well its been 10 days almost and oh man has stuff happened this week. well let me just start with the biggest news i found out today (actually last night) my comp is getting transferred! neither of us were really expecting it and he wasn't preparing me to lead the area for this transfer. oh well tho. well lets just start with our week. we had an awesome day (we thought) on tues. i mean it was good but not quite as we thought at the time. we found 3 awesome investigators. the first one we didn't have anywhere to go and were on our way to a members when a girl came up to us (one of the millions that constantly swarm us for high fives and to ask our names, and asked if we were Mormons. she told us to come to her house and turns out her family is inactive except her step dad who isn't a member. but he really wanted to listen and is a really nice guy. he looks just like Steven Tyler except Filipino! he has this sweet mullet and oh man he's cool. he fixes shoes and is super masipag (hardworking). he even came to church with his wife. he has a date to be baptized too! only problem is his wife isn't actually his wife, she's married to her old husband who lives in Samar. so ya that'll be interesting. we sometimes can get live in exceptions to be baptized in those situations.
then after that we went to one of our other investigators and instead taught her cousin and he was kinda cool but i think he just likes to talk about religion and we haven't seen him since he's a busy high school teacher. then the best of all.
then on thurs. i went on exchanges in tonsuya with Elder Quinney, he was in the MTC with me, one transfer ahead of me. we went to his area, the squatter really poor gross part of his area. man my area ain't that bad. haha. but it was fun cuz we're about at the same level and we taught real well. I was enjoying that day, a lot of fun as he's a real good hardworking elder.
but ya Patrick the 14 year old from a broken home, hes, so awesome. we committed him to read 2 Nephi 31 about Christ's gospel and not only did he read but he took notes like a scripture journal! that's crazy i didn't even start doing that til less than a year ago. plus he's not in school and with his family situation probably hasn't been in a while. the other appt he thanked us for teaching him instead of the other way too. he's so awesome he's gonna be so ready on Feb 12 i cant wait to baptize him. his best friend is a member too so he's got that backbone too. but the best of all is Jennifer and Anna. we wanted to teach WOW but after finding Jennifer hadn't gotten an answer about Joseph Smith we focused on that and found out that the problem we always knew was at the back of her mind. her mother in law is an inactive member and said some extremely bastos (rude) things to her. so she has that bad association with Mormons.she loves what we teach but we always knew there was something. we talked about forgiveness and then Ether 12:6 came to my mind and i couldn't get it out of my mind. it was totally the spirit. my comp didn't think it was a good idea but then we read it and she said it hit a bullseye in tagalog. oh man its amazing cuz that scripture didn't make perfect sense to share with that situation you know but its exactly what she needed to hear. that's the definition of missionary work.
Love you all!
until monday
Elder Stover
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| With the Macasling children and Elder Peterson - 2nd companion |
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| At the Macasling children's baptism just being silly |
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