QUESTIONS:
Here's a few that we have been wondering about since Christmas~
1. What did you end up doing on Christmas? What did you get yourself for Christmas?
We just had a normal day.. Down here they celebrate Christmas on January 6th.. They call it Majic King day or something like that. Basically, they use Christmas Eve as another excuse to get wasted, not work, and just play soccer all day.. But I got myself a nice beach towel for Christmas. It has a lion family on it.. It`s pretty majestic. You`ll see it in a few months :D
We just had a normal day.. Down here they celebrate Christmas on January 6th.. They call it Majic King day or something like that. Basically, they use Christmas Eve as another excuse to get wasted, not work, and just play soccer all day.. But I got myself a nice beach towel for Christmas. It has a lion family on it.. It`s pretty majestic. You`ll see it in a few months :D
2. What did you do for New Year's?
We went to a lady`s house in our ward and had dinner with her and her son. Her son I guess just wants to smoke weed all the time and listen to music. It was a fun night with them though, not to mention she told us like a thousand times about how content she was to have four missionaries at her house. "Qué contenta que estoy!!" hahaha.. Then she offered us apple flavored wine. And we taught the Word of Wisdom..
We went to a lady`s house in our ward and had dinner with her and her son. Her son I guess just wants to smoke weed all the time and listen to music. It was a fun night with them though, not to mention she told us like a thousand times about how content she was to have four missionaries at her house. "Qué contenta que estoy!!" hahaha.. Then she offered us apple flavored wine. And we taught the Word of Wisdom..
3. You had mentioned baptisms how did those go?
Yeah, three people got baptized a couple weeks ago. It was a good service, probably the best organized that I`ve been to down here. But one of the guys that got baptized is drinking again :( We went by to see how he was doing yesterday, but he was drunk and started yelling, so we left.
Yeah, three people got baptized a couple weeks ago. It was a good service, probably the best organized that I`ve been to down here. But one of the guys that got baptized is drinking again :( We went by to see how he was doing yesterday, but he was drunk and started yelling, so we left.
4. Has your mission ben effected by the wave of new missionaries coming out yet?
Not yet.. But... (number 5)
Not yet.. But... (number 5)
5. Has your mission president talked about the impact this will have on your mission at all?
(Will some of you be asked to stay longer to help train or will they send some missionaries home a little early to make room?)
I guess we all go home a week early! So I will have been a missionary for exactly 2 years. I`m not really sad over it.. It`s only a week. So yeah, that`s what I know for now. I don`t know if you`ll get a new travel plan or not..
I guess we all go home a week early! So I will have been a missionary for exactly 2 years. I`m not really sad over it.. It`s only a week. So yeah, that`s what I know for now. I don`t know if you`ll get a new travel plan or not..
6. Were you able to go have some fun like you talked about in last week's letter?
No, not yet. There`s a member here that served his mission in New Jersey that wanted to take us fishing, but it was gonna be way too expensive so we dicided to stay home. But we`re gonna try to find something. But yesterday, we climbed a mango tree at a members house and we could totally see the river that separates Paraguay and Argentina.. And for that same family, we made corndogs! And they loved it. They`d never had anything like it..
No, not yet. There`s a member here that served his mission in New Jersey that wanted to take us fishing, but it was gonna be way too expensive so we dicided to stay home. But we`re gonna try to find something. But yesterday, we climbed a mango tree at a members house and we could totally see the river that separates Paraguay and Argentina.. And for that same family, we made corndogs! And they loved it. They`d never had anything like it..
7. What was your memorable experience this past week?
We had interviews! That was a suprise. They called us the day before and told us to be in Ñemby. Then later that night, I guess President and the asistants when over to our house with Elder Althoff and Elder Lumpkin and flipped. Our house was pretty messy.. I`ve been living out of my suitcases ever since I got here. So has Elder Althoff. So the front room looked like a mess.. We also didn`t have study desks so that didn`t help either. We`ve been calling the office elders the whole change trying to get the stuff and they were "really busy" so they couldn`t get it out to us. After President came, they had the stuff out in a few days. They were hesitant on sending us more beds too when I first got here, then we told them that two of us slept on the floor. Tomorrow President is coming back out with the asistants to do another check up. They took pictures the last time because they want to do a presentation now on bad pensions and stuff. They`re coming back tomorrow to take the "after shot" and now everyone in the mission is going to see our messy house. Not very cool for us. Whatevs!
