Hey!! We had a pretty good week this week.. Even though Aida turned out to be a total snake! Yikes! Well, we went to go visit her and her husband the other day because we havent been able to meet with them for about a week and a half. We got to their house and she was there with just her kids. Long story short, she just tried to make her husband jealous by using us.. Appearantly they´re having some marriage problems, and she was trying to lure us into her house. Bad combination. Needless to say we wont be going by there anymore!

We did divisions yesterday for a couple hours with Elder Althoff and Elder Ramirez because they had more appointments than they could handle, so we helped them out. Elder Ramirez and I went to the family home evening with the Ferreira family at 7, then at 8 we had another appointment with Hector and Leticia, the ones who just moved here and that are waiting on the divorce.. When we were on our way to Hector and Leticia, the other elders called us and said that someone got assaulted close to where they were at. The guys that did the assaulting were dressed like students, white button up shirts with dark slacks... Naturally the police picked up the 2 missionaries that were dressed in white button up shirts and dark slacks. Elder Althoff told me that they were in the neighboring city at the police station filling out paper work and that none of our leaders were answering his calls. But he said that the police were going to let them go. So I called Hector and Leticia to tell them that we were a little behind schedule, but as I got to that part of telling them, we ran out of minutes on our phone and it cut the call! About 15 minutes later, Elder Althoff called me back and told me that they were getting their documents and bags back and that they´d be home a little later, then asked if we had anymore plans for the night. I told him that we were going to Hector and Leticia´s to set up another appointment because there wouldn´t have been time last night. So as we were getting to their house, right as we were getting to their gate, they came walking up too. They said they had gone to buy some minutes on their phone so they could have called us back, so they invited us in. We were having some small talk then Hector said, "Remember that time when my neighbor said that she prefers that her kids be drug addicts before they became mormons?" ,"Yeah..?", "Well she just told me that she saw 2 missionaries in the back of the cop car.." And I thought, Oh no!! haha so we started telling them what happened, and Leticia started laughing.. And I was like, "what the heck.. the other elders got arrested and you´re laughing?!" Then from the back of the house came Elder Althoff and Elder Puma.... Fetchers!! They got us pretty good.

Well, I´m in the last full week of my mission. Elder Althoff and Elder Ramirez have some baptisms this Saturday, and one of the guys getting baptized wants me to do it.. haha. Alright! I´m fine with that! But I figure that with the little time I have left, I´ll just be planting seeds, which I´m fine with. I didn´t come on the mission to baptize 1,000 people or just teach a lot of lessons, because its not about that. I´m here to help people.  I feel like I was really able to help people out here,  members, invesitgators and strangers. I´ve become converted myself, and I feel like it´s a mission accomplished. My heart has changed and I know what´s most important. I´m glad I came, I have zero regrets. The errors I´ve made in the past and my imperfections will only help me in the future because I´ve learned from them. That´s what this life´s about- progress. This life is like a big test. Throughout it we have a lot of smaller tests- you pass some and you fail some. But its all for our learning. I´m not gonna lie, I´m stoked to get home! I loved my mission and I´m gonna take the things I´ve learned here and use it in my regular life. I knew these 2 years were going to come to an end, but it´s not the end of the world. I´ll miss everything here in Paraguay, but I´ll remember it all. It´s been a great experience that I´ll cherish forever. I feel more confident than before, I´m not scared of people, I know how to work, I´m more outgoing.. I feel like I´ll have success in my life. These things that would have taken me 10 years to learn in a normal life, but I was able to learn them in 2. I know that the Lord has blessed me with these things, its not because I´m some great person and I have lots of strength.. I feel like I´ve been a tool in His hands to bless his children here in Paraguay. I gave it me all. I lost myself, then I found myself.. And it all passed with the blink of an eye. Crazy.

Well, what more can I say.. I´m happy! I´ll tell you how conference was for me, then I´ll see you next week!!
Love you all!!
Elder Colby Dane Heiner

I guess my memory card still has a virus.. I can´t open any folders on it! Fetch! I´ll fix it later..