I haven´t heard about emailing friends! Well, even if we`re allowed to email friends I`m sure my mission still wont be able to. And I guess it doesn´t really matter for me because I`ll only email 2 more times after today! :P
QUESTIONS:
1. How is the young couple that you and Elder Puma met with last Monday?
They`re pretty awesome.. Still waiting on the divorce, but Leticia came to church yesterday.
2. How is Aida and her husband doing?
I think they`re doing well! We weren`t able to meet with them last week so we`re kinda bummed about that. We´re gonna make it out this week though.
3. How are your other investigators?
They`re good. I think we`re gonna drop Raul because he hasn`t kept any commitments. He´s always super sincere in the lessons but he never follows through. We`re in the looking process too.
4. What can you tell me about Yeimi?
She`s a stud.. She`s got a lot of problems in her family but she handles it really well. She`s a great example of a faithful member. Her husband isnt a member and they live separate lives.. He pretty much just sleeps at their house and doesn´t really do anything else. So she takes care of the 6 kids and tries to keep them on the right track. She`s incredible.
5. What do you think you will miss the most about Paraguay?
The friends I`ve made here. I`m excited to use everything I`ve learned here in the mission in my regular life, I`m excited to be home, work, study, play.. But I wish I could take everything here with me. Well, except the heat and side affects of drinking the water.. But I`ll really just miss the friends I`ve made here. Some of them I`ll see at school, and all the rest will be in heaven. That would be a positive side of serving in your own country, is being able to go back and visit where you served.
6. Is there anything you are looking forward to before heading home besides the baptisms on the 30th?
Not really.. We have a few other people that could possibly get baptized before I head out, but I`m not sure. If they`re ready, I`ll be more than happy to do it. Elder Althoff and I want to have a huge ward night in the chapel on our last Monday here. So that will be fun. I`d say this has been my funnest area. The members here are awesome, even though there`s a lot of gossip.
7. Anything that you have been wanting to do but haven't been able to do yet?
I dont know.. I`ve already been to the "sites" here in Ypane. The ZL's promised me a zone activity going golfing before I left. I could care less about the golfing, I just think it would be cool to have at least 1 zone activity before I end the mission. But for some reason we can`t have zone activities.. Only 1 district activity a transfer, and we`re having ours today. Guess what we`re doing! The same thing I`ve done for the last 15 changes!! SOCCER!!! Woohoo bring on some more of that rice! I haven`t had enough.
8. Are you worried about being able to get all your stuff home? Have you taken inventory of what you are going to leave behind?
Not really. Appearently the members take all the stuff you`re not taking home. Just about all my pants are trashed, and my shirts.. I think the only thing I`ll be taking home are my garments, the clothes on my back, and the few souveniers I`ve got. I haven`t been able to buy that many souveniers. I`ve always been in areas that are outside of shopping places and markets and stuff, so I haven`t been allowed to go in to buy stuff, because it`s been out of my area. And with the looks of it, I don`t think we`re gonna have any time to buy souveniers our last day.
9. Do you have a picture of you and Elder Puma?
Not yet.. Sorry! The humidity kills the battery on my camera super fast, like in 2 days after charging it, without taking any pictures. But I`ll get some! I`ll take one like you want, the one like Elder Cleverly has.
10. This question is for Ashlyn Cowger...What kind of mosquito net should she get square or round for the frame part? Does it matter?
Just something to cover her bed. All her companions will be jealous because they`ll have mosquito bites all over their ankles and she won`t. Elder Wilding had one and it was pretty sweet.
11. Is there some place you would love to go eat at after we pick you up from the airport?
Just take me ANYWHERE that doesn`t serve oily noodles, greasy fried tortillas, mandioca, mondongo, or other cow intestines.
I`m glad I came here on a mission, it`s something I`ll never regret. It`s given me not only a great start in life, but it`s given me a great direction. I don`t have everything all figured out, I don`t know everything I want to do, but I know I can figure it out and get it done. I`ve had a great time here. I`ve given, literally, blood, sweat and tears to Paraguay and to the Lord. It`s been the best, worst 2 years of my life full of pains and struggles, but it`s brought me so much happiness. I know that this is the Lord`s work. No other organization on the face of this planet can ever come close to doing the things that we do. You can`t understand it unless you do it. This is not a church of any man, it is THE church of the Lord, Jesus Christ. He directs it through His prophet. Revelation and prophesy exist, they are very real. Only when there is unbelief it is non existent.
Welp, until next week!
Love you all
Elder Colby Dane Heiner
P.s. I`m in the infected cyber, so no pictures this week.. Sorry! I don`t want any more viruses.