Other than that, we had a pretty good week! We found a lot of new people to teach, with hopefully a couple baptisms coming up. We`re teaching this one guy named Diego that`s pretty cool. He`s super sincere and honest, which is very rare. He`s always there when he says he`s gonna be there, and if he didn`t read or pray, he tells us. We invited him to be baptized on February 16th and he said yes! He`s a stud.
Elder Johnson and I got matching water jugs last week.. Its what they use here to pour water into their tereré. I`ll show you how they do it when I get home.. But the jug has like this sick tiger print on it, with my name etched into it, and Ypané 2011-2013, and... A buffalo head..? I don`t know why the guy put it on there, but whatever. Its still pretty cool though! It was only like 20 bucks. Also, Elder Johnson is trying to convince me to go to Arizona to run track. He`s a runner too and ran in college.. I think it would be fun, but I`ve eaten too many empanadas and oily noodles.. I don`t have the body I used to have. I`m hairy and I`ve kinda got a gut. We`ll see what the Lord wants me to do though.
Mom sent me 2 new toothbrushes and some new toothpaste and stuff like that a while ago.. I started using one of the toothbrushes 3 months ago, so I might start using the other one now.. I still have lots of toothpaste too.
Welp, I`m gonna go jump on a bus to go buy groceries! And buy some empanadas for breakfast!
Love you!!
Elder Colby Dane Heiner
We had interviews! That was a suprise. They called us the day before and told us to be in Ñemby. Then later that night, I guess President and the asistants when over to our house with Elder Althoff and Elder Lumpkin and flipped. Our house was pretty messy.. I`ve been living out of my suitcases ever since I got here. So has Elder Althoff. So the front room looked like a mess.. We also didn`t have study desks so that didn`t help either. We`ve been calling the office elders the whole change trying to get the stuff and they were "really busy" so they couldn`t get it out to us. After President came, they had the stuff out in a few days. They were hesitant on sending us more beds too when I first got here, then we told them that two of us slept on the floor. Tomorrow President is coming back out with the asistants to do another check up. They took pictures the last time because they want to do a presentation now on bad pensions and stuff. They`re coming back tomorrow to take the "after shot" and now everyone in the mission is going to see our messy house. Not very cool for us. Whatevs!
Other than that, we had a pretty good week! We found a lot of new people to teach, with hopefully a couple baptisms coming up. We`re teaching this one guy named Diego that`s pretty cool. He`s super sincere and honest, which is very rare. He`s always there when he says he`s gonna be there, and if he didn`t read or pray, he tells us. We invited him to be baptized on February 16th and he said yes! He`s a stud.
Elder Johnson and I got matching water jugs last week.. Its what they use here to pour water into their tereré. I`ll show you how they do it when I get home.. But the jug has like this sick tiger print on it, with my name etched into it, and Ypané 2011-2013, and... A buffalo head..? I don`t know why the guy put it on there, but whatever. Its still pretty cool though! It was only like 20 bucks. Also, Elder Johnson is trying to convince me to go to Arizona to run track. He`s a runner too and ran in college.. I think it would be fun, but I`ve eaten too many empanadas and oily noodles.. I don`t have the body I used to have. I`m hairy and I`ve kinda got a gut. We`ll see what the Lord wants me to do though.
Mom sent me 2 new toothbrushes and some new toothpaste and stuff like that a while ago.. I started using one of the toothbrushes 3 months ago, so I might start using the other one now.. I still have lots of toothpaste too.
Welp, I`m gonna go jump on a bus to go buy groceries! And buy some empanadas for breakfast!
Love you!!
Elder Colby Dane Heiner
