written: 11/22/2021
Week 47
What a crazy week!
On Tuesday we had a super cool day! We needed to find people to teach and we had the idea to go to a the soccer and basketball courts near us and try and get all of their numbers. We ended up getting a lot of numbers, we enjoyed playing and it was nice to be out in the sun. For me, it's all about finding a balance and making sure I can do the missionary work while doing fun things. On Thursday, we had a district finding activity where we all went to an area in the district and tried finding people for the missionaries there by talking to everyone in the street. My group was my companion and the other elders in my area. We ended up going near the beach and tourist areas. For 2 hours we saw 0 success, but then we saw a group of students playing on the beach and we realized it was basically their PE time. We played volleyball on the beach and we also played beach soccer, all in our proselytizing clothes. We were really living our best lives. We ended up getting a ton of numbers between all of the school and it was so cool to see success while having fun.
We also had a baptism this Wednesday! Evens is a man from Haiti who is super cool. We have been working with him for about a month now and now that he's baptized we plan on talking to a lot of Haitians so that he can translate the lessons because he has super good Spanish.
The craziest thing that happened this week was transfers. We received news on Tuesday that I'd be leaving my area along with my companion Elder Vilcherres. We were super sad to leave and we had to say our goodbyes. Well, on Friday we went to Osorno. We were in the car when the elder in the office received news my companion has covid and isn't coming to Chile for minimum 2 weeks. So we had to wait for president to do emergency transfers and I was told I'd be returning back to my area with a different companion, Elder Quezada. So basically I packed up everything, went to Osorno, and returned within 24 hours. Little vacation. I'm super sad to not be with Elder Vilcherres because I learned so much from him, we have so many memories together, and I really changed for the better with him. I'm told I have about 2 weeks in my area and my companion from the United States should come and then I'll leave and be with him, but we never know with how crazy transfers are.
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: You have questions? I have answers!; Proselyting on the beach; Evens' baptism day; Brothers from another Mother; Me and my new companion, Elder Quezada
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