Week 36 Santa Rita Christmas Phone Call!!!!!

It was another great week here in Santa Rita, but I'm still bummed! I dont think we're going to be doing skype :,( I talked to the guy here in the internet place and he said they're going back to Brazil for the holidays. So I'm going to try to find a land line! We'll either use the member's land line (the only member with a land line) or we'll go to the phone place.. I guess its just like a big place with a bunch of phones in there. So I will be calling at 2:00 PM PARAGUAY TIME on the 24th! I think it would be about 10:00 AM for you guys, I'm not exactly sure on the time change so if you could check on that, it would be great! Just be ready for my call! Im super excited to get to talk to my family! Even though it will only be 40 minutes, it will be worth it- thats how long the calls are.. I was really excited to use skype!! But we can just save that for Mother's day and Christmas next year I guess; and I wrote down my username and password so I wont forget!

Holy cow we had a GREAT week! Its been a long time since I've seen success like this.. We worked our tails off and the Lord blessed us for it! We've got some really good people progressing towards baptism and we found a few families this week, so we're really excited! We've just been talking with everyone we see and we were able to teach a lot of lessons this week and it was soo good! We got to learn a little bit more about the Catholic religion too, so that was interesting. Overall, a good week!
We found a guy that met with the missionaries like 10 years ago! He still had his Book of Mormon that they gave him.. He said he read the whole thing! Its absolutely destroyed! So I traded him for a brand new one and I have his old one.. We're going to be working with him like crazy to get him ready for his baptism! That was one of many miracles we saw this week.. I think I've learned more this change so far than I did in my last 2 changes! My companion is a stud! He pushes me and helps me to better myself. I actually think he came pre-trained.. I feel like he's training me! He still pushes me to do the 100 pushups every day too.. But we did divisions with the zone leaders this last week and we fell behind on our pushups, so we had to do double for 3 days to get caught back up! We're back to doing just 100 again :) I'm super excited because I'm already seeing some results..

I dont really know what else to say for this week.. It was incredible, I learned a lot and had a lot of humbling experiences. I didnt think I was a prideful person before the mission, I know I wasnt completely full of pride or a monster with it.. But I definitely wasnt as humble as I should have been. I'm still probably not, but thats something I've seen a lot of improvement on this week. I just want to be stripped of all my pride, I hate it. I need to not be so quick to judge, especially when I dont know the situation. I'm excited to see and experience what this week has in store for me! I'm excited to learn more and more. I'm excited to talk to you guys on Saturday! I wanna know how the heck everyone is doing! By the way, I wrote a letter to send home.. Try not to cry reading it, it will be hard not to because I cried writing it. I'll get it in the mail today and it should be there in about a week. Sorry it will probably be late for Christmas, but we've been busy! I still need to make my video for you guys too.. It will be like a web journal or whatever you call it. I'll just tell you all how everything is going plus it will be like you get to see me! It will be on a DVD and I'll send it in a few days, I still need to make it.

Alright! I'll talk to you all on Saturday!! Think of lots of questions to ask me!
I love you and hope you all have a great week, I know I will!

Elder Colby Dane Heiner

P.s. Sorry there arent any pictures this week, the computer I'm using doesnt have USB..