Week 42!

hey there everybody!!!!

how's it going?  it sounds like you're all doing great from all of your emails!!!  this week has been a lot of learning and a lot of different feelings.  first off we've been trying to start a new way to plan for our weekly planning, this week one of the APs and the president came up to Artigas and gave us a training class on how to do this new way of planning that the area presidency gave us.  for this new planning we have to plan for every hour of every day for the whole week during weekly planning, of course through the week we can adjust it as things fall through and as we find new people and drop people who aren't progressing, but we have it to be able to plan more efficiently.  it's a lot of work but i can tell that it will definitely help our mission be more successful.  down part of this week, we didn't find one single new investigator....  this is the first time it has ever happened in my whole mission.  Elder Vega and i had a long talk about what happened this week to not have us find anyone.  we've been working super hard and trying to find people in this area but for some reason this week it just didn't happen.  we also talked about what we could do better to not have this happen ever again, we read through preach my gospel and we've thought of some really good ideas to be more successful.  but this week we had three investigators in the church (but not one of them was carlos...) we had the little girl who's named Debora and the couple who's not married named Miguel and Tina.  later that night we passed by the house of Miguel and Tina with a couple from our ward who are sealed in the temple, it was a great lesson because we got to talk to them about getting married.  miguel learned that if it's a commandment from God he needs to do it!!!  but tina is the one who's still a little bit scared of it.  we're going to try to work harder with her.  we had a great week with carlos.  he was accepting all of our commitments and was really doing great!  but he didn't show up for church...  after church we also passed for him and he told us that he had to work for 10 at night until 5 in the morning in his bakery so he couldn't wake up!!!  but he's told us that he's going to try to ask off for this next week.  so we'll see what happens!!!  hey sorry this might be a little short but the internet is super slow!  here's some pics of me and my comp in montevideo infront of the teatro solis which a a super famous theater and at the house of a mamber for lunch and on the border of brazil with our diastrict.

love ya,

Elder Atkinson