Week 40 Villa Bonita

No photos again this week, but here is his latest letter:

This week was a lot cooler! Except for today, we played soccer some of the young men from the ward, and it was extremely hot. One of the young men was Chuy, who is getting baptized tomorrow!

We were able to get Chuy´s grandma to go to church, which is amazing because she is extremely Catholic. We were very careful when we started teaching her. Normally we would invite her to be baptized in the first visit, and if she rejects we could just stop teaching her and everything is fine. She is different because she is Chuy´s guardian and he is going to be baptized.

We started off just by being her friend and buying ice-cream from her, the next time we sang her a hymn, the next time she just listened as we taught Chuy, and the next time we taught her and invited her to church, and she came! Apparently she liked church and tonight we will invite her to be baptized. That´s an example of teaching spirit-guided lessons and preparing the investigators to learn. She is going to be a great support for her grandson when he gets baptized.

We have been working with the young men a lot in the last couple of weeks and we are teaching a lot of their friends. It´s the best way to do missionary work. When their friends get baptized, they get extremely motivated to help more of their friends.

The sad news of the week is that on Saturday, two sister missionaries in my district got robbed. They got back to their house to find the door broken and all their valuables taken, including camaras, an ipod, money, speakers, and a few other things. One of the sister missionaries has only 3 months left in the mission and all her photos from her whole mission were on her camara. I was amazed with how well they handled the situation, not even worried about all the things that were stolen and just happy that they weren´t there when their house was broken into.

Awesome news of the week. Wal-Mart delivers in Mexico without charging extra. Nuf said.

This week the district will have 2 baptisms and it is going to be really awesome. I love you all and thank you for your letters.

-Elder Steele

He told us in our family letter that:

We have noticed that our door has been messed with too. Cholos have tried breaking in, but luckily they have been unsuccessful.  A cholo is a Mexican gangster. There are a tons of them here, they just smoke marijuana all day, and try to rob people´s houses. 

As his parents, that's crazy to hear, but we know he will be protected as he is out serving the Lord doing Missionary work and doing what he's suppose to be doing.  There is great comfort in that!