you gain more variety with your monk weapons

spiritual monk weapon

you can do a 1 min ritchual and hold a monk weapon of yours to make it able to move at your will. as a bonus action you can make the monk weapon attack, or move up to a number of feet = your speed.

bonus proficiency

you gain proficiency with longswords

unmissing blade

at 6th level when you attack a creature with a monk weapon you can spend 1 ki point to gain +2 bonus to the attack

Spellcasting

at 11th level you gain the cleric spell list

bonus proficiency

at 17th level you gain proficiency with martial weapons