Week 12!

hahaha ok ok family!!!!

¡hey! how's life going for all of you?  i'm am doing great in the
wonderful land of Paysandù.  in case you are wondering what my actual
address is for google earth, it is 1107 Dr. Herrera in the city of
paysandù, the district of Paysandù.  this week has been FULL of
AMAZING experiences!!! the main one was this last saturday, we were
knocking doors in the one area and getting no success with that like
usual knocking...  we were knocking past one of our investagators
(Idina and her daughter Valentina) that we were going to drop pretty
soon because they are never at home and when they are home they don't
have time.  i saw their door and had a small feeling saying, "just
knock one more time" i told my comp that i wanted to knock the door
and he said, "ok, if they're not there we're going to drop them"  so
we went over and i knocked.  they were there! and not only that but
they had read EVERYTHING we asked them to read.  we started talking to
them and we had an AWESOME lesson!  we committed them to go to church
and they said that they would try to come.  they next morning we
remembered that we didn't tell them what to wear!!!  so Elder Ashby
thought of cutting out one of the papers of a Pamphlet we had that had
dressing standards on it and circled the important parts and also
wrote on it "come in what you have" and on our way to church we
slipped it under the door of their house.  because they said that they
didn't want us to go pick them up we didn't knock or anything.  but
THEY CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  not only did both of them go
to church but Valentina brought 2 of her 3 daughters as well!!!  i
could tell that they felt the spirit so strongly in the sacrement
meeting.  oh yeah, both me and my companion had to give talks in
sacrement meeting.  i talked for about ten or so minutes and elder
ashby spoke for about fifteen to twenty minutes.  he did a stinking
great job!!!! and i only messed up on one word the whole talk!!! i has
pretty excited about that AND it was my first week having an
investigator come to church.


ok dad this one is for you:  since i've been on my mission i have
noticed something.  how much the strength of the members affects the
church and how it is run.  i have a strong testimony that simply by
bringing your friends and family to sacrement meeting it brings a
different spirit to their countenounces.  i remember inviting all my
friends to go play basketball and stuff like that at the church but
one of my biggest regrets is not even thinking to invite them to
attend church.  i know that this family that just attended church did
feel the spirit and will recieve MANY blessings from going to church.
i know with all of my heart that this church is the ONLY true church.
if i didn't know that this was true, i would DEFINITELY not fly all
the way down to Uruguay and be down here for two years.  this is some
of the toughest work i've ever done before but it feels absolutely
AMAZING knowing that it ALL is going to the Lord.  thanks for all of
your support and prayers!

i love you all and ¡¡¡HLJ!!!

Elder Tyler Atkinson