1. How did transfers end up?
Nothing changed!! I´m still with Elder Wilding! I´m so stoked for that! He´s a stud. We haven´t had any arguments or disagreements or anything like that, ever. We get along great! He´s for sure one of my favorite companions!
2. How has the work been this past week in Col. Bogado?
We´ve been seeing miracles.. People just have been coming out of nowhere. I think God´s been doing it to boost our confidence and to motivate us to keep working hard.
Thursday and Friday were BIG Catholic holidays here and everything in the whole city was shut down.. Except for Chipa Don Pipo :D So we ate chipa those days because we couldn´t go buy any other food.. It´s all good though! All our appointments were falling through too. On Friday we were walking down the street, right after an appointment fell, and we were heading towards 2 different people we could visit.. One lived down one way of the street and the other lived down the other. I asked Elder Wilding if we should go to the one that was closer so it would save us some time (not that we were really losing any at this point..) and he said we should go to the other. So we got to their house about 15 minutes later.. and we couldn´t teach because the lady´s husband wasn´t home. So we started walking back down the road to go to the other person.. Then we saw a new red Jeep coming towards us. My companion said, ¨Hey I wonder if that´s John..¨ John is a guy that grew up in New Jersey, but his parents are from Paraguay- they just moved back here and John was an old investigator.. And sure enough! It was John! He stopped and said he wants us to come over again! So we´re going to visit him today.. He said he´s been wanting to talk to us about something but couldn´t because he´d been working a lot. Talk about beeing in the right place at the right time! So we get to teach in English for the first time! I get to bust out my English scriptures, hopefully I can get around in them.. I´m used to using my Spanish set. So it´s going to be cool! Other than that, we´ve found a couple more Brazilians :D Last week when we were in Artigas, we met a couple part-member families so we´re going to make them all members! So we´ll be having a few baptisms this month :) So pray extra hard for us so we can help these people have an eternal family one day!
I don´t know what it was about this last week, but a few times we´ve been walking down the street and people would call us over and ask us what we thought about the ¨end of the world¨ and what we would do if we had to cast out a demon.. Or they´d just talk to us about people getting posessed by devils and voodoo and stuff like that. I think that happened about 4 times this last week. Weird! We just tell them we don´t think about that kind of stuff and that God has more power than Satan and stuff like that.
We met a member who just moved here from Encarnación about a month ago and he´s a stud! It´s hard to get him to go back to church though because he works in Argentina and is only here Saturday and Sunday so he just wants to rest. He told us that Paraguayan´s are slow to go to the chapel but are quick to go to the parties. He said we just need to be more excited when we talk about church so the people think it´s fun.. Church is legit! I don´t know why people wouldn´t want to go to church..
Argentina is growing like crazy! I think more people get baptized in Argentina than any other South American country.. Elder Wilding´s best friend is in the Argentina Resistencia mission and I think he´s had a baptism just about every week- and it´s like that for all the missionaries there! I forgot what mission Tim is going to, but he better be doing his baptism stretches! Anyways..
There´s my week! It was a great week! I´ll write again next Monday!
I love you!!
Elder Colby Dane Heiner
