i'm sorry i didn't email until today... my comp. and i have to take a bus down to Montevideo for a training conference for two days. it was actually really really cool. it helped us on some things that we need to change about the way we teach people. it had some VERY good ideas for us to try on some people. the language is coming great! i can actually listen pretty well, i get what their saying for the most part haha just speaking it is what i'm working on right now. haha and you know how i told you that our ward has 40 people that attend? that's actually false... that's as many people that attended stake conference. haha so this week was my first time in my ward. and the average sacrement attentence for that is around 22-23 people... my companion and i DEFINITELY have our work cut our for us. hahahaha it's pretty difficult because pretty much EVERYONE here works on sundays (even the Bishop) so getting people to church, especially investigators, is pretty tough. we have around 8-10 main investigators in our area. the one that we're most excited about is a lady named Teresa, she's a single mom with a 15 year old daughter who is VERY much overweight because she has some sort of illness. her husband died like 3 years ago, she seems very interested in the gospel. this last week we taught her about the Book of Mormon and the restoration and we challenged her that is she prays and recieves an answer about our church to be baptized, she said yes if she KNOWS that this is true. so i got pretty excited about that. we're going to go talk to her tomorrow and see how she's doing. oh by the way, the Longshore's nephew is my Zone Leader!!! (Elder Longshore) haha he is stinking hilarious! the rules for emailing are as so, "we can read our emails fairly quick, and then we have 30 of typing time" oh funny story, so this sunday we were walking from our apartment to an appointment we had with an inactive member and the lady starts walking towards us. this lady is the creepiest looking lady i have ever seen; she's probably around 35 years old but i could tell that because she's done so much drugs she lookd like she's 50 years old, she is wearing tattered clothes her hair probably hasn't been washed in 15 years, and she has about 4 teeth in her mouth and she was chewing on something that looked like tar... haha she comes up to us and says in english, "Do you speak english??" we replied, "yes" she says, "i had my first love at 15, his name was Juan-Pablo and he spoke english, and I LOVE YOU TOOOOOO!!!!!!!" we started to run away because of how creepy is was. the last things she says is "Paysandu!!!" she was the creepiest person i've ever seen. ok i got to go... sorry...
LOVE YOU ALL,
Elder Atkinson
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