9/12/2016 Zone Conference and our new roommates

This week we had an awesome zone conference! It was really fun to see
some old rancho friends and to hear our mission president, his wife,
and the AP's give us trainings. The theme of the training was A worth
of a soul. President Jardine started off by telling us a story about a
young girl from Texas who fell into a small well and was stuck there
for 2 days. (I don't remember when it happened but it was a while ago)
He talked about how so many people from all over the country came
together in prayer for this little girl. The worth of just one single
soul is great in the sight of God. The rest of the trainings were
really good! I love being able to just sit there and be spiritually
fed :) I learned a lot about how I can improve as a missionary and how
to use Facebook more effectively. It's super weird having Facebook and
being able to use it again haha I always feel so weird getting on it
but as other missionaries have used it and shared cool stories I have
gotten used to the idea of using Facebook. The lords work is hastening
and its hastening fast! Facebook along with any other social media
site, if used correctly and according to the spirit, can be a really
effective tool.
So other than zone conference nothing really happened. Oh ya except
that sister Kaufusi and I had to move due to some...issues in our last
apartment. So now we live with the Hermanas!! Hermana Nokes and
Hermana Vergary. It is so fun living with sisters again :) The only
bummer is that the house we live in now is kind of far away from our
area so we have to travel a lot so that's kind of a bummer but it's
just temporary for the rest of the transfer (2 weeks) until they can
find us somewhere to stay that is closer.
Anyways that's pretty much our week in a nutshell :) oh ya and sister
Alicia Kelley is still doing awesome! Pray for sister Kaufusi and I!!
We need some new investigators haha Well I love you all and hope you
have a fabulous week :)
Love,
Sister Harley Munk
Got to see Sister Boria at zone training!! Love her 😀

9/5/16 Alicia's BACK!!

Happy September everyone! I can't even tell you how excited I am that

August is over haha talk about a loonnngggg month. So many good things

are going to happen this month I can feel it! Plus I turn 20 so I'm

pretty excited about that :) This week was a pretty good one even

though not much happened. I have been working on being more focused

this week and having a better more positive attitude. Sometimes it's

really hard to be happy when people are rude or to think positively

when all your appointments cancel but....I have realized that when my

mission comes to an end and I look back at all the memories I am not

going to remember the hard days. I am going to remember the amazing

miraculous things. The awesome Ward members who do their best at

sharing the gospel. The incredible investigators I get to meet and

love and teach. The insanely spiritual meetings and trainings. And of

course the coolest missionaries in the world who I get to serve with

and around everyday. I am so lucky to be a part of the great and

marvelous work of the Lord. :) Seriously missions rock.

So to recap this week on Tuesday we had an awesome lesson with a

returning less active Sister Alicia Kelley. Alicia is one of my

favorite people in the world. She has been through so much and has had

some really hard things happen in her life that caused her to slip

away. The way she explains it is that she got complacent and too

comfortable until next thing she knew she was inactive. I was lucky

enough to be transferred into this area when she decided she needed

help so she could come back. Alicia asked us to go over all the

missionary lessons with her so that she could regain what she once

had. I LOVE teaching her! She sees the joy and guidance that the

gospel brings her. At first she was super nervous about coming to

church so we started small and she came to sacrament and left. Then

eventually she came and stayed for 2 hours. Baby steps :) But ladies

and gents this Sunday she stayed all three hours and she bore her

testimony! It was crazy and amazing :) After church she jokingly said

me to "I'm back! No one can stop me now!" Hahaha she is on fire and I

am so proud of her!!

We also had a really good lesson with our recent convert Kirk :) we

are working with him so that he can start passing the sacrament but

those darn white shirts and ties....stubborn man. Anyways he is

excited about starting some family history so he can take a family

name to the temple to do baptisms :)

Wednesday nothing really happened...

Thursday we had an awesome zone/district meeting :) it's a weird

situation because our zone leaders are also our district leaders and

they are training! But it was all about having a positive attitude,

hence me trying to work on it, and we decided that whenever we would

complain to each other we would just tell each other to shake it off!

:)

Friday and Saturday we went on exchanges with our sister training

leaders. I went to Carmichael stake and worked with my home girl

Sister Christoffersen :) I seriously love her!! We had too much fun

working with the YSA people. (I super want to do ysa its so fun!)

