Week 92!

well hey everyboday!!!!

i'm hoping that life is doing quite splendid! haha his week has been super interrsting but i'll start with the HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK: haha so it started with this saturday during lunch.  we had a HUGE BBQ!!! ribs, steak, chorizos, drinks, chicken, potatoe salad, and dessert.  haha i ate soo much and my comp practically ate double what i ate.  we went homeand i went to the bathroom (shocker, i know haha) and we left to work.  we went to a few lessons and we were about to go to a lesson at 6 with an investigator to watch the joseph smith movie.  my comp tells me, "hey i think i need to poop! no i think it's just farts!" haha so we went to the house and we started the movie.  i will tell you what he was happened in his words.  we got to the part of the first vision in the movie and he felt the urge to crap but he clenched his cheaks and the urge went away.  then about 15 minutes before the movie ended he felt the urge again but this time he couldn't wait so he asked for the bathroom.  when he got into the bathroom he realized that there wasn't toilet paper and no bidet either so he decided to pee trying to relieve the pressure and also released some pretty ronchy farts.  then he came back to watch the rest of the movie.  the urges were so bad that when the movie ended he said, "well, i'm sorry we're a little late to a meeting we have so we need to go now." we ended with a prayer and left.  he told me that he was about to crap himself and wanted to go to the church 5 blocks away to explode.  we walk about 3 blocks and he freezes and clenches his whole body and i see his lips moving and apparently what he told me was that he was praying to not explode in the street.  by this time i'm dying i'm laughing so hard.  after about 2-3 minutes of being in his "panic clench" he tells me hey i gotta crap now!!!!  he sees a light and thinks that he can crap in the bushes ovr by the light but luckily i was looking and saw a family behind the bush.  i tel him and he sees some other bushes on the side of the road and DIVES into the bushes, let alone did he know that the bushes were super spiney, but he had so much adrenalin that he didn't care.  and he explodes in the bushes.  from the sounds a TONS of dogs start going nuts barking and barking and barking!!!  by nowi was literally CRYING i was laughing soo much.  after about 3 inutes he yells to me, "he pass me a pamphlet or something!" haha once he said that we both realize something, Elder Verdugo is crapping in the back yard of an old mean man tht we contacted about 3 weeks ago.  and we hear him come outside and says, "HEY what's over there? who's over there?" when elder verdugo hears that he ripps up his pants and slides through the bushes like a navy seal with his pants still undone. haha we go to the church so he can clean up and everything is good except on the inside of his pants he's COVERED in DIAHREA!!! well he ended up going home and showering but it was s funny that i had to tell youguys.!!!  haha  that was definitely my favorite part of the week!  by the way Kevin didn't get baptized because he has disappeared.  we've been trying to pass by his house but he's not there.  his mom left to Montevideo for the surgery for her younger son and we'll try to keep finding Kevin..  but we'll see wat happenes!   

alright but i got to go!

love you all,

ElderTy Atkinson

hey i forgot that this next weeks there's changes so i'll write you guys on tuesday.  it's most likely that Elder Verdugo leaves and i go!

Week 91!

hey hey hey!!!

thanks for the emails and everything that you've sent me! i've bee quite well this week but quite busy as well.  so on wednesday we had Zone Conference in Paysandù.  it was super weird going back to Paysandù because it's been like a year and a half almost since i've been there.  it was super cool to see the city but i didn't have time to visit anyone like converts or members that i visited before but it's all good.  i got to see quite a few elders that i've met before in other areas and so forth.  but yeah.  so we had to travel from fray bentos to mercedes at 5 in the morning then from mercedes to paysandù at 6 in the morning and we got to Paysandù at 8 in the morning.  it was lots of fun and i learned a crap ton about sticking  with the basic thing and trying to stay focus on the small and simple things to help others come unto christ.  it was algo super good to have in the zone conference because there are a few missionaries that have had a big problem with that in our zone.  they're just tryiong to do too much and aren't focused on the smaller things.  so it was a really good refresher.  we also had an hermana leave from our zone this week for medical problems because she's got a bad hip and she hasn't been able to work for the past 4 weeks...  so she's heading home to Chile this week.  but this week we also had stake conference in mercedes this week and it was super cool because they asked us to participate in the stake chior so we had to go the the adult session and the temple president from Montevideo came to talk to us.  he talked about the simbolism of the temple and how everything is symbolic.  even the fences of the temple,  on the fences, doors, walls, and windows of the Uruguay Temple there is the same symbol... a circle inside of a square.  i thought that it was cool because i never thought about that symbolizing something.  he said that the quare symbolized the "4 corners of the earth" and that the circle represented "god or in the heavenly presence of god" so the interpretations of the circle inside of the sqaure is something that means "where the earth and heaven come together" i had never thought of that before!  i thought that was stinkin awesome!  but yeah so we'll see what happens because i forgot to tell you guys that three investigators went to church this week and one was a complete milagro because we didn't even intite him.  but he's gone to church before and he accepted a baptismal date for this sunday.  so we'll have to work with him lots.  but that's pretty much all that's happened this week.  so i love you all!!!!

have a great week

love,

Elder Ty Atkinson

Week 90!

hey long time no talk!! hahahaha

it was great hearing from all of you guys yesterday!  it was cool to see how you are al changing!  but i'm doing great!  this week i went to dolores for divisions and i was with Elder McCraney otra vez and it was super fun. he's a total stud and this is his first change as senior comp and also he's training but he's doing well because he's having quite a bit of success.  so i went with him and his kid (Elder Miranda from colombia) came to fray bentos with Elder Verdugo.  it was super cool because i got to see some new things that he was doing to have success and i think it'll help the zone out.  yeah... not too much has honestly happened i think the thing most interresting that has gone on this week was when i had to stay with Elder Silveira for a whole day in the house because he sprained his ankle... i was soo borred.  it wasnt because i couldn't do anything but it was because i felt practically useless doing nothing and i felt i little weird staying in the house the whole day.......  so i tried to be usefull and tried to set up lessons for us for the next day and stuff like that.  yeah...  oh and apparently a couple of people got shot this last week in Fray Bentos and i knew who they were they are ex-investigators that stopped listening to us about 2 months ago.  super weird.  but anyways we are now in a phase of trying to find new investigators and keeping in contact with them.  on sunday we found a family that lives in a wood/cardboard house and the dad is a carpinter for the elementary schools and she has to stay at home because they have 5 kids all under the age of 12.  we're trying to work with them a bunch and we'll see how well this goes.  but thanks for all the emails and cards and love.

love you all,

Elder Atkinson

Week 89!

heyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,
how's life going for all y'all up thurr????  my life is quite good!
and quite a few interresting things happened this week that i'll tell
you about!!!  first off we went to Montevideo for a meeting and i got
to meet a bunch of my buddies from the CCM from the other mission and
they were in a meeting with their mission and we got to hang out for
about an hour talking about life and crap like that so it was super
freaking cool!  the next day we had divisiones and i stayed here with
a kid from perú named Elder Sheen (his dad is from ireland so that's
why he's got a odd name for a peruano) hahaha but it was super cool
but super weird because we found one lady named Rocio who has about 60
years and we started talking to her and it turns out that she is an
Ex-Prostitute....  hahah strange... but we changed the subject to
something different but everytime we said something she ended up
having a weird story to relate it to those prostitue days of hers...
hahah i was dying and trying to change the subject because she was soo
vivid in her descriptions and stuff like that!!!  but it ended up
being a good lesson and we're going beck this week to talk more to her
about the Book of Mormon that we gave her.  haha we'll see what
happens with her.  the day after that i got back together with Elder
Verdugo in the morning and that same morning the Hermamas call us and
they've got a problem.....  what happened is that some random guy got
a hold of the number of the cell phone of the hermanas and started
sending "dirty messages" and kept sending stuff to her and she had no
idea who it was haha so my comp got super Macho and told the hermanas
to send him a message that she'll meet him in a plaza at a certain
time.  and that we were going to go "undercover"  and that the
hermanas wouldn't really go and we would talk to him.  but i realized
very quickly that he wasn't thinking and i had to tell the hermanas to
not do it and he calmed down and realized that it wouldn't be the best
idea and they didn't reply to him and they got a different fone
number.  so that was pretty much the most interreesting stuff that
happened this week so we had been running and doing quite a bit this
week.haha but yeah can't wait till sunday!!!
i love you all,
Elder Ty Atkinson