kumusta po kayo lahat? ayos lang? o ayos naman? ako ay ayos naman! ang linggo nito naging sobrang magandang! excited ako talaga. (Please how are you all? Okay? The week it was super good. I'm really excited. I'll get to why exactly in just a little bit. I've been teaching Anna since the first week I got here and I'm really excited cuz her testimony has grown so much since that first lesson. That's when its cool, to be there from the beginning all the way up to baptism. The gospel really really does change people and definitely all for the better.
Then Thursday was just a good solid day as well as Friday. Got in some decent lessons and better than that we really seemed to get along better this week, especially on the weekend. We've agreed on things more than we have in the past. So that's always a plus. One awesome thing was that we taught arjay, one of our longtime investigators a really good lesson. The last time we went over there we didn't teach him cuz he didn't want to listen. Then we came over again and he had a totally different attitude, so ready to be taught. We asked him if he really wanted to be baptized and he sounded very sure he did. "sinasabi ko sa inyo gusto ko" he said that like 3 times which basically means, I'm saying to you I want to. It was cool he wasn't so shy as he's been in the past so that was cool. We invited him to our movie night tonight to watch the Joseph Smith movie.
Then Saturday was a way fun day. We had the interviews for the 3 getting baptized this Saturday, on the 19th for our stake baptisms. (by the way on that day our zone has 35 baptisms set up for that day and 11 completed families.) Is that crazy or what?? 35 ppl getting baptized in this stake/zone on the 19th. The work is really moving out here in Calookan. But then we found ourselves with some time and decided to go to the unknown, San Rafael Village a part of our area we have never been to. We're pretty sure no missionaries have ever been there or at least not for a couple years especially because there's no members out there. So we basically just explored and we talked to some people , contacted some people and even taught a family. It was hilarious cuz babies here don't wear diapers or pants or anything , just a shirt (I know its backwards) and in the middle of the lesson the baby just pooped all over the mom! hahaha oh man it was hard to not laugh cuz all the other kids definitely were haha. But over there its either rich or squatters (very poor). cool experience.
But then yesterday, Sunday, oh man what an awesome day seriously. Wanna know how many people we had there at church? 23! 23 people! We like practically doubled sacrament attendance! Oh man it was seriously awesome! Everyone who has a date for baptism was there plus some new ones, a couple people who have investigated the church before but stopped and oh man its legit!! We were so stoked. Petey's personal record is 20 for his mission and we totally shattered it! Man oh man its crazy cuz it was a blessing we totally didn't deserve. We didn't have an awesome week of work, with temple day on Tues and not working on Wed. We didn't do anything spectacular just tried and in the end the Lord blessed us so immensely. It's really how it works in life. When you think you deserve blessings that's when they aren't going to come. You need to be humble and have hope but still be humble and they will come. The Lord really does love us and he loves all his children. It's just awesome that that little miracle happened for these people just to get up and come to church, especially cuz some of theses were the first time they'd ever been to our church. Very cool. I shared Alma 16:14-16, something I read this week.
But we have baptisms this week its gonna be awesome! the stake baptisms is going to be awesome and I'm excited.
Hope everything is going well and I love you all. Thanks for all the support and love I know I have every day
Love
Elder Stover
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| With Elder Spiller (from Australia) on a member's roof top |
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| "Where's biggie?" |
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