November 9, 2009-How's It Going Everyone...

whats going on everybody,
mom, i want to be sure to tell you happy birthday right now! i know that i´m like 2 days early, but i thought that i should tell you now instead of next week. but i hope that you have an awesome birthday and that you know that i love you!
i also want to say that i will definately pray for patrick johansen. its really crazy that that happened to him. be sure to tell me how he´s doing next week.
so its been a pretty good week here in altos de san lorenzo. lujan was able to come to church with her little kid, carlitos, yesterday, so elder araya and i were super excited. we are hoping to ask her to be baptized this week. i don´t remember if i told you the story of when we met here. its pretty funny so i´ll tell you about it...so elder araya and i were coming back from some cita that we had like 3 weeks ago. we were a couple blocks away from our pension. i was about to walk right past lujan, who was taking carlitos for a walk, but i felt like i should stop and talk to her. i started talking to her and when i saw carlitos i thought that he was a girl hahah (because he has super long hair for a 2 year old). but i started asking lujan how old her ¨little girl¨ was, and she was like ¨he´s a boy.¨ i just kind of stood there and didn´t know what to say for a second. then i was just like ¨si claro, entonces...¨ and i kept up with the conversation. so i guess this story goes to show that you can even say stupid things at times, but the spirit will always be there to help hahah. but yeah, we´re hoping to baptize her before the end of this transfer. maria and ester were also able to come to church yesterday, which was awesome to see. they all really liked it. we´re going to try to set a baptismal date with them too. it would be awesome if you could pray for all three of them.
so mom, i want to tell you happy birthday again. i hope that you have some cake or something in my honor. thanks for writing me and telling me about some of the things going on. i really do always look forward to hearing from you. dad, hows everything going?! bridget tells me that you are all going up to utah for thanksgiving. i´ll bet that will be pretty awesome for you to be able to spend some time with sean and everything. speaking of sean, che thanks for sending me those pics. it was awesome to be able to see ya.That's awesome that you´re having a good time and that halloween was alot of fun. i love ya bro. paige, it sounds like you´re having alot of fun now. keeping enjoying school and friends. oh yeah, and elder araya keeps asking for your email hahah...i don´t know if he really plans on writing you but he keeps telling me to ask you for it hahah. bridg, thanks for writing also. i´ll bet you´re pretty excited to be going to utah. be sure to tell all the fam that i say hi. also, you asked me if they celebrate thanksgiving here. thats a big negative for you. argentina is pretty crazy. they actually just had mother´s day like 2 weeks ago. its like the only country that celebrates mother´s day this time of year. so basically, argentina is crazy haha.
well i think that´s about it for this week. i love you all. thank you all for writing me and for your prayers. i hope that you all have awesome weeks. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall