Week 47!

hey guyz,
sounds like you're all doing FANTASTIC!!!!  just to let you know a recieved a package from granpa and grandma, and also your package that had the perfect push ups in it!  now i have to do my excercises! hahaha  Elder Rios and i are starting a workout routine together.  it'll be super good to do some stuff.  haha whelp... this week i've still been a little bit sick.  but i feel like i'm getting better, i bought some medicine and i feel that it's helping.  the weather here has been totally weird.  one day it will be freezing cold with tons of wind and rain and the next day it will bee hot clear skies and lots of humidity.  these types of changes it what kills ya...  we've been working really hard this week,  sad stuff is that we barely had anyone in church on sunday...  there were 20 peopl in church including us missionaries, 6 members of the stake, and 1 investigator (Debora a 9 year old girl that always comes)  i was super upset that none of our good progressing investogetors came....  and practically none of our members showed up....  but oh well. haha i was talking to one of the members of the stake that came, Hermano Dos Santos (he's a Brazilian), and  we were talking about what happened and he was like, "we need to keep our heads held high, the adversary is who wants us to feel terrible about the come out of church today"  after that i got animated and with a new mindset for this new week.  but it turns out that carlos didn't come because he had to go to Taecuarembò because his aunt died.  so he left and then Vanesa and her kids (the U.S. peeps) went to a bike race in Brazil that they "boyfriend" of vanesa was competing...  yup it's going to be a little interresting bringing up the law of chastity with her...  haha we just found out this week that she has this little "boyfriend" hahaha, but we'll just have to see what's going to happen with them.  also in case you didn't know the U.S. Womens soccar team just lost the world cup last night against Japan in penalty kicks...  yeah oh well.  haha Uruguay is hanging strong in the Copa America!  on saterday they BEAT Argentina in penalties 4-5!!!!  now they're going to play against Perù on tomorrow in the semi-finals!  ¡VAMO ARRIBA LA CELESTE!  it was intense on saturday, we were in a lesson during the game, we leave and go to an almecen to buy some food for sunday and the owner was watching it so we stayed for a little bit of the extra time. then we went home because it was almost 9:30 and Elder Rios is dying because he's listening to it from a borrowed member's radio.  for him this game was NUTS because he's uruguayo.  haha once uruguay won everyone in the streets was dancing, screaming, and shooting fireworks.  the whole celebration of artigas didn't end till about 3 in the morning.  it was pretty crasy, i'm not gunna lie.  haha but it's been lots of fun with all the mayhem of Copa America!  it was super funny because brazil lost last night and all of Uruguay hates brazil so when they lost you heard fireworks from Uruguay.  hey i sent a couple of pictures here, the first is ud with Carlos our investigator that lived in the us for 8 years, number two is our District from this last change, and the last is us with the Bishop and his family.  hey gotta go love you all and have a great time,

LOVE,

Elder Atkinson