It's been a pretty good week I got to say. We've been way busy but not so much with appointments and teaching. President, his wife, the AP's and a senior couple came down this weekend for the Mindoro version of jubilee. It was pretty sweet I gotta say but it left us with only 3 days of work this week.
First on Tuesday we had splits with Calintaan the farthest north area. I worked in our area with Elder Valdez from San Diego. He's an alright guy, been here for 5 months, now he's ready to get off the island haha having a tough time up there with his branch. Another testimony of how Rizal is the best branch here =) It was fun as we got some good appointments in, including this recent convert lady who has stage 3 breast cancer. She's really not doing well, but has a very strong testimony. Last Sunday I gave her a priesthood blessing. Elder Valdez said on Tuesday when he went in there he didn't feel like she had much time left. It's sad cuz her husband isn't a member and is kinda just whatever about everything, doesn't want to change. We showed the restoration video and we challenged brother to pray about Joseph Smith cuz he hasn't yet. He doesn't want to cuz he's afraid he'll get an answer, ie. have to change. Its too bad we're gonna talk about eternal marriage with him next time, be bold with him because we know he loves his wife and he needs to face reality. We went to our neighbor's house for dinner, the Hina family. They're way cool but not investigators, they're fine with talking and feeding us but not the gospel. I just happened to bring the restoration video with me and so they wanted to watch it and I was surprised, problem was they weren't too focused, and sister is way hard headed. She was just trying to see the parallels to Catholisism the whole time. I just had to cut it short before it became an argument cuz her beliefs are pretty wacked, kept contradicting herself. Funny how a mission can chill you tho, before the mission I would have jumped all over that kinda stuff, now I have a bit more self control.
Anyways then me and elder Hand got to work together on Wednesday. We got punted from basically everywhere, walked out to a far area and tried some finding with no success. Then Thursday we traveled to San Jose, helped out with the multi stake (only one district actually I don't know why they called it that haha) youth and YSA thing going on. It was cool all the kids from the district stayed at the church Thursday, Friday and Saturday, which Saturday night was the Mindoro jubilee celebration. Way awesome night I have to say, it was awesome. All the branches had different cultural dances, they had a video about the history of the church here in Occidental Mindoro over the past 25 years, and us missionaries even sang a song. Awesome program, leaders of the district planned it for themselves. We were all very proud, definitely a positive night.
I love this work, it truly is the work of the Lord. It is the Eternal work of God, saving men's souls from damnation, leading them to Eternal Life, helping them realize their eternal potential for true happiness. It is the most rewarding work in the whole world and it is a work of a lifetime, not just for two years. These are only the luckiest two years of my life, to be a part of this work full time and learn all the lessons I need to go to battle every day for the rest of my life. I love you all. Always remember how much God loves you. He sees all, he understandeth all, He comprehendeth all. Always remember how much you need Him and you will never fail to find joy.
I hope everything is going well. You are all in my prayers,
love
Elder Stover
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