Week 55 Colonel Bogado Spiritual Cigarettes!

What up y´all.. Not a whole lot here, it´s pday again. I feel like it was pday like 3 days ago and that I just wrote. Oh! I think we´ll be talking through Skype the 13th of May! I´ll keep you posted.. Our English Fast didn´t last as long as I thought it would- it´s just so much easier to speak in English! As for stories.. There´s a couple! A gay dude tried to steal my bible from me. I told us to come back and ¨share¨ with him and said, ¨te quiero¨ or, ¨I love/want you.¨ He was a super flamer. There was a lot more said, but I´ll keep it to the shortened version. Yesterday, there was a WHOPPING 19 people in church! 9 have to take a bus for an hour to get here. There are 3 men in the branch with the Priesthood, 5 counting us.. And the rest are women and children. We bought soccer balls the other day, so that was nice. We found some for like 30 bucks USD and they´re pretty sweet looking! Everyone stares at the 2 big white dudes kick their fancy soccer balls around at 6:30 in the morning. Everyone just stares at us here! It would be like a couple of big black dudes walking around talking to people in Melba all day.. Just to put things into perspective :D

Yesterday we went to walk to church with some of our investigators.. We got to their house at 9:00 in the morning and the lady´s son lives with her and 2 of her grandkids (ages 14 and 17).. Her son is like 28 and he works as a garbage man or something. So we got there at like 9 and he had like 5 friends over and they were WASTED. They could barely even stand up. Then her son came stumbling over to me and said, ¨Who´s gonna fight us?¨ I could have blown a bubble in his face and he would have fallen over. Then he was saying something about someone killing us. It was hard to understand him with how drunk he was. The mom told us to just come back later when he wasnt drunk, so we´re going back tonight. I´m sure he won´t even remember that we came over on Sunday. We have another investigator who´s gonna go out to the village and get us some monkey hands to put on keychains. We´re talking real monkey hands, tails too, that still have the tendons and everything.. They´re pretty sweet!

We´re helping another investigator to quit smoking so we made her ¨spiritual cigarettes¨. It was Elder Wildings idea! So we just took some little squares of paper and wrote some scriptures from the Book of Mormon on the inside and rolled them up like cigarettes! Then we made a little box to put them in and put pictures of Jesus all on the outside. Now when she has the temptation to smoke, she´ll just bust out her spiritual cigarettes! And stop smoking :D Scripture power. So its gonna be pretty awesome! We´re excited to see her progress.

I love getting the updates from Haley about the boys! They sound like they´re funny little guys. I can´t believe Damon´s already gonna turn 2! I remember waiting in the hospital all day and all night for him to finally be born. And I´m excited to meet little Rafe! Drake´s email gave me lots of excitement! Thanks bro! Also, the email from Cale!! (he´s still Elder Patterson to me.. weird..) But I´ll write you back, a letter! Don´t worry!

Alright.. I gotta go now. Dang!
Love you all!! Keep it hood.

Elder Colby Dane Heiner