July 12, 2010-Greetings

hey guys,
wow so this week has been a really awesome one. i think that this was the best week that we´ve had for finding new investigators since i´ve been in this area. it was so sick cause on like thursday we found 9 new investigators! i really dont know what we were doing differently or what we were doing well, but obviously something was working right. it was sick cause like everyone we went and visited let us in and wanted to talk to us. we found a really awesome guy named enzo. i was here in platanos on an intercambio with one of the zone leaders. we were just kinda walking getting ready to go back to the pension for lunch. we ended up going down this one street that i dont normally go down and we got to a house that i had never seen before. so i was just kinda like, ¨ehhh what the heck, we might as well clap the house.¨ so enzo came out and we started talking for a little bit. we ended up teaching him for like 20 minutes and sharing the book of mormon with him. we invited him to read and pray about it and he was super excited. he was just like, ¨yeah im gonna read it!¨ it was so awesome to be able to find a guy like that. im pretty stoked too cause we were only able to find him last time, but apparently he lives there with his wife (i think hes married...not sure on that though haha) and his 2 kids. we´re hoping to be able to find them all when we go to their house tomorrow. its was just a really sweet day.
oh yeah so it turns out that elder arguello had to go home yesterday. i guess that he still hasnt finished all of his high school credits that he needs in order to go on a mission. he still needs like 6 credits and hes leaving in a couple months to mexico, so i guess he had to finish the mini mission so that he could go do that. and since elder jackson, the missionary that im gonna train (i think that im still gonna train him when he gets here), is still having problems with his visa, they sent me a missionary named elder pepito. im pretty excited cause i already knew elder pepito. he has 6 weeks less than me in the mission. he just came from the offices after being there for like 6 months. so i think that hes pretty excited to be out of the offices. so yeah i knew him cause whenever we had problems with like the pension or something like that, i would always talk to him. so we already know each other pretty well. hes from st. george so hes the second comp that ive had from there and the third from utah. them utah missionaries ...there are alot of em let me tell you. i swear like every other yankee missionary is from utah hahah. but its all good. we´re both really excited to start working together. neither of us has any idea how long we´re gonna be together, but we´re just gonna take advantage of it and work as hard as we can.
mom, im gonna have to look up that scripture in doctrine and covenants cause i dont know it. it must be a really awesome one though if there are a bunch of stakes and stuff making it their theme for the month. dad, hopefully youre getting in some tennis and stuff...hay que aprovechar del verano alla por que cuando yo vuelva a la casa, vamos a jugar aful jajaja. sean sigue diciendo que me va a ganar pero todos sabemos que yo le voy a ganar. aunque yo esté aca, no quiere decir que no tengo mi ¨A-game¨ todavia jajaj. sean, dude lebron and bosh are going with d wade to miami!?! dang thats gonna be a stacked team! the lakers are gonna have to be ready cause thats gonna be a dang good team. sounds like you´ve been having some fun the last couple weeks too. hope that you´re having an awesome time though with work and stuff. plus paige is up there with you 2 so that should be fun! paige, you're ridiculous! you know that i love ya. just remember that. but i hope that youre still having alot of fun up in utah and arent getting too bored going to work with sean hahah. bridg, i know that you aren't bored right now cause youre with brookie. be sure to get some beach time in for me. just have an awesome time right now during summer and then you can get ready for 8th grade. dang i cant believe that youre already gonna be in 8th grade! shoot! hahah
thank you all for sending pictures and stuff this week. i was planning on sending pictures too but i cant do it on this computer. my bad guys...but ill try to send you all some soon. take care and have a great week.
con cariño,
elder ryan hall