hey guys,
dang so it sounds like its been a pretty crazy week for you all. thats crazy about the earthquake that you all had over there, but i´m glad to hear that you´re all doing fine. thanks for the emails and for the prayers. i know that your prayers have really helped here in my area.
so to start off, i´ve got a new companion...i guess you already know cause they sent you a picture when we were in the mission office. but his name is elder livingston. he´s from spanish fork, utah. he seems like a really great guy and has alot of desires to work. its been kinda funny this week cause its still really tough for him to understand people. hes still really learning the language, but he really wants to learn and i know that he´s gonna pick it up quick.
its been a pretty great week for us. thank you all for praying especially for valeria. she´s alot better since that trip to the hospital. they still don´t know what it was, but atleast she´s better. but on wednesday we decided to go over and visit her and her mom. we talked to them a little bit to see how everything´s been going. i felt like we should talk about putting the baptismal date with valeria earlier, so we started to talk to her about baptism. we basically told her that we wanted her to do whatever she wanted, and she told us that she wanted to wait and be baptized with her mom. i told her that that was fine and we just kinda kept talking...so we were talking about how her or her mom would be baptized first and then the other person would get baptized after. all of a sudden valeria was like, ¨wait so we wont get baptized at the same time?!¨ i was kinda confused about her question and she told us that she thought that when we said that they would get baptized at the same time, she actually thought that it meant that they would go in the water at the same time. i just kinda explained to her that they would have to take turns to get baptized...like one of them would go first and then the other person goes in the water after. when i said that to her, she was like, ¨oh so it doesn´t even matter cause we would still get baptized at different times! i´ll get baptized right now then!¨ that was pretty awesome to hear. so we put the new baptismal date for the 17th of april. we would have done it earlier, but this week was general conference and i wanted to make sure that they announce it in church.
speaking of general conference, this conference was really awesome. i´ve always thought that jeffrey r. holland is the man, so i always end up thinking that his talks are awesome. but i don´t know if i really had a favorite. i really didn´t get to listen to any of it in english this time either. since my comp has only been here for like a week, i told him to go listen to it in english and that i would stay with the investigators that we brought. so i probably missed alot of things from the conference because of that, but i´ll just read it when it comes out in the liahona. for the second session yesterday, i asked javier and viviana to sit with our investigators so that i could watch it in english. they told me that it was fine, so i ran up to watch it with all the other yankees. like 15 minutes later, viviana came up and told me that they were gonna take nahuel, their son home cause he was sick and kept crying. so i ran back downstairs to watch it in spanish with our investigators. it really was a great conference and it makes me excited for the next one in october.
mom, i´m glad to hear that you´ve all had a nice week of spring break. be sure that everyone gets another good week of rest for me. dad, i actually didn´t know that the easter bunny doesn´t get down here to argentina. they don´t really have any cool parties for easter. they just make it a weekend holiday so that everyone can take the weekend off from work. but its been pretty cool anyways. sounds like sports are going well. be sure to get in a few padre games for me this year. sean, mom tells me that all the wedding plans are about done. or that they´re coming together. thats awesome dude. tell the cuñada-to be that i say hi and everything. love ya bro. paige, hope that you´ve been having a good time for vacation. mom told me that you had a dance like the other week or something. how was that? bridg, thanks for the email. thats cool that you´ve been able to go to the beach and stuff this week. i thought that your story about the earthquake was super funny cause i can so picture you doing that. i´ll bet that that freaked you out for a little while.
well i think that thats about it for this week. my comp and i are hoping to find some more people that we can invite to be baptized this week. i know that as long as we do what the Lord asks us, people will be put in our way. thank you all for your prayers, emails, and the love that you send. i love you all. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall
p.s. here are 2 pictures for you guys. the first one is of that baptism of that girl that i told you about. the other one is the morning of my birthday, when mortensen wrote me a ¨lovely card,¨ made me an awesome cake, and blew up some balloons hahah...enjoy
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