written: 9/5/2022
Week 88
September begins and the wonderful weather is becoming more common as the days pass. What a wonderful way to continue working hard and it helps keep the enthusiasm up. The work hasn't been on fire but that's alright, we are keeping our spirits high and there still is lots to do. This week we received news that our mission name and headquarters will change. So long Chile Osorno Mission, hello Chile Puerto Montt Mission!
We started the week off with an awesome experience. On Tuesday we had planned to stop by three people we had recently found knocking doors. We didn't have success with our first person but the next two people are a couple and we felt good about it. We stopped by their house and they came out with a lot of enthusiasm. They told us they had been waiting for us! They were the people I mentioned in my email last week. We were able to get to know them a little more and share about the plan of salvation. They really seemed to like it. We also were able to meet their son, Drake, and find out he's named after Nathan Drake from uncharted, what a great video game. When we finished the lesson they asked to take a selfie with us and then they went to the kitchen and said "hey we bought you guys cookies we hope you like them" and they are the cookies we buy almost everyday!! Gotta love coconut cookies.
Another update from people we found last week, we were able to have contact with our friend from Casma! Our one and only friend we met the day we went. We called him and wanted to see how he was doing and we told him we had been calling him last Saturday to confirm he wanted to go to church and didn't answer. He said he was waiting for us on Sunday and was sad he couldn't come. What is hard is he lives 30+ minutes away in car, but we were able to coordinate with a member to go pick him up and he attended church yesterday!! He said he loved it and he wants to keep coming! There was definitely a reason we went to Casma. Everything is on God's timing.
On Friday, Elder Renlund had a special zoom call with our mission and it was a special moment! His message was short but I could feel his love and I could feel he knew about us and that we mattered. He made sure we know we have been called to be in this exact mission.
A few rapid fire things that happened. We played a 5 v 5 basketball game between Frutillar and Puerto Varas with 2 missionaries on each of the teams and we destroyed them. Last Pday we were able to go to the Saltos de Petrohué which was absolutely beautiful and an awesome experience. This pday we are having a cookout with the district and Papito from Fresia, it is going to be a blast!
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: #elderenergy, Elder Mortensen and me, and thrift shop finds.
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