Week 50. Colonel Bogado

Wussup y´all! Hey! ¿La novia de Derrek habla español? Si es así, ¡ella puede traducir lo que digo! Esta semana fue muy buena; ¡trabajamos afúl con nuestro presidente de rama y ganamos su confianza en nosotros! Luego, ayudamos a algunos otros élderes en nuestro distrito trabajar en sus áreas..

Las Preguntas y Respuestas :D

1.  Is the weather starting to cool at all where you are?
El clima es un poco más fresco ahora, pero en estos últimos días hacía mucho calor todavía. Hoy por ejemplo es un poco más tranquilo..
The weather is a little more fresh right now, but in these past couple days it´s been kinda hot. But today is a little more chill..

2.  How is your laundry situation where you are at.  Are you guys doing your own laundry or do you pay someone to do it?
Hay una hermana en la rama que lava nuestra ropa- lava bien y plancha todo. ¡No me puedo quejar! Nos ayuda mucho y nos da más tiempo.
There´s a sister in our branch that washes our clothes- she cleans it well and irons everything. I can´t complain! It helps us a lot and gives us more time.

3.  Does your apartment have any air conditioning or a fan?  You said the Santa Rita Apartment had a unit in the bedroom.  Just Curious if you are able to get a break at all from the heat.
Si, tiene los dos. Tenemos aire acondicionado y dos ventiladores, entonces nuestro apartamento siempre se siente bien. Santa Rita fue tusha! Tenía aire puréte- siempre dormíamos en los 17 grados.
Yeah, it has both. We have air conditioning and two fans, so our apartment always feels good. Santa Rita was legit! It had a brand new air unit- we always slept in 60 degree weather.

4.  Is it Transfer week this week?
Si pero no sabemos los cambios todavía.. Averigüamos mañana puharevé.
Yeah but we don´t know the changes yet.. We find out tomorrow "before we eat" (Guaraní).

5.  Have you had any american type food, like Burger King or McDonalds or Pizza Hut?  Or do you have to be in Asuncion area to get stuff like that?
Si, varias veces en Asunción pero no hay restaurantes así en Coronel Bogado.. Creo que Asunción y Ciudad del Este tienen estos lugares no mas.. Bogado solo tiene chipa y empenadas..
Yeah, there´s a few places in Asunción but there aren´t any restaurants like that in Coronel Bogado.. I think only Asunción and Ciudad del Este have places like that.. Bogado only has chipa and empenadas..

Alright! That was fun! We had a great week this week! We traveled a lot.. In fact, we´re traveling right now. We´re in a tiny po-dunk town like an hour from Bogado call General Artigas. There´s a lot of members here and a mountain of people who want to get baptized, but the branch got shut down. So now they´re part of our branch in Bogado. So we´ll be having some bapitsms in a couple weeks! We´re pretty excited.

We went into Encarnación on Tuesday to do divisions with Elder White and Elder Enriquez; it was fun! Elder Wilding and I both went there and worked all day with them. They´ve been scared to work or something lately, so we went over and showed them how it was done! It was a good time. Tuesday night a drunk guy stopped us and asked me where I was from like 10 times.. "Where are you from?", "The United States..", "What part?", "I´m from the West", "Of New York?", "No, of the country! Closer to California.."  We had that exact conversation at least 10 times! And then another 10 times he said, "Here, I want you to have my rugby jersey! I´m a rugby original... Here, take it!" And he proceded to take his shirt off, revealing his fat belly.. "No really, you don´t have to give me your jersey! It´s cold out, you´ll freeze without it!", "No! I know you´re going to leave in a month and I want you to remember me because I love you.. Que me obsequies algo..." He says.. An "obsequio" is a really fancy word for gift.. "Gift me something..." That´s quite alright, this memory is enough for me! He just kept repeting himself over and over again- it was actually really funny! We ended up leaving finally, por suerte..

So there´s my crazy story for the week.. I kinda gave the watered-down version, but it was way funny! I also ate something I NEVER thought I would eat in my life.. I had to tell my companion why I was laughing so hard while we were eating our Hot Dog Sandwiches. Thanks Dad :D alright, enough said..

Conference was great! That was for sure the highlight of my week! I think my favorite talk was from Elder Holland in the Saturday afternoon session. WOW. I love that guy! I invite you all to watch it again! It´s up on the church website. I also liked President Uchtdorf´s talk and Elder Bednar´s.. Those guys are studs. I really enjoyed watching conference this year, as I´m sure all of you did! Oh, I saw a guy from my singles ward in Rexburg in the choir during the priesthood session! Weird right..

Thanks for the pictures of Damon and Rafe! I can´t believe how big they´re getting! Damon couldn´t even walk when I left.. That was like a year ago.. It feels like that was yesterday!

Alright.. It´s about that time. I gotta write President Callan now! I love you all and hope you have a ballin´ week! I´ll send pictures next week, I didn´t know I´d be doing my internet here, so all my stuff is at home in Bogado..

¡Chao!
Elder Colby Dane Heiner