'MURICA Day,

Today is 'murica day. 

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Only the best holiday that exists.

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They don't celebrate 'murica in brazil..

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Quietly cry's in the bathroom. 

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This week was just another week in the labor of the lord.  This past week was a little disappointing, but we got to see a miracle Saturday. 

The whole week seemed to fly by. This up coming week will probably be my last week in this area. I'm going to be really sad to leave, but at times we just have to do what we have to do. This ward is just waaaaayyy to good. All the friends that I've made here, the people that I've baptised. It will be sad when I have to leave. I just hope that It's not this transfer and that I can stay 6 more weeks. 

Anyways this past week we were just in the rush to find new people to teach. We spend a lot of time knocking doors. It was good but bad at the same time. We found some really awesome family's but, none of them came to church this Sunday... Which means we get to start all over again. Oh well, its all part of the work. 

Anyways, Saturday night we saw a miracle. for the past little while we have been visiting a familiy that lives in our ward. This family, the mom, and the kids are members, but that dad no. anyways they are passing for some serious difficulty right now. He has cancer in his cheek. The doctors say that he has only like one year left to live. Anyways, the bishop asked to pass by there and teach him and see if we could help him out. We had a lesson waaaay awesome with him. ON saturday we taught him about baptism, and he completely accepted it. The spirit was soo strong. He said that before He never really though alot about baptism, but the moment we walked in he felt like we had something that he needed. We have marked the date for this upcoming saturday. We hope that everything goes well. It was such a crazy experience and real testament of how the spirit can touch anyone. This man was incredibly cold to the missionary before, In our records, they told us that he didn't even let the missionary in when He was home, and now... We'll the lord always has a plan for us, and maybe part of that plan is that pass for some crazy things in life, but I know that the lord always knows what hes doing and he will never let walk alone. 

Anyways, that just about all I have. LOve you all! 

I hope you have a great fourth of july. A friend of mine sent me this photo... Describes my feelings today. 

Love you all, 

Elder Heiner

Ismeal and Lurdes.

Here some photos of Ismeal and Lurdes when they were getting married. 

Elder lima is my comp, The other woman is her aunt. and the the other Man in Nathan, our Leader the Mission the ala. of and of course the casual in the middle is Ismeal and Lurdes. What a good day. 

BATISMO!!!!

Welp, this week we had another baptism. It was great! Rogeiro, Ismael and Lurdes are all members of the church now and they can start to recieve all the blessing pomised to them. 

This week was just crazy trying to set everything in place. To make matters worse Its like we only had 4 day this week work instead of 7. We had a couple zone conferences, and then we went to the temple! I love the temple so dang much!!  Freak do I love the temple. I'm so grateful for the opportunity that we have to have a temple here in porto alegre. 

It's kinda weird though. This city has a temple, but It only open from 4-10 5 days a week. Pretty sad. The mission president has set a new goal to bring more people to the temple. Therefore, this upcoming week we will be going to the temple again, but this time to do baptism with our recent converts!! woot woo!!

The rest of the week we spent doing a whole of finding. I'm not really sure what happened this past week but we had a super hard time finding new people to teach. Crazy. I think It's the cold that is making it happen. This past week it got down to about 33 degrees. Everyone was flipping out. My comp thought that his hands were going to fall off. I had to explain to him how to keep warm when it gets cold like this... Weird to think that pretty much everyone here has never experienced snow. I think I would be quite the trip for them ahahaha. 

I don't have much time today. We are moving apartments today. We are going to be living with the other elders that work in our ward... Elder Rufato, and Elder Kime.... ahha, I'll be living with everyone thats already been my companion. It's going to be tight. I'm super pumped. 

This week I was thoroughly struck by the faith that this couple that we baptized have. Ismael and Lurdes are only 19 years old. We metem because they decided to come to church one Sunday, looking for help. They live in a house that is less that 10 feet wide by 10 feet wide. They have 2 kids, One Danilo is 4 years old, and Taylor, has less than 1 month. Every time that we when to their house they love our message, and when we left them  with a assignment or invite to do somethings, they always do 10 times what we asked. Ismael has read 3/4 of the book of Mormon is less that a month. something amazing for someone who has never read more that 5 paragraphs before.

The amazing thing about this couple is the fact that Ismael, he don't have a his left leg. It was amputated after a car accident, and lurdres has had a life full of difficult after here mom and dad kicked her out of the house at only 12 years old. They are going through so much, yet they are so happy and have embraced the gospel so well. Even though they don't have much, they are grateful for what they do have. 

Its amazing how the lord works. His work is strange at times, and difficult for us to really understand, but when we are will to humble ourself and really listen to the stories that people have, we can truely see the infuence that god has in the lives of people. Before the mission, I don't think I would have even talked to these two, Now, great friends. 

I know that God loves us. That he is listening to our prayers. He stands by us when we need help and send angels when we can't do it along. The gospel bring peace to our lives. Jesus Christ is our savior. 

Love you all, 

Elder Heiner

Fwd: MORE MARRIGE.

