In Huntsville Week 8

Hey everyone!

Well Alabama is just awesome! it is a bit like walking around in a hot tub all day though! we always joke about baptizing people in the air cuz its like we are constantly swimming anyway haha. I am just having an amazing time down here, for everybody that reads this letter i have to say missionary work is worth it! they're definitely hard things, your exhausted and hot and sometimes you bike more then should be possibly in a day, but if you work your happier then you can possibly imagine! Just knowing that you are out doing the work of the lord brings comfort to my soul :) the opurtunity to teach and to just give service to people is something i love so much! i strongly encourage everyone who is able. GO ON A MISSION!!!! dont delay, just go out and get to work, it will be hard, but it will bring more joy to you then you can imagine, it is just an amazing thing to be a part of!

So im gunna share just a little expirience here, Its about how sometimes you have hard days, but often times those hard days just set you up to help someone who needs you :) 

on Saturday we had to go to the clinic because Elder Jackson had this massive boil and sister Jones (the nurse) thought we should go check it out, he ended up having to get it cut open and we might have to go back again if it doesnt start to go away with anti biotics! Then we were riding bikes to an appointment and Elder Jackson's tire went flat and so we resorted back to walking, Every single on of our appointments seamed to fall through, but then something awesome happened. We were walking along the street to go tract in some apartments and we met an older lady, she had been taught some of the lessons and really wanted to get back in contact with the missionary's. She had fallen out of contact after she had become very sick. We got her some water and got her info and now the sisters i believe are going over to teach her! It just is a testament to me that sometimes your going to have struggles and go through hard things, but i can see that everything that happens is to prepare you or put you in the right spot at the right time to find the elect!

I want to testify that the lord has a plan! he puts us where we need to be to really help people! Sometimes we go through hard things, but all those hard things we can use to help others, all we have to do is to turn out to help others rather then turn in to help ourselves. Thats what being christlike really is, is turning out to others when we ourselves need help :)

Please go watch the video called "true christianity"  Its found at http://www.mormonchannel.org/ Once youve watched it, watch a few others and choose your favorite. Go share that video with someone, someone who might need it or someone who is a friend, a non member, a less active, anyone that you feel inspired to share the video with! The most important part of missionary work is member missionarys! go out and do the lords work and youll be suprised the blessings you get :) after all, if 15 million members are missionarys, the 85 thousand ish of us full timers will all the sudden have a lot more people to teach. the work will really be hastened :) So thats my challenge, try and be a true christain like in the video, and share that christian message with the world, "bring the world its truth!"

Thats all for now, but i love you all! your all awesome and i love to get letters and emails about how your doing! i would like feedback on how taking that challenge went too! everyone have an awesome week!

-Elder Steele

PS I have taught a ton of lessons now! its funny cuz as a spanish elder its really easy to teach a first lesson. people will invite you in and listen to you, however... they wont be there for your return appointment and they wont ever answer the door for you again ha. but its ok! we are hunters of men, jeremiah 16:16, we are trying to find the elect of god! not just some that will fall away right after baptism, we are finding the cream of the crop! 

It actually isnt scary at all to knock doors, people are generally nice, and i almost only knock spanish doors (you get like a detective vision for hispanics ha) so they are almost always nice and friendly :) even though they wont accept our message it is nice to not always get doors slammed in your face, that only happens when we knock white peoples doors though haah. What i havent done yet is been fed! i want somebody to feed me! haha ah well.

My bike did get here though! and i had to build it myself! ( i took it over the next day to get checked by someone who knows what theyre doing haah, ;) but i love it! its so easy to ride, best bike in the mish by far!!!

The car that me and my comp have is a 2011 toyota camry that is the ugliest gold color i have ever seen haha. its like the oldest car in the mish so it will proboly be sold after this transfer! but we are blessed to have a car! :)

As far as Ipads i dont know when i will get one! but i do know that i will by the end of the year! and im stoked to get to keep it! it will be such an amazing tool to! the mormon messages carry the spirit so strong!!! gah, im so stoked for it! it will really help progress the work! theres rumors we might get them next transfer but idk! we will find out!

alright so last thing, this is random fact time. Down here we say "have a blessed day" for have a good day, and if someone tells you "you been touched" it basically means youre strait retarded haha. they use things that should be nice as like bad things haha, for example "bless your heart" It basically means they pitty you in a bad way haha.