Week 63!

hey hey hey,
how's it going in the UNITED STATES???? well i'm just dandy here in Teacuarembo, my new ward is AWESOME!!!! i'm in Barrio Lopez and it's a super small area but it is just filled with hills, hills, and SOME MORE HILLS!!!! hahaha i think that in the time i'm going to be here i'm going to get a great butt workout "YEAH BUNS AND THIGHS"-Spongebob haha but i'm serious...i think with this super hot summer coming up i'm going to get quite toned!!! hahaha but the area is realatively poor but we've got LOTS of active members, around 140. yeah but this week we had stake conference so i didn't get to see only our ward but i've been hearing that it's a pretty strong ward that is even getting better!!! so i'm getting super excited to work over here! but stake conference was super good! a councelor from the temple presidency came with his wifeand also from the mission presidency came to talk. it was amazing how great all of the talks were and how they all were focused soo neatly to work hand in hand with how important it is to go to the temple. we are only about 6 hours from Montevideo so it's not TOOOO long of a trip to the temple and the stake president made a goal that they should all try to go to the temple once every 2 months AT LEAST! the councelor of the temple presidency also talked about the importance of the temple workers and that the temple ALWAYS needs more workers and how most of the time thy have temple workers come in one day in every 15 days to the temple and how they absolutely recieve blessing for these sacrifices for traveling and working in the house of the LORD!!! i know that is true and that the lord really does give us TONS of blessings when we do the errand of the lord. i can't wait to see what else the lore has for this missionary to learn because i'm learning a TON of stuff already!!!! Elder Principe is a pretty cool kid, he has about 6 months on the mission and is super excited to work here with me. i know that we're going to have some success!!!
Love,
Elder Atkinson