written: 4/19/2021
Week 16
This week was incredibly busy, filled with many awesome lessons and english classes!
We had 18 english classes this week, and we are now up to 8 students! We base every lesson, except for one rockstar student, on material called English Connect, something the church has put together or partnered with to allow english to be taught everywhere. We set up a zoom meeting, share our screen, go over and practice english for 20-30 minutes while also practicing throughout the week on WhatsApp, so our WhatsApp has turned into English basically, good for me, but Elder Calderon sometimes struggles. Unless the connection is bad, or we run out of time, we typically follow every class with a spiritual lesson and we are seeing progress out of lots of our friends! Every single student has improved so much in english and spiritually! We have one rockstar student, Daniela, who every class surprises us. Our first class a week or two ago instinctively started with the alphabet and the basics, and she followed along and did great. After, she just blows through the course and now we don't even use the course, we just have an English conversation for 30 minutes, we even practiced asking for a raise, role playing, and she tells us all about her life. We learned she actually lived in New Zealand for 3 years and is waiting to go back but has to wait due to Covid!! Her english is so good already, but we keep trying to find new stuff for her to learn! It was also her birthday this past weekend and we dropped off some oreo cheesecake at her house, which ended up being just about as far away from our house as you could get, but she was so happy we thought of her! (And the cake looked so good I had to get myself a slice and it was definitely some of the best cheesecake I have had)
We have a new friend in teaching who we are so excited about. We invited our amazing member Ulises to the first lesson and they clicked and the enthusiasm Ulises had was infectious. He was offering to go drive to the country, as that is where our amigo lives, about 45 min away by car, to personally go say hi! We talked about the bible, the Book of Mormon, and he is actually coming into town this week to get a Book of Mormom from us!!! He is excited to read it and we are so excited for him. Elder Calderon and I have thought about him constantly and we are so excited for the future. We got a few texts from our amigo, one of them being "So I heard once you can't drink coffee, is this true?" Well, yes, but to us the most important thing is he is really investigating the church and he said he has many more questions, and we said we are here for everything!
Lastly, this week I began to just focus more on trying to be happy in whatever circumstances. We were in the house a lot this week, but honestly I loved it, and we made the most of it. Elder Calderon and I picked up running, and we ran 3 mornings, including one morning when it started raining on us mid run, but I didn't care and actually enjoyed it! We have played a lot of soccer for our exercise in the morning too and although I am still terrible, I am definitely improving. And lastly, I had some awesome food this week! Milanese sandwiches from a member, the AMAZING oreo cheesecake, and I have a newfound love for green apples and I got the steal of the century, 12 apples for $880 pesos, which is a little over $1 USD. I control my happiness and I have seen that it is all about my attitude. I control what I can control, and leave the rest up to God.
I'll end using my two most used emojis 
why a unicorn? I have no idea, but why not!
Love you all!
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: Nothing's gonna stop me!; Elder Calderon and me; I LOVE green apples, oh yes, I do!; Oreo Cheesecake was worth every peso; Milanese for the win!
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