Elder Canyon Atwood

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 pĂ©ople 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!

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Hola Texas whats up? This week was dope, I mean lifes good, and I'm doing great. Eduardo and Carmela got baptized and confirmed this week so that was dope. Actually something cool is that after church like 15 minutes after I get a call from Eduardo telling me hey I forgot to pay my tithing can you bring the form to my house this week so I can pay my tithing. I am really sad right now cuz my district leader Elder Iglesias has a change, he was so sick.I couldn't have asked for a better district leader. The other day we were walking home and we heard this spanish song like 4 times on the street and I practically memorized it so when we got home I started singing the song and he was like dude you gotta be in ganster clothes but I didn't have any so I got in my elmo pajamans and shorts to sag big time my superman shirt then put on sunglasses with a santa hat and started to sing then my comps like dude I gonna do this then he changes I tell him dude put on shorts but they were like wicked short like booty shorts so ya then in a normal shirt with a suit coat and then the turkey hat and then we sang the song on video it was so weird like I will never forget it.  Edgar and Maria want to get baptized this Saturday but Maria has to get a special interview and needs to repent hard core so it depends on Papi Erickson.  Me and my comp are dope and are looking for new investigators and conference is going to be a big part in our successs for baptizing eternal investigators. Life is great, just gotta buy like a freaking promise ring cuz of all the snakes there. I love life and I love baptizing its dope well I gotta go love yall!

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Hola Texas whats up well I am red and sunburnt bad and starving and broke but life is good! Well I'm sunburnt cuz yesterday we had two weddings at two different times and I was outside. It wouldn't have been bad exept we couldn't enter inside for the marriage unless we had the witneses and my comp was one witness and the other was Elder Gil our district leaders companion. I told them don't get any lessons or dates for Saturday because they need to be there for the marriage and they got there 3 hours late!!!!!! like I was mad!! I was calling them and they were not answering the freaking phone and I was getting burnt and my family was getting burnt and with the children it was not easy so ya what happened is they finally answered the phone they said in 10 minutes were there and then 30 minutes later I call them and they say  in 10 minutes then when i finally saw then they tried to shake my hand I said no no just go sign the papers before I punch you then I took them in private and just yelled at them for like 10 minutes then my zone leader then yelled at them for a good amount of time too so ya. Then they got married I took pictures which this machine won't let me send so I think my card reader is bad so I'm gonna buy another one . We saw the most beautiful woman in the world the other day. A little backround my comp and Elder Iglesias and other missionaries were talking about what kind of girl you like now some latinos were like I like gringo girls and some guys were like blonde hair si o si yes or yes but I was like half asian man haha and they were all like ok respect but ya well we saw this girl pass by and we were like wow she is beautiful she wasn't immodest or anything but she was pretty and she was half asain, I'm like revelation man I'm gonna marry a half asian chick in 6 years haha!!! Back to the story well then I get my family asking hey we gonna eat cake so I'm like ok fine now remember I am like dead broke but ya so my comp and Elder Eil went in a taxi with the family ( taxi cuz she didn't want to get her wedding dress dirty on the bus) and well me and Iglesias went in bus ( not enough room in taxi) so ya well we gave my comp and Gil some money for the taxi and for the cake cuz we would ge there later than them and when we get there I find out that Elder Gil got like this wicked expensive cake so I was about to explode then I ate a piece then I had to go with Iglesias to the mission office to get our passports cuz we were the witnesses for the next wedding of Edgar and Maria and well it was 2 hours away and started at 5. This guy was like hey pay me 40 soles and I play piano the whole time I told him no, Elder Iglesias told him no and the looser just goes and plays and he played poop and I was like dude what the heck. Then he went to try to charge me at the end and I said I  hope you kidding cuz I told you no then he says but I played and I was like but you sucked and I didn't agree to that! Then he goes and tries to charge my family and ya but the wedding was good like alright but Maria cried and everything.  I got some sick pictures !!  Then me and Gil go buy them a cake and then we leave to return the passports and wow everyone in the office was like dude your freaking red and I was like sorry I just got burned from having the fire of the holy ghost too much  haha!!  That was my week and this week they are going to get baptized and it will be great! I also found some cool families, like 5 with my comp who are coming to conference with us this week and some eternal investigators that have never been to a conference and just say that they want a stronger testimony and what better chance than to hear the prophet talk .We told them that they need to go to conference with a question, Is Thomas S Monson a prophet on God? I bet my money on the prophet all day long so ya we could have a sick month of April with tons of baptisms but we have to marry a bunch of people again but ya anyway I'm gonna go love ya ll chow

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Hola Texas well this is going to be quick cuz I got on internet late cuz my comps dying had to go to a meeting  Well this week my comp was really like really trunky just wanted to sleep all day so I asked my district leader to give me like 4 work visits and when he asked what I was going to do I said find baptisms cuz well I have to baptize at least 3 this month that's what I put as the goal and I want to baptize 10 the next month so I have like 4 or more possibilities for this month but I gotta start looking now for March. So we went and I found two families that accepted to be married and baptized so sorry mom and dad but I am going to be sooo broke this month and the next I don't know why marriage is soo expensive here but what can you do . I also found a woman Annebell who also accepted to be baptized but she couldn't come to church this week because some family came to visit but shes coming the next.  I also found this lady who is a member but her husband and are not so jackpot I am also looking for some part member families which I should be getting a list of from our ward mission leader this week. Basically I was looking for people and contacting all week so my key indicators looked bad but I dont care cuz I will baptize like crazy and that's the only thing that I care about so ya . Funny things this week when my comp and I went to like a market to go get his camera fixed well they have like this movie stand where they sell movies and also usbs and technology I was asking about some memory cards cuz I need some more and well my comp calls me over and he is laughing and says lets go and I ask why he says those nurses want to eat you . So I was like what and I look over to where I was and there are these two nursesexcept they are not nurses they were like sexy nurses if you know what I mean I think they were advertising for like a club or something and I was like oh ok and right when I was about to go they tried talking to me and I was like uuuughgg ok then I was like Alejate de mi Satanas!!! Departe From me hence Satan!! and like gandoff from lord of the rings YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!!!!!!
 I hope my kid will be cool  so that we won't have any problems. I am about out of time, chow love y'!all

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