Week 36!

hey there my good old family!!!

 

how's life going???  ¿Todo Bien? ¡Espero què sì! so not too much has happened today but i'll tell you that we do have some sad news down in the guay...  do you guys remember Jorge?  the guy that my comp and i pushed to church every week?  well this last thursday he passed away...  last week he feel at his house and hit his head on the floor, he was completely fine for like a day but then it turns out that he had a clot in his head that pushed up on his brrain and caused him to vomit continually and he couldn't talk because of it.  they took him from Vichadero ti rivera and then from Rivera to a hospital in Taecuarembò and he went up and down in health and eventually passed away.  he died 2 months and 2 days after he was baptized.  everyone used to ask him why he actually came to Vichadero to live because he's like 5 hours away from all family and all friends, for me i honestly think that the only reason he came to vichadero was to recieve the Gospel.  he told us many times that thousands of missionaries passed by his house in Montevideo and he always shut them down but for some reason once he moved to Vichadero he finally let them in.  so it's sad but at the same time it's actually a super happy thing that recieving the missionaries was like the only thing stopping him in this life.  yeah right now we're in Rivera because yesterday we had Stake Conference, it was super good!!!  they talked about how every young man needs to go on a mission and also the temple president of Montevideo and his wife came up for it and gave super good talks about the importancia of going to the temple and how it should be a goal to go once a month, even though it is like 5-6 hours away we still need to make it a priority to go to the house of the Lord.  overall it was a SUPER good conference.  after it Elder Fikus and i went on divisions with our district leader and his "son".  this time i went with Elder Navarro "the district leader's son" who this is his first change in Uruguay.  he's from Chile, and in super nice.  he does not stop talking EVER!!!  haha but it's a lot of fun going and geeting to know more missionaries.  he had a lot of questions about how to do things because it was his first time doing divisions.  he's a super funny guy, and we got along very well.  he also knows how to teach pretty well, (better than i could at his time, probably because he actually knew spanish an i had no idea what i was doing) hahaha  but hey!!!  we were working together super well and we had some really good lessons together that was filled with the spirit.  we had lots of fun together.  this week was super fun but honestly not too much happened because this week was the first week after the semana santa so everyone had to go back to wark and make up for time that they lost in this last week.  but hey!!!  this sunday i'm calling you!!!  i figured out that i'm going to call you at like 6:00 Uruguay time!  i'm not sure what time it is now there becuase of day light savings time but i think there's like either 3 or 4 hours difference!!!  i'll call you so you can get the number then you can call me back like last time!!!

 

love ya!!!

Elder Atkinson