written: 8/22/2022
Week 86
A great first full week with Elder Mortensen!!! We really are very similar and we work very well together. We were able to see many great things this week and I have no doubt this transfer is going to be awesome!
The week didn't start super amazing and we weren't able to see a lot of success. A small example, for Elder Mortensen's first experience knocking doors a man flipped us off and then came outside and started shouting at us saying we were spies, cussing us out and telling us to go back home. Did it really affect us too much? No, but it was just part of the opposition. However, after the first part of the week, we knew why we had received opposition.
On the mission I have come to realize we receive opposition before great things and blessings from God because Satan doesn't want us to achieve and see these miracles. We had a family home evening scheduled with an active member who last month told us her grandkids want to be baptized. We had planned to ask her how all of that process is going and she said "they'll be here in 5 minutes, let's see". The grandkids arrived and she sat then down and told us "OK talk to them" and we asked "do you both want to be baptized" and they both nodded their head and said "yes!" We had thought it wasn't going to happen so fast but God's timing is perfect. We also were able to see success knocking doors. When you knock doors here, it is impossible if one of the two missionaries in a companionship isn't fully invested in knocking doors or doesn't have enthusiasm. Elder Mortensen has lots of enthusiasm, so we were able to see success! We had lunch and began knocking doors because the weather was beautiful. We ended up finding an interested lady and talked to her for 30 minutes outside her house. Already happy, we kept knocking and found a small little street and began knocking. That's when we met Nicholas. We began talking and he said he hasn't found a church with his beliefs of the world and proceeded to name parts of the plan of salvation and I was able to tell him that there is a PERFECT plan for him, made by a perfect God. As I told him this, he began to cry. He said he is going through many tough things right now and he had prayed/yelled out loud in the morning and he knew we were a sign from God and he felt peace and he said how amazing it was to know God has a plan for him. I told him it wasn't a coincidence we knocked his door. It is a great feeling being able to be an instrument in God's hands.
The plan of salvation was a big focus of ours this week and it is something that makes our church different than the others I love being able to tell people that they can be with their family forever. We told that to someone who invited us in their house on a door contact and he said "wow, recently I found out the catholic church doesn't believe in eternal families and I didn't like it and felt sad and I didn't know your church or any church believed in that". I am very thankful that families can be together forever.
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: #elderenergy lunch; awesome zone; incredible district; fun and food!
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