how's everyone doing??? i'm thinking that OVERALL good. obviously there are stressful times in our lives but we all have to learn to suck it up ;) hahaha kidding. but my week has been overall good. we've been working a lot more with the members of the ward and they've been super happy. this week we're doing a dessert contest and we'll see who has the best dessert out of all of Barrio Lòpez. i have to try to think of something to do porque Elder Duke doesn't know how to cook anything (or so he's told me)... but it'll be fun! but anyways i have a super cool story that happened to us this week. so we have an investigator named Hugo that is about 75 years old but he looks super young like MOST 60 years old. he's been an investigator for a whils and he's investigated the church before also abd has a little problem with tithing... we've been praying and praying trying to figure out what we need to do to help Hugo resolve this problem with Tithing. we felt that we should bring the Bishop to our lesson with him. we know that Bishops have an invaluable influence in the missionary work and in the lives of the people inside of their ward. so he went with us and it was SPECTACULAR!!!! the bishop was talking with him and told him that it even wasn't really a decision of paying or not but he talked to him about how it is way more of a step of really SHOWING faith in our lives. that if you really know that these things are true and you know that the teachings of Christ are true than you know what you have to do and that you will DO IT!!! i could feel that spirit so much in the lession it was CRAZY!!! so we challenged Hugo to really find out if this is the REAL church of Christ and to pray to find that out! so we'll see what happens with that. but the lesson was so great and i could feel the spirit BIG TIME!!! i know that Bishops have the keys to their wards and that if they start working and trying to do visits with the missionaries that EACH WARD will EXPLODE!!! it was so cool and the bishop told us that he wants to go on more visits with us!!!!!!!!! we also had an investigador in church yesterday!!! her name is Mariana and she's 16 years old. she's a friend of one of the ward missionaries and we just started working with her this week! we'll see what happens with her because for now she doesn't want to accept a baptismal date until she KNOWS that this is the only true church. i totally understand that and it'll be fun to see what happens! but hey i love you all and can't wait till next week!
Love,
Elder Atkinson
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