written: 9/12/2022
Week 89
Great week here! This upcoming week is September 18th, the most important day of the year for most Chileans, and I'm excited to spend my 2nd September 18th here and the party will basically be all weekend, I don't know if my body is ready for all the food but thanks to Shaun T and Insanity Max 30, hopefully it won't be too bad.
Tuesday and Wednesday Elder Mortensen got sick with a stomach virus so that knocked us out for those two days. Being sick stinks on the mission and also being the companion that isn't sick and wondering what to do. But after those two days we were motivated to make up for the stuff we couldn't get done. It has been tough finding people recently but things have a way of working themselves out. The member we live next door popped by Friday morning and said he was going to Llanquihue. We had planned going 1 hour later but took him up on his offer to take us and we would take advantage of our time before lunch to knock doors. We also are playing a bingo with the zone and the challenge was teach 3 people in the streets about temples. The 3rd person we met we ended up talking to him for a little bit and talked about Jesus and what happens after this life. He also said he had a great relationship with elders from Utah many years ago. We were happy to finally be able to find someone, especially in Llanquihue! Yesterday our challenge for bingo was invite 10 random people in the streets to come to church. We invited 6, not a lick of interest. We invited someone working on power lines and he said he's from Santiago and was busy. We walked away and heard someone say come back come back. He motioned us to him, and he was another person working on the power lines. He asked us which was our church and he said do we have meetings next Sunday and he said he wants to go and hear the word of God! We got his number and we will hope he shows up!
I have enjoyed working hard and it's all a process. We feel good with the work we are doing. I have really enjoyed reading the New Testament and learning and re-reading all of the miracles and amazing things Jesus Christ did when he was on the Earth. My testimony has already grown after not even finishing Matthew. I am excited to continue reading and learning from the New Testament.
Love, Elder Collin Steele
pictures include: Best District EVER, Papito, and good times with good food.
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