hey there my good old family!
well how's life going? i'm having a freaking blast down here in Uruguay! :) this week we had a crap ton of rain... like three days of rain! but overall the week was super fun! first off, we had the funniest lunch ever with the very FIRST member ever in Vichadero!!! her name is gladys and she's super funny and old. at first we started talking about how she thinks that her food is soo bad that her dog doesn't even eat it!!! haha super funny then she told us about how everyday she has to eat 12 pills and how much she hates it because it leaves her mouth feeling bitter and she can't get rid of the taste. hahaha and the she told us about how the other night her dog broke through the screen door and jumped on her bed and broke it! hahaha and then to top everything off, ner cat PEED in the house right in front of us! my comp and i were DYING laughing. it was probably the funniest lunch i've ever had with a member. also this week i gave away my first book of mormon in portuguese! it was to this lady who just recently moved to Vichadero from Brazil! and she knows absolutely NO SPANISH! she is a completely portuguese speaker. it was definitely a little bit of a struggle bit luckily she could understand what we were trying to say! but we have a return appointment to come back and we're going to TRY to bring a member that actually knows how to speak portuguese instead of just us two gringos that barely know spanish let alone portuguese! hahahaha we also have this one guy that's an investigator who's named Ruben and he's an old drunk guy that told us that he wants to change his ways but as of this past three weeks we really haven't been able to find a time to talk to him while he is sober... he's always super nice when he is drunk but there's not too many things that he can retain when he's drunk... so we're trying a lot to find more people this next week haha this week we also had a ward party for one of our recent converts that we have in our ward named Jorge, he can't walk good at all, like we have to help him walk or he has to use a cane in each hand to walk. so to help him come to church we put him on a tricycle and push him to church. but for the activity for his birthday we brought him in the trike and we had a small spiritual thought and then we had like cake and a bunch of snacks and everything. it was lots of fun and he was so thanksful for us having it because he has no family here in Vichadero. so it definitely made him feel like a member of our family. but that was super fun! so that's pretty much my life here in vichadero. but i'm so stinking excited for General Conference this next wsaturday and sunday! like i'm literally PUMPED!!!!! i can't wait for it! but how are you guys doing? but i'm having the time of my life down here! oh yeah i'm in rivera this monday with the Zone and today while we were having lunch two Elders from the BRAZIL mission came over and talked to us for a little while. one was from california and the other was a latino. but it was super weird like i totally forgot that one of the Brazilian missions shares boundaries with us. it was super funny because while i was talking with him he kept saying how annoying it is when people can't speak portuguese in his area and can only aspeak spanish because he can't understand it. i thought that was super funny because it's like we have the same problems in our areas. but hey gots to go! love you all. thanks for the love and prayers and the emails!!!
love ya crap tons and crap tons to come,
Elder Atkinson
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