I'm using the avada theme for my website and I created a page called 'My Blog' and in reading settings I set this to display recent posts. It works, but when I created the page I selected a custom blog template I made in my theme folder and it seems to ignore it.

I've looked at the heirarchy of templates but I still don't know what to do here. My theme has no front-page.php, only page and index and I don't want to mess with other pages settings, just my blog posts page.