Elder Canyon Atwood

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Hola Texas well im doing good I'm just bummed about my mission extension getting denied although my friend elder Dority is pretty happy ahhaaha!! He's actually one reason I want to go to Utah for a year and work instead of study he's just a great friend and has changed my life in alot of ways!! This week we had a baptism for this 16 year old named Andy. He's a great guy really actually my comp baptized the family but not him so when I went there I asked how many kids they have and how many were members and well he wasn't so ya he wanted to get baptized so ya it was great. I really don't know how my comp baptized everyone else but him oh well they all members now except the father who is excommincated but ya they are active and are really great. 

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

What's up Texas? well this week has been hard like our golden investigator Joel who said I want to get baptized asap well on Sunday morning we get a text from him saying that well he is going to stick with his church now. We have had some problems this week especially with Joel well para que sepa joel is like 28 and told us yo quiero a bautizarme el mas pronto que posible mañana si es que se puede but we told him he needed to prepare and everything and he was wicked exited about everything but the only problem was that his dad is from assembleas de dios and like hates the mormons but Joel had known the church for a long time so he was pretty exited. I guess Sunday or Saturday night his dad like disanimated him like crazy we don't really know anything cuz de la nada he sent us a text message saying he was just going to stick in his church so that made us sad but his friend is a member and Joel keeps his car in his house so we should be hearing from his friend today but ya other than that weve  been looking for families. We have this lady Minoska a less active that we will rescue but she has two kids that want to get baptized ,I dont really want to put them in the water cuz I need to talk to the dad but the dad doesn't want to talk to us but he wants his kids to get baptized kinda wierd right?  This week we also had interviews with presidente Godfrey  and check it out I might get another extension isn't that so freaking dope now he can't give ma a year but he said he can possibly give me another transfer  or more ojala que un año mas but ya they interview was weird.   I'll tell you more about it in a private eamil but ya anyway I'm all great I'm wokring hard and my best friend Elder Dority is my zone leader so all chill anywya ya I gotta go chow

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Hey what's up Texas? I'm great! This week has been good so far.  This week has been good like real good but also hard I'm in an area that in the past 6 months they have had 3 baptisms but we are programing for like 5 this month.  Diana has a date for this week and we have this black guy not to be racist its just there are not alot of dark people here he has a date for the 30th but he doesn't feel prepared but he wants to get baptized.  Funny story about him everyone thought he was a member cuz he has been going to church for like 4 years he actually went on a temple trip and everyone thought he was member and he went to the registration haha the dude enterd the temple but they kicked him out hahaha.  We also have this guy Joel he's dope literally fell from the sky well not literally but what happened is that he heard the missionaries before and was going to get baptized but he owed money to some columbian gang thats comes here and lends money to everyone but kills them if they don't pay and well ya he came up to us and wants to get baptized. We will put him in the water this 24th or the 30th.   Then I found 2 pfs part member family there is a mother who has 2 kids and wants them to get baptized the father doesn't want a thing but I said that before she even signs a permission I need to know her husband and talk to him cuz I am convinced that anyone can get baptized.  Then we have this girl Mara she is a snake a recent convert the freaking retarted misisonaries just baptized her without even teaching her family but now were teaching her mom Cristina and her 3 sisters Ariana, Samara and Tamara. Only Samara went to chruch this week she is 8 and every time she sees me she runs and hugs my legs haha!!  Well were gonna be working on them for this month or the month of agosto so ya things are looking dope were still getting low lessons but I don't care cuz were progressing like crazy and ya well life is good! We are  working hard and my comp is a little lazy and he want to go up as district leader like crazy this change so he is prideful and tries to tell me what to do but in our companion invintory he tried to council me and burn me a bit like how I need to do more work visits to the elders in my district how he doesn't want to work in the morning how he doesn't want to befriend the members and how he wants to visit these girls.  I kinda told him no on all of them telling him I will not do a work visit for 24 hours unless there are progressing investigators that they will visit or interviews and how snakes is a big no no and how he needs to befriend the members better cuz they gossip alot here like its crazy and everyone is telling me I need to marry peruvian so if they ask y'all I am in a very commited long distace relationship ok just cuz I dont want any of that. I told him he's to just be patient cuz I know what I am doing I have had lots of success not to brag but my zone leader Elder Dority told me that I am the missionary with the most baptisms in the mission and my comp only has 6 but I understand anyway. Well this is a great week have a geat one y'all chow!
I got the opportunity to see Miguel and Rosa and their baptisms.  I got permission from he assistants to go with my zone leader Dority because he also left people that were preparing for baptisms.  I was going to baptize but I had to go fast so my kid did it with his new companion.  Miguel and Rosa cried when they saw me and I cried as well!





