Week 96!

hey wazzup guys!!!
i´m doing well now!!! haha these past three days i`ve been pretty
sick... a couple days ago i had a fever but i had to stay in bed
almost a whole day in bed because the mission nurse told me i had to stay in bed but i`m feeling better now.  haha this week has been fun. we did divisiones with a companioship from Mercedes. i stayed in Fray Bentos with Elder Williams.  it was actually pretty cool because he also went to BYU-I before the mission and we actually knew quite a few of the same people. we had fun, he´s got about a year and 3 months on the mission and has dropped over 60 pounds since he`s started the mission.  he's dropped so much weight because before the mission he told me that he did nothing and stayed in the house and played video games and crap like that.  he's hoping to keep all the weight off when he gets home and he told me he'll start to do excercizes when he gets home to keep off the weight.  hahaha but another weird story happened while i was with Elder Williams we were walking at about 8 at night from one lession to another and we were on a super skinny road with no lights.  we`re walking and talking and everything and we see two girls about 16-17 years old ish walking towards us on the same road but on the other side of the road.  when we get to about 30 feet infront of them they start to walk directly at us... i try to look at them to see
if i know who they are and i have no idea who they are.  they come up to us and keep walking closer and closer and they literally get within 6 inches of my face, say ¨HOLA!!!!¨ but in a super creepy vampire type voice and keep walking.  man i freaked out and told elder williams if he say what just happened. and he thought that they were just like two teeenagers from the ward playing a joke and i told him that they deffinitely weren't from the ward and he freaked out!!!!  he was telling me about how messed up they were as we kept walking and elder
williams turned around and the two girls dressed in black were just staring at us!!! creepy!!! so we definitely speed walked out of that area.  haha but all in all the divisiones were super fun.  we also had interviews with the mission president and his wife this week.  it was super funny because hermana heaton was asking me everything that i was going to do when i got home and crap like that.  hahaha but that is pretty much all that has happened this week.  this last saterday wee also went to Mercedes to do a baptismal interview for a 65 year old man. super cool but he definitely looked like he was older than 65
years old.  his name is Carlos Moreira and everyone was super worried that he was going to have a heart attack in the baptism because it was in COLD WATER!!!!  but for now he lives!! hahaha so it all went great! but thanks for all the great emails and letters!!! i love you all
loves,
Elder Ty Atkinson

Week 95!

eyy wazzup errboday?

i'm doing quite well like usual!  this week was  little bit interresting because we were outside of our are about the same amount of time we were in our area. haha  we have been running everywhere! on wednesday we went down to Montevideo for a meeting and we were there for the whole day.  it was actually super good and gave us a crap ton of ideas to do over here.  so that was super cool then on friday we had to travel to Dolores to give a baptismal interview.  we did weekly planning in the morning and at noon we went to Mercedes because you have to go to mercedes before Dolores.  waited there for a little bit and then went to dolores. we got there at three and waited/finished planning until the interview at 4:30.  the investigtor called the elders that we were waiting with that she couldn't come till 5:15... but our bus was going to leave at 5:10...  and the next bus was at 8:00 so we had to wait and the investigator didn't come until 5:45. we ended the interview after a little bit of time and then we halped the elders with a musical number that they were going to sing for the baptism the next day.  and finlly when the bus came we got on... and guess what it was a bus full of 50 sweaty constuccion guys and hadn't showered and all SMOKE... oh man i can't tell you how sick the smell was.. i was dying because it smelled like tabacco with such a strong scent urine... it was quite vial!!!  but anyways this last week has been SUPER cold with lots of rain.  we've been trying to bring investigators to church but because of the rain they are tarting to make up excuses.  so we're working super hard this week.  we'll see wht happens this week.  we also have interviews with the president this thursday.  but thanks for everything!!!

Love you all,

Elder Atkinson

Week 94!

yo everyboday!!!

i hope it's getting warmer up there because it's getting COLD down here!!!!  oh man apparently in colonia, uruguay it snowed!!! IT NEVER SNOWS IN URUGUAY!!!  so i'm thinking that this winter will be a super cold winter.  but yeah i'm here in fray bentos and on wednesday at 5:00 in the morning my comp Elder Bustos got here.  it was soo cold and super windy!  he's from Mendoza, Argentina and has a year and 4 months.  he plays futbol pretty dang good.  haha everyone messes with him because Uruguay beat Argentina in the Copa America this last year in penalty kicks IN ARGENTINA. haha so he's been having quite a bit of learning how to control thoughts and feelings hahaha.  but he's super cool.  yesterday if you didn't know Uruguay beat Perù 4-2 for starting the entrances of the World Cup and Uruguay is #2 in the world in the rankings of soccar.  but besides that not too much has happened this week...  yesterday we talked to a guy that's about 25 years old and is a jehova's witness and is super intellegent.  we gave him the Book of Mormon and he promised us that he will read and pray to find out if it's true.  he's very in to his church but he told us that he's willing to change everything if he knows and feels that it's true.  his name is Leo.  so tht was pretty interesting.  we are now trying to find more people and i think that this week will be a good week for the two of us.  we've got quite a bit to do this week and we've got to go down to montevideo on wednesday.  so that's really all that's going on with me. 

love you all and thanks for the emails,

Elder Ty Atkinson

Week 93!

hey hey heeeeeeeeeeey,

how's you all doin?  i'm hoping that you're all doing just fantstic!!!  i am!!!  well..... we got changes and like we were thinking Elder Verdugo is leaving to Paysandù, in the same area that i was born! in barrio Obelisco.  so that's pretty exciting!  i got to tell him all the stuff that's going down over thurr.  haha and i'm staying here with a Argentino named Elder Bustos.  he's got around a year and 4 months here in uruguay and he's coming from Montevideo.  so we'll be working quite a bit.  and it's most likely that he'll be the Elder that "kills" me.  haha but that's still a while away.  this week we went to a colony about an hour away in bikes and on a dirt road.  there's a family that are recent converts and we went for the first time to visit them.  it was super cool because it was way out in the middle of no where.  i went on a fairly new bike (10 years old) and Elder Verdugo went on a bike that i think was made in the 70s haha and on the way back started to fall apart.  the pedals were falling off and the seat was breaking but we made it home eventually and no one died. haha something else pretty funny that we did this week was a joke that we played on one of the elders here.  his name is Elder Olivares and he's from Perù.  he's always worried about "going up in misson authority" like senior comp, trainer, district leader, Zone leader, and assistant.  so what we did was that we did divisions with him and said that the assistants called us to do divisions with him to figure out how's he had "so much success".  so i went with him and told him, "hey i have to figure out what you're doing and give a strict report back to the APs." haha he got super nervous but at the same time was acting like "hey i'm soo good that the APs need my help" so for th whole day i followed him around and he was acting super cocky and crap like that.  then at the end of the day i went and pretended to call the APs and told them that he wasn't doing anything and that it was his junior comp that was doing everything.  haha and then he got super mad and started yelling at both of us and we told him that it was a joke and everything but that he needs to work on his pride and crap like that and that he shouldn't think about going up and saying that you don't need to go up to prove that you're a good missionary.  haha he's starting to get a lttle better at that crap and i know that he's trying to not think about it anymore.  so we'll se what happens.  but that's pretty much the last week in a nut shell.

but thanks for all the emails and the love,

Elder Atkinson