Sister Kaufusi stayed here in east sad with sister Hyde and they

worked hard and had fun too :)

Well that's pretty much it :) Hope you all have a fantastic week! Go

share the gospel with someone!!

Love,

Sister Harley Munk

8/29/2016 Facebook and Elder Hallstrom

Man where to start... Ok so some exciting things are happening over

here in Sacramento California! FACEBOOK! Yep that's right we are now

allowed to proselyte via Facebook. I am so excited to use this new

tool that the Lord has entrusted us with to hasten His work. As

preparation for this our mission has been cracking down on what we

call safeguards for using technology. Every morning we read from a

pamphlet called safeguards and it talks about how we can use

technology in a righteous way. It gives 4 specific things that will

safeguard us from temptation or from misusing this technology. 1. Be

in tune with spiritual promptings 2. Be focused on your missionary

purpose 3. Be disciplined 4. Be one

There is a promise that we are given if we follow these safeguards.

"As you learn to live these safeguards instinctively, you will become

a more effective instrument in the Lord's hands, and you will unlock

the door to blessings in your life and in the lives of those you

teach."

The reason I felt like I should bring this up is because these

safeguards can be applied in everyone's lives not just missionaries.

Think for a second about how much time you spend on social media.

(Scary huh?) Now think about how much time you spend doing missionary

work. Now think about how easy and awesome it is to combine the two!

You already spend so much time on social media you might as well use

it in a way that can bless someone's life or bring them closer to

Christ. So I just want to extend to each of you an invitation :) I

want to challenge each of you to think about how you can use

technology to become a more effective instrument in the lives of those

you come in contact with. Whether it's the things you post, share or

comment. Social media is powerful and it can be used in so many good

ways. Let's come together as members of the gospel of Jesus Christ, or

just as good people in general, and flood the world with the light of

Christ, of hope, and of peace.

I truly believe that Facebook is a wonderful tool that we have been

given here in the Sacramento mission. We are going to be able to reach

so many more people by using it! But it is going to take some serious

discipline :) so I am going to need all your help! Make sure that you

continue only communicating with me only through emails :) Also don't

tag me in any posts or pictures unless it is something you feel like

my investigators, mission president, and Ward members would benefit

from.

Alrighty now onto the rest of the week!

Sister Kaufusi's bike was giving us problems this week and so we spent

most of Tuesday trying to fix it and part of Wednesday because it

still wasn't working hahaha stupid bikes! But we have an awesome Ward

here and they jumped in and helped us out! We still haven't heard from

Nana yet but we are hoping to go visit her this week so stay tuned and

don't stop praying for her :)

Thursday we weekly planned and did a lot of finding :) we also did

service for a lady and she gave us some solid marriage and dating

advice lol

Friday we had a zone training on Facebook and had lunch with the

President and Sister Jardine :)

On Saturday we spent 2 hours cleaning up our Facebook profiles... 2

hours and it still wasn't enough time lol

We also had the amazing opportunity to hear from Elder Hallstrom

(president of the 70) during our stake conference. It was awesome! He

gave great talks about the Lord hastening his work and about the

spirit. He told us about his experiences working closely with the 12

apostles and also the first presidency of the church. It made me so

grateful for all of those men. I am so glad I get the opportunity to

sustain them and follow their guidance. I was definitely spiritually

fed! Sister Kaufusi and I had the opportunity to shake his hand and

talk with him for a minute and it's incredible how much love that man

has for everyone. It was a good week! I am excited for another good

one :) Thanks for all you do and for who you are.

