Week 49!

WUT UP EVERYBODAY!!!!!

i'm having fun down here and getting wet down in Artigas, Uruguay!  hahaha this week has been pretty good to tell you the truth!  first thing was super funny.  so last week we were in Montevideo going to sign our papers to actually become leagal in Uruguay, it took forever!!!  we were in the migration offices for like 4 hours......  our bus leaves from Montevideo to Artigas at 6:00 and we ended signing papers at 5:45 and we were 20 minutes away from the bus terminal.  luckily the bus driver was fast because we got to the bus terminal at 5:58 and we were booking it to the bus, as we get to where the bus is supposed to be it's not there...  we look around and see it driving around the corner and out of our sight.  i was heartbroken because if we missed that bus we would have to wait till 10 at night till the next bus to artigas.  we hurried and ran to a bus director of the bussing company and he told us to just on to this random super sketchy bus with no name on it going to Rivera.  luckily the bus actually ran down our real bus about 20 kilometers down the road and we changed busses.  oh man it was pretty funny once it was all done.  also this last thursday we had interviews with President Heaton.  he's such a great man!  he gave me a bunch of great ideas of how i can help out this ward.  i talked a lot with Elder Vega after it and he came up with great ideas on how to try to animate the members of our ward.  it's going to be tough but it's definitely not impossible.  oh yeah!  the family that lived in the U.S. (Vanessa, Sofìa, and Matìas) all have a baptismal date for the 20th of august!!!  i hope i don't get changed this next change because changes are in two weeks!  their super excited about the church anf they're loving the gospel and preparing to be baptized.  this past week has been full of rain, rain, oh yeah and more rain.  as i and writting this it is raining.  i'll tell you what rain sure makes everyone in this town just SLEEP!!!  they don't do anything but sleep when there is rain.  hahaha but it's super fun seeing all of these people that are like, "i didn't go to work today because it was raining" "my children stayed at home from school today because of the rain"  haha it's absolutely Histerical to see how different cultures are. hahaha because it's not just a few people, it's EVERYONE that says that.  thanks for all of the prayers and the emails.

love you guys TONS!!!!

Elder Atkinson