Week 3

Hey there family!!!!!

 

i just got the dear elder notes that you guys sent to me!!!! you guys are soo stinking sweet to think of me!!!!  but this week was awesome!  this last saturday during prosceliting we started to talk to a security guard that just sits on a corner and watches people.  his name is Julio Juan and we talked to him for like an hour and a half about the gospel.  we taught him the ENTIRE first lesson (in spanish) and he seemed really interrested in what we were saying.  we gave him some sections of the Book of Mormon to read and pray about and he said that he would!  we scheduled an appointment to come back this coming week to talk with him!!! i'm soo freaking excited for it because we're learning all of this new stuff about how to teach him.  we keep learning soo much that it's unbelievable!!!!  sorry if my spelling is bad.... it's tough already to spell just trying to learn spanish.  we try to speak as much spanish as possible.  this last week we did our first english fast (going the whole day without talking english) it was really tough but it really really works.  the area that we are assigned to proscelite in is called Hurlingham, it's in the TOTAL ghetto.  crazy stray dogs everywhere, run down houses, and it's just nuts here.  we will be there for one more week then we change areas.  the CCM president is really nice.  he's filled with the spirit, striaght to the point, and is a GREAT teacher.  on P-Days we have two REAL classes, one in the morning before lunch, and one right after dinner.  in between that we gat a half hour to email, an hour to do service (cleaning up the building), and the rest is usually just whatever you would like to do: journal, letters, sports, nap, study, pretty much anything within the mission rules.  it's amazing the spirit here, a couple weeks ago we watched the testaments movie and EVERYONE was balling at the end of it because the spirit was so strong in the room.  that's a good way to describe what the spirit is like ALL the time here!!! it's unlike ANYTHING i've ever felt before.  it's truly an amazing feeling that i wish that you could feel.  thanks for keeping me updated on all the thing that are going on in all of your lives!!! i love you all a freaking TON!!!

 

love,

Elder Atkinson