9-19-11

Hello everybody

This week has been a pretty good one (they pretty much all have), another week of trying to find the right apartment, doing office stuff, and teaching when we get to.

The office has been pretty smooth lately. Speaking of my birthday, on Friday we went to a place called Daranak Falls out in the province. It’s about an hour drive, and it’s really beautiful. President's birthday is the day after mine, so it was kind of an early celebration for both of our birthdays.  We went with President, sister Delamare, Ben and the two office couples. It’s really pretty out there, the falls are way sweet, definitely a time I wished swimming was allowed on a mission haah. The best (or at least funniest part) was right before we left. There was a little hut on the river and me and Elder Haws wanted to go in and take pictures in it. I went first while he stood outside to take my picture. There was a kind of gate thing in front of the entrance that wouldn’t open, so you would think I would take the hint because it was already kind of sketchy. Nope. I decided to hop over the gate and as I landed my right foot broke thru the old wood and scratched up my leg a bit. It was more embarassing than anything, but nobody saw but Elder Haws. hahah oh man.  It shows you how little Elder Stover listens to the Spirit (or common sense) haha  The people there were cool about it that the there's a hole in the floor now. I guess its allowed to go in, but just not the best idea, as I learned. haha funny stuff.

Then on Sunday, Sister Matriano came to church again with her son Andrew, friend Liza and even her brother. She's doing really well. She's been less active for a long while, married an RM that died.  She's remarried again (or has another man) and has 2 little girls. It’s been tough for her to come back to church because of stuff that happened in the past, but you can tell she's doing better.   Why?  Well because she's coming to church of course, but also she's fed us the past few times. That shows a level of comfort that she didn’t have before it’s cool to see.  She's such a good lady and her son and friend are really smart, especially Liza who's about 22, I think.

Sunday was just over all a good day for work. At the start of the day I didn’t know if we'd have enough appointments for the whole day but it worked out really well. We taught Sister Mary Jane, who started by telling us that she was only being nice to us and didn’t really want to listen. But we taught her and as we taught you could see her just get into it, she was just brought in.  She now wants to know more and understand what we taught.  I think we did a bad job the past times but this time we just taught the doctrine and it changed everything.

Our last appointment was really good too.  We went to see this part member family to teach one of the little daughters. But the father was there too, he's a seaman, he works on ships and is gone for months at a time and just came back on Thursday.  We invited him to listen and we taught about eternal families and family prayer and he seemed pretty interested.  He invited us back later tonight so we'll see how that goes.

  

We did teach Ian, our baptism back in July. It’s been awhile since I’ve gotten to teach him. He’s totally the man.  When we came in he was reading the Book of Mormon.  I’ve got to say that’s the best thing to catch someone doing... reading the Book of Mormon.  He really wants to serve a mission and he's only 9, such a good kid.  Now if we could just get his parents to get work off on Sunday and come to church too.

Anyways the work here is pretty good. We're blessed with a great ward and good area.  I’m sad to leave in a couple weeks but it's also for the best.  Since Elder Biado is leaving the office, maybe he'll go into this ward, QC 2nd, full time.  That would be good.

Anyways hope all is good with everyone. Nothing compares to the ups and downs of a mission. Other than the ups and downs of regular life, I guess haha. I’ve just got to always remember to "Abide in Patience" always.

Love it, it’s definitely something that's awesome. 

love

Elder Stover

9-12-11

This week has been pretty good and to be honest not a lot has gone on.  I think I say that every week so we'll tell by how long this letter is.

 Anyways this week has been good.  We're trying our best to build the work in this ward for the new missionaries coming in a couple of weeks.  We're still teaching Evelyn Corpuz, it’s gone ok. Her kids are pretty noisy still, and a lot of the neighbor kids like to come and "listen".  They don’t listen though, they just talk and Sister Evelyn gets annoyed because like she said, she really wants to learn. At this point we'll see where it goes because she's not real excited about acting, mostly just listening so that’s going to be the challenge. She's opened up a lot to us, but I know there's a deeper concern that we have to find.

Yesterday we found a new investigator. haha it was quite the experience I guess.  He was a referral from another mission and we tried to go see him about a month ago on a Sunday.  He told us he was busy and to just call him.  Basically, don’t come back if you haven’t called first. The problem was he only gave us a landline and I would always forget while I was in the office to call.  So then yesterday we had time and I just said whatever, let’s go, we'll see what happens. He wasn’t there but his mom was. She’s 90 plus, but pretty much all there though. It was a  funny little message we shared with her and she said like 300 times, if it’s from the bible then its good with her haha.  Then brother (his name's Juancho) came, holding a bible and kind of jumped on me a bit.  We were on splits and so it was just me and some ward missionaries. It wasn’t the greatest referral because she had only been talked to by the missionaries for a few minutes and given some pamphlets.  So he just went off about how the bible is all we need and wanted to know why we had the Book of Mormon. I’m not sure if he meant to attack but I was kind of taken back.  When I finally got a word in I asked if I could give us a prayer to start.  I pleaded with Heavenly Father and he gave me peace in my heart. It was a good feeling because at first I was almost scared, but as I prayed it was just gone.  I just shared about the Book of Mormon. I answered his questions, and it went pretty well. He’s a real talkative guy. He also only said one Tagalog word the whole time that we counted and I spoke it Tagalog the whole time.  It’s kind of funny, just how some filipinos are sometimes, especially the ones who have been to America (his mom has 4 kids, or 3 not sure she said both, in America and she’s not afraid to tell you hahah).  It went surprisingly well though and you could feel the difference afterwards. He complimented our church (while downing a few others haha) about how organized our church is. Its because we have a living prophet brother who speaks with God, simple as that, explains it all haha.  It was cool he was asking us to text him and set up another appointment and give him an English Book of Mormon (he has a cell phone I guess).  He’s a really nice guy, in his 50's and really smart.  He definitely talks a lot but that’s ok.  He reminds me of a recent convert here in this ward, she was way against the whole idea of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, but after she received an answer, her heart softened and now her testimony is so strong. It’s just exciting stuff.

9-5-11

Hello everybody

Well this week has been pretty good, another interesting, but not too stressful week in the office.

Not a lot has happened as far as the office goes. There’s been some issues with baptismal records so tomorrow in Zone leader council I get a few minutes to train a bit so that we can avoid the mistakes. The wards and stakes have been complaining too so it’s something that’s got to be fixed.  On Friday we helped some elders move into a nice new apartment.  It’s really nice, brand new and about a third of the price of all the ones we've looked at.  We haven’t really looked much this past week but this week we're going to take a few days and go look in the afternoon.   It doesn’t do much to look at 7pm at night, everything is closed anyways.

As far as driving, well no accidents since last Saturday.  But the other day, I think Wednesday, we were driving home, turning left when a car came from behind us cut in front to turn left.  I almost hit him and got a little frustrated.  I’ve made sure to drive more carefully and I’ve noticed a difference.  Now even when people cut in front of me and I almost hit them, Biado takes my side because he knows I’m trying to be safe.  It’s just a different way of driving here, driving fast isn’t really possible in the Philippines haha.

Anyways work has been alright too.  We got a referral last Sunday in a far part of our area.  Not a big deal, we do have a car so we headed over there.  We met a brother who hasn’t been to church in 10-15 years.  He and his wife were really active till he got a job on Sunday and now they kind of turned catholic.  I think sister (we didn’t meet her) likes catholic better and brother just kind of follows.  The last time we tried to go over there though they hid from us haha.  Their neighbors are a part member family, the mom is less active, the husband is separated, and the two other kids aren’t baptized yet.  The girl goes to catholic school so the trick is going to be to get her to come to church. Sister is the key but she's always "sleeping" when we come, smart kids, hopefully we can see sister more often.

Sister Delyn was doing awesome.  We didn’t get a chance to visit her this week until Saturday.  Well actually we didn’t on Saturday because she moved back to Fairview, part of the North Mission! She's 22 but her mom made her come home because I guess she had a dream that something bad was going to happen to her daughter.  Here they respect their parents (a little too much) even when they're moved out and older.  The worst part is that she felt the Spirit!  I guess she has been asking and as she put it, she felt the manifestations of the Spirit.  She really wants to continue to be taught so we're just trying to get her address over there.  It seems like this type of thing happens a lot to me on the mission.  I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining but it’s kind of disappointing.  There's a bigger reason for it though, I know that.

On Sunday, Sister Matriano, a less active we've been teaching came to church!  She hasn’t been to church in forever.  She was pretty offended a few years ago (not something small either) and on Wednesday we tried to take bishop over there.  She was sleeping so we didn’t get to teach or talk to her.  Then on Sunday, right after sacrament we saw them walking up.  Oh man it was awesome!  I just had this big smile and as they sat down a member bore her testimony.  I don’t know what she said but something she said, along with them coming, I don’t know I just felt the spirit really strong and teared up a bit.  I think it was just love, just enough love to keep me going.

It’s been a good week and a lot of work to do in our area, with trying to find an apartment and all the actual work to do.  We're going to try hard this week to get out by 5 to get in a little more work.  It’s an awesome ward and awesome area, kind of bittersweet that other missionaries are coming in next transfer.

It rained like crazy yesterday and the past few days it gets really hot and humid in the afternoon then bigla, it rains like crazy, but yesterday it was real hard.  A road in our area, one we always use, flooded up to the hip, in like an hours time.  The Philippines got some crazy weather especially this time of the year.

Anyways that was my week.  Love you all thanks for everything.  I love this work, even in the office. I really do have an important part of the Lord's work even in the office, even if I don’t always realize it.  It’s been fun.

love

Elder Stover  

8-29-11

hello po!

  

First off on Monday that apartment that we thought we had, well we don’t.  I don’t know what happened but the guy was like nope no vacancy.  So yep we're still looking, going on 3 months now.  It’s not something I thought I’d being doing on a mission, but then again I didn’t think I’d be in the office either haha.  I do feel more used to the office and since I’m more used to it I’m liking it more.  I mean lots of stuff goes wrong of course, but it’s just more ok, I don’t know if its just because I’m used to it or what, but I’m enjoying it more.  It’s like on Wednesday we had to pick up a sister from the airport, coming from Mindoro because she has been having knee problems and she was going to the missionary recovery center.   We were in a hurry but first we had to get gas and as I pulled into the stall, I don’t know what happened to my brain but I came in wide and hit the pumps and broke one of those trigger things on the nozzle, ya super sweet.  I was super angry at myself, like close to tears to be honest.  All I could think about was how badly I don’t want to drive anymore.  I don’t know why I suck so much here, maybe the air is different here or something haha.  There are all these stupid things I do, like backing out without looking and basically not being careful I guess, nothing big, well at that point nothing big.  We took the truck in to get some stuff fixed and they gave us a replacement car and so on Saturday night, at 9:30, pulling into our neighborhood to go home, we got rear ended, like kind of hard.  I got a bit of whiplash, nothing serious, I’ve had my neck hurt more than this after football games, but it pushed our car forward like 2 meters.  We were turning left, waiting for traffic to clear, it surprised us both.   I felt worse for the driver though because he’s a driver for a catering service and his boss was pretty mad.  So for once it wasn’t my fault.  The problem was we had to wait for the police then had to go with him to the station to file a report. Ya we didn’t get home till past 1 in the morning, really lame.  It took forever.   Good news was the cops were watching UFC so I watched a bit of that hahaha.

Ya so now we have a replacement for our replacement car.  Man oh man, if I could count all the jokes made in my direction from everyone here in the office or at the area office haha.  It’s a good thing I’m a good sport lol

Anyways enough of my rambling, it’s been a good week and this one will be good too. It’s not who or where you serve, it’s how.  There is nothing truer than that and I’m glad I’m learning that lesson now because I’ll use it the rest of my life.  I’ve done a little better with getting some scripture reading done every day, even if it’s at 10:30 as I’m falling asleep haha.  That might be a big reason this week has been good.  I’m grateful for the opportunity to be on a mission and in the office.  I’m learning a lot, stuff I probably won’t realize until after.  Time flies, on Sunday I’ll have been endowed for a year, crazy stuff.  I’m getting to be an old guy, I don’t know if I like it haha.

I love you all. Thanks for the prayers, emails, letters and all.  I hope all is well back home in Westpoint Ward and hope my friends are making good decisions.  The sooner they get on missions, the sooner we can see each other again and share all our mission stories.

I love this work and love all of you!

Elder Stover

8-22-11

hello po

This week has been a pretty crazy/fast week.  I don’t know how many times I’ve said this on the mission, but its true every week gets faster, especially during a week like this one.

On Tuesday we had to take fridges all day, I mean all day.  First we left the house at 8 and got my license back from the place because the cop took it last week because I made an illegal u turn.  Ya, there wasn’t a sign and even if there was the next u turn was like 3 miles away. (ya there’s almost no left turns here, only U-turns)  Anyways after that we took some new fridges to one house, then their old to another house, then their old one to another house and the other new one to another house and so on.  We pretty much drove thru the whole mission, got to our area about 8 and taught Sister Jovel.  It was an ok lesson but you could tell she had a question/concern but just wouldn’t say it.  Finally she asked what if she couldn’t get baptized.  So then we found out that on Thursday she was moving back to Bicol (where her parents live).  So ya, not the greatest day I’ve ever had, definitely long and not too enjoyable haha.

Then Wednesday was way better. It was exit day for the exiting missionaries. There was one elder and two sisters but the sisters are actually extending a few weeks so only the elder actually went home.  It was Elder Spiller, my beloved 1st zone leader.  I got to say probably my best friend in the mission. We got to hangout all day pretty much, I helped him pack a bit and go to a temple session with them.  Elder Spiller isn’t somebody I’ve ever seen cry or would expect to over his mission (he’s talked about going home since I came into the mission haha) but man sitting there in the celestial room he definitely cried.   It’s got to be hard, like me and him were talking about, after awhile this is all you know.  It’s like you were born a missionary and as much as you talk about going home sometimes, actually thinking about it is pretty scary.  The mission is so much fun and you learn so much, it’s hard to believe when it’s over.

Then Thursday, oh man. haha we had to pick up the locals at 6:30 at the MTC, take them to the mission home for orientation and interviews, then transfer meeting started at 9:30 and so before that it was getting the mail run all good to go.  Then transfer meeting, elders coming off Mindoro being late, then getting all the DVD players, DVDs, phones, new area books and all that up to the zones afterwards. haha it was crazy, then taking the trainers over to the mission home to meet their new trainees (the foreigners).  The foreigners had their orientation (all 22 of them) and we didn’t have enough time to do all their interviews with president.  Then the shuttle didn’t come to pick Elder Spiller up for the airport so I ended up taking him there so he wouldn’t miss his flight home.  Man I got to tell you we had a great talk. Elder Spiller has always been someone I’ve looked up to, he’s the man and such a good missionary.  He is just one of those guys where everyone loves him and everything he touches turns to gold.  We had a good talk about being "the man" when we get home, you just got to be the man, can’t be any less. He’s from Australia but is going to study at BYU or UVU so I’ll see him again for sure.

We lost Sister Jovel this week but we got a few new ones. Brother Noel Sanchez is this guy in a wheelchair that we always see and that we've talked to before.  On Sunday we actually got to teach him. He’s done some things in the past but has said how much he wants to change. He’s had polio since he was 2 and we just shared about the plan of salvation and especially about Christ and the resurrection.  A few times he teared up a bit I knew the Spirit was touching him. He’s kind of in and out of houses with his relatives so we just taught him on the sidewalk of a quiet street, cool experience.  We're supposed to go back to him this week and hopefully teach in his cousins house and meet them as well.  Yesterday was just a good day, just talking with people about the gospel is such a good feeling.  It brings joy as we invite others to come unto Christ I think we find ourselves a whole lot closer too.  I know this Gospel is true and I love my mission and my call to serve. I hope everything is going well with everything.

I can’t wait to hear from all of you, you're in my prayers.

Love,
Elder Stover

8-15-11

Hello everybody time flies! I feel like I was just here emailing you yesterday.

This week has been a pretty busy one with transfers coming up. It’s always a little more busy with transfers but especially this one, with so many people coming in and so many apartments that got to be moved into so they can have a place to sleep.

So like on Tuesday we went out to Teresa, which is about an hour and a half away, out in the province, kind of in the mountains, to move the elders into their big new house out there.  It took forever because they kind of had a lot of stuff.   They also lived in a place with tiny streets so we spent a ton of time trying to maneuver the cruddy truck (it’s a Ford and it stinks so much, but we're getting a new one soon =)) thru the narrow streets.  Then their new house is up a hugely steep hill, like probably like a 110 degree angle I’d say seriously its way steep, and it’s the Philippines so of course narrow too haha.  Then after that we had some desks to take to some other elders, so by the time we were done it was 8 o’clock we got to our appointment and taught. So from 8-8, we were driving or moving, great day haha.  Our lesson was hard too, we taught Sister Jovel about priesthood for like for the 4th time.  It’s really hard, I don’t know why.  It’s like she understands but then she doesn’t.  I don’t know if she just doesn’t get it or if she's just too shy and embarrassed.  She's very soft spoken and doesn’t like to read out loud either.  It’s kind of hard but we'll see how it keeps going.

Then Friday we moved some more elders into a bigger house.  That move went way smooth, just down the street, nice house.  I had to stay a little late to finish up some stuff for transfers coming up and I guess I didn’t communicate well with Elder Biado because he got pretty mad at me.  We had a real good fight/argument/talk and I think figured some stuff out.  We really haven’t had a good relationship at all.  We don’t fight a ton because that’s because we usually don’t talk much to each other.  It would drive me crazy if I wasn’t in the office but I think I’ve put up with it more because we're in the office, not really working side by side as we would in another area.  I do stuff to make him mad and he does stuff to make me mad.  A big thing of it is that I drive and he doesn’t, he wishes he was the office secretary and not financial because he says it’s easier, really, a ton of stuff.  It’s hard when he's mad because he just won’t talk.  It’s hard for both of us because we're both having kind of a hard time in the office, stressed sometimes so sometimes we kind of clash and Friday was a great example.  Stuff that’s been hard for me too, is that we like never plan, and if I suggest somewhere to go or something to teach he doesn’t really get mad, just you can tell he doesn’t like it.  We're trying to figure it out a little more and really need to because we're with each other for another transfer at least.

 I love this ward and the work here but I really feel kind of more like an obstacle than helping the work here.  I mean we only get to work so much and the work here is just awesome.  On Sunday we had some time and we did a little tracting and I’ve never had that kind of success just tracting.  In like an hour we had 3 return appointments, taught a lady and had a return appointment with her. I just got that feeling yesterday, that this area, this ward, Quezon City 2nd is just going to blow up.  Yesterday was just a good day.  We split and like I said we just found people willing to talk to us it was cool.  Then we taught this neighbor of a recent convert, she was really pretty shy, just kind of listened, but then her other neighbors, this Sister Delyn and this kid Bryan came.  We taught about the Book of Mormon and it was a strong spirit. You can just tell sometimes when people are getting it.  This Sister Delyn, she was just like there's no evil in it, it can only add and help and that it was true.  She’s a youth minister for a catholic church and I don’t know, it was a good lesson.  I felt impressed to talk about Jesus Christ's visit and you could tell they just accepted it.  I think the Book of Mormon is one of my favorite things to teach. It’s a powerful and important book and it makes all the difference in a person's conversion. It’s why the prophets always encourage us to read it, not the bible or D & C but the Book of Mormon.  When people have a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon I think it’s pretty hard to get the rest of our testimony shaken.

But now its transfer week, we’ve got 33 (another got added last week) missionaries coming in and like 17 areas opening up.  Elder Haws was telling me that transfers are going to be sweet, a lot of people stepping up.  I just want to know who's going to sablayan because whoever they are I’m very jealous.   They have a list of people waiting to be taught, a brand new place where missionaries have never been, oh man it’s just like every missionaries dream. It would be a tough job but so worth it. It’s ok though, I’ll be here in the office learning a lot of lessons. The office is stressful and busy but it’s also got its advantages.  The AP's and President and his wife went to Mindoro for the weekend so we stayed at the mission home with Ben Saturday on our P-day and ate pizza and watched “the Other Side of Heaven” and “the Best Two Years’.  It was pretty sweet but in a couple of months I’ll happily trade that for just a regular P-day of cleaning the house and going to a ward family home evening after.  One lesson it’s definitely teaching me is that it’s how that I serve, not who or where, it’s how I do it.  Pull where you stand right?  It’s so true and the faster we all learn that lesson (especially Elder Stover) we'll all be that much happier.

 A few thoughts for this week, stuff I’ve gleaned off of others: "to pity distress is but human; to relieve it is godlike" got that from a talk by Thomas S. Monson.  We just got to do our part and act, life’s about action and good actions make us happy.  When we are happy, we do good things. It’s a good cycle that we just got to start...by acting.

I wish I was as wise the whole week as I am on P-days when I write these emails.  All of you probably think I’m just this mature wise missionary, kind of, sometimes, but mostly I’m still just figuring it out.  There’s a few flashes of brilliance and a whole lot of dimness the rest of the time haha

I love you guys and pray for all of you.  I just want to give my all to Heavenly Father for everything I’ve been lucky enough to have and know in this life.  Thanks for the prayers and support.  God wants us to be happy, so be obedient and be happy.

love

Elder Stover

8-8-11

mayong buntag!!

 

haha how is everyone? My week/life has been for the most part better this week. No accidents/breakins or anything like that, so that's always a big plus. Amazing how many things can happen in one week on a mission and yet how so very fast it all happens, you just forget all of it.  So I'll try and remember how this week was and all that happened.  

 

On Wednesday we actually took a senior couple to work a couple of appointment's. It was sweet, they may not have understood like anything that went on but they bore a way awesome testimony. It's amazing how strong their testimonies were, and I know it helped our investigators, especially sister Jovel.  She seemed to open up so much to them that I think it just made her feel a little bit more special that we brought them too. She's awesome though I've noticed a difference in her every time. We still take it slow but if we teach slow and to her level, she just gets it and is so willing to try and do the things we teach. She's received an answer about Joseph Smith and has read from the Book of Mormon and goes to church every Sunday. She's way cool.

We had an awesome service project on Saturday morning with our ward.  They set this whole thing up at a Barangay hall to take people's blood pressure and things and taught about diabetes, and high blood pressure.  It was kind of an awareness type thing, but the sweet part is we brought a bunch of pamphlets with us and handed them out after and talked to the people about the Gospel. Everyone was so open to it, amazing what a little bit of service can do to open other's hearts.  Just the way those people looked at us as missionaries and members was just different, it was cool.  It was just because we were willing to help a little in their community.  We got a few return appointments and one we went to yesterday, her name is Basing and she's an older lady who's husband just had an operation but is doing good. She's so smart and really, really wanted a Book of Mormon so we brought her one and taught a little about it and just bore testimony about how powerful it is, how important it is to us and to God for us to use it.  Awesome stuff.

Anyways I love you all.  I know this church is true. I'm sorry I can't give you more spiritual food and such but I'm running a little low at times myself. I love being able to go and work though, it's the best time of the day.  That's where we're headed right now so I'll talk to all of you next week!

Trust in our Heavenly Father, his ways, his timetable, and you'll never go wrong.

love

Elder Stover

8-1-11

hello everybody!

 

How is life back home? Here its pretty rainy. I think it's rained every day this week, on and off, off and on. It's almost a little bit cold to be honest.

 

Anyways, this week has been pretty good, lots of stuff has happened. On Monday we had an awesome family home evening with a bunch of the Young Adults.  I gave a lesson about prepping ourselves by strengthening our faith about all that's going to happen in the coming years. I was helped a ton by the Spirit and it was strong, then of course we played a bunch of games and I got some pictures... well had some. I'll get to that later.

 

I totally forgot about last week that I got a call on Thursday from the Manila temple. They asked if a certain hotel was in our mission. why? Because David Archuletta was in town and him and his parents wanted some missionaries to bring some Books of Mormon to their room because they had some referrals. So yes I called his dad and talked to him for awhile, he was a cool guy.  I guess his son has some fans that they wanted to share the gospel with. Funny guy, said he doesn't like calling them investigators, just pre-members. Haha, anyways yes I didn't get to take them but the Assistants and president did (life as the mission secretary),  but it's ok as they didn't get to meet him anyways. I didn't care a lot anyways because I don't think I know a single David Archuletta song.  I just know he's famous and a member haha.

 

Bad news though, on Friday night me and Elder Biado took ours home. of course we worked first. We taught Ian, our recent convert from last Saturday and a less active family right close to them. It was about 8:30pm when we went to the less active family and I hadn't eaten yet that day so I just wanted to go home, felt like we should but I thought I was just being selfish so I ignored it and we went and taught. The kids were crazy and loud and it wasn't a very good lesson. Then as we got to our car afterwards we noticed one of the back windows were open, well there was no glass but it wasn't open. Somebody took a rock and had smashed it in and took my camera and our DVD player. Sweet huh?  That's the second camera to have gotten stolen.  On the big bright side though, Elder Biado and my working funds weren't stolen (like  a thousand bucks in all) so that was way good, big tender mercy.

We were out late that night though, filing a report with the police and everything. I'm not expecting much probably just a gang of some kids. It's not the best part of town but we've parked there every time we've taught there so it was pretty unexpected.

 

Anyways life in the office is interesting, its hard and a lot of the time I hate it, but lots of other times its not too bad. I'm learning a lot, and patience is a big one, and how to just take the blame for everything. I noticed everything goes a lot smoother and happier if you just make it your fault even if its not yours. I bet that'll help a lot in marriage.

 

haha love you all and hope all is well

Elder Stover