This is the address you can reach Dan at.
Elder Daniel Bunker
Utah St. George Mission
107 S. 1470 E.
Suite 304
St. George, UT 84790
His latest update:
It has been a swift 3 weeks in the MTC and 1 week in the mission field. I left the Provo MTC on Tuesday, drove 45 minutes north to the SLC airport, flew 1 hour 22 minutes south to St. George, drove 3 1/2 hours north to Mt. Pleasant, only to end up 45 minutes south of Provo...a lot of traveling for not much net change in distance!
I arrived in St. George and met the Mission president and wife- they are great! We got to the St. George airport via a small twin prop plane, disembarked and walked across the tarmac and into the airport. It is a very small airport--President was right inside the door, alongside the baggage claim, which was so small that you could see out the other side of it onto the runway. It was kind of funny to see them pull our luggage off the plane, wheel it 10 yards, and put it on the baggage claim platform, where it fell at my feet.
We drove across the valley and got the orientation regarding phones, vehicles, etc at the mission office. I was assigned the Mt. Pleasant area, about 1 hour south of Provo. This used to be the Provo mission, but they split it in July into the Provo & St. George missions. This mission is brand new. I was assigned to Elder Hepworth, my first companion (English area). Transfers are this week, however, and I will be moved to the Ephraim area (near Snow College), into a 3-companion Spanish speaking area. Maybe that will make it easier when my VISA comes through, just to move me out without disrupting the other two companions.
The area here is very amazing. Everyone honks and waves at us as we walk down the street. We eat free at 2 restaurants in town whenever we want (though we limit it to twice a week). We walked in to a McDonalds for lunch in Ephraim after District Meeting and they didn't charge us. We were shopping in Walmart one day and a man came up and said "are you almost done? I want to buy all of your groceries for you. I didn't get to serve a mission, so i like helping the missionaries out". The Lord truly does take care of his servants. It brings to mind the scripture in the New Testament & Book of Mormon when Christ directs his Apostles/disciples to 'take no thought' for what you will wear, say, eat, and stay. Everything seems to be taken care of for us. The members feed us in their homes almost every night for dinner. I really love this area and the people so far. It's been great.
I finish by testifying that each of us has our agency. One of the greatest gifts of God. He won't drag us back to his presence, but he sure does entice us very strongly by the Spirit. I testify that we will live after this life, and we have the chance to live with God, according to our actions in this life. I love him. He gave us Jesus Christ so we can repent of whatever we have darkened our past with. He's fair like that. He's just.
love,
Elder Bunker
