ELDER CANYON ATWOOD

Well whats up America, land of the free home of the green !!! Oh I miss that color so freaking much . Well this week was dope as usual. I'm kinda sad though because my comps dying soon ( missionary speaking). This week we actually had a baptism. This lady named Herman Clara or Sister Clara. Well she is like 4 feet tall and she was born in 1937, yep you guys read heard right . 19 freaking 37 man thats like just before the dinosours died. I will have to ask her what they look like next time I see her. Well anyway we have been teaching her for a while and well she knew the church was true all along but would always give us the," but I'm catholic." Well we finally conviced her to accept a baptismal date which was this last Saturday. Well about 2 hours before the baptism we went to get her and bring her to the baptism, and well she didn't want to be baptized but my comp in his freaking awsomeness said [ well lets ask GOD and see what He says]. She offered the prayer then I asked her so what did He say? she said," he said yes." Apparently that wasn't enough to convince her so she wanted to call her friend and ask him if she should be baptized in the restored church . Well he said yes so she changed and went with us to the stake center because our building is a branch above an internet station and it doesn't even have a font. It is actually built to be a home like where people live there with a shower in the only bathroom. We get to the stake center, she changed and my comp started to practice with her and tell her to plug her nose and stuff. Well she understood. By the way she is short like 4 feet tall, Ridge is taller than her ( see in the pictures). Well my comp took here into the font and all seemed well. He baptized her and she plugged her nose but forgot to close her mouth so like ALOT of water entered in an she started coughing so another elder who was in whites because he just baptized jumped in to help carry her up to the bathroom where a bunch of women that where members helped her to the bathroom. I heard like alot of coughing and just thought OH MY GOSH WE JUST KILLED HER. I told the people that we have like 2 witnesses that can say that my comp killed her and I was inocent. Well I was freaking out because she is like 78 years old so I asked this dude Elder Pitcher if he could come with me and say a prayer that she wouldnt well die-. Well she didn't die and everything was cool and she was confirmed the next day on Sunday. I'm trying to think about what else to write... I leanred something cool this week, lunch has to have rice or chicken if it doesn't it is not lunch and you cannot call it lunch and by the way lunch here is huge it is actually the biggest meal. The people here they are very well open. The other day I had a zit, and maybe your mom or someone will tell you or maybe like someone else will quitely or at least discreetly that you have a zit. Well here they say," WOW that is huge what is that massive freaking thing on your face?" They also will call there wives fat like in front of them . I also learned that skinny here is bad fat is good. Fat means healthy even when your like 300 pounds. If it is not diabetes its not bad. Also did I tell you how many continents there are... 5. There are 5 continents according to them . I told them 7 and they looked at me like I was a freaking martian. Well they believe that North America and South America are 1 continent because they are connected and apparently Antarctica doesn't exist. I explained to them that Europe and Asia are connectied by a massive piece of land and I said why is that not 1 continent what's the difference between that and America? I lawyered them soooo hard but here only response was nnooo no nooo you american you don't know anything. I had to explain to this lady for like 20 minutes that if I pay something with a 100 she is not going to loose money but again nooo noo you dont know anything you gringo. You know they dont really call me Atwood actually funny thing they can't even pronounce Atwood. They say atood, atood, atwit, atsit ,but never atwood. People here don't even say elder they say hey gringo america or elder gringo. What else, well to answer Oakley's question we don't drive its about 99 percent walking but sometimes when we are in a rush we take this thing called a motortaxi. If that doesn't scream safety I don't know what does. Also to go to other cities we take a bus which we always sit in the front because people will push you to the back and its hard to get out, it gets really crowded and I can never actaully stand up in the buses. We actaully did service the other day and I wanted to go buy sunscrean but they said no gringo thats why your so white so ya i got fried. I will actually send pictures of it next week the worst part was my comp left the keys at the zls place so we had to wait for them to bring us the keys they said hey were almost here for like 2 hours so I got even more fried. Funny it took them that long when they live 10 minutes away bus ride. . Anyway our goal is to teach 32 lessons a week minimum and we find most of our investigators by contacting and by part member families. We actually have 2 new ones that are references from this girl Nataly in our branch. There names are Chistain and Max and they came to church the other day. Anyway I got to go right now, I love you all and I love being a missionary. Btw maybe next time I will tell you how much weight I gained.

Love y'all

Elder Atwood

A recent convert Jovani. He was running and fell and rolled

down a hill so we went to visit him.

This jar Canyon is holding is tea in a glass called sporade. It's the good tea though and I've actually had more tea here than water. I think it's insane the people here love it!