, I keep telling myself that marriage cannot be this hard, but deep down I know that it will have a lot bigger challenges. Not that I am thinking about that at all. I am really loving it here definitely, even though a young man is reading over my shoulder, I am not sure how well he understands what he is reading.
Oh and everything is fine with my companion, and I am becoming kind of a lot more Filipino than I thought I would. I do have a lot of American pride I will admit. But a lot of American Missionaries get frustrated with the Filipinos and vise versa, because of the culture differences, and the way that we think differently. I am trying to find the perfect balance of doing just what the Spirit tells me to do and I think I can handle being with any companion and learn and become a better person through the experience. Unless he had no desire to work, but although I am in pretty bad shape I could still beat on him if I needed to. (Joke, but true) I really do love my companion right now, and my apartment-mates they are great.
I still do not have my camera someone else is using it right now, I think it is supposed to make its way back here soon because my companion needs to use it also to send in some pictures to the assistant to the President because next week they have a short slide-show of each transfer during the transfer meeting.
I have some pictures from our activity at Tagaytay on p-day, and also from a baptism on the 5th. You should all look up pictures of Tagaytay it is a very beautiful place. And I do not know if this is allowed, but I bought a pretty awesome butterfly knife (original Filipino of course). Also one of the places that is in the running for the 7 natural wonders of the world is in my mission, so once I go there... I will send some pictures, it is on a different island, Palawan so I am really hoping I will have a chance to go there, it is a 45 minute flight away, which costs $10. And I do not remember if I mentioned this before, but the lower half of Palawan is off limits for white missionaries, and sisters, because they kill all the white people that go there. Which makes me sad because before I got here my goal was to go there. But that is fine, I could stay in this same area for my whole mission and be fine, whatever God's plan for me is, that is what I will do.
My zone leaders will get my mail tomorrow and I will get it from them next time I see them, which will be no later than Tuesday.
Well, I want to tell you again that I love you and to really make the best of your lives. Just do all you can, our Heavenly Father does not expect you to do any better than your best. (But he expects nothing less)
Love, Elder Munk
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