written: 12/27/2021
Week 52
Christmas has come and gone here in good ole Patagonia! We had a great Christmas Eve and Christmas spent with some pretty cool members. We had a crap ton of meat, chicken, hot dogs and lamb. Christmas ended up being super fun as we went out to the countryside with a young married couple and some of their family members to a river bank and had a picnic, played soccer, and baked in the sun (definitely got sunburned super bad, but all worth it). It was really fun to still be able to celebrate Christmas with a family and to do something outside of the norm!
With regards to the work, we have definitely found that this branch is a pretty complicated branch to say the least! But all good, thats why we are here to be able to help to the best of our ability. There are many many many less active members, mainly priesthood holders. This week and the upcoming weeks we are going to be focusing on visiting them, finding what they like to do, showing interest in that, and seeing where it goes from there! We don't want to be just like all the other missionaries by inviting them to church and if they say no, which they most likely always will, we actually want to get to know them and show an interest in what they like.
I am trying to make the most of my time with Elder Petty because in January we are going to be receiving about 45 missionaries from the United States and then in February we will be receiving even more, so the chances of us having to train one of these new missionaries is very high. It is definitely going to be interesting having a mission with so many Americans when we are so used to having a ton of Chileans.
Love, Elder Collin Steele
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