May 10, 2010- Mother's Day Phone Call

hey everyone!
wow so it was so awesome to be able to talk to you all last night. it was sweet to actually be able to talk to sean and dad in spanish and be able to understand everything...thanks for the laughs last night too. it was really great to hear from you guys.
alright so i´m officially in my new area. its kind of a bummer to leave alto san lorenzo after more than 7 months. i was able to get to know some really amazing people and just make alot of great friends there. but at the same time, i´m really excited to be here in my new area with my new comp. so the area is called platanos. like i told you last night, its in the zone of quilmes. it seems like a pretty sick area. i haven´t been able to see a whole lot of it yet, but from everything that i´ve seen, i´m really excited. alot of people tell me that this is a really great area. i´ve hear that on average we get over 110 people in church every week, which lets just say, is alot more than we were getting in my old area. it doesn´t sound like we have any baptismal dates yet, but i know that we can start finding some awesome people here. its just a matter of following the Spirit and letting the promptings of the Spirit lead us to the Lord´s chosen people...i´m also really excited about my new comp, elder chavez. he´s a really nice guy from chile. so that makes him my second chileano in the mission. but i´m really excited to be able to learn more of the language by speaking all the time with him. he has about 5 months in the mission. but its actually way cool cause he´s only 18 years old. he told me that, and i was like ¨whatever! thats not even possible! you can´t leave on a mission when you´re 18¨ . but i guess that his dad is a mission president or something in chile. apparently, he was able to leave on the mission early cause his dad is a mission president and he´s finished high school already. so i think that its safe to say that i´m with the youngest missionary in this mission.
mom, i wasn´t really able to read all of your email cause well its pretty long and i didn´t have a bunch of time. but i kinda just read as fast as i could and tried to get the jist of it haha. but thanks alot. it sounds like everything has been really great this week. dad, i´m glad that ¨i´m more important that food¨ hahah. thanks for letting me know that you put me before food paps. sean, dude it was sweet to be able to talk to you in spanish. pero para que sepas, realmente no he visto un pajaro azul en argentina. it was tight to be able to talk to you wife too. paige, that is a sick picture of you and rachel at that disco dance. i´ll bet that it was way fun. it was also really awesome to be able to talk to you last night. you´re one of my best friends too. bridg, you´re just a goof. i thought that it was way funny for you to pick up the phone and react the way you did. plus you sounded a little sick so it was just funny to me.
alright so i gotsta get goin. it sounds like this week is gonna be full of us traveling. tomorrow my comp has to go to buenos aires to do document stuff. so who knows how long that´ll take. then on wednesday i´ve got a leaders meeting. so we´ve gotta work that much harder to make up for that time. but i love you all. thanks for everything. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall