Elder Jaden Steele : Week 31 Castillo Obregón

Hey everybody. This week was definately different. Castillo is a lot different than Ahome. The people are a little different. In Ahome, the majority of the people would let you talk to them but here they are a little more closed. There are a ton of cholos here that ask for Book of Mormons. They don´t want to read them, the pages are really good to smoke drugs with apparently. We have met some pretty sketchy people here to say the least.

It has rained pretty much every day since I got here, which is awesome because it hasn´t been that hot, but 15 minutes of rain causes huge puddles all over the streets. Our area is so much smaller than my area in Ahome, in fact, in only a week, I know the area really well.

We do have one ejido, or outside town that we visit also, which I don´t know at all yet. The ejido is called Campo 60. Campo 60 has one branch that we attend on Sundays. We went yesterday, and unfortunately not a single member of that branch went to church. It was pretty sad. We just talked and waited and eventually we went back to Castillo. I hope that it´s rare that that happens. Not even the Branch President showed up.

The Castillo ward is super awesome. Right now, they are super motivated because they want to split the ward. At the rate that they are baptizing, they´ll be able to split the ward in no time. We don´t have a lot of investigators right now, but I got pretty good at finding investigators in Ahome, and we´re increasing our pool of investigators quickly, including some families. We have three sets of Elders here and they are all super awesome and work hard.

Well that´s about it for the week. I hope everybody has a good week back home. Good luck in the first couple days of school. Bye!