October 20, 2010-Hello

whats up guys!
sorry for not being able to write you all on monday. i forgot to tell you last week that i wouldnt be able to write til today. we had to change the transfer day to today, so we skipped pday on monday and made it today. but i wanna be sure to tell dad happy birthday!! the big 5-2 hugh? congrats paps.
so this has been a pretty good week and a half. im trying to think back to all last week. ummm, we took out baptismal dates with 2 of the luis and silvia´s kids. we put it for the same date as them. we´re just trying to get them married and to start coming to church. we also took a baptismal date out with a lady named mirta. we´ve been teaching her for a couple weeks now. we were gonna take 2 more baptismal dates out with her daughters, but they werent there when we taugh mirta. so like its all really cool, but i was actually hoping to take out some more baptismal dates with people. the good thing though it that we´re teaching families now.
we found this one couple a couple weeks ago named ramon and rut. rut was really awesome from the start, and ramon wasnt really interested at all. we taught them both anyways about the power of prayer and then 2 weeks ago we passed by their house again. we talked to ramon really quick and he basically told us that the whole church thing just wasnt for him. so we decided not to go by for a week. but last week we went by again just to see how they were doin. ramon saw us and was like, ¨come in guys!¨ we started talking to them both and ramon told us about what happened. i guess ramon was without work and having a really tough time. but after we went by and he told us he didnt want to listen anymore, he decided to pray one day and ask for help to find work. i guess that that day, he got a call from someone telling him that he had a job. so he really changed and realized how blessed he was by just praying once. alot of people could say that thats just a coincidence, but for me the Lord really does bless us even when we do some of the most simple things. but theyre both really liking the lessons and we´re gonna try to get them to go to church this sunday.
so like i said, this was elder lucas´ last week. i was really proud of him though cause he finished the mission really well. he worked hard til the very end...im now with a new zone leader named elder gutierrez. hes from el chaco, resistencia (its a provincia in northern argentina). but he seems really awesome. hes only got like 13 months in the field, but he seems like a good guy. we´ve gotten along really well from the get go, so im really excited for this transfer. i really think that alot of good things are gonna happen here. i think that sometimes as missionaries, we look at our investigators and say that nothing good is happening. but what we forget is that the Lord is already preparing people and especially families for us to teach. like today i got to see javier, viviana, their son nahuel (whos wayyy big now haha), and another kid, allen, who was another convert of ours in alto san lorenzo. they all came to transfer meetings. it just made me think how important missionary work is. like i dont know, to see such amazing people who are so solid in the church now, its seriously like theyre all my family. i really do consider them like that. thats what im looking for here in el triangulo too...
mom, the lakers tickets for dads birthday sounded pretty tight, im not gonna lie. be sure to let me know what you ended up doing. dad, happy birthday again! i hope that youve had an awesome day. love ya...sean, dude bummer in the sports world. dont worry though cause next year is when it really matters. cause you know why next year is gonna be different hahah....paige, sounds like youