Week 11!

¡hola!

hey there family! how's life going in good ol' Colorado?  i'm doing stinking great!!! just as a heads up, a have to drive down to Montevideo AGAIN this next monday, so i have no idea what day this nest wek i will be able to email you BUT i know we will get time to email sometime next week.  but anyways... (nacho voice) haha this week was pretty darn quick! (considering i wrote you on wednesday hahaha) it has been soo stinking HOT.  i sweat while i'm in bed going to sleep!!! we don't have air conditioning or anything and when we keep the window open every single bug in the WHOLE WORLD ends up in our room.  but it's all good.  this last p-day we went to the ZOO!!!  it was free, and in uruguay, so you can imagine what it must have been like.  there was a whole 10 different animals in the zoo, and was kept up by one old guy that lives with like 20 dogs.  the weather here has been HOT and HUMID the past 2 weeks.  RANDOM FACT, ever since i have been here i have to poop all the time.  ¡NO JOKE! but the food here is pretty good!  when they serve you they serve you soo much and then if they ask if you want more you feel rude if you say "no" so you have to eat like two HUGE plates full of food.  most of the food is either pastas or something that's like rice, chopped up boiled eggs, some veggies, lots of mayonayse and if the person is well off they will put some sort of meat in there. usually like chicken or pork.  this week we really tried to focus on teaching wilth the spirit by reaching and trying to find a "question from Heaven" we learned what that was during our training thing last week.  it really helps make sure that you are trying to stay intune with the spirit always in our lives.  we had another lession with teresa this week and she read ALL that we asked her to and MORE!!!!!  how cool is that? i'll answer that one for you-EXTREMELY COOL!!!  she says that all that she is reading are answers to prayers and questions that she has in her life.  we still have to work a lot on her to start actually coming to church but i think she is getting close and might go this next week!!!  i'm so excited to hear about Lindsey and Shaun bearing their testimonies in sacrement meeting!!!!  that's awesome!  that's one thing that i really wished i would have done more back home...  just from experiences down here it has made me realize how important it is to actually SHARE your testimony with others.  NOTHING and i mean NOTHING is better to say while you are teaching than to bear your testimony!  people will honestly feel your spirit soo much if you just share with them what you KNOW to be true.  though i may not be able to speak the language i do know how to bear my testimony and i know that the people who hear it are able to feel what i am trying to say.

i'm soo grateful to hear from all of you and can't wait to hear more!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL,

Elder Tyler Atkinson