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