how is life in the united states going? i'm having a blast as uaual down here in uruguay. this week we had a lot go on! so last tuesday we went to Taecuarembò for a Zone conference and it was a lot of stinkin fun! one reason was because i got to see ELDER ASHBY and my mtc comp ELDER HENDRICKSON!!!!!! funny thing is that they're COMPS right now! hahahaha we had a good time talking about good ol times, jokes, funny stories, and life! hahaha elder ashby asked about you lindsey (wink wink) hahahaha he asked if you recieved his last letter and if you were going to write him back before he got back! haha both of them are doing great and enjoying life down here in the Guay. i always love Zone Conferences because you get to see other missionaries that you've been with again. it was a crap ton of fun. oh SUPER FUNNY story headline: so this last friday our branch president asked us to walk by a recent convert/less active member to ask if we could have a family home evening with her to try to re-activate her. we walk by, and we hear something........ it sounded like a bunch of women chanting and doing weird things IN HER HOUSE!!!! we were thinking oh NO!!!! she turned back to her old evangelical ways and doesn't want anything to do with us. we notice that a door in her house is open and we look in and we see a lady preacher with about 7 other women in there WITH OUR BRANCH MEMBER!!!! we totally thought that we lost her! we asked to talk to her but the lady at the door asked us to wait a little bit until the "prayer" was over. so about 10 minutes later the session was over and people started leaving. finally our member (Anita) came out and asked us "Why didn't you guys come in?" ???????????? umm.... because satan was in the ROOOM DUUUHHHHHH!!!!!! hahaha that's not what we said but she invited us into her house to talk. she ended up telling us that she rents a room that is connected to the house to people and this church started renting it. she said that she's not going to it but for their first session they wanted to invite her being the owner of the room, so she just sat in on it. haha she ended up telling them that she is a member of our church and she knows that our church is true and that she will only frequent our church and not theirs. hahaha so that night we ended up having the FHE and everything. that was a big scare!!! hahaha i bet that doesn't happen too much in north america. yesterday was a super good day!!! for church we had 18 people in church and one investigator. he's a 14 year old kid who we kind of forgot about. both of his parents have been baptized within the last year but he always says that he's "not really into religion" DUH YOU'RE ONLY 14 YEARS OLD!!! hahaha but because he came we're going to try to work more with him on getting him to come more often. apparently this is the first time in like 6 months that he's come. so we'll see how that turn out. hahaha it's always interresting! hahahaha so Lindsey AND Shaun graduate this week!!!!!!!! wow!!!! time sure does fly! i remember being in the CCM when you guys had barely started school this year!!!!! that's nuts!!! congratz guys!!! hahahaa you know how you asked what Uruguay looks like? well here's my house (it's super nice), and vichadero! i love it and it's super beautiful! i hope you guys enjoy and love you all tons!
love you all crap tons!!!
Elder Atkinson
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