Hey Everybody!
Ok well one thing about the office is... these letters won't be really that long I don't think, not a ton to write about. I mean if you want to hear about all the headaches I get and mistakes on baptismal records, I could tell you, but I'm sure everyone else gets enough of that kinda stuff in their own job. haha So I'll try to not talk about that too much. It's kind of how the office feels like sometimes, like I work in an office. Then 6pm rolls around and I remember I'm a missionary and I get to go teach the gospel for a couple hours haha.
But this week has been a good. The week started really pretty crazy. Elder Haws didn't get his license until Thursday, then got a ticket on Friday (he was coding which means once a week you can't drive that car to prevent traffic and such. So he just got it back today. So, as president calls me, Elder Chaufer in his letter this week. I don't know if I can express how much I dislike driving, especially in crazy Cubao and Quezon city, its the worst. People cut you off all the time. It got so bad on Thursday that this guy wouldn't let me in and man I got mad. Elder Biado had to calm me down a bit. It takes avoiding road rage to a whole new level. The guy yelled at me for not using a signal, I was like nobody uses a signal! haha Oh man fun stuff. Oh ya and I got in an accident on Tues! I forgot about that, it seems like so long ago, haha oh man. I was backing out of a store onto the road and some Lancer came out of nowhere to do a U turn (in the right lane). It was the tiniest dent but they were freaking out. I gave them money cuz that's what other office elders told me to do but they wanted to go to the insurance and do it the right way (imagine that). Anyways no worries now, all taken care of and president wasn't mad. He said if I didn't have an accident here in the office then something would probably be wrong with me.
We've been playing basketball most every morning and it's been pretty fun. Elder Haws is pretty good and he doesn't try very hard. haha. He's such a humble guy, man hes cool. I like the guy a lot, we relate on a lot of stuff. He likes a clean house like me, which is good cuz the house was disgusting, all these going home elders and former AP's that left a ton of stuff and never cleaned. So on Saturday we took care of that and it was good, we got it looking really nice.
The work is fun. We've been getting some good referrals because its such a cool ward. The only problem is we're moving to the AP's ward next transfer and us 4 will share it. So in a way I'm sort of getting transferred, to a new ward.( 5th area in 7 transfers =P) The elders coming in to Quezon City 2nd ward are going to be lucky because there's a ton of work to do, we just don't have time to do it all.
We have a baptism this week, Ian DeLos Reyes. He's 9 and it's a completed family. He's such a smart kid, listens really good. He reminds me so much of Noah that its funny. He's shy and looks a lot like Noah. He knows everything so we're just getting him ready for Saturday. He's got this little, loud, center of attention sister (like Haidyn) funny tho.
Oh I got to study my scriptures this week which was so needed, I was about to go crazy. It's like me and Elder Haws were talking about, I hope I've at least learned that lesson on my mission, that I need the scriptures, everyday and as much as possible. You feel like a different person when you don't have them, it's kind of rough really. I feel kind of lost and it's kind of hard to explain. I read the talk by L Tom Perry about the Sabbath Day and the Sacrament. If you haven't had a chance, read it. its really good. I loved it and it built my testimony. It is definitely something I got to work on when I get home for sure, keep the sabbath day and keep my Savior on my mind the whole day. It is pretty easy to get distracted on Sundays sometimes.
We taught this less active kid this week, his brother's wife is our investigator. Him and his brother were baptized as kids but haven't gone to church in a long time. We taught him and it went good. He's 17 and was asking all these questions about missionaries and how to apply and stuff which is so cool. The only problem is he has a kid and well ya, hard to tell the kid that he cant go on a mission. We told him he could come work with us tho if he wanted. It's too bad you know? As much as we can repent, we still can't fix those outcomes from the mistakes we make. We can only move forward and improve on those mistakes, we can't go back and delete the old ones. It's kind of hard but then again that's what agency is all about. It's the toughest and yet most beautiful principle in all of the Gospel, all of the world.
I know this church is true. I know its the "right one" for everyone, but not everyone will know unless they use a little faith and find out how many blessings are there and they all depend on us. I hope we never hold back any effort on our part to be blessed because those blessings are ours for the taking, they really are,
I love you all, hope all is well. I'll be here, in the office, stressing and yet still loving it. A different day, different challenges kind of like real life.
love
Elder Stover
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