Week 53!

wussup ya'll!!!!

 

i'm living it up down here in the Guay!!!  this last week i was able to celebrate my 1 year mark on the mission.  yeah yeah!!!  i will say that i did celebrate but i forgot to bring my camera from the house to send you the pics but i don't want to spoil what i did so i'll just talk to you about it next week!  hahaha but this week was fairly long.....  we didn't have a whole lot of success but it's not like we didn't have any either.  one thing that was really cool was that this wednesday the stake president here (Presidente Bueno) called me and started to talk to me about an inactive member that lives in my area.  he gave me the direction to his house and we went by that day but he wasn't there so we tried passing by a few times that day because we were near the area all day.  that night i called the president and told him that we passed by a few times to let him know that we passed by and the member wasn't there and he told me, "thank you elder for taking this reference seriously, the stake presidency has been praying and fasting to find members to help this ward to reactivate."  so i told him that we were planning to go by the next day.  the next day before leaving to go out and working i prayed that we would be able to find this member (Luciano) in his house.  we passed by his house and he was there, not only was he there but his wife (Noelia) who's not a member was there with their one year old daughter.  we were able to talk to both of them about the familias and how important it is that after this life we can live with them forever if we do all the things in this life that we can.  while we were talking about that the wife started crying.  they told us that they would go to church this week.  i called the president that night to tell him what happened and he started to cry and told me that they had gone to the temple to find inspiration on how to help this ward and specifically told me "DO NOT LOSE THIS FAMILY!!!!!"  they ended up not going to church yesturday but we have a lesson with them set for tonight at 6 so we'll see how that goes.  but this week has been a lil interresting, i had to talk to my comp about having personal space with others.  for me, it's not a big deal but a few of the other missionaries have started to complain about it, that he's always in their face and he's always touching them.  so i had to talk to him about that for a little bit.  today we've been deep cleaning the house...  oh man i cleaned the bathroom and it took me 3 and a half hours to clean that mother!  it's not even a big bathroom, it's about the size of the bathroom in christine's old room!  but it was filled with mold and hatred!!!  haha it was terrible!!!  but now it's minty clean!!!  but that was pretty much it for this week!  Luv ya'll and can't wait to tell you guys more.

Elder Atkinson