Carry the spirit with you at all times!

Hola hola everyone!  Super good week this week.  Gonna keep this email a little shorter cause I dont have a ton of time!  I'll just tell you guys all the important stuff!

We have two baptisms this Saturday!! I'm gonna be baptizing them!  Their names are Lisandro and Salvador.  Lisandro is 9, and Salvador is 13.  Lisandro reminds me of Scotty haha.  Lisandro is not quite as energetic but they have a similar personality.  They have a big family so hopefully we can get the rest of them baptized soon as well!  Oh and pray for me cause they have like 4 names and their full names take like 10 seconds to say, and I'm performing the baptisms haha.  

Rufina and Jose are doing awesome!  We have a date set with them for the first Saturday of December!  Jose can barely walk, and he cant move the left side of his body very well, we gave him a blessing about two weeks ago, and is health is improving so fast!  Jesus Christ is the doctor of all doctors.  After all our lessons they try to give us money, so we taught them about tithing!  We have two investigators who aren't even baptized yet paying tithing!  They are so prepared!

I gave my first talk in church this past Sunday!  It went super well and I surprisingly wasn't nervous at all.  I feel like I should have been haha.  I talked for about 8 minutes about how members can be missionaries and how missionary work is a lot more effective when we work with members.  I also talked a little but about the book of Mormon and setting goals, it went super well!  I got a lot of compliments, as well as compliments on my Spanish!  I'm pretty much fluent, no big deal.  Jk lol I am very far from it.  When I read I can understand, and I can say pretty much anything I want with some effort.  I still have a really hard time understanding when they talk though.  They talk very fast in northern Mexico!

For my spiritual thought I want to talk about the Holy Ghost.  We need to always be striving to have him with us, we are so much greater than we could ever be alone, when we have the spirit with us.  When the spirit is with us the light of christ shines through us, and other poeple can see that.  When we have the spirit, we can have so much joy, and peace in our lives.   I have a testimony that the spirit can tell you what to say exactly when you need it, there are times when I say something, and I think to myself, did I really just say that?  How was that possible?  Then I realize it was the spirit.  ALWAYS pray and strive to have the spirit with you, and cherish the gift.  

That's all iv'e got for this week,  I love you guys and I would love to hear from all of you!  Have a great week! sorry if I dont respond to your emails, we are super super busy!

Elder Atkin

Conner with his comp Elder Lorenzo