Elder Canyon Atwood

Monday, February 22, 2016

Hey Texas whats up 
Well this week we didn't have as many people in church, well investigators. It was stake conference but I told y'all that every other Sunday they have to do faenas right which is basically like diggin like crazy  to build stairs or foundation for a crappy wooden house so they will be coming to church every other week until I can figure out who is in charge of the faenas cuz it bugs me. The families they all told me how they loved church and how there kids loved church. It is awesome every time I go to there house the daughters who are like 5 and 9 just come running up to me and hug me I basically gave them my valentines package to them and they loved it haha!! I just love that  family! The fathers name is Edgar and the wife's  name is Maria and this family is just the best like I love them haha!! Anyway we have another family Eduardo and Carmela and we have her daughter Lezly who by the way is 17 but she has a kid and the father like abandoned her but anyway we are working on marrying them and I'm stoked cuz I have been working my butt off !  I had a work visit with Elder Iglesias my district leader and he told me dude I'm tired, and I said me too man!! We decided to take it easy that day work but not like all out and right when we said that the Lord was like NO I HAVE A BETTER  IDEA and we get to our first lesson and  I was just like lets verify way to take it easy but primitiva the lady we were going to baptize her daughter was there Carla.  Carla is like late twenties or early thirties but she has a kid and is 4 months pregnant well she is from a different part of Lima and the missionaries were teaching her there and she was about to get married and baptized but she found out that her husband was comitting adultery with this other chick then she tried to fix it but the dude was being gay and kicked her out and ya they separated   so she tells us this crap then how she is getting separated and by the way as missionaries it is illegal to preach separation it is never the  answer but ya she was mad at the dude so I shared the scripture from John 8 about the woman who had committed adultery and the spirit was there like I was like the SON OF GOD a man without sin forgave even the most dishonorable of sins and said neither do I condemn thee go thy way and sin no more. 
Then we had to visit my families and then we saw this family and
I was like dude and I looked at Elder Iglesias and we were just like man the Lord just told us to contact them and then we contacted a million more people and the end of the day we just went to get soup for dinner and were just talking  like dude I didn't want to work that hard cuz we were like sweating and dirty cuz at one point we carried a bunch of sand and then water up a hill for a family who I am now  teaching that's kinda how we contacted them but ya we were tired but anyway then I get a call from my old companion Elder Rios telling me that he and his family are going to be sealed in the temple Friday or  Saturday and he wanted me to come. I called the zone leaders and they said it was cool then I got  my division and I left at 5 in the morning woke up at 4 in the morning but it was so worth it when I saw him I almost cried I was actually stressed cuz i couldn't find him.  He wasn't answering his phone then someone covered my eyes with there hands and I was like RIOS we talked he presented me to his family and it was so dope I almost cried saying goodbye he told me that he is the stake secretary and will be also teaching seminary the old testament this year  I am so stoked for him but anyway I gotta go love y'all so much I'll find out how to send pictures don't worry love y'all chow
 

Monday, February 15, 2016

Hey whats up texas HOLA TEXAS! whatever ahahjaja well this week was dope I
don't know how to explain this to you all but I AM A DAD!!! I just had my first kid!!!!!!!!!!! In mission language that means that I am training someone don't worry people I don't plan on really having kids for the next 10 years or more but ya that's that. So well my kids name is Elder Tirado he's peruvian he's from Trujillo like a really pretty part of Peru. Well hes 18 so ya normal. Also this week I have been doing alot of damage repair.   Me and my comp have basically been looking for new investigators this week and just knocking doors contacting people and looking for references. It was hard and exhausting just contacting from 10 in the morning to 10 at night yes I said 10 at night and like nothing else other than our study hours so ya but it was hard cuz well it's hot and I got sundburned pretty bad but oh well. But all this work payed off! I got 7 people to church 6 were new investigators that I found this week and they are amazing and I got a baptismal date for 2 investigators Ubert and Primitiva so I am stoked. I have to marry 4 freaking families this month of march uahhagghhg thats alot of families and alot of money but I  talked to the assistants and they are going to help me out with it so that's a relief but the only other problem is well they live in hills like every other person here and well what happens is every other Sunday they have to do fayenas its like constructing stairs and foundations for there crappy houses. Its a little crude but thats the best way I can explain it  but ya I am trying to talk to the people in charge to see if I can do service two  times a week so that these families can go to church but it doesn't seem to be working so I am just going to have to baptize everyone in the area so that they will all be like ya guys were not going to do that were going to go to church instead so ya thats my solution well ya everything else is chill. The zone leaders put a goal for me to baptize 10 people which I want to do but it kind of makes me mad that the rest of the zone together will get about 10 baptisms so I feel like I am doing all the work but oh well I love baptizing.That's actually the first thing I  said to my kid when I met him I hope you like to baptize . haha so ya anyway that's all for this week love yall chow!

Monday, February 1, 2016


 My companion got crapped on