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From: Justin Heiner <jheiner@myldsmail.net>
Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:00 PM
Subject: MORE MARRIGE.
To: brendan.Ogslbey@myldsmail.net, tacrunchymonk.taheiner@blogger.com, Amy York <amyyorklpm@gmail.com>, Andrew Heiner <maltedmilkball@gmail.com>, Cheyenne Anderson <cheyenne.anderson@myldsmail.net>, Clorisa Will <clorisaw3@gmail.com>, Dakota Bullock <kodiak19bullock@aol.com>, Destiny Perkins <destiny.perkins@myldsmail.net>, Haley Sorenson <haleysorenson@ymail.com>, Harrison Mayer <harrison.mayer@myldsmail.net>, Jacob Noblit <jacob.noblit@gmail.com>, James and Kim Imbach <jimbach1@comcast.net>, "jillheiner@yahoo.com" <jillheiner@yahoo.com>, Justin Heiner <jheiner@myldsmail.net>, Kayla McEldowney <kayla.mceldowney@myldsmail.net>, Kevin Langager <klangager@charter.net>, Kimverly Hernandez <kimbo8surfing@gmail.com>, Linn Bergeson <linnbergeson@gmail.com>, McKinlee Mayer <kinlee.christen.mayer@gmail.com>, Megan Spehar <msspehar@comcast.net>, Randal Maniccia <rmaniccia@gmail.com>, roderick tapia <roderick24tapia@hotmail.com>, "s.elaine.butler@gmail.com" <s.elaine.butler@gmail.com>, Sidnee Haderlie <sidhad1@msn.com>, Tamiris Cristina Barbosa <tami.cris77@gmail.com>, Tate Gines <tate.gines@myldsmail.net>, Taylor Anderson <tanderson@myldsmail.net>, Tiffany Aston <tiffany.aston@myldsmail.net>, Val Heiner <vheiner@yahoo.com>, "yheiner@yahoo.com" <yheiner@yahoo.com>

Yes. We are marrying again. 

NO. It's not mine. 

This family that we are teaching is going to get married today!! WOOT WOOT. That means that we will have another baptism this upcoming saturday. Nothing better than a marrige and baptism in one week. 

This past week seemed to fly by. Like super duper fast. Crazy how that works. the more time im in the mission, the faster it flys by. 

The week was filled with trying to meet some new investigators. We've been having a  little bit of difficulty doing this the past weeks. I don't know why, but everyone we keep finding needs to get married. Bleh. haha. It's all good though. Just means a little more work. 

It's been getting pretty cold. Things are good though. One of the nights this week my companion just about died. He woke up and there was frost on the windows. He's from fortaleza. The coldest its ever gotten there is like 60 degrees. hahah. It was pretty funny. 

We've  been using somthing cool to try and reactivate some familys. Its called my family, program that the church is using to spark intresset in family history work.  It's ´pretty cool, but it sure makes me grateful that I have a good base of family history work alrieady done. Its really hard when nobody knows who their grandma or grandpa is. 

Things are good. My time is short today... like always. haha. 

Tchau! amo de vocês!

com amor, 

Elder Heiner 

Don't do anything stupid kids!

Wow, this week FLEW BY. 

To start off. 

WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK ITS A GOOD IDEA TO LIVE TOGETHER BEFORE  YOU GET MARRIED.

Seriously. 

This week we had a fantastic time finding new investigators... 

the only problem is non of them are married. ..:( 

Whatever thou, 

We spent a bunch of the week talking about marrige and such. The good thing is alot of them have a pretty big desire to get married. makes things a little bit eaiser.

Monday we went to the state office and marked the marrige of Ismeal and lourdres. THAT was awesome. They are a couple that we have been working with for a couple weeks now. They are sooo stinkin awesome. Funny story, they just had a baby like 2 weeks ago... guess what they named it? taylor. LIKE WHAT> ;;;;

Sunday we had a bunch of people in church, which always makes for  a good way to end the week. 

I think this up comming week we should be baptising 2 people.... What a good way to end the transfer. 

Love you all,

Hope you have a great week.

Elder Heiner 

The weekly lift.

Well well well,

This week was just another week on the crazy farm. 

Got to talk to my peeps(the fam) on Sunday. You guys all look great, (Love you)

The rest of our week was filled with a ton of work. The past few weeks we have been working our heads of trying to find another baptism... We keep finding new people to teach but... They all need to get married. Like what the heck, What a problem to have, we keep finding family's to teach. Its pretty crazy. 

This past week we been focuzing on rogeiro and martizete. They are a not all member family that we have been trying to get married for the past... forever. We keep running into road blocks with the government thought. The government here really like to take money from the people.... therefore they do everything they can to prevent people from getting married for free. the struggle is real. 

We also have been teaching our familys from uruguai. I've been practicing my Spanish.. It's pretty awful, but then again so is the beginning of any language. 

We had zone meeting on Thursday. It was fun to see my peeps. Gotta love em all.

the rest of the week was just work like normal . 

Love you all, 

Elder Heiner

Transfer???

Woot woot!!! this week was crazy busy! but thats good! We worked pretty dang hard.

First off, It got freaking coolllldddddd this week.. Like stupidly freaking cold. but thats good, I like the cold a whole lot more than the heat... 

The week started out really strange... with a call from president... 

Turns out he forgot to do a transfer during transfers....... hahah

I'm with a new companion right now! His name is elder s. Lima and he's from Fortaleza, wwwwwaaayayy north of where I am. 

He likes to hang out on the beach and listen to music. 

He's pretty chill. We get along good, and work hard together. 

The rest of the week we spent working out tail off. we taught 39 lessons this week.... and 20 of them were with a member present. IT WAS AWESOME. Most of our time was setting date for batism and trying to weed out all the enternagators  (eternal Investigators) in our teaching group. It was a good week. 

We met a couple new family's this week, which was awesome!!!! One of them Marcos and vennessa just recently moved here from uruguai.... which means I'll get to practice my spanish again!!! WOOT WOOT! ahahhaa. 

It was a pretty good week!!1 

Love you all, I hope everything is going good back home.

Elder Heiner