Ok, here´s the questions and answers..
1. What is your internet cafe like where you get to email from?
It´s really good! We´re in a different one today because the other one is closed down for some reason.. He´s probably taking his terere break. Terere is a dirt/herb mix they put in a little metal cup and they drink the water out of it through a straw with a strainer thing on the end.. They can´t live without the stuff! I don´t remember if that cyber has skype cameras or not, I´ll look next week when we go to that one.
2. Will you be able to go to a church house or a member's house that might have a computer so we can Skype? I know you probably haven't been thinking too much about this but we need to talk a bit about it.
None of the members have computers, plus if they did we wouldn´t be able to use them :( that´s one of the rules..
3. How was you most memorable experience this past week?
There was another rat in our apartment a couple days ago! I´ll tell you more about it on question number 5..
4. What was your most spiritual experiene this past week?
Seeing the power of the Priesthood.. Remember a couple weeks ago when we were in the other little city called Artigas? On one of or visits we went to see an ¨inactive¨ member. His name is Fabriciano Zarza and he´s 87 years old, he lives in a barn with a dirt floor and a couple of pigs. When we saw him, I thought he was going to die right there. He couldn´t walk or hardly even talk. His feet were all swolen and he almost couldn´t breathe.. He said one night a couple of his neighbors came over and beat him up and stole all his stuff and sold it. They hit him over the head with something, so he´s got a huge gash in the top of his head. I´ve never seen a humbler situation. He asked us for a blessing so we gave him one.. We went back this last Thursday to go visit some people there in Artigas, and we went and saw him first. He was sitting out the front of his house when he saw us coming.. He yelled, ¨Hermano kuéra!¨ (Hermano=Brother; kuéra=more than one). He got up out of his chair and went inside his little barn house to put his shirt on. He was walking! When we entered in his little patio he was laughing and making jokes with the Hermano Simeon (we had to take him with us because Fabriciano doesn´t speak Spanish.. Only Guaraní). I´ve never seen anything like it.. How just a week before, this man was on the verge of death and a week later he´s back to full health.. The Priesthood is real.
5. What was your funniest experience this past week?
The rat! I had just gotten out of the shower and was drying off and Elder Wilding yells; ¨Elder Heiner! There´s a huge rat out here!!¨ No way.. We just killed a rat like a month ago.. Well, I get out of the bathroom, and sure enough! There was a huge rat running around in our apartment! This time, we didn´t put out any rat poison.. We chased that sucker around the house til we got it! Elder Wilding nailed it with our floor squeedgie.. It was awesome! And we think it was pregnant, but we´ll never know for sure. So that was a fun night!
That´s pretty much what happened this week.. I started reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish a few days ago! I want to finish it before the change ends! I have about a month.. I´m on page 80 somethin.. Laman and Lemuel were such whiners! If I were Lehi, I would have smacked them up side the head, show them who´s boss. I´m sure everyone is droppin the cane on them in the spirit world.. If only they just would have listened to what Nefi and Lehi said.. But I´m picking up a lot more stuff this time than from the last time I read it. And I´m trying to do what Nefi taught in 1 Nefi 19:23- Liken all scriptures unto myself. I love the scriptures!
We´re trying to find the kingdom builders here.. It´s been hard because almost everyone says, ¨I can´t talk to you.. I´m Catholic¨ I think Catholicism here is different than in the States. Here everyone just worships Mary y hasta allí no mas.. They believe that Mary saves us, like she carries us to be judged or something and she tells Jesus what to do with us. I never heard that before I came here! I have friends that are Catholic at home and I´m pretty sure they don´t believe that´s how it is.. I think it´s just like that here because of the dictatorship for like 200 years made it so only Catholicism was allowed here. Paraguay got it´s religious freedom like 30 years ago. They don´t know anything else, and it seems like everyone is too scared to even LISTEN. Or to take our invitation- to ASK GOD through prayer and find out for themselves. So yeah, we´re trying to find the people that are excited to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Anywheys.. That´s about all I got for this week! I´ll find out that Skype stuff and let you know next week.. I´m almost positive I´ll be able to use Skype this time :D
I love you!! Thanks for all your support and love :D
Elder Colby Dane Heiner
aka
Heinstein
