Week 46!

hey there my good ol' family!

i'm livin it up down here in the Guay!  not too much has happened this week, but the few things of note i will tell you.  hahaha well the family that we found a week of two ago that lived in the US for 8 years CAME TO CHURCH!!!  not only did they come to church but they told us that they LOVED IT!!!!  the whole ward was super excited to see them in church and really welcomed them into the ward.  it was great to see how well they liked the ward.  this week we're hoping to give them a baptismal date of the 30th of July!  they really are learning a lot about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they're loving all of it!  oh i don't know if i ever told you guys that i'm collecting little stickers of soccar players for an album of the Copa America (a cup that plays quite a few countries in the Americas)  there are 348 little stickers that you can collect to put in the album and it's fairly tough to get them all.  i've been trading with kids in the streets for like the last 3 weeks and TODAY i finally found the last piece i was looking for!!!  :) HALLELUYA!!!!  hahaha  so i'm one happy camper for noe ;) ha we also found a super nice lady this week named Silvia, she's 42 and she has 1 child and 3 grandchildren (the oldest is 8 years old) haha figure that! haha but she's really nice and is wanting to find the truth and she is willing and ready to follow it.  we gave her a Book of Mormon and we're going to pass by today to try totalk to her and teach her more.  Carlos update, he didn't come to church i called him yesterday and he told me that he had to work until 6 in the morning and he slept through his alarm to wake him up.  we're going to try with all of our creativness this week to find more people because the people we do have are fantastic! but they are few also...  so we're going to have to FIND FIND FIND this week.  i've been a little bit sick this week...  i've had a bad cough and a runny nose, but it's nothing serious and i'm 99.9999999% sure that i'll live, so it's nothing to worry about mom. ;) hahaha  but it sounds like you all had a great time in Washington for the Familty Reunion. so we're doing great and working super hard here in Artigas!

love you all and have a splendid week,

Elder Tyler Atkinson