October 26, 2009 - Hey Everyone

hey everyone,
wow so it sounds like a bunch has gone on at home this week. thank you all for writing, it really means alot to me. first of all, i want to tell daniel and ashley congradulations on getting engaged! thats really awesome. you´ll have to be sure and send me some pictures when they get married in june.
so about eber...its kind of a bummer because we went to his house on like monday or wednesday to talk about the baptism. we started talking to his dad, and his dad told us that he didn´t want eber to get baptized until he´s 18 years old. elder araya and i were both pretty bummed. even worse was eber. i could tell that he was pretty crushed about it. elder araya and i both believe that it´s still possible that the dad and change his mind. we have faith that he can change and that he´ll let eber get baptized. please pray for him...we´ve also found 4 other people that we are trying to set baptismal dates with. 2 of them are these older ladies named maria and ester. this week we were talking with ester and she told us that she prayed and felt that everything that we had told her was true. we were going to ask them to be baptized yesterday, but they didn´t end up coming to church. we´ll see what happens this week. the other 2 are a couple that we are teaching. they aren´t married yet, so they´ll have to get married first. the dad has told us that he believes that everything is true. hopefully we can visit them this week and talk to them about getting married so that they can be baptized.
mom, i thought that your story about your ¨almost accident¨ was way funny. it sounds like everything is going well at home. i love you and keep being awesome haha. also you said that p-pip is having is open house this week but i didn´t even know that he had gotten his mission call! where is he going?! its awesome, but i honestly never even know that he had gotten his call yet. you also asked me what i do on p-days...today we went to the catholic cathedral in la plata which was wayyy awesome. its the biggest cathedral in all of south america. sometimes we just play soccer or something, and one time we went bowling. dad, it sounds like you had a pretty awesome birthday. we´ll have to do a trip like that with the whole family when i´m home. sean, dude thanks for writing this week. it´s definitely a bummer that the cougars lost this week. i was hoping for something awesome. but at least the chargers won. it sounds to me like they lost against denver, but i really don´t know. my guess was yes. but i´m stoked to hear more about the lakers starting up. it sounds like it could be an awesome year. but keep having fun up at byu and don´t watch too many of those chick flicks without me hahah. i´m guessing that you didn´t watch that by yourself so you better fill me in a little more bro hahah. paige, thats awesome that you´re doing so well in school. keep working hard and remember to always have fun with it. it sounds like seminary is really fun also. bridg, so i want to tell both you and paige that ¨no¨, the dog that i have isn´t a stuffed animal hahah. its a really dog. its name is negrito and its a pretty sweet dog. i guess i´m just going to have to send you a picture sometime to prove it. but thanks for writing me also bridg. you´re all awesome.
well i think that´s about it for now. thank you all again for your letters and your prayers. i love you all. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall