Hola Texas ,

What's up?  Well River is freaking benching almost 300 lbs so ya yo fui a su machu molesta me mucho cholo tiene que dejar la gimnasio para darme poquito mas tiempo para ganar mas musculo a su esta pata esta loco . bueno yo voy a escribirles en español esta bien ya bueno babalal haha ya I'll write you guys in english.  Well this week my dog Brandon went off to his mission in cali well he's at the mtc right now so I will here from him soon in the missionary torturing center ahahhaa. This week was decent we have been looking for new investigators like crazy like every contact that we have I have been getting dates to teach all of them but here is the thing about all of them fell threw a su machu molesta me mucho freaking hace me Well we still found a few new people but I don't really see any of them progressing,. Well we have this investigator Sandra right well she has 3 kids one of them is 10.  Sandra is living with her husband and they are going to get married this month so ya were happy about that but the husband we still haven't met the guy and he apparently doesn't want to talk with the missionaries Sandra explained.  He is a catholic that says he's catholic but he's not catholic so ya anyway Sandra and her daughter Arian will get baptized this month if everything goes right. I also asked th secretary of the bishop to print me this sheet called la lista de accion or in english the list of action so ya it has a list of a bunch of pfs like part member families.  I saw like 5 and basically this week we are going to look for every single one of them .  My comp doesn't know them which means the parents and the family are probably less active so that could be good for us as welll so rescue a person anyway well thats the plan . It might be my comps last week here so he's kinda trunky and kinda sick of the area hes telling everyone that he's leaving but I'm going to laugh so hard if he stays and I go but that probably won't happen I'm actually hoping that I will have a kid this change which in mission terms is to train someone and I would just love that! It would kinda give me and opoprtunity to teach someone how to be a missionary and would kinda allow me a little more authority.  Well this week we are going to keep looking for new investigators and try to bring lots of people to conference which will be awesome cuz 3 Apostles of the Lord will be called. I'm sad to hear that Richard G Scott passed away but as we know he's with the Lord now. Anyway gotta go love you all hope yall have a great week

Elder Atwood

Hola Texas whats up . Well this week was awesome! Well we had 2 baptisms Miguel and Corina they are a young couple and it was a great baptism. I had the privelage of baptizing Corina and it was great my comp baptized her husband Miguel. Well I had to wear kind of  a jumpsuit because well I don't know what happened but a couple of months ago at a baptism someone robbed my pants but I think it was just a misunderstanding and maybe they thought it was there pants or the pants of their ward. A lot of members came to the baptism we took some really good pictures so mom get ready. But I don't know if I will have time to send them this week but if I can't next week for sure. I'm still having a little trouble with my companion he likes to play senior companion and well he sometimes critisizes the way that I teach or contact. I told him that he needs to do a couple of things better like he needs to verify during lessons that the investigator understands the points that he just taught cuz I have found that he just gives lectured lessons alot which preach my gospel has taught us not to do. I also told him that he needs to talk less when he contacts he just goes up to people presents himself then he asks if they believe in GOD when they say yes he goes off saying cool so do we we share messages with people about God without the intention to change your religion or anything we just want to talk to people and learn together then he kinda keeps going forgetting simple things like asking ther name! haha I told him the best way to contact is quick simple polite and to the point. Like hey man whats up? hows it going? the person responds good how are you, I say good thanks well excuse the interuption but we just wanted to extend you and invitation , were missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints my name is Elder Atwood whats your name. They say there name I say oh nice to meet you man then I might ask them if they have ever talked with missionaries like us before or if they have ever had the question why are there so many churches or even just simply state that as missionaries we share a message about Jesus Christ with people and how we would love to come and visit them someday and then I get the day and time so ya. But my comp sometimes just invites them to church.  He told me its cuz we need 100 contacts but
I told him the whole purpose of contacting is to find new investigators and that 1000 contact would be worthless if none of them became a new investigator. He didn't really seem to agree and kinda critisized em a bit. So by the way prayers for patience would be appreciated.my comp is a nice guy just has alot of pride so ya. I heard that he is kinda mad that he wasn't district leader this change so that can be why. Anyway dad my normal day is I wake up exercise get ready ect personal study I always read El Libro de Mormon for 30 minutes out lound like president told me to do so ya then I  study preach my gospel and prepare trainings for my district that I give Tuesday mornings. Last week I gave a training about the fourth missionary that the sisters in my district loved and my zone leader loved  but I dont think that my comp liked it very much.  Dad I could use some advice I have been so close to becoming the fourth missionary but I just feel that I'm missing something and I don't know what it is.  I have been fasting and praying but I haven't gotten an answers yet so if you have any advice I would love it.  Anyway I then have comp study then we will teach lessons until 1 then we have lunch 2 to 3 language study which is also our time to crap from the massive rice of a lunch that people give us. Well then we teach and contact until 930 by the way we don't eat dinner so ya cuz were too busy so ya we teach and contact until 930 then I do numbers I have to take nuimbers from the sisters in my district then report them to the zone leaders EVER FREAKING NIGHT!!!!!!!!!I'm loosing time but ya thats my normal day so ya tell me what else you want to know love yall chow

Elder Atwood

Hola Texas

Well this week will be a short message cuz I was sending pictures and everything. Well dad mom everyone I am going to tell you guys an experience that I had about 2 weeks ago. Well when i was leaving my old area in Villa Hermosa some people had kinda going away party for me well people were talking and hugging me the dudes only and all my converts were there. Well If you guys remember Johvanna well her family was there actually it was just her and her 2 kids the other child was away and the father was working. Well the kids went and hugged me the mom didn't tell them I was leaving she actually told them that it was my birthday because she said that she didnt want her kids to cry.. Well Johvanna was talking to me and with tears in her eyes she said I just want to thank you for bringing the gospel into my life and into the life of my family I know this is the true church and I'm so grateful and I will ALWAYS BE IN YOUR DEBT! Then she just went and hugged me really tight  I didn't really say anything but that was a really special moment for me too I'm not going to lie I got a little teary eyed too! SO that was a super special moment for me that I will never forget. Like sometimes as missionaries we feel that we aren't doing anything like we aren't effecting the lives of anyone but it felt really good to know that I at least helped someone . Anyway ya that was super cool . Well this week we are going to have 2 baptisms they are a couple Corina and Miguel. Well the zone leaders seem pretty happy that I'm actually doing something with the area. Apparently the area has only baptized 2 people in the past 6 months so i have to fix it up. I had to talk to my companion he still likes to play senior companion sometimes but its all good anyway. I'm working pretty hard to baptize a lot. Well in my district I have two sister missionaries and well they aren't baptizing anyone so the zone leaders are always on my butt about them. I understand why too and also they are hardly teaching any recent converts so I put a goal for them to teach 10 recent coverts a week minimum  cuz they were only getting about 5 . Well I went on a work visit with the sisters they are teaching like pure old people that are never going to progress cuz well they were born catholic raised catholica and are going to die catholic as quoted so I think they get a little too attached with some of there investigators and are afraid to let them go although that is what they need to do if they don't progress. Anyway I gotta go now but I will write more next week 

LOVE
ELDER ATWOOD