Week 2

HEY FAMILY,

this week went by sooooooo fast.  prosceliting went AMAZING!!!!!  we went out for 7 hours and it was raining the whole time.  everyone we talked to spoke so stinking fast! we would try to pick out church words like "the church" or "gospel" and thing like that. we gave away one book of mormon and like 8 or 9 pamphlets on the church.  everyone here is VERY Catholic and barely anyone will listen to what we say to them but it's a ton of fun!!! i can't wait to do it again.  my companions are really cool i'm getting really close to them.  i'm also becomeing friends with an elder named Elder Clarke he's from california and is freaking hilarious!!!! he's helped me a lot with my spanish because he is three weeks ahead of me.  he says that he might go to school at BYUI after his mission, i thought that was way cool.  another cool kid i ment here is named Elder Bhuener (pronounced Beaner)  i told him that if he does end up going there i'd love him to be in my apartment.  my spanish is getting better and better, we learned how to teach the first lesson already.  one of my teachers (Hermanna Paradiso) said that she had Nick Oakey as one of her students when he was here.  i thought that was pretty interresting.  up here on sundays we go to the MTC ward, there's two wards here.  one for the americans, and one for the Latinos.  sundays are my absolute favorite days here.  it's so calm and peaceful.  we go to church, eat lunch, relax and write in our journals and write letters for like a couple of hours, have zone conference, eat dinner and watch a church movie.  it's soo weird that i've been out for like two weeks already!!!! it totally feels like it's been a couple of days since i've seen you.  i'm soo proud of you and your daily family scripture readings!!!! i'm absolutely shocked with how much i have learned in spanish already.  i mean i'm nowhere near fluent or anything but i can speak to the latinos and they can understand me pretty well.  i can't wait to hear more that goes on with all of you guys!!! I LOVE YOU TONS!!!!

 

Elder Atkinson

 

P.S.  we aren't aloud to take pictures here till the third sunday because that's when ALL the latinos go and one group of north americans go... so you won't have pictures till at least next week... sorry....