Week 59!

hey there my good old family,

 

how's life???  it sounds like you all are doing quite dandy.  i am too!  but the city of Artigas isn't doing that great...  the reason why is because friday we had like a hurricane type storm come through this town.  if you didn't know about 90% of the people have tin roofs so it was kind of bad with these 175 km/hr wind for like 8 hours.  luckily i don't think anyone died but man it was sure weird...  story: when we were walking to a lesson we were just looking around and we saw some teenagers on the roof of their house taking pictures of something so we decided to look at what they were looking at and it was soo weird.  the clouds were like in a movie or something, they were really low, black, and swirling really fast and everything.  it reminded me of the movie "James and the Giant Peach" with the scary cloud that had the rhino in it, i told my comp that and he was like "you're totally right"  it was super scary.  then all of the sudden super powerful wind takes comes out of nowhere and it was super weird.  luckily we only had like a couple hours of work left.  we only had to live through rain for about one hour.  but the next morning we were walking around and it looked like the other side of heaven after the hurricane... ok it wasn't THAT BAD!  but still there were like HUGE trees fallen over onto little houses and lots of roofs flew off of lots of houses.  we were talking to someone and their roof flew off and they had no idea where it was and we talked to them again like 2 days after and they found it about a kilometer away from their house.  lots of power went out here and everything.  it was super bad but now it's starting to get better.  on to GOOD NEWS!!!  NOELIA is getting ready to get baptized this SUNDAY!!!!  YEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!  we have been working tuper hard with her and with her husband who is starting to reactivate in the church!!!  also we found a bunch of new investigators this last week; one of the bests is called Coralina.  she was a contact that i did like literally like 3 months ago and everyother time we tried to go by7 was never there so i kind of gave up on her.  we were working and all of the sudden i have the strong prompting to go to that house.  we went and she let us come in.  it turns out that she is very religous and she goes to church but she told us that she knows that the church thast she goes to is not the true church and that she has felt that many times but she has just never found the church that she's been looking for.  she is a very excited woman that is trying hard to follow the promptings of the spirit in her lives.  she couldn't come to church this week because she got super sick.  but we're going to pass by today to talk with her and her husband who recently was serving a peace mission in the Congo in Africa.  so this area is doing really good and can't wait to see what more there is in store for this area in Artigas!!!

love you all,

Elder Atkinson