Week 62!

hey there!!!! 

yup there have been quite a bit of changes for this missionary!  first off, i'm leaving Artigas after 6 months!!!!  i'm going to Taecuarembò tonight, so tonight at 10:00 GST (guayan stardard time) i will leave here and get to Taecuarembò in 2 hours.  i'm going to Barrio Lopez with an elder from Perù named Elder Principe (Prince in English) haha so we'll see how well i get along with a "prince".  haha Does that make me a king??? haha just kidding! haha but i think it will be lots of fun!  i've never met him before but i've heard that he's a pretty good Elder so i'm getting super excited for this opportunity to work hard and watch things change and have miracles happen.  i'm also going to be given a little more responcibility because i'll be District Leader.  so now i have a larger responcibility but i think i'll learn a ton when i get there.  i'm super glad to go there!  so yeah that will be super fun to change and to be in a new area to learn even more.  but this last week has been pretty interresting, Elder Siegel (the other elder in our house) just died (missionary speaking) haha he is now in his house in Idaho falls it was super funny this last week with him.  Every night we went into our patio of our back yard and we went Star Gazing and ate Brazilian versions of Otter Pops and talked about life.  haha it might sound super fruity but i quite enjoyed being there talking with him about mission expiriences.  i can honestly say that he is one of my best friends that i've met on the mission.  we're going to be grand friends after the mission.  haha but this week has been super fun and we've just found a CRAP TON of people that are ready to be baptized in this area!  it seems like that always happens the week before changes.  haha i think that in this next month they will have LOTS of success.  luckily Elder Navarro's face hasn't exploded like the last one yet.  haha we're still waiting to see what the Doctor's diagnosis is to se what he's alergic to and/or why his face explodes.  haha so we've been working hard and i can feel that the lord has blessed us here for the hard work that we have done in this ward.  i honestly can't wait to see what's going to happen in this next area!!!  the next email will be on monday like normal so thanks for all the emails and all of the prayers and love!!!

LOVE ALL YA´LL

Elder Atkinson