Week 50!

hey there everybody!!!!
WUSSUP WUSUP??????  i'm having a great birthday today here in Artigas uruguay!  today we got to play basketball for like 2 hours today especially for my birthday!  haha because usually the latinos never want to play basketball but i pulled the birthday card on all of them and IT WORKED!!!!  can you believe that i only have one more week of this change so the next time i'll write you guys will be on next tuesday!  man these changes are going by super fast!!!!  but this week has been super fun, the first fun thing we did was that we got permission to use bikes and head out and try to find more people.  our area on one side does not end so we could take the bikes and go and try to find some peeps.  we had a friend lend us two bikes.  funny thing is that they gave me a bike from about 1960 and they gave women's bike to Elder Vega.  the road we took was dirt with tonns of rocks... and the seats of the bikes i would describe them as sheet metal covered in a thin layer of material to give it the appearance that it's a nice seat. haha  we road out for about 30 minutes or so and found some super nice people that have never meet the missionaries before in their lives.  it was super fun, we were out there for a couple of hours working and before the sun went down we headed back.  there are quite a few hills so elder Vega was absolutely dying trying to get up the hills.  on a few of them half way up he just gave up and started walking up the hills.  haha but that day, my butt hurt sooo bad!!!!  going down those dirt roads you could feel every single rock and pebble.  for me, my muscles didn't hurt at all but i died of pain in between those two bones in your butt.  oh man it took like three days to recover from that. haha you're probably wondering what the photos are of.  the two with me and a lamb was while we were on our little trip we talked to a nice family and they let us take pictures of it.  the other two are of me and Elder Vega in the middle of where we were biking.  the one picture with him sitting down, what happened is that he set his camera down and set the timer and when he ran to his bike he slipped i was dying laughing so hard because he was sooo mad that the picture didn't work and we had to take another picture.  hahaha  we found some really cool people this week and i'm excited to work more with them.  this week we have been trying super hard to work with our members in lessons and activities to try to keep them excited here.  our best priesthood holder in the ward is definitely our first councelor in the bishopric.  he works in ranching with cattle, sheep, and ostriches.  he is an absolute workhorse.  he got baptized about 6 years ago and has stayed completely active since.  he always asks us when we can go out and work with him on divisions or just visiting members with him.  his name is Enrie Rodriguez and he's about 40 years old.  to tell the truth, and the primary are the only people to are working in the ward.  so for this reason we are trying our absolute hardest to try to excite everyone else.  i'm having fun and i think that Elder Vega is too! We're working hard and need to end on a high note this change.  of by the way, thanks for the Jimmer shirt, I LA shirt, the CD, the Tie, and the basketball hoop!!! i love them all!!!!!  i still haven't gotten the stuff from christine and scott, and harris and melissa tampoco.  but i'll definitely keep an eye out for them!  i love you all very much and i can't wait to hear more!!!
thanks EVERYONE for the birthday greetings!!!!
love you all!,
Elder Tyler Atkinson