Well this letter will be super short because the email account wasn't working for all the missionaries, we actually had to call the assistants to have them fix some stuff and had to change my password and a whole lot of other stuff. Well this week was good but honestly kinda slow in terms of progressing investigators. We had this investigator Denis who was the mother of a recent convert, Luis. Well we taught her 2 lessons and gave her a Book of Mormon then she dropped us . She said she believes that all this is true but I'M CATHOLIC!! I get that phrase a billion freaking times a day. It kinda gets on my nerves . We had this investigator Clara who went to church like 4 times, read the Book of Mormon and told me flat out She believes Joseph Smith was a Prophet and this church is true because God always worked with prophets in the Bible . I challenged her to baptism and she said," NO I'M CATHOLIC!!" I said," but you know that this church is true why not be a member of the TRUE CHURCH?" She explained to us that she was born into the catholic church and doesn't want to change which I thought was weird when she came to church for the whole 3 hours yesterday. We are going to keep making frequent visits with her and try to help her progress but if she doesn't we might have to drop her this week. We have an investigator Fellipe, he is getting baptized tomorrow. He would have been baptized like my first week here but he has been in the hospital. He is getting skin grafts for his leg, I don't know what happened and I wanted to get pictures of that but I didn't think that it would have been very respectful. We are teaching this guy John he is a pretty cool guy and he accepted a date for baptism . We taught him all the commandments and he is going to have to get married first. He said he didn't have a problem with the word of wisdom but when we went to get him Sunday to bring him to church he was passed out from all the alcohol he drank the night before. Note on that I see so many freaking drunks here. We actually went to teach a lesson to one of the recent converts, a family actually. The dad was flat out wasted. He started screaming at his wife so we had to get him to calm down, he started waving his arms around so I was thinking in my head I might have to beat this guy up. I'm not a big guy like River but the people here are like a head shorter than me. Well we ended up being able to calm him down without the use of force which kinda sucked for me because I was feeling a little Bruce Lee at that moment haha!!! Well the family was thinking about getting a divorce so we are working and trying to resolve there problems. They are family Cañote by the way. Anyway, I see so many drunks here like yesterday we were walking from lunch and these people were moving this giant rock so that they could build a house there . Well they weren't having very much luck so we decided to help them out. Well they were all fat and week by the way. In this area I have not seen one skinny girl, some skinny guys but the girls are all fat. I told them to move out of the way and told them to watch how we do it in TEXAS!! I basically moved a 3000 pound rock with my guns which I have now knicknamed THUNDER and MORE THUNDER, pretty creative right haha. I don't have a name for my pecs yet so River will have to help me out on that one. I want to tell you a little about the culture here. First they only eat two types of food chicken and rice and more rice. Like it doesn't digest very well so it takes like a week to get through my system so my dumps weigh like 3 pounds each. They breast feed in the open here. During church a women will just flip them out and start feeding the kid. At the hospital yesterday I saw this kid running around screaming he was about 4 or 5 years old,then this fat lady just grabbed the kid flipped them out and the kid started drinking. I was like lady is that even your kid! Any way I gotta go the zl are barking at me. Love you all!!
ELDER ATWOOD
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