Me and my first kid with the heart sign


Monday, June 27, 2016

Hola Texas! Whats up? Well this week has been hard as heck a lot happened.  Well I turned twenty I feel so old now by the way but it aslo doesn't feel real my brother River left for his mission to Ogden, Utah.  Your a beast man and I got a new mission president so hopefully I will  get that year extension that I've been waiting for.  I am so sad first I left my favorite area casa blanca and came to comas en año nuevo where the old missionaries didn't do anything like they slept all day watched movies and crap so there is nothing here and I feel like I'm opening an area cuz there is nothing here.   But this week my companion is Elder Herrera he has 8 months in the mission he is cool but they told me he is like a mirror if your lazy he's lazy if you work hard he works hard so hopefully it's be good with  him but ya I'm struggling in the area but we basically spent the whole time looking for people to teach we found a couple golden families that were cool but ya we weill try to get them to church this week and get some baptised but ya anyway love you all!!

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Hey Texas whats up? This week was interesting. Well first of all what happened is I got a new kid yes my posterity is increasing I just hope that they dont' come this fast in real life. Anyway my kids name is Elder Carrasco he is 18 from Chimbote Peru his dad is also bishop same as me and my last kid .I  go to the meeting this week and these guys see me and they were like another kid Atwood man you should start using proteccion haha its a little bad but I got a good kick out of it haha!! This week on my kids 2nd day here we got home at 11:30 basically its a long story but Miguel is a bodyguard he's actually a skinny guy but ya well he gets home at 10 at night so we walk there we get him to sign some crap and we leave but its dangerouse so we had to take a diferent route but ya I felt bad my poor kid but its not the latest I've got home . I got the freaking zone leaders barking at me so thats nice anyway well basically we spent all week looking for new investigators contacting a bunch and doing some crazy paperwork like I am at my breaking point ! its crazy I really needed this pday!

Monday, April 25, 2016

Hey Texas whats up or hola or whatever ?  Well this week all was chill, I  saw the kid whose grandpa almost died because he didn't have enough blood.  He was wicked happy and we asked him what happened he told us that like 5 people suddenly like showed up that he didn't even know and they gave blood and that they still have like 3 bags of blood left wow .  I mean I am super happy that it all worked out for him I mean I was super stressed out I guess the Lord answered our prayers and the kids as well.  Miguel the guy that I am teaching  that was covered in blood the last Sunday well what happened he didn't kill anyone he just beat the crap out of this guy because he disrespected his cousin or something.  We had 2 baptisms heck freaking ya ! Can I say it again heck ya !!!! We baptized Edgar and Maria finally !  It  felt so great to get them in the water.  I actually didn't even ask them who was going to baptize them I just told them that my comp would baptize them .  The reason is that my comp baptized this other dude last week who was really old and it took him like 5 times to get him in the water , it wasnt his fault the guy was just really stiff and was hard to baptize but he had a great experience with Edgar and Maria so all is chill in Zion .  I am wicked pumped up to baptize more péople I mean I think I got my 42 baptisms, can I get a heck ya! So ya I'm pumped .  My time is up but  ya I'm gonna enjoy thes last few weeks with my kid he's like my best friend so chow y'all!