Love,

Sister Harley Munk

8-22-2016 HALFWAY

Dear Family and Friends,
I have to first start off by saying thank you so so much to everyone
who sent me "happy halfway" emails! I was so grateful to receive all
the love :) it is good to know that I have so many amazing people
rooting for me.
It's so crazy to think that it has been 9 months already. I know I say
this like every email but time is flying! Haha I have never been so
exhausted, stressed, overwhelmed, and HAPPY all at the same time in my
entire life! I am so grateful to be a missionary and especially to be
here in the greatest mission on earth! ;)
So to start off here is a recap of our week:
Wednesday: I woke up with a pretty bad migraine. This heat is killin
me lol So I just took meds and rested for a few hours. Talk about
annoying! There is nothing worse than being sick on your mission haha
but by the time is was dinner time I was feeling good enough to go to
the stake transfer dinner. It was fun! We ate at the church with the
rest of the zone and got to meet the stake leaders. Then we went and
had an awesome lesson with Nana :) Seriously the spirit was so strong
and you could see the light in her eyes as we testified.
Thursday: I HIT NINE MONTHS YOU GUYS. WHAT THE!? We had a pretty
normal day, doing our usual missionary stuff. For dinner we went to a
super nice pizza and pasta place and stuffed our faces :) then we
biked for the rest of the night and both regretted eating so much
hahaha I got to open the funniest package of my life from my crazy
family :)
Friday: Had another amazing lesson with Nana and as we taught her she
kept nodding her head because she knew it was true. She was so excited
for her baptism and couldn't wait.
Saturday: Today we were supposed to have Nana's baptismal interview
but instead we got texts from Nana saying she couldn't get baptized
and she didn't feel ready. She said she wanted to wait a few
years..... Talk about a shock. Sister Kaufusi and I hurried over to
her home and tried to talk with her but she was just so upset and
scared. It was horrible! She kept saying I can't. I can't. Then after
she calmed down we told her maybe a priesthood blessing would help and
she said maybe later and went inside. So sister Kaufusi and I walked
back to the car and by the time we got there we were just so sad and
crying and it was horrible.
So pray for Nana. We haven't heard anything from her yet :( Satan is
working really hard on her and she needs all the prayers she can get!
Although this week didn't end how we thought it would or how we
expected it to I know that the Lord is here on our side helping us
along the way. We were able to go to an amazing fireside last night.
It was a lady telling us her story. She was a little girl in
Cokeville, Wyoming when her elementary school was taken hostage my a
man and his wife and a bomb. She told us her experience and how she
knows that angels and the lord were very much apart of the miracles
that happened that day. For those of you who don't know that story
look up the Cokeville miracle it's a movie. Anyways as she talked I
couldn't help but think how blessed we all are to have the knowledge
that we are never alone. That God knows us and loves each of us
perfectly. It truly is such a comforting thing to know. Well I hope
you all have a fabulous week and go about doing good:) love you all!!
Love,
Sister Harley Munk

8/16/2016 Transfers :))

Hey family and friends :) hope you are all just doing fabulous! This
week we had a lot of good things happen and a lot of changes :) To
start off we had some awesome lessons with our one and only
investigator Nana! She is doing really well and progressing pretty
quickly :) on Monday night we taught her the restoration and she had a
lot of really good questions. As we taught her about Jesus Christ's
ministry on the earth and then the apostasy she stopped us and said
"Thats so sad. But wait did the gospel come back?" We about died! What
a perfect transition haha when we taught her about the restoration of
the gospel you could see the spirit working with her. On Wednesday we
taught her the plan of salvation and you could see her eyes light up
when we told her she could be with God again. After we taught her the
plan of salvation we asked her how she felt about Christ's atonement
and she said it made her feel happy and hopeful. Her responses really
stuck with me. In our crazy, fast moving world it's almost like people
are too busy for Christ, to busy to listen to him to accept him. It
amazes me that when people just stop, take a moment and listen the
spirit jumps in and does his job. Nana had some sort of hope that the
gospel and been brought back and knowing she had a savior who died for
her made her happy and gave her hope. Hope is what we need today. In
preach my gospel it says this about hope. "When you have hope, you
work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance
that all things will work together for your good. Hope helps you
conquer discouragement. The scriptures often describe hope in Jesus
Christ as the assurance that you will inherit eternal life in the
celestial kingdom." I know we all go through different things that are
hard and almost impossible to overcome but if we can rely on our
savior and have hope, we will be able to work through our trials with
the assurance that all things will work out for our good. We have so
many people on our side cheering us on so keep going, endure!
Anyways, the rest of the week went swell :) sister Kaufusi and I were
able to attend the 5 week new missionary meeting (it's hard to believe
it's been 7 weeks...) the meeting was really good and we learned a lot
about finding and teaching. Then we washed our car at our bishops
house haha we have like the greatest bishop in the world :)
A lot of things changed this transfer! Sister Kaufusi and I are
staying together woohoo!!! Sister Beck is leaving us :( I am gonna
miss that girl!! Hermana Stevens is home! What the?! Everyone is
leaving!!! Lol Sister Kaufusi and are super excited to be staying
together because we have the same birthday and we will be together for
it!! Isn't that crazy?!? Both of us were born September 25, 1996. We
are TWINS!! The Lord knew if he put us in the same families our poor
parents would go crazy so he had to separate us lol #weareahotmess
Well I hope that everyone has an awesome week! Read your scriptures,
say your prayers, share the gospel with someone :) ya know all that
good stuff! Oh and pray for Nana she is on date for the 27th :)
Love you lots!
Sister Munk
Get ready for a picture overload!!!

8/8/16 Nana came to Church

Hey everyone!!! So this week was a really good one :) Sister Kaufusi
and I have been working on being more diligent and we have truly seem
the blessings that come from striving to be our best. So here is the
big news. We were having a lesson with Tequila and going into it we
were just frustrated because there could be no real progression with
Tequila until she gets married so we had to pray and just ask for a
miracle. When we went to teach her with a member and her daughter Nana
decided to sit in and participate. Then her daughter made the comment
that she wanted to get baptized and go to church. What?! It was
amazing!! So later this week sister Kaufusi and I went to her home and
talked to her and her mom about being baptized. Tequila gave us
permission to teach Nana and Permission for her to be baptized! So
Nana is going to be baptized August 27th!!!! Yippee :) We are so
excited! We put her on date on Saturday and she came to church the
next day for all three hours :) She is 14 so a member had to drive her
and Sister Kaufusi and I went to Sunday school and young women's with
her. She loved it and tonight we are meeting with her to have a lesson
:) After church she kept telling everyone that she is going to be
baptized on the 27th. You can tell she is super excited. Seriously it
is such a blessing and I know that our prayer for a miracle was
answered. Not in the way we thought but answered still. I know that we
have a loving Heavenly Father and that he wants the best for us. He
wants us to have success and joy and if we turn to him in all things
he will help us. For the Lord gives no commandment unto the children
of men save he shall prepare a way for them.
We also had interviews this week with President and Sister Jardine. I
love those people so much! I am pretty sure we have the most humble,
intelligent, kind and loving man in the world as a mission president.
I am so grateful for him and for his love. During our interview we
talked about how fast time is flying. I told him that I have been out
for 9 months and his time as mission president is almost up. It's hard
to believe that in a week I will hit my 9 month mark. I am so grateful
to be here and have 9 more to go! I am going to make the last half
even better than the first!
Everyone pray for Nana that she will be able to make the progress she
needs in order to enter the waters of baptism on the 27th of August!!
Love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!
Love,
Sister Munk

Aug 1, 2016 What the August?

Hello everyone! Happy August :) It's hard to believe that summer is
coming to an end, time sure is flying! Good news I am feeling tons
better!! Sister Kaufusi and I are back to work :) The work right now
is slow but we are hopeful that it will pick up :) Tequila is kind of
a hot mess right now. Her boyfriend has decided he isn't interested
and due to some complicated things they probably aren't going to get
married or make any changes any time soon :( We are still working with
her but it's not looking to promising. It's ok though because this
week we had a zone blitz in our area and the amazing elders and
sisters in our zone came and worked in our area and we have some
promising potentials! So stay tuned :)
The weather here in Sacramento has been hot! Like one day it was 110
degrees outside. And we were biking. We are dying!! Haha but don't
worry we take lots of shade breaks and we have been drinking lots of
water :) #prayforrain
This Sunday our ward met all together during third hour and our
bishopric talked to us about the Book of Mormon. Our ward is doing a
"Just read the Book!" initiative and it is awesome! Honestly the Book
of Mormon is amazing and I have grown and learned so much from
studying and reading. I love the Book of Mormon and I know that it was
written for us and we have it for a reason. Read it and see for
yourself the blessings and joy that will come into your life as your
testimony and love for this gospel increases. :)
We took like a trillion pictures this week so enjoy! I love you all
and miss you :)
Happy Birthday shoutout to Hunter and Bostyn!!
Love,
Sister Munk!!