Week 71!

my family,
how has is been for you guys?  i've been good!  we've had some ups and downs in this last week.  i'll say the downs first to get them over with so i can tell the funny/cool/espiritual stuff after.  this week was super hard trying to find people to teach...  we struggled because still a lot of people were gone from our area visiting still for the holidays.  so trying to have lessions with our investigadors was tough and it was hard trying to find new people...  so those are the only "down" parts of the week!  everything else is good.  HILARIOUS STORY!!!!!! so on monday we went out after P Day and went to work and we had to visit a lady that lived super far away.  on the way back at like 7:30 ish or so elder Duke tells me, "hey i think i gotta go to the bathroom"  alright, "is it an emergency?" i ask. "no not yet, it's just a slight pressure" he replies.  i then question, "can you make it to the house or do we need to stop by a member's house?"  he then answers "i think i can make it to the house, if not we'll just go to a close member" so we start walking towards the house to go to the bathroom.  we start getting closer (only 7 minutes away from the house) and he says "IT'S AN EMERGENCY!!!"  we start swiftly walking to a members house.  we get to his drive way and my comp stops walking swiftly... i look and he's clenching his whole body... and i automatically smell a very STRONG odor of something not pleasent...  he then tells me, "it's no use going to the members house...  i need a shower... :(" hahaha so we walked the 5 minutes home trying to walk fast so that no one could tell from his smell or his dirty pants.  he went into the bathroom and took a shower.  but the bathroom smelled hatrocious (no idea how to smell that) even after he cleaned up all the remanents.  after the fact he told me that that expirience was the most forcefull and the fastest bodily movement he has EVER had!!!  i could not stop laughing i was literally crying after the fact.  good times in the mission.  but also Lourdes (the one that just got baptized) went to the temple last week to do baptisms for the dead and was soo excited when she came back.  we did a reference activity with her and she gave us 8 references that are super good ones that we are going to work with this week!  so overall i can't complain with this week.  it's been great! love you all!!!
love,
Elder Atkinson
P.S. i got your letter with pictures!!! THANKS A TON!!!