February 15, 2010- Como Estan

hey everyone,
so i hope that you all had a good valentines day and some nice vacation. sounds like you were all able to go up and do some fishing for the weekend, which sounds awesome. i´ll bet you all had an awesome time.
so its been a pretty tight week, i´m not gonna lie. javier and viviana got baptized on saturday. elder mortesen ended up baptizing javier and i baptized viviana. then they asked us that we switch for the confirmation on sunday. so on sunday, elder mortensen confirmed viviana and i confirmed javier. it really was awesome. the baptism was great because almost all the ward was there. it was by far the best baptism that i´ve had here in the mission. javier and viviana are just so awesome! i think alot of people in the ward really realize that and that they are going to be great members for this ward. its awesome because they are probably the closest family that i´ve been to in both of my areas. they really are both mortensen and my friends. but yeah so that made the week really awesome. we´re really stoked for them both.
another really exciting thing that happened this week is that mortensen and i are staying together here in alto san lorenzo for another transfer! we were seriously so excited when we found out saturday night. i figured that if one of us was going, it would be me. but from when president had told us, we had alot of hope that we would be together for at least one more transfer. it really shows me that president trusts us even though we don´t have a whole lot of time here in the mission. but its tight. when we got the call saturday night, we just started screaming and and stuff. mortensen is definately going to be a good buddy of mine, not just during the mission, but after too. we just really get along and that helps us to work even harder. honestly this past transfer was the best one i´ve had in my whole mission. thats not just because the baptisms that we´ve had either. just in general, we´ve done better this entire transfer than any other transfer that i´ve had, but at the same time we´ve been loving it. i really can´t believe that another transfer has already gone by. it really doesn´t feel like its been 6 weeks already. so yeah, i guess you can say that its been a pretty good week.
now that javier and viviana are baptized, mortensen and i are excited to start finding some new people and setting new baptisms. we haven´t been able to take out any new baptisms with people for a while, so we don´t have a whole lot of progressing investigators right now...but thats definately going to change. i know that we are going to find more of the Lord´s chosen people. we just have to keep working hard, be ourselves, be obedient, and try to share the spirit with everyone we meet. the Lord will be able to help us with the rest.
mom, sounds like camping in cuyamaca for vacation is going to way fun. be sure to let me know how it goes. thanks alot for your email and just for everything that you do for me. dad, i hope that you can catch a fish for me. i´m really hopin that you´ve got some vacation luck and catch a nice 5 pounder or something. we´ve never reeled in a fish that big up in cuyamaca, but from what you tell me, they exist. so be sure to bring one home for me. sean, dude thanks for the email. i´ll bet its a bummer that you weren´t able to go camping with everyone else. but i´m sure the little vacation was nice for sure. dude i´m stoked to be able to hear some new angels and airwaves. lets just hope that you haven´t lost your taste in music hahah. i´m trying not to...i hear so much cumbia now its crazy when i hear something else. just so you all know, cumbia is lame. but yeah dude i definately miss those pruebas y examenes during school hahah. paige, i´ll bet you´re excited to a couple days of vacation too. be sure to have some fun. but how have you not written to gub-daddy yet?! how is he going to be my cuñado if you never write him haha. i just talked to him today and he tells me that he´s just ¨hopin to get a letter sometime soon¨. para que sepas. bridg, were you able to take jillian up with you guys too? if so, i´ll bet she loved it. but keep having fun in school and everything.
alright everybody, i gotta get going. i love you all and hope that you are all doing well. have a great week everyone. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall