Week 17!

hey there my family that i get to talk to on the phone in 5 days!! ¡FAH!

how's life going?  i'm doing absolutely wonderful down here!  before i start my email i wanted to tell you that i will call you at 7:00 at night my time! which is 2:00 your time!!! i will call you and it will to make sure i can get through but if i don't call within 15 minutes of that please call this number 47236649 that is my house number but i don't know the number to get INTO uruguay so you probably will have to look that up on the internet.  so thanks for that!!!!  now onto the fun stuff of the week!  we had divisions this week!  this was the very first time i've done divisions and gone to a different area so i was pretty excited!  i went with my zone leader (Elder White from Las Vegas) he's HUGE and stinking hilarious! we talked almost non stop about funny poop stories and things around that subject! hahaha he's a great guy and i learned a lot of things from him.  we found a recently dead dog on the side of the road and it made him get sick!  it was soooo funny!  another story with him was that we were walking in the total campo and we pass this house that had a HORSE of a dog in the yard but it was just chilling on the ground, but right as we walked by it Elder White kind of nudges me towards it and it just FLIPPED out and jumps at me but luckily it was chained to a wall but it still came within a foot of ripping apart my face!  i ALMOST peed my pants!  haha funny story, i taught Elder Ashby how to "Jerk" because he was on the mission during that whole dance craze! haha it's soo funny seeing him practice in our house! haha we started a game to keep our days light and lively, it's called "Jerk Where No Man's Jerked Before" we just try to see random areas during the day and "Jerk" where no one else has before haha it's actually a lot of fun!  hahaha i've ALSO taken up a new hobby! KNITTING!!  Elder Ashby just taught me how to knit so for a couple minutes before i go to bed i do some knitting ;) haha

Can't wait to talk to you guys on SATURDAY!!!

Elder Atkinson

Week 16!

¡Hola familia!

¿Comò estan? ¿Todo bien? this week was great! ¡FAH! i got TWO of your packages!  one from you guys and one from the Taylors!  thanks sooo much for thinking of me!  i haven't opened the presents yet in case you were wondering.  i want this christmas to be very special!!!!  thaks for the lil treats as well! and also Elder Ashby says thanks for his lil gift bag as well!  he thinks you all are VERY SWEET!  hahaha i'm not sure when my next email session is going to be so just as a heads up, i'll call you on December 25 at about 7 at night, Uruguay time. i think that is like 3 or 4 in the afternoon your time!  so wait for a call during that time!!!!!  this week was pretty interesting!  story numero uno: we were knocking houses like always trying to find some new people, we knock on this door and a guy that was working across the street was telling us (in spanish) "What are YOU two doing at that door?" "we're trying to meet new people in the neighborhood" we answered. "he points to the top of the house and is trying to tell us something that we had no idea what he was saying so he says "WOMEN, of the night" and points at the top of the house again and we realized there was a "Red Light" on the top of the house.  haha once we realized that we started dying laughing.  i never thought that i would ever tract into a "RED LIGHT" house hahaha so that was a pretty funny story. story numero dos: we ran into that scary looking lady that yelled "Paysandùùùùù`!" needless to say we ran as fast as we could once again to get away from her!  ewwww i have chills going down my back just thinking about that lady.... hahah the food here in fairly bland... the most cammon food we get fed from members and stuff is a big pile of rice with peas, corn, potatoes, a few other vegtables, and smothered in Mayonase.  every now and then someone will mix it up and have some tuna or some chicken in it!  their solution to any type of food is dump mayonase on it.  i've had cow tongue a few other times since i've been here. we play soccar every single P Day, since i didn't play a whole lot before my mission i've been trying my best and i've been getting better and better every week. haha i've started collecting a certain type of treat here.  it's called an alfajor as of right now i have around 40 different types of alfajors.  if you don't know what they are feel free to ask harris what they are.   thanks for all your love and prayers i can feel them down here!  btw i sent a letter to you with some pics in it i hope you get it before christmas!!!  honestly i have no idea if we are aloud to email this next monday because of christmas that next saturday but i'll definitely email you if we get that chance next monday!

LOVE YOU BUTT LOADS,

Elder Tyler Atkinson

Week 15!

hey there my fam!!!

sorry i didn't email you yesterday.  we didn't have P Day yesterday
because today is the last day of CHANGES! i am done with my first
change (6 weeks)  haha it's FLYING by so stinking fast!  haha oh yeah
i am feeling so much better this week!  i feeel like i am at 100% so
we're working as hard as we possibly can.  i am staying in Paysandù
with Elder Ashby for this next change too.  oh i finally got your
first package that was send November 1st.  you guys are way too
stinking sweet!!!  oh and Elder Ashby says thanks soo much for the
little bag of treats!!!  hahaha i guess it takes a little bit longer
than expected to get here hahaha we found a really great family this
last week, it's a single mom with 4 kids.  she was very interrested
and read the pamphlet we gave her.  the second visit we had with her
and her family she said that she wanted her son to be baptized into
our church and that her oldest daughter (24 years old) wants to be a
missionary for OUR church and us talking with her family was the very
first time they had ever heard of us before!  haha yeah i thought that
was a pretty interresting story!  oh hey by the way, EVERYONE down
here does the finger snap thing!!!!!  no joke i mean like it is used
for phrases like "ooohhh YEAH!!!" or "DO WORK" or stuff kind of like
that hahaha so i guess i'm not that special ;) hahathis sunday was
pretty cool because our sacrament attendance was 31 PEOPLE!!!  that's
the most we've had there in over a year so it was pretty exciting but
none of our investigators came... so that was upsetting especially
because we were expecting 8 people in church so it was a bittersweet
feeling.  we didn't get to see the first presidency devotional down
here because they did a live broadcast from the stake center ah 11 at
night so we weren't aloud to watch... but we are watching a recording
of it for our end of the year party so we'll get to see it in like a
week of two.  thanks for all of your prayers andthoughts for me!!!

can't wait to call you guys in 18 days!!

LOVE YOU TONS,
Elder Atkinson