Week 32!

hey there my good ol' family!!!

just letting you know, on last tuesday i got your easter package! i definitely wasn't expecting it!  considering i got it like a month early!  but i thank you guys a stinking TON, also Elder Fikus says thanks for the tie and the M&Ms that you sent him!  haha but general Conference was stinking INSANE!!!  because we couldn't see it in our church in Vichadero we had to come back to Rivera again this weekend, therefore we were only in our area for 3 full days this last week...  which is super bad...  but there's honestly nothing we could do.  but the actual General Conference was super GOOD!!!  i thought that all sessions were so stinking good!  i especially liked the Priesthood session again!  hey you want to know something???  the choir for the priesthood session was a BYU-I choir and the Quesadilla Guy was in it!!!  yeah no joke the guys that made the HEAVENLY Quesadillas was in the choir and i saw him!!!  too freaking funny! oh another thing!  Saturday when we ate lunch, a was eating hot dogs and ANOTHER bird pooped on me!!!  yup this is the third time that a stinking bird has pooped on me in Uruguay, this time it was only on my shirt but it was my White church shirt...  yeah that was a little disappointed after lunch.  but for General Conference we watched the lives sessions here and 1 o'clock and 5 o'clock and we had to wait till sunday morning to watch the priesthood session because the priesthood session started at 11 that night.  but it's super nice because for all the normal sessions the church lets us have an English room so that we can get more out of it.  it's not that we don't understand what they are saying in spanish, because we understand it perfectly, but it's just soo much better hearing their voices and the spirit and tone in their voice is soo much better.  but because we recorded the preisthood session we watched it in spanish.  but oh man, the Prophet's talk in priesthood session was AWESOME!!!  it was amazing to hear him "drop the cane".  you know what else was awesome???  hearing how they plan to have a new temple in Ft. Collins!!!  that was super suprising for me!  but super AWESOME!!!  but NEXT WEEK IS CHANGES ALREADY!!!  time is going by super duper fast, but just a FYI/reminder, i'm not going to be able to email till tuesday because of changes.  but i'm pretty sure that we're both going to stay together for this next change.  but i think that if one of us leaves i think that it's going to be me because president heaton wants senior comps to stay in the same areas for longer periods of time.  but we'll see what's going to happen.  hey now that i have the capability to send pictures through the internet i'm going to do it!!!  the first one is of my zone at a BBQ that we did like four weeks or so ago.  the other pic is of me and some ostrich feet; one of our investigatores had a problem with their little daughter running out of the gate at their house so he created the idea to chop off Ostrich feet and hang them to the gate because she's scared of them so she won't touch the gate and leave! haha i hope you enjoy!

love you guys lots,

Elder Atkinson


*Elder Atkinson also sent some pictures that I need to crop before adding them to the blog, so check back in the next couple of days to see them!