Week 52! (ONE FULL YEAR OUT!)

hey ther evr'boday,
how's life going????  i'm doing pretty good! :) this week was actually
pretty interresting.  with Elder Nevarro we have started to find some
new good people and they have some real potential.  awesome story:
last night we passed by a person's house that told us to come back to
talk while we were contacting like a week ago.  we passed by yesterday
and he told us that we could pass into his house.  he's a super cool
guy with about 50 years.  he's a cop and he works in the prision here
in Artigas.  he told us that about 10 years while we was working he
was talking on a phone and got electricuted through the phone!! How
does that happen??? i have no idea but he told us that bacause of it
his hearing is bad, he can still hear but you just have to talk loud.
so we were teaching him about the book of mormon and everything and
then i asked him to get baptized and he totally didn't understand.  ha
was super confused and couldn't understand what i was saying.  so my
comp gets the inspiration to write down the baptismal invitation on a
pice of paper so that he could read it. and he said yes!!!  then we
gave him a baptismal date for the 17 of september also by writting it
and he accepted that also!  it was one of the most interresting
lessions that i've ever had.  it definitely only worked because of the
inspiration that my comp got.  it was a true blessing.  also yesterday
we had stake conference!!  it was super awesome because a few special
people came to visit:the mission president, temple president, and an
area 70!!!  his name is Rùben Alliaud and he's from Argentina!  he's a
truly inspired man of god that was called to help out this area!  one
of my favorite quotes from him this conference was "Lots of people are
willing to die for the Lord, but there are only few that are willing
to LIVE for the Lord"  and i've been thinking about that quote a lot
this last day and it really is true!  we need to always be focused in
living for the lord in every moment of our lives.  it was a truly
great expirience to be able to listen to him speak.  by the way this
week i got to meet the dad of Vanesa!!! he's a recent convert from
Paraguay that moved back to uruguay yesterday to live with them!  he's
actually a super STUD!!!  like within this last month he went to the
temple to recieve his endowments!  and of course when he saw us tha
first thing that he showed us was his scriptures and told us that he
didn't forget them in Paraguay!  i honestly think that he will help
them get baptized!  we just have to work with them to get them to
recieve these blessings!!!

thanks for everything and i love all of you guys crap tons!!!
Elder Atkinson