June 14, 2010-Last Interview w/ President Asay

hey guys,
wow i wanna thank you all for your emails and everything. i thought that the pictures that you all sent were awesome! sean, dude those fishing pictures are tight dude. it sounds like it was a sweet trip. mom, i really liked the ones that you sent too. i one with keeley, paige, and bridget was by far the best. i´m really glad that keeley was able to come and see you all before she heads back up to berkeley. shes so amazing. but it looks like you all had a really good time. i can´t believe how much paige and bridget have grown since i´ve been gone. have i been gone for a year or 5 years hahah.
this week has been good. we had interviews with president on tuesday. it was kinda sad cause this was the last interview that i´ll have with him. i know that the new president is gonna be awesome too, but its just weird thinking that it wont be president asay. i´ve actually been able to get to know him really well and he´s just someone that i really respect. alot of the time, it doesn´t feel so much like an interview as us having a normal talk, ya know? but i´m way excited because i was asking him about everything going on in alto san lorenzo. he told me that alan acuña got baptized! if you don´t remember, we took a baptismal date with him the day i left and he got baptized like the week after. so i was way stoked about that. president told me that i should give alto san lorenzo a call (we´re actually not supposed to call other areas if their outside of our zone), so i did that. i found out that sara huertas is getting baptized next transfer. she´s getting married like july 8th and should get baptized right after...the missionaries there also told me that javier and viviana are solid as ever, which i was way excited to hear about. they said that they might come to transfer meetings to see elder mortensen and i. i really hope they do!
so i was kinda bummed yesterday cause we didn´t have any investigators in church. it was actually the second week that thats happened. i´m really not too happy about that. sunday morning we went to a bunch of investigators trying to get them to come, but it didn´t happen. dang you world cup!!! No kidding...i really wasn´t too happy that we didn´t have anyone in church though. we´ve definately got to change that this week...
mom, i never got to thank you last week for the scripture in doctrine and covenants 111 that you shared with me. i really liked it alot and actually used it in one of my district meetings. dad, shoot laakkkeeerrrrssss!! they better not lose tomorrow thats all i know! we can still win, we just need to win tomorrow. sean, dude during the week, i was still trying to figure out what band it was from last week. for the record, i did think about owl city. i didn´t know that owl city actually got really popular. but there are even people who know about them here. but this week, i got it...hahah of course its scary movie 3. dude that part is sooo funny! its a classic. paige, that girl told me that she´s gonna try to look you up on facebook. if that doesn´t work i´ll give her your email this week. bridg, i can tell that you´re way excited about doing basketball next year...or tennis. i really hope that you decide to do one of them. or if you keep doing dance, that would be really awesome too.
well thats about it for this week. thank you all for the emails and everything. thank you for your prayers. i really don´t know whats gonna happen this transfer. this is the last week before transfers. i would say that i´m staying here in this area, but i think that my comp is ready to become senior comp or train. he´s a good missionary. i really don´t know what to expect but whatever happens, i know that its because thats where the Lord needs me to be, with that specific missionary...i hope that you all have another great week. until the next one...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall