October 11, 2010-Greetings

hey guys,
wow so a bunch has happened back at home. congrats wayne sleight on getting married! shoot like all you guys are gettin married now. thats really awesome though. i also wanted to wish emily a happy early birthday. i know that its this thursday, but i cant write then, so i just have to tell ya now. how old does that make you? just out of curiousity hahah...
so this week has had its ups and its downs. i think that the best thing that happened this week was that we took out 2 baptismal dates with a couple named luis and silvia. we found them a couple weeks ago and they seem really awesome. with like all their kids that live there with them they´re like 10 or something. i know that like at least 3 are older than 8 so we might be able to take out a couple more baptismal fechas. we´ve got a lesson with them later tonight so well see what happens. it would be so sick to have them all get baptized. i really think that itll happen. luis and silvia are married yet though. we put the baptism for like the middle of november so hopefully they can get married before that. but the really are a pretty poor family. like the house that they live it is really small and really low, which makes it tough for me to go inside haha. i usually just have to crouch down to walk in. it doesnt make it alot easier being a family of like a million either. both luis and silvia work as people that collect bottles and plastic and then take it all to capital. its a really tough job and lets just say that it doesnt make the best money in the world. but both of them are really humble, they like everything that we´ve taught them alot, and were excited when we asked them to be baptized. the wife, silvia probably understands things a little better than luis, but hes really willing to do things that will help his family to be happier. ill be sure to keep you all posted on how they progress and if we can set a marriage date for them soon.
other than that, it was kind of a tough week for elder lucas and i. like compared to the other weeks that we´ve been having here, we werent super happy with everything that happened. alot of the people that we thought we were gonna teach this week, werent there or werent able to talk to us then. but i guess that just means that this week is gonna have to be awesome then. i feel like it will. its lucas´ last full week as a missionary, so we both really wanna work hard so that he can end well. im really proud of him cause alot of the missionaries get pretty trunky by the end of the mission, but hes done really well. he tells me alot that he doesnt feel ready to be done. so this week we´re just gonna go all out and try to invite as many people as we can to be baptized.
mom, im gonna take ya up on that albertos burrito hahah. in our pension here, we have 4 missionaries. one is a new missionary from mexico and the other day we made tacos. it was like the second or third time that ive had tacos in the mission. dang they were sooo good. and one of our members here in this ward has an avocado tree, so we made guacamole too. so sweet. dad, it sounds like it was a sad week in sports this week. sean broke the news to me that the chargers lost to the raiders. what a bummer! i guess its better that i cant see any of it this year, hugh? sean, dude be sure to tell emily happy birthday for me. dang that a day to remember cd is gonna be way sweet too. as long as there isnt all that screaming hahah. remember when you would always want to buy the songs where they´d scream alot and i always wanted the acoustic ones or something? well i havent changed at all dude. im stickin with the stuff that isnt like that lame screaming. paige, hope everything is goin well with school and stuff. keep havin fun with cheerleading too. some of the missionaries saw a cheerleading picture of you and i just told them that you were already a gubler, so dont worry hahah. bridg, here in argentina we dont really celebrate halloween. like everyone knows what it is and stuff. but its definately not as cool as back home where everyone dresses up and stuff. only a couple people do it.
k guys i gotsta go. thanks for the prayers and everything. id really appreciate the prayers for luis, silvia, and the rest of their family (i cant remember all the names cause there are too many hahah). i love ya all. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall