Dear Family,
Whazzup??!! Wha zzup
y'all. Haha I love emailing you guys so much :) I totally miss just
hangin' out with the fam and doing fun stuff. Elder Jensen and I would
often mention to each other how we'd sorta forget that we had a family
back home and then all of a sudden BAM - the thought of a loving family
back home would slap us in the face. You probably think that I sound a
little weird, but it's true! It's like, "Woah... Elder Jensen, I totally
have a family." Yeah, it hit's me in the face every now and then. I
hope you know that I'm constantly being reminded that the Atkin family
exists.
Yes, I have a new companion! Now as to prevent myself
from going into an extremely long novel about how I miss Elder Jensen
very badly and such, let me tell you about Elder Ivie. Hahahaha Elder
Ivie :) Elder Ivie has been out 4 1/2 months (he'll get mad if you say
he's been out 4), and he came from Ava, Missouri, which was his first
area. His home is in American Fork, Utah, and he has 8 siblings.
Ultimate Utah Mormon right here, folks. Not to say that I'm not one
either, but I like to think that I'm an Okie now. I'm tired of people
complaining about how all elders come from Utah, so I think I'll just
lie about it in the future. Anyways, Elder Ivie is somewhat of a shy
guy, but he'll talk your ear off if he knows you well enough. He is very
socially awkward, and he is very much a nerd (shame on me). I get him
excited for the day by talking about Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and video games.
BUT I love the guy already. He's not one to let his pride get in the
way, and he's easy to befriend. It'll be interesting when we start doing
more tracting, but I'm not too worried. I could convince him to do
anything :) We biked all day yesterday even though he hasn't biked at
all yet his mission. We're going to be the hardest working missionaries
ever!!
Sadly, we weren't able to get much done this week
because Elder Jensen had to pack and things are crazy around transfers.
Branden wasn't able to meet with us anyways though, because his grandma
was really sick. Naturally, they didn't make it to church either. But
hey, at least David came for the 7th week in a row! He had to leave
church early because he had a nasty head-ache, but at least he came. We
have an appointment with Joe this wednesday at 6:30, so we're hoping
that we can start teaching him and his family regularly. We stopped by
this week, but he was busy again. But at least he told us he was still
interested.
We have a bunch of potential investigators from all of
the tracting that we've done lately, and so this week Elder Ivie and I
are going to try to follow-up on all of those. I think I'm starting to
like tracting more and more as I do it. Elder Jensen and I tracted some
apartments a couple of days before he left, and pretty much every door
we met somebody crazy. There was this one door we knocked on and this
guy answered that looked like a zombie. Literally. His face was white as
snow, his clothes were all tattered and stained, his hair was standing
straight up, and his eyes were bloodshot. It scared the pants off of me!
I'm pretty sure he's into some heavy drugs or something. As you can
guess, he was not interested.
Last week, I mentioned that we got to "cast out
demons". I probably shouldn't say it that way, because really we just
went to a non-members home and blessed it with the help of Bro.
Hagedorn. It was actually a really good experience and the spirit was
able to be there. Though I have to admit I sorta wanted to see something
crazy happen or feel a presence. Yeah, I'm horrible. Chevy (the
non-member who lives there) originally had us come over because she had
been seeing spirits and hearing strange noises, but I didn't feel or see
anything besides the Spirit. Bro. Hagedorn gave a beautiful blessing on
the home, and we left the house with a good feeling. Elder Ivie and I
stopped by on Saturday, and Chevy says that nothing's been happening
since. Yay, the Priesthood works!! We're going to try and teach her and
her boyfriend Forrest in the future. Haha how do you like those names?
Chevy and Forrest...
Ashley dropped us this last week, only a couple of
weeks after we started teaching. Super sad! Her husband just wasn't
interested and she didn't want to cause contention in the house. I was
really bummed a few days ago, but I can at least find comfort in the
fact that we taught some great lessons and planted a bunch of seeds. I
really think they'll come around some day.
So that's about it
for this week, I guess. You always say that you're boring, but I really
think that I'm the boring one. I wish I could be in the choir with you,
Mom. I haven't been able to do ward choir in a while around here, and it
would be so much fun to sing with you anyways. You'll have to tell me
how it goes. And oh boy, a new calling! Please keep me updated. I'm alo
excited to see the color of the paint that you're using with the house
when I come back. I always like surprises.
Have a great week! I love you so much! The gospel is so
true. In fact, it is THE truth. I just love the knowledge that comes
from that.
Love, Elder Atkin
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