Week 68!

hey everybody!!! 
i'm sorry that this dumb email didn't send last week...  yeah i wrote a huge email about EVERYTHING that happened last week!  but now i tried to look for the email and it is no where to be found....  :( yeah super sad stuff...  i'm sorry that you guys didn't get to hear how my week was.  i will try to talk about these last two weeks in this email then.  but before i for get i will ask you guys when would be the best time to CALL you guys on sunday for Christmas?  i have time anytime after 2:00 here in Uruguay.  so you all can decide.  but i've been great these past two weeks!  :)  we've been working hard and trying to have lots of success.  and just as an anouncement, we have two baptisms this week!  the baptisms are Lourdes and Àngel.  Lourdes i don't know if i've talked about her yet but she is 22 years old and is the friend of one of the Returned missionaries of this ward named Gastòn.  he gave us this reference a few weeks ago and since then she has come to church every week!  she LOVES the church and knows that it's true!!  she's excited for her baptism this week.  we also have a 10 year old kid named Àngel who is ready for baptism also, his mom is a recent convert from an other word from Taecuarembò and recently moved here with her kids.  so he'll be prepared also for the baptism.  this last week we've been working hard trying to find people and also some of the missionaries have been invited to participate in a chior for christmas.  it's been lots of fun singing with all of them and luckily i don't have to give a solo mthis time because we actuslly have good Elders that know how to sing.  but it's going to be super cool because they invited other churches to participate in musical numbers from all over the department.  it should end up being really really cool and fun.  so we've had to go at double time trying to work and have time to sing and practice with the chiors.  also this last week we did service for a blind member of our ward named Hermano Antunez.  it was absolutely AMAZING because we pulled weeds and stuff in his garden, he knows excactly where EVERYTHING is!!!  he was telling us that we need to pull the weeds that are in these specific points that he was pointing at!!!  and when he was walking back to his house he knew where EVERYTHING was, i mean like benches and stuff like that, he even knew where the branches were to duck his head and everything...  i was sompletely amazed at him!!!  i guess that was kind of a big push for me!  but thanks all of you for your prayers and your emails!  next week is changes so i will email you all on tuesday!

love ya,
Elder Atkinson