Week 4

hey there my dear good ol' family!!!!

i just got your LETTERS!!!!!!!!  you guys are the best family ever!!!  when i saw the stickers in the letter i started dying laughing!  haha ok ok Julio-Juan update: ok so we were really really pumped to go talk to him; we we´re soo stinking prepared.  we get there and start talking to him.  we asked him if he read the parts of the Book of Mormon that we asked him to and he said that he did.  we got so excited, we asked him if he prayed and he said that he did but didn't believe that  Joseph Smith was a prophet.  so we were pretty dang bumbed... but we decided to keep going with the lesson anyways (the lesson was on the Apostacy and the Restoration) we're teaching him just normal doctrine stuff and he wasn't that interrested in what we were saying, BUT as soon as we talked about the the first vision the spirit was soo strong and i could tell that he was feeling the spirit so we let him have some time and then we kept testifying and the spirit was exploding!!!!!  so we challenged him to read more parts of the book of mormon and pray some more.  he told us that not this week (because he had to work) but NEXT sunday he promised that he was going to go to church.  it's totally awesome how the spirit makes up for our lacking in spanish.  we are being transferred to a new area for proseliting so... we can't teach Julio anymore... but we told him that other elders will come and teach him and we gave his address to other missionaries that that area is ACTUALLY part of their mission haha.  where the CCM is is on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.  it's like right on the border of nice houses and really poor houses.  everytime we play basketball for excercise this guy with a horse and a crappy ol' wagon drives by and blows his whistle at us! it's actually really really funny.  BTW Lindsey, just letting you know if i was home right now i would KNOCK the CRAP out of that punk's face!!!! but that's off topic... just kidding hahahahahaha but seriously i would.  haha wow!!! i'm already half way done with my CCM experience!!! crazy i know!!!

thanks for keeping me in touch with the up and up stuff,

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!

Elder Tyler Robert Atkinson