Today I have 11 months in the mission! It´s definitely going by really fast. I can´t believe it´s already Christmas time. It will be my first Christmas and only Christmas in the mission, so it will be very interesting and very exciting. We have a lot of baptisms planned for December and the beginning of January.
This week was the week of transfers. The people in the district stayed almost the same. The two sister missionaries who were secretaries both left and the assistants to the president are now in their area. The new secretaries are a Senior couple named Elder and Sister Downs from California. The other six of us all stayed in Pioneros, but 2 areas were switched. It will be very interesting having the assistants to the president in my district. I have more pressure to do a good job, but I get along great with Elder Reader and Elder Funk. I actually am still the newest missionary in my district and I have 11 months. My district is pure experienced missionaries who do a great job, and I´m their leader.
Here are some updates on investigators:
Orlando: He is now going to seminary at 5 in the morning and mission prep class. Nuff Said. He will be baptized soon.
Edgar: We taught him the Word of Wisdom and he told us that he will never stop drinking beer because he believes that the way he drinks it is not bad. He drinks it because he likes the flavor and analyzes the texture of different beers, and he never drinks too much to get drunk. That kinda sucked when he told me that. I told him afterward that we can´t force him to do anything. I explained that it was a commandment from God and he just won't receive the blessings of obeying it. He still wants to go to church, maybe there he´ll gain a stronger testimony of the restored gospel and choose to live the commandments of God.
Marco Antonio: He´s a difficult one. After an amazing lesson, we invited him to church and he said no. Not because he doesn't want to, but his parents won´t let him. His family, like many others, has deep traditions in the Catholic Church. He knows that our church is true though. In his prayer, he told God that one day when his parents no longer have control over him, he will attend his church. I hope it happens sooner than that. We´re gonna told to his parents.
There´s a few of our investigators. It was really interesting for me to receive no as an answer to a commitment. That actually hasn't happened to me in a long time. Rejection is a blessing though because it allows us to examine my teaching and see what we could've done differently and better. I've been focusing a lot on that. I want to be a teacher after my mission, so I've been studying and practicing different teaching strategies. Preach My Gospel is perfect to help any teacher develop his ability.
This week we will have a baptism on Saturday. The investigator is Genesis. She is another 8-year old girl. Next week is Orlando´s baptism, and the week after we have other baptisms planned that we are hoping will happen. That family that I talked about last week will be baptized soon. I actually gave that family to the sister missionaries who haven´t had baptisms in a long time, so that they can be more motivated by having 8 easy baptisms.
Eso es todo por la semana. Les amo mucho. Ojalá que todos tengan una buena Navidad!
-Elder Steele
-Elder Steele
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| Elder Steele,Elder Poaletti, Sister Palmer, Sister Perez, Uriel (a member from the ward), Elder Rojas, Elder Morrison |
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| Zone Obregón Mexico |
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