Monday, April 12, 2010

April 12- A Quick Good Morning....

yo was up everyone?
really quick i wanted to tell isaac rodebush congrats on getting his call to michigan! thats way cool dude. i´m not gonna lie...i was hopin that you´d get your call to somewhere in south america so that we could talk it up in spanish when we´re both back, but i´m way happy for you. you´re gonna be a bomb missionary in michigan.
i´m glad to hear that you all got the memory card that i sent home a couple weeks ago. i was surprised that you all said that i looked tan though cause i really didn´t see any difference...i took a bunch more pictures since that memory card though, so i put them all on a cd. i don´t know when i´ll be able to send that but just know that i´ve got some more pictures and videos that i´ll try to send you guys sometime soon too.
dang so this week has really been a great one for me. as far as being district leader goes, its been really good. i´ve got elder mclean in my district so its way tight. we were already good buddies, but we´ve gotten way closer since then. training has been going pretty well too. elder livingston is working hard to learn more in the language and participate in the lessons. he´s a good missionary for sure...yesterday i had a really cool opportunity to give nahuel´s (javier and viviana´s son) baby blessing. the bishop told them that he could get a blessing, so they asked me to do it. it was really special that they would ask me though. i was actually not expecting to give a baby blessing until i had my own kid, so it was a really cool surprise for me. then right after, javier asked me to stand in when he received the priesthood. for me both of those things were really special cause i´ve gotten to know them so well and its so amazing how well they´ve grown in the church.
we also had another really cool thing happen this week. we went over to a member´s house the other day because they haven´t been able to come to church alot lately. the mom is working almost all the time, and they don´t have a dad, so its tough. but we went over there and learned that the 9 year old son hasn´t been baptized. so we were able to set a baptismal date for him. and yes i chose this day on purpose hahah...may 8th. i thought that it would be cool to baptize someone on sean´s birthday. its also viviana´s birthday so you 2 already have something in common. but the kid´s name is ezno. hes super cool and really likes when we come over. i really think that its awesome too cause they´re from paraguay, so they all speak guarani. i´ve been learning alot more from them lately so i have a little extra motivation.
so valeria is getting baptized this saturday too. we´re way excited for that. she´s super prepared and is really looking forward to it. i´ve been really lucky to meet some super prepared people in this area just waiting for the gospel. the other day i went over to her house and gave her some invitations. i told her to invite some friends and family members to the baptism if she wanted to. it made me laugh a little bit cause she didn´t want them at first. but on sunday she came to church and told me that she had already invited a bunch of family and some friends to come. so i was like, ¨ha! i knew that you were gonna need them!¨ but i think that everyone in the ward is excited cause we´re having alot of success right now and it makes them want to help us even more. thats really been the difference for us lately. if the members become friends with the investigators, its going to help them always stay active in the church cause they aren´t doing it alone. they always have someone who can help them, because things aren´t just instantly solved once someone gets baptized. so yeah shes getting baptized this saturday and alot of members are planning on coming. i´ll be sure to let you all know how it goes.
mom, the whole idea about sending the calling card info in the next email sounds sweet. its crazy that we´re even talking about calling on mother´s day. i really can´t believe that its been over 4 months since i called you guys on christmas. its gone by way fast. i really like the idea of putting sean and emily on skype when i call too so that i can talk to them at the same time. that sounds like a plan to me...dad how ya feelin about them lakers? sean told me that they´ve been losing lately even though they´ve already clinched a playoff spot. and how do the padres look this year? who do we even have now, cause i really have no idea hahah...sean, dude you know that i got that quote. thats definately napolean dynamite...dude i´m gonna be so down for playing tennis despues de 2 años! shoot i can´t wait. but i´m not gonna need to use that excuse about not playing for 2 years cause i´m still gonna take you to school haha. so ya better bring it che. the bachelor party sounded way fun too dude. you better have taken some pictures or something because i wanna be able to see it sometime too...paige, i heard that you´re already taking the online drivers ed. thats pretty sweet, i´m not gonna lie. plus it sounds like you´re gonna be able to drive the honda around for a while which is gonna be way cool. sounds like mom and dad really trust that you as a driver cause you´re getting your license before either sean and i. be sure to tell me how thats going and how you´re liking it...bridg, i´m glad that you liked the video of the dogs. but to be honest it doesn´t surprise me at all hahah. its too bad that none of those dogs are living with us anymore though. now we just have the original dog and this huge white one. but i´m glad that you liked all the pictures and stuff.
well i guess that i should get going now. i have a felling that this is gonna be a really quick week. i´m guessing that its gonna go by fast for all of you too. i hope that you´re all having fun doing what you´re doing. in no time, you´ll be hearing from me again. until then...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall

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