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| Navatos Ward in the Philippines |
Hi family & friends,
On wed we had your average day. woke up studied and went to teach a lesson at 1, but we got in a couple more before Jean and Cheche's baptisms. it went pretty well, i baptized them both and it was good.
then we started our exchanges. i went to work with Elder Huish in Panghulo and it was a real good day. we taught 14 lessons! not only that but we had to stop at 730 to meet my comp for him to do a baptismal interview for one of their investigators. not a bad days work. Then friday we had our mission conference. Ohh man was it good. we got our new mission rules. Then we had a good program. some things i got out of it were how we need to give our hearts to Christ thru obedience and helping Him with His work by serving others. but ya that devotional/ conference was awesome. I saw a couple of my batch too it was nice to catch up with them and see how things are going and realize its really not as bad here as i first thought. A great Christmas scripture i found this week was John 12:46. its all about Christ's purpose and the reason we celebrate Christmas. i shared it with a few less actives and investigators on Christmas Day its a good one.
so ya after we called home we went and saw a few ppl and taught a few lessons. We went to see Cheche and actually met her husband. He works 7 days a week all day and so he's never home. He's a real cool guy and if we could jus have time to teach to him i know he would accept the gospel. And complete that family, its so important here cuz there's too many part member families and thats why so many go inactive. He did come to church on Sunday tho for her confirmation which was way good the ward already knows him and if we could jus have time to teach him it'd be perfect.
but ya the rest of the day we worked with ward members. the youth love coming with us on sundays and they show us a bunch of less active members we can go visit and tell how we missed them at church. And i went in my area by myself for the first time! i split with JR a 20 year old about to go on a mission and so i taught my first lesson here by myself. and it was the 10 commandments! even E Calder said thats a hard one for him and it was my first time in tagalog! haha we had a lot of members present so they all laughed at me and corrected (almost translated) some parts haha. but i used the 10 finger thing the missionaries taught to Nicole and it helped a tonn. it was nice tho. but ya mission life keeps moving forward here. Ive had a battle with a cockroach, our house is infested with ants and there was a rat in our drain yesterday (i drowned him) and it doesnt affect me as much anymore. I used to be terrified of rats before and i still am but im manning up like i told dad. Time to just deal with stuff and just love the good stuff. The Lord's teaching more lessons than i can even recognize right now. I love it. i really do. Even rice isnt bad anymore. and all the wierd stuff isnt weird either. i mean it is but i just eat it.
but i love you all i hope everything is well and Christmas was everything you wanted it to be
i learn so much everyday its hard to take it in. im excited for another full work of week thats when i learn the most physically spiritually emotionally and mentally
Greatest work there is very true statement
love
Elder Stover
On wed we had your average day. woke up studied and went to teach a lesson at 1, but we got in a couple more before Jean and Cheche's baptisms. it went pretty well, i baptized them both and it was good.
then we started our exchanges. i went to work with Elder Huish in Panghulo and it was a real good day. we taught 14 lessons! not only that but we had to stop at 730 to meet my comp for him to do a baptismal interview for one of their investigators. not a bad days work. Then friday we had our mission conference. Ohh man was it good. we got our new mission rules. Then we had a good program. some things i got out of it were how we need to give our hearts to Christ thru obedience and helping Him with His work by serving others. but ya that devotional/ conference was awesome. I saw a couple of my batch too it was nice to catch up with them and see how things are going and realize its really not as bad here as i first thought. A great Christmas scripture i found this week was John 12:46. its all about Christ's purpose and the reason we celebrate Christmas. i shared it with a few less actives and investigators on Christmas Day its a good one.
so ya after we called home we went and saw a few ppl and taught a few lessons. We went to see Cheche and actually met her husband. He works 7 days a week all day and so he's never home. He's a real cool guy and if we could jus have time to teach to him i know he would accept the gospel. And complete that family, its so important here cuz there's too many part member families and thats why so many go inactive. He did come to church on Sunday tho for her confirmation which was way good the ward already knows him and if we could jus have time to teach him it'd be perfect.
but ya the rest of the day we worked with ward members. the youth love coming with us on sundays and they show us a bunch of less active members we can go visit and tell how we missed them at church. And i went in my area by myself for the first time! i split with JR a 20 year old about to go on a mission and so i taught my first lesson here by myself. and it was the 10 commandments! even E Calder said thats a hard one for him and it was my first time in tagalog! haha we had a lot of members present so they all laughed at me and corrected (almost translated) some parts haha. but i used the 10 finger thing the missionaries taught to Nicole and it helped a tonn. it was nice tho. but ya mission life keeps moving forward here. Ive had a battle with a cockroach, our house is infested with ants and there was a rat in our drain yesterday (i drowned him) and it doesnt affect me as much anymore. I used to be terrified of rats before and i still am but im manning up like i told dad. Time to just deal with stuff and just love the good stuff. The Lord's teaching more lessons than i can even recognize right now. I love it. i really do. Even rice isnt bad anymore. and all the wierd stuff isnt weird either. i mean it is but i just eat it.
but i love you all i hope everything is well and Christmas was everything you wanted it to be
i learn so much everyday its hard to take it in. im excited for another full work of week thats when i learn the most physically spiritually emotionally and mentally
Greatest work there is very true statement
love
Elder Stover
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