July 26, 2010

que onda todos,
dang so i thought that it was so sick that carter livingston is gonna serve a mission in salta! thats tight! be sure to tell him congrats and that hes seriously gonna love argentina. when he gets back we´re gonna have to talk it up in castellano.
alright so this has been a really good week. elder pepito and i are both really excited because the people that we´re finding seem to be really awesome. but we went back to visit fabian the other day and he basically told us that he didnt want to start going to another church. he goes to an evangelist church and doesnt want to change. so i dont think that he´ll be getting baptized for now hahah. but we´ll try visiting him every once in a while and see how he´s doing. but it was pretty sweet the other day cause we´ve been teaching this one girl named jesyca for like 3 months now. shes all ready to be baptized, but her ¨husband¨ has to get divorced to some other lady so that they can get married. so shes just waiting for that. but it was cool cause the other day we were at her house and we started talking to her younger brother, yonaton. hes like 16. i had seen him every once in a while before, but never really got to talk to him. so we were talking the other day and it turns out that he had been reading a little bit of the book of mormon before when he was living in florencio varela (thats where bosques, my first area, is). so we left him a chapter to read and set a day to come back and teach him. so we came back on like thursday or friday and we decided to read 2 nefi 31 with him, which is a sick chapter. we were reading it and he seemed to really understand the importance of being baptized. so we took out a baptismal date with him. we´re pretty excited about it. the only thing was that yonaton wanted to wait to be baptized on his birthday in like october. its fine, but we´re still gonna see if we can put a closer day for him to get baptized ya know?
we also had an experience with a lady that we saw working in her yard the other day. we both felt like we should talk to her, so we went up and started talking a little bit. at first i thought that she was gonna tell us no, but we started talking about pray and she told us that she felt like it would be really good to say a pray in her house. so we went in and not only said a pray, but ended up talking about alot of different things with her. shes been going to an evangelist church for a really long time, but lately the members have kind of stopped talking to her and she doesnt no why. so she had been praying that someone would come to visit her. after we talked for like 45 minutes she told us that she really felt like we were meant to talk with her. it was really cool and i really hope that she keeps listening to us.
oh yeah so i had interviews with president stapley for the first time the other day. it was really cool. he seems like a great president and im pretty excited. he tells me that he thinks he can take me in basketball, but im not too sure. i told him we´ll have to see when we play one on one...but since transfers are coming up next week, im guessing that elder pepito and i will stay together for another transfer. i would be really surprised if anything changed.
mom, i thought that it was way funny how you said that paige and elder gubler are gonna get married. im glad that you agree with me hahah. he is gonna be my cuñado! But those little jokes about moving to utah just arent gonna fly. im stayin in california just so you know. dad, im glad that you dont find it that hilarious either about moving to utah. but it sounds like you, uncle jeff, and sean had an awesome time fishing. dang i heard that you guys caught a bunch! thats sweet! sean, dude im way stoked for the padres. can you say championship?! hahah not to jinx it or anything. but thats sweet about the lakers getting barnes and the other dude too. i was never a huge fan of barnes, but i hope that he helps the bench out a little bit. paige, gub-daddy and i were laughing so much today when i showed him what mom said about you 2 getting married hahaha. you might as well just face the fact now haha. bridg, hows it going up there in utah? ill bet that you´re havin an awesome time with the cousins and everything. oh yeah and that girl, maria belen showed me the emails that you wrote her and everything. she was pretty excited about it. its cool that you are all writing still.
well i think that im gonna get going. that you guys for the emails and everything. i hope that you have awesome weeks up there in utah. say hi to all the fam for me and everything. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall