Week 102!

well helloooooooooo la la la....hahaha (i hope that at least Christine understood) hahaha

hahahah but this week has been fairly good. no complaints hahahaha just a very random fact that in the last 48 hours i've seen 8 people peeing in public, haha like on dumpsters and buildings and crap like thathahahahahaha.   but we're doing good.  it's beeen kind of raining and chilly these past 3-4 days and there have been lots of fog too.  my area is where the rio uruguay dumps into the atlantic ocean so we've got two big bodies of water on both sides of us.  haha  so it gets a little bit chilly down here.  but it's all good.  something interresting that was actuslly really cool is that we're teaching this guy named Mercelo, he's 40 years old mas o menos and he's living with an inactive woman who was baptized like 25 years ago. but he's a cool guy.  we started to talk to him lots because he's a computer guy so we started to show him movies like the restoracion and other church movies and he loves them. he told us that he's watched every video at least 10 times.  he shows his step kid the movies and he loves them.  which is super good for him because the step kid is scitzofrentic (spanish literally kills english spelling, no idea how to spell that word) and always screams at the top of his lungs cuss words and everything.  but these last couple weeks while he's been watching these movies and stuff like that he's been a lot more respectful to his parents and has been in our lessons and participating in the discussion.  so the little 10 years old kid is starting to change.  but Marcelo (the adult) is super intelligent and in this last month finished reading the whole book of mormon!!!!!  yeah i thought that was pretty stinking cool.  he feels that the church is the true church and wants to get baptized but the only thing is that he's not married to his spouse.... and it's a little complicated what they have to to because she is technically married to someone else and here divorces are expensive,i have no idea how it is in the US but here it also takes like a few monthes to legally divorce.  so he's going to try to keep coming to church until they can get married.  so really that's all that has gone on in theis last week.  our ward is super nice it's got about 70 people going and it's going super well trying to work with the members.  but we'll see what hapens.  we're trying to take a lot of the members out and have them help us with their freinds and so forth.  but that's really all that's been going on.  love you all a super bunch.

luvs,

Elder Ty Atkinson