Monday, March 1, 2010

March 1, 2010-Hola

hey everyone,
thank you all for your emails this week...first of all, i just wanna tell bridg a happy early birthday! thats so crazy that you´re gonna be turning 13 on saturday! just know that i´ll be thinking of you this week and especially that day. i also wanted to tell eric carnohan that i´m super stoked to hear about his mission call to new york. he´s gonna be an awesome missionary and a huge blessing to those people there. i´m also really excited because we´ll be about to chat it up in spanish after the mish.
lets see, apparently there was an earthquake here in argentina, but we never felt it here where we are...everyones kinda freakin out about the one in chile. i guess there have been a couple hundred people who have already died. there are so many people saying that the end of the world is coming hahah, but they all say that because some movie¨2012¨ came out a while ago. i´ll bet you´ve all heard of that so you might know what i´m talking about. but yeah, everything here in buenos aires south is all good.
so about elder mclean going home from breaking his leg...thats actually not true. it wasn´t mclean that broke his leg and got sent him, it was elder nalder, my comp from the mtc. i heard about it on monday and then he called me tuesday morning to tell me that he was going home that day. it was a huge bummer for me because he wont be able to finish the mission at the same time as us now. but he´s definately hoping to get back here to argentina as soon as possible...that guys a capo and he should be here with us. if you could, i´d really appreciate your prayers for him that he can get back into the field as soon as possible.
alright so this week has probably been the biggest roller coaster for me in my entire mission. i´ll explain why...so monday night, mortensen and i came back to the area and started working again. we had a really good lesson with this family that we found and we were walking down this one street. we passed a group of guys, but walked past them and forgot about it. but like 4 or 5 blocks later, one of those guys came up to us on a bike and started talking to us as we were walking. as soon as we started talking, we could tell that he was drugged or something. so we were just trying to stop talking to him and get going. we started telling him that we had to get going and he was like, ¨i´m gonna rob you guys now...¨ my comp was like, ¨you don´t have to do that¨ and he pulled out a knife on us. it was one of those really big kitchen knifes and he took it out and stuck it at my comp. when i saw him pull the knife out, i stopped walking and stepped back a little bit. he jumped off the bike and started telling my comp to give him his watch (i actually don´t wear mine too much anymore...i guess it was i good thing i didn´t). he gave him his watch, but then the guy stuck the knife up to my comps throat. he was like, ¨give me the money..i know that you have money. give me it!¨ we actually did have money because we were gonna go get food right after. but my comp kinda forgot that he had money at the time hahah, i don´t blame him. i knew that i had like 100 pesos to buy food. i also had our cell phone and our keys. but the guy started looking in my comps pockets to try and find money. while he was doing that, i started taking everything out of my front pockets and putting them in my back pockets. once i put everything in my back pockets without him noticing, i showed him that my front pockets were empty and was like, ¨look dude i don´t have anything.¨ i even pulled out my scriptures and showed him that that was all i had in my backpack. he was like, ¨wheres the money, wheres the money?!¨ thats when my comp realized that he had like 45 pesos and he took them out and gave them to him. right then, a car came and i stepped in front of it to stop it. when the guy saw that, he must have gotten scared, so he took off. the car didn´t actually stop, but it was enough to make the guy leave. mortensen and i just decided to get back to the pension and we started heading that way...but then the guy came back and found us again. he was ticked this time and was like, ¨you guys lied to me...you have money! give me everything!¨ when he came up from behind us again, i stepped back again, but my comp kept walking forward. the guy was closer to my comp so he pulled the knife out again and stuck it up to mortensen´s stomach. this whole time he was telling us how he was gonna kill us and everything. he told mortensen to give him his backpack, so he handed it over. then he turned to me and was like, ¨dude come here!¨ i was just like, ¨no way dude you´ve got a knife!¨ and when i said that, another car drove by. this time, i stepped in front of the car and it stopped. i started telling the driver that this guy had a knife and stuff. so the guy got back on his bike and rode away. i started asking the driver if he would drop us off by our pension, but he was like, ¨no i´ll do something even better...i´ll go after the guy!¨ then he starts driving backwards after the guy. i remember just thinking, ¨you idiot the guy is gonna come back again!¨ ...so all in all, my comp got everything stolen from him. he had his backpack, 45 pesos, pictures, and his scriptures all stolen from him. i was pretty lucky to not really get robbed. but i´m not gonna lie, it felt like we were both robbed. we were kinda shaken up that night when we got back to the pension...we´re back to normal now, but it was really a crazy way to start the week.
but even though the week didn´t start off the best for us, mortensen and i have been working hard all week. we are really excited about sara and her daughter valeria, who have come to church with us the past 2 weeks. we were in a lesson with them yesterday and i felt like we should talk about baptism for a little bit. we started talking about it, and sara told me that she would like to get baptized, which was awesome. we didn´t take out a baptismal date with her yet though because i wanted to explain to her that she needs to get married first. we asked valeria if she would pray to know if she should be baptized and she told us that she would. they both really love the church and feel really great when we teach them. so i would really appreciate your guys prayers for them both. they are really awesome and we feel pretty excited about them.
mom, thanks for writing and filling me in on everything. i´m really grateful for the package that you sent. that means alot to me...i´m super excited to get that dvd too because it would seriously be sweet to see all of you. Dad, I was a little bummed to hear that paige got to drive a little bit in the chrysler haha...Sean, dude thanks for the email too. thanks for telling me more about emily too, because i really had no idea about any of that ...and about the sports, i actually didn´t know about us letting go of lt which is pretty lame. but i guess its for the best. dang, do you remember when we were joking about how it would be the last time i saw him in a chargers jersey?! i was kidding!! Dang it. you´re gonna have to tell me what happens because i really have no idea what we´re gonna do it we can´t resign sproles either. dude i´m pretty stoked about the lakers and byu basketball too...che don´t have too much fun with those midterms this week haha. and ¨no,¨ i actually don´t miss those too much hahah. but i was thinking about how tight it was to have you in classes and when we were living together all last year. dang dude, we had some fun times. paige, i can tell that you´re way excited about starting driving. thats really cool. but you can´t start calling it ¨pulling a ryan¨ ok? first of all, sean forced me to do it and i didn´t want to. second of all, it wasn´t an automatic...it was the mustang, which is stick shift, and i was still learning to drive it. but to answer your other question, i think that it would be so awesome if you were able to write me some actual letters. its way cool to read letters like that. i think that it would be cool to write you back too yeah know? so yeah go for it! bridg, happy birthday again! i hope that you have a really awesome time on friday with your party. you have to be sure and fill me in on what you all do.
thank you all for your prayers and everything. i know that the prayers of all of you have really blessed my comp, myself, and our investigators. i hope that all is well. i love you all. until next week...
con cariƱo,
elder ryan hall

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