HALO familia!!!
Sounds like eveything is going so great at home!!!! I love hearing about all the cool things that are happeneing!! so exciting!!!!:)
so my week is a little like this
so to start out, this last week was september 11 and here in chile it is a super sketchy and scary day....because in like 1973 a dictator orverturned the government and even still today people go crazy and try to kill cops and cause havoc! here in the CCM it is safe, we are in the safe part of town but aparenntly there were bombs going off and crazy stuff down in corbins mission!
A new district came to the ccm this week and its a completely latino group and only sisters. It is super good practice for my spanish but it makes me realize that i know a lot less than i thought i knew!! but since it is just sisters a lot of us had to move rooms so i had to leave my poolside estate and move into the "crackerbox" the smallest room and had to share it with these two kids that i dont necesaritly like.... but its okay! i have realized that all things happen for a reason so i better make the best of the experience!!!!!
So since we are now in our third and fourth week here we get all new teachers, these teachers teach almost no english....so the learning jsut got a lot harder. but baptism by fire is the way to go! one of them we were teaching them as their fake investigator and the lesson was incredible. my spanish just flowed from my mouth and was able to commit her to do tons because i was able to talk with the spirit:) But on the contrary, we had our worst lesson right after that....we were about to go in and teach but then Presidente Doll came over and said that he wanted to join us! (ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! The president of the CCM!!) so we go in and i just got so nervous and so did my comp and we just taught the worst one we have done...but it was good because afterwards we were able to be coached on how to make it better, so we learned a lot on how to handle those situations that we are going to be thrown in often on the mish. super great learning experience!!
I have a whole new testimony on patriarchal blessing lately, i have been reading mine every day and oh my word, it is like every time i read it a new thing sticks out and answers a question i had!! i love the power that they hold and i cherish mine so much:)
OH! so i was sitting in class the other day and all of the sudden someone came in and told me that an elder from alpine utah was here, so i went out there and it was this kid that i used to play baseball wiht back in the day, Casey Lundquiste! he has been out for about a year and knows corbin!!! it was super cool to talk to him about sterling and braeden bevcause he was tight with them but it was cool:) Also i was looking at the pictures of all the groups that have came out of the CCM in the last 2 years and corbin was in there!!! i found the picture of him:) super cool!
On sunday we had the honor to have Hermano Zeballos of the first quorem of the seventy come talk to us, and wow, that was such an amazing meeting. with what i understood it was spectacualr. and the spirtit that he brought was beyond explanation!! the lord has called some great men to lead his church!!:)
i love all of you guys and am super excited to be here serving the lord even though it is really hard but comepletly worth it!! keep it reall, Peace out!!
Elder Collins
ps. i havent gained any weigvht! i have actually stayed the same weight but gotten stronger!! Doing 150 pushups a day and that ab roller is really helpin out:) i will be just completely jacked when i come home;)
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