greeting from ARGENTINA!!!! life is going GREAT!!! in case you didn't know, i'm leaving for Uruguay a week from TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!! yeah i know it's crazy, we've been working as hard as we possibly can to be prepared for leaving. haha i just got your letter that says it was sent here on september 28 haha ALL of you are soo sweet!!! i have been truly blessed to have such a great family as you are :) oh yeah because i had a new area with him this last week. it was still in Ituzaingó but in a different part of the city. it was his area and my old companions kept my area. we went and visited this old lady who must have been 90 years old, her name is Torisia. we taught her a lesson about the plan of salvacion and while we were talking about how through the Atonement of Jesus Christ all of our sins caan be washed away and she started crying and crying because of how beautiful of an idea that is. when we were teaching her i got sooooo excited to be able to teach EVERYDAY in like a week. the area that we were in last week was in the total ghetto: dirt roads, tin shacks with spraypaint all over it, run down buildings, and CRAZY dogs. but when you go to places like that you find some of the most humble people that you will ever meet in your entire life. everyone is willing to listen and if they're not interrested then they tell you in a loving way. that was one of the greatest days of works i've had so far. the new elders that just flew in a week ago are really cool. their names are Elder Peterson, Elder Barton, and Elder Harris, Elder Barton and harris are from Utah (South Jordan and Salt Lake) but elder peterson is fron san diego. they seem pretty cool and they're going to my mission so i thought that was pretty exciting. my spanish is a "work in progress" i can tell that i've learned a ton but it is still no where NEAR fluent. haha the Temple here is ALSO a "work is progress" and probably will be for the next two years at the rate they are going. haha the CCM is right across the street from the Temple but the temple just looks like ruins because they're renovating it for it's twenty year renovation or something. so... it's really not even a pretty site to look at or anything hahaha but it's all good. hahaha thanks for the love and prayers.
Love,
Elder Atkinson
oh hey P.S. would you be able to send me some white church pants because they say that i need them in Uruguay. just send it to my mission home or something. my sizes are 30x30 thanks a ton!!!!
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