Friday, December 31, 2010

December 14, 2010-Winter In Southern CA




buenas de buenos aires!
sorry about not being able to write yesterday. like during the middle of last week, they told us that we had to change our pday to today cause yesterday we had a conference with president foster, from the area. but thanks for all of your guys´ emails this week. it really got me excited about everything thats happening. like mom, i wanted to thank you for that email you sent. there were alot of awesome things that you said that i liked alot. like that quote from elder holland...everytime i hear something about missionaries and just how everyone else sees them, it just makes me wanna work that much harder. i really do have a respect and a soft spot in my heart for the missionary work now. i dont know why, but hearing stuff like that always gets to me haha...but about being able to talk over skype. sorry, i really wish that i could tell you all that i can do that. but the thing is is that we´re trying really hard to be obedient and do alot of things right in our zone. its just something that we arent allowed to do in this mission, so calling you guys is just gonna have to do. but i did write everything down for the calling card. so im gonna call you guys with that information that you sent me. im still not sure when im gonna call though. id just guess between 11 and 2 your guys time. dad, thanks for the email too! i actually just got it and was way stoked to hear from ya. it sounds like everything is going really well. thats awesome that you guys have had 5 really good baptisms this year in the ward. i know that those people who are preparing themselves to get baptized also really can, cause ive been really blessed to see changes in peoples lives through the gospel. if they truly put their faith in God, and pray to know if these things are true, they will receive an answer. but one thing ive seen alot and something that we learn from moroni 10 is that every person that reads the book of mormon and prays to know if its true has to do it with true intent. that means that they have to be willing to follow that answer from God whole heartedly. but those people really will know that the church is true. sean, dude we´ll just see what happens with the chargers. lets hope for some kansas city loses though haha. lakers are fine. and as soon as binky bynum gets back, we´ll be right back on time in dominating form. and be sure to have fun with all those finals this week dude haha. trust me, next year ill be having my fair share of all that hahah. paige, hahah dont have too much fun at that cheerleading party today hahah. but have an awesome time tomorrow at the dance. and bridg, i hope that all that choir stuff goes really well. sing like youve never sung before hahah!
alright so this week has been pretty awesome, im not gonna lie. elder gutierrez and i are really excited cause we were able to take out 2 more baptismal fechas. they´re both wayyy awesome too! the first one is another one of mary´s daughters haha. her name is diana. shes 18, and really cool. like she was actually the one with alot of interest when her mom was the only one listening to the missionaries. but i dont know why she didnt listen to them then. like she went to micaela´s baptism 2 weeks ago and then went to the confirmation. that sunday was testimony meeting and alot of us went up and bore our testimonies. but then on monday, we had an activity with a bunch of the family and we started talking to her. she told us that when she heard everyone´s testimonies, it made her really want to keep listening and stuff. so we were way excited! we took a baptismal fecha out with her for the 23rd of this month. we´ve taught her a couple times since then and shes really excited about it...the second fecha was with a woman named romina. we´re actually teaching her and her husband. but we talked with just her that day cause her husband was sick. we talked alot about how baptism is an act of faith and putting a goal for a baptism brings alot of blessings. so we put a baptismal date with her for the 29th of january. we´re gonna work hard so that her husband gets baptized with her. we actually found out later that they´re already married...we were super surprised cause you hardly ever find people who are married here hahah. so we could have put a closer date. we might have to put it sooner, but we´ll see...either way, we´re really excited cause we see all these awesome things happening here. the Lord is really blessing us and we´re starting to see those blessings more and more everyday.
hey i wanted to give you all a heads up...next monday, we arent going to have pday cause we changed it to christmas day. so i wont be able to write you emails. but its all good cause ill call that day and well talk...but ive got some pictures here of micaela´s baptism and also one of when we were all in mary´s house. ive gotta get going now, but i love you all and im way excited to talk to you on christmas. have a great next 2 weeks. until then...
con cariƱo,
elder ryan hall

1 comment:

  1. Your mission is so nice! I really believe going to Argentina, which is a country that needs help in some aspects, will contribute a lot to the faith of its inhabitants. Last year I travelled there and stayed in one of those furnished apartments in buenos aires and to my surprise, people were very religious, it looks like they have a good soul.
    Cheers,
    Tracy

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