written: 4/4/2022
Week 66
An awesome week! I definitely can't believe it is already April!! Like what?? It was definitely a very busy week with many moving parts, but we made it work with what we had!
This week we had President Meek come to Coyhaique for interviews and finally a zone conference. It has been a few months without a zone conference because of all the changes in the mission and all the missionaries coming from the United States. But nothing ever goes to plan haha and we ended up only having about 1/2 of what was planned, but hey that's what happens when the missionaries in the zone have to travel by bus to get to zone conferences and interviews. The best part was definitely the awesome lunch we had, full of sushi, pizza, and ceviche. Never going to complain if I even get one of those, to get all 3 it was like Christmas! We also got a mountain of things for our house to not freeze and turn into icicles because the temperature is definitely already changing, but we will not have any problems being warm in our house.
This week as we were doing door to door contacts, we had a super cool experience with one of the people we met! He didn't have too much time when we first talked to him, but we were able to teach him about the Book of Mormon and left him with the invitation to read. We checked back up with him yesterday and he told us that he had began reading and then told us that his mom had recently been diagnosed with cancer and 2 tumors. He said that he knew it was time to grow closer to Jesus Christ and he feels that we knocked on his door at the perfect time. Little miracles!
Of course this week was also general conference, which was awesome!! On Sunday, we got invited over to a family's house not only for lunch, but breakfast also. She made massive waffles with all the toppings you could think of and to top it all off, lasagna for lunch! It is impossible to go hungry here in Coyhaique haha the members always take care of us. The talks about missionary work were definitely awesome and I am definitely happy I followed my prompting to serve a mission, even during a pandemic, or I know I would definitely be feeling all the feelings if I had listened to that talk at home. I am definitely blessed to have chosen to serve and even though it has been hard, it has been exactly what I needed. Even though my process to get on the mission hasn't been the easiest and I went through a lot of obstacles, I wouldn't have it any other way!
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: Waffles for the win!; Neil L. Andersen, "Following Jesus: Being a Peacemaker" April 2022 General Conference; The "mountain of things" to keep us warm; The Awesome Lunch! (L-R around the table) Elder Levar, Me, Elder Caroll, Elder Tomney, Elder Jones, Hermana Jones, Elder King, Elder Anderson, President Meek, Hermana Meek, Elder Marshall and Elder Cisterna
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