Hola Texas!!  Well this week was dope,  I didn't get a transfer .I'm stuck in the same area with the same companion but its all good, I talked to the pres and my comps being obedient. Well some news for what happened this week. My comp and Elder Rosa our zone leader latino  were doing marrage papers in a different part of the mission so I was with the 2 gringo zone leaders Elder Nielson and Elder Pond. By the way Erick and Jovahnna are getting married  this Friday and Saturday they are getting baptized so we are extremely happy for that. Well I told the zone leaders that I had an important lesson with Sister Flor and her two daughters Emily and Josiline at 6 and that we needed to go. They agreed and we went. A little about that family,  Sister Flor is a single mother and the father has like 5 other families and he just comes every once in  awhile to give her money for the month and all. Well the family was progressing and they were going to get baptized this next week.  We went to visit her and before I got to there house I saw a man sitting outside.  I've never seen the dude before in my life so I didn't think anything about it. Well we walked up and this dude just started yelling at us saying I don't need you here, get out leave and we were like dude who are you.  He told us that he was the boyfriend or whatever it also means husband in spanish so ya. Well he said that we were forcing them in our religion and scaming them and all sorts of crap.  We kept trying to talk to him and he just wouldn't let us  and kept yelling mother f+++++++ so that made me mad.  I was about to go beat the crap out of this guy until the dude said go or I'm going ot kill you then I really wanted to beat that guy up considering I am bigger ,younger, and alot taller that the dude.  I think I could have settled it pretty easily. Well my zone leaders wouldn't let me but this dude just said I'm going to kill you if you dont leave right now I'm going to get my gun so he left to get his gun and so we left and the zone leaders told us that we can never go back to that house .  So ya we are really sad because we just lost 3 baptisms for this month but oh well the Lord knows best. Anyway I hear that the family is in Canada right now so I will send some thanks to Papa and Grandma for the package it was great and really cheered me up on a rainy day. Yep missionaries have rainy days.Well a little advice for Trayden who is preparing for a mission. Dude chill out laugh dont be so serious my zone leader gave me that advice a while ago. I realized its true. Take some time to enjoy the little things sometimes we get so rushed in the day and with the things that we have to do that we forget to enjoy the moment take some time to just experience the moment man .Now im not saying be lazy or anything im saying that enjoy yourself 2 years can be a long time right? Well you can just suck it up for 2 years in misery and pain or you can be happy laugh chill . Ya you will have hard times but dont let them rain on your parade as Brother Bowcutt said. In my experience and from my testimony God wants us to feel happy he is the source of happinese while satan is the source of all pain and misery.its Ok to be sad and you will be sad just remember what your doing is the best possible thing in the World it is the Lords Work . I am happy to be apart of it. Anyway there are certain things that i want to do in this email one is say sorry to papa and grandma for how weird ,rude, and stubborn I was and also a little lo siento out to everyone. Well I have learned alot from all my grandparents Papa and Grandma Atwood and Papa and Gramdma Stewart. Well I am truly honored to be your grandson . I could never have asked God for anyone better. I truly believe that before this life I personlly asked and begged God for my grandparents and for my wonderful Parents as well as for my brothers and my sister,. Well I love you guys with all my heart and as much as I would love to see you guys.I can't not until I finish my work cuz I know this is the Lords work. I know without a doubt in my heart that the Book of Mormon is the word of God  and that Jesus Christ is the head of this church. I have recieved revelation after revelation telling me that its true and I cannot deny it! I have learned on my mission what kind of woman I want to marry how I'm going to raise my kids how I want to respect my parents and my grandparents after my mission. I have learned how to study how to work hard and to suck it up. haha Well I can't tell you how grateful I am to be a missionary and serve the Lord. Well before I forget there is something that I would like to share . Well missionaries do get tempted alot actually .I have found that I try to be a kid again and for example Imight check out a girl or something I did that for a while then I realized that it was wrong as a missionary. So one thing that I have been doing is I  keep a pocket sized picture of Jesus Christ in my pocket and whenever I have a bad thought or I get off centered or lose focus I just reach into my pocket and look at my Savior and the thoughts just go away. It works every time and it is somehting that I also do when I'm angry sad or just lonely then Ifeel my Saviors love. Well I would challenge you all to try that this week and see how it works.  I love it,  it has alowed my mind and heart to be more Christ centered and I feel more Christ centered.  Do that and tell me what happenes. I have to go right now but I know with all my heart that this is true and that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God this is the Lords church and I am happy to serve him ,I  love you all and hope you have a Christ centered week .

ELder Atwood

Hey  guys well I will give you an update of this week. We have been working super hard with this single mother and her children this week, sadly her 5 year oldest child Brian slipped and fell about 3 meters and cut his face pretty and now he has 5 stitches. Peruvians all live in hills, in really steep hills. I'm trying to get the time to send you guys some pictures of what I mean but it's hard cuz I have no time. Anyway he went out to pee in the middle of the night and he slipped and fell.  We tried to visit them everyday but they were only at there house twice so we have been worried for them . Well last week we were late to church cuz when we went to get them they told us that they had to eat breakfast first so we were really late cuz she had to prepare breakfast as well. So yesterday we brought them breakfast and were like hey ready for church we got breakfast.  So we brought them like the peruvian sandwiches that they like to eat for breakfast with yogurt and juice. I was mad cuz it was expensive cuz well missionaries were kinda poor but I payed for it and brought the food and they said they couldn't come.  Anyway we have 6 baptismal dates this month and we found 2 more people that will get baptized if not this month the next.  I'm stressing on the next month because they haven't come to church yet and I feel they need more time to get a stronger testimony . By the way future missionaries there is nothing wrong about waiting to baptize someone . Just because you can baptize them doesn't mean you should.  It actually says that in preach my gospel .I am kinda mad at some of the people that were baptized before I was here. One of them Jorge is still drinking and stuff, I don't know how he got baptized, another recent convert of missionaries before me is Jerson . Jerson thinks he is a Prophet. He doesn't believe in the physical death and has a lot of crap that just makes me mad but whatever. A missionary told me that I am just baptizing women and children . I told him since I have been here I have baptized 4 or 5 grown men that all attend church that have temple recommends and have the Melchizedek priesthood. By the way my convert in my first area Franswa is now the Ward Mission Leader there and in 6 months will be getting his endownments in the temple!  Get this if we get 4 more worthy priestood holders that pay there tithing the branch will become a ward . It was 8 or 9 but I gave them 4 or 5 so ya and I am also looking for less actives to get the preistood and be reactivated and pay tithing as well as 2 investigators that are men that will progress soon and get baptized the next month and get the priestood and so on.  My companion is sosooooo truncky this week, he looked at pictures of his girlfriend like everyday.  By the way bad idea to leave on a mission with a girl waiting, I have seen so many missionaries go home because of it and become lazy cuz all they can think about is there girl. Anyway Johvanna still gets on my nerves her husband actually has told me that he is sorry for the rudeness of his wife . We actually went this wednesday to the birthday of her daughter Danielle.  Johvanna chewed me out because we were like 20 minute late but when she saw my comp with the cake she told me why can't you be more like your comp he broght a cake. I said actually I did I payed for it I'm just carrying the bags and the chairs for your daughters party. So was kinda silent and her daughter who turned 8 that day ran up to me and gave me a big hug and said thanks. She is soo cute she made my day anyway this week was good but hopefully this next one will be alot better anyway love yall

Elder Atwood