October 19 - hey everybody

hey everyone,
thank you all for writing this week. it was so awesome to be able to hear from everyone in the family, so i really appreciate that. first off, dad i want to wish you a happy birthday! the big 5-1 huh?! wow thats awesome. be sure to eat some cake for me and everything hahah. and i hope you all have an awesome time at disneyland. be sure to tell me about that.
so this week has been a really good one. but to start it off, on tuesday elder araya and i found out that we had to go give blood for some lady in the church. of course you all know me and how i am with needles hahah. if you don´t remember lets just say that i don´t ¨love¨ them. But it was for a good cause so we said we would do it. it was only elder araya and i, and we got at the hospital (i think you can call it that) and neither of us was too thrilled to do it. so we were getting all ready to give blood and the doctor told elder araya that he wouldn´t have to do it because his blood pressure dropped. but i still had to do it! Yeah lets just say that i didn´t love it. but i think i actually held my own. i didn´t start to feel sick. i just decided not to look too much at the needle sticking out of my arm.
so on another note, i´m super excited to tell you all that we have a baptismal date. its with a 13 year old named eber flores. he´s an awesome kid. what happened is we were teaching him and gave him a book of mormon. he told us that one day he was having a doubt about adam and eve. so he decided to say a pray and open to a random part in the book of mormon and read. he opened to alma 40, which yep...talks about adam and eve. he told us that after that, he truly had a testimony of both the bible and the book of mormon. we have the baptismal date for this saturday. i´d really appreciate it if you could all pray for him and that we can help him to get baptized this saturday.
so my area is pretty sweet. i´m pretty excited because its really close to the actual city of la plata. my area is also really cool because a lot of peruvians, paraguasians, and bolivians live there. their accent is really different from the argentine accent so i think its really cool to be able to learn all kinds of different things like that. plus the food from the people from peru is riquisimo.
i want to thank you all for writing me this week. mom, thanks for always writing every week. i really appreciate the things that you say. dad, happy birthday again. hopefully the chargers can get a win for your b-day. sean, dude thanks alot for writing me. i know that you´re busy with school and work and everything, but it always means a lot to me to hear from you. it sounds like all the sports are going pretty well. hopefully chargers and byu win this week. i seriously want to hear that mayday parade cd! and you were telling me that you thought it wouldn´t be good hahah...paige, thanks for writing also. it was funny in your letter because i could never tell if it was you, dad, or bridget talking to me. but don´t worry, eventually i figured out who was writing at what time. but yeah i really appreciate it. keep working hard in school and know that i did what you asked me to do last week. bridg, hey guess what...i´ve got a dog too! hahah yep its true. her name is negrita. she´s a cute dog. i´ll have to send you a picture or video sometime.
well i think that´s about it for this week. thank you all again for writing. i love you all. you´ll be hearing from me soon...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall