Week 85!

yo wassup???
i`m doing pretty good! actually quite a few things happened this week first offwe went to Montevideo this week to a meeting and i was able to go through the Temple in Uruguay for the first time!!!!  it was actually super cool being able to go the temple in spanish and feel the spirit.  it`s weird that it took me soo long because they always send the new missionaries through the temple wen they first get to the mission but when we started we showed up a day later then the mission was expecting and our plane was delayed like three hours so we were only in the mission home for like an hour and a half and then we left to our areas.  aand all of the other elders from my group have all served in Montevideo so they`ve been able to go but i`ve never served there.  so it was super cool and the spirit was SUPER STRONG.   we came bck and worked super hard and found quite a few people.  and we have a few people come to church like this one guy named Juan Humberto... no me acuerdo if i have told you guys about this guy yet but if you think about the most HOBO looking guy ever, that`s what he looks like.  he`s 55 years old but because he`s been smoking a LOT he looks lik he`s 70 years old.  he`s balding and the hair that he does have is long and gray.  he`s got a gray un trimmed beard and not one tooth in his mouth.  he`s super funny, and we decided that we were going to bring him to church because we hd been teaching him for 2 weeks.  we inveted him to general conference last week nd his friend (member) went by him and they startd walking together and on the way over he decided to stay in a bar on the way.  but we passed by him this week and he decided to actually come!!!  right bfore we get to the church he had to finish his last cigarette.  he been smoking for soo long that he always has a 2 liter bottle of water and a tin cup that he uses to moisten up his dry mouth.  hee gets into the church without a cigarette and with his water bottle and cup.  he´s drinking and veryone is just watching him because he looks like a hobo.  during the sacrament he takes the bread and he`s all happy and waits for the water and i knew that something would happen during the water...  when the deacon comes around with the water he tries to give juan the water and juan says, "it all good, i alreaady have water" and he wouldn't take the water.  the deacon starts laughing and i tried soo stinking hard to not laugh myself.  after that he was ok for a while...  because he was drinking soo much water he had to go to the batherooom twice.  well because it was easter we had a musical number from our primary,  juan humberto was super xcited because he loves listening to music.  half way through he gets up and i thought that it was to go to the bathroom but NOOOO he got up and started TRYING to sing and stood next to the director and tried to leead the music!!!!  oh my goodness!  obviously we had to get up and take him back to his seat but i was trying soo hard not to laugh but it was one interresting sacrament meeting!  hahaha  so those were probably the most interresting things that have hppened to me in this last week!  but obviously i`ve got to go... but thanks for all of you emails!!!
LUVS,
Elder Atkinson