Week 65
To begin the week we received awesome news! We are now able to finally go door to door to try and find new people to teach!! This was the first week of my mission that I have been able to find like this, and it was really fun!! We got the chance to meet some really cool people in the few days we were able to get out and find, along with some crazies, but hey, still fun! Coolest person we found has got to be an 89 year old woman who at first when she came out to talk to us told us she was a Catholic, and usually they run us off their lawns, but she invited us in. She went on to tell us she had 17 kids and she has no idea how many grandkids or great grandkids she has haha. Then proceeded to tell us she really enjoyed our message and said it all made sense in her head!
We had a fun branch activity where we made completos and shared a short message centered around General Conference!! We had the activity planned for 7pm and it didn't really start until around 8pm because everything basically starts 30 min - 1 hour later than what is scheduled, no matter how hard you try. Being in Coyhaique definitely is a test of my patience as the people here run on their own clock and they aren't shy to admit it either. They even have a saying "quien se apura en la Patagonia pierde el tiempo" basically "whoever rushes in Patagonia wastes time". Definitely a truth statement, so it is definitely a challenge for me, but hey, I am here for a reason to grow my patience haha.
This Sunday for a family home evening, I got the chance to try my hand at homemade Oreo Cupcakes along with Javiera. Well let's just say that my cookies turned out much better haha. We may or may not have activated the baking powder and our cupcakes were definitely missing the spongy aspect you would imagine. But hey, lessons learned.
Quick notes! Last P day I got the chance to try Ceviche, which is absolutely FIRE! I got salmon and avocado and it was awesome!! Definitely going to have to get it again!! Also, this week in a service project we had to enter 20 meters of firewood into a members shed.... definitely was a little time consuming haha.
Definitely a super fun week and I am super excited for General Conference this weekend! Y'all should definitely tune in!!
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: Kickin' it old school... tracting in the rain!; Oreo cupcakes; Ceviche; 20 meters of firewood is A LOT of firewood!
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