Elder Conner Atkin

FAST WEEK!!! Que onda?  This week went by sooo fast and I'm sitting here trying to remember what happened, literally went by in the blink of an eye.  I also wanna wish you guys a merry Christmas!! I am so grateful for all of you and all the support.  I'm so grateful to have such amazing family and friends.  Also on Thursday we got three baptism dates! Pray that they will go through!  On Tuesday we had intercambios, that is where you work with a different missionary for the day, we switch companionship's and we sleep at their house for the night!  Its always fun to have a lil sleepover and work with someone else for the day.  I worked with Elder Turner!  He is my brother in the mission, which means he has the same time in the mission as me, and we were in the mtc together.  We are both super new so we didn't understand everything people were saying to us, but we got a couple new investigators!  its so cool how much the spirit can help us when we

  First Baptism.  And it SNOWED!  So this week was probably my favorite week in the mission so far!  Tons of sick things happened.  So yeah it snowed and that was crazy!  It actually felt like Christmas for one day haha.  I also had my first baptism on Thursday !!  Her name is Rufina and she is amazing.  We are also baptizing her husband this sat !  I was practicing her name all day on Thursday cause Latino names are super long.  As soon as I step into the font I forget her name haha.  I dont know how that was possible cause I practiced it at least 200 times.  I was just standing there with my arm in the square, and it just came to me.  little tiny miracle right there haha.  When she came up out of the water, she said she felt amazing.  It is soooooo amazing to be able to be an instrument in the lords hands to bring salvation to other souls.  It is one of the happiest feelings, if not the happiest.   On tuesday I got to work with elder Lorenzo and elder Diaz! my m

Finding more people to teach!!!! Hola everyone!!  Not a ton happened this week but we worked super hard and found some awesome people!!  My Spanish has gotten a ton better lately.  I'm starting to be able to understand people a lot better, and when i'm walking down the street im starting to be able to understand the music that people play in the streets so that's kinda cool!!  We have two baptisms this week, rufina and jose are finally getting baptized!!  They are super super prepared.  Jose is gonna be the next prophet, I think he knows more than I do lol.   This week we had a lot of cool experiences by being led by the spirit.  This week we contacted a lot in the richer parts of town, usually we don't have any success with the big houses, but this week we had a ton of success in the richer parts.  Usually they are aren't as humble, and they don't wanna listen, but not this week.  Id say at least half of our new investigators this week live