written: 4/18/2022
Week 68
This week flew by and before I knew it, here I was typing this email again!! Last P-Day was very busy, as we had to take a flight in the morning and travel to another part of the mission, in Puerto Montt! I was able to see a member that I got to spend a lot of time with when I was in Portal Del Mar, so that was an awesome experience! I also got to eat completos and the next day I got McDonalds, so a pretty successful trip if you ask me, along with the leadership meeting of course.
Once we were back in our area on Wednesday, the days just blurred, but we did have a few good things happen! We had a great lesson with someone who has been taught by a number of missionaries and is the husband of a member. We had a lesson about personal revelation and invited him to pray if he should be baptized, something he said he has never done! We are hopeful! We are going to be doing the same with another person who has been in teaching for a very long time and we are excited to see what the future holds for them!
One day in the afternoon we had a short time planned to make a cake with a member and his family. Making the cake took only 15 minutes and we were told we were going to have to wait 40 minutes for the cake. Elder Levar and I both agreed we were going to go knock on the doors on the street during this time. We went out and began knocking and after about 5 or 10 houses, we said our typical "alooooo" outside of the fence. A man came out of the door and we introduced ourselves as missionaries and he invited us in! (This has only happened twice in the last 2 or 3 weeks we have been tracting). We began to teach him the restoration, find out about his family and situation, and see he was someone who was really interested! It is a family from Colombia and we are hopeful we will continue to teach them, especially because a recent convert from Colombia lives with her family 5 houses down from them! It was just confirmation that we were doing what we were supposed to and that it was great we both acted on the prompting to go knock doors and not just wait for the cake!
This Sunday being Easter we imagined a lot of people would attend church, but much to our faith, not only did we not have a lot of the people we were teaching show up, but the members didn't really show up either! Remember that mythical campo I mentioned last week? Well it seems like everyone went to the mythical campo this past weekend as well, but we were still able to have a good sacrament meeting and we were able to see a lot of progress in the branch as we are finally having meetings and everyone is getting more organized :)
To end, especially after the story and experience we had out tracting, it really goes to show you God's hand in the work! I am excited to see what God has in store for the people here in Coyhaique and I am excited to see what happens these coming weeks! I am hopeful and there is a lot of potential!
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include :Me and 4 missionaries from the "original crew" L-R: Sister Weight, Elder Baum, Elder Abegglen, Me, and Elder Solis; My homie, Elder Petty; Jorge is a member missionary! Look at him sporting my name tag and the Book of Mormon; Homemade shrimp ceviche with banana chips and popcorn (yes, popcorn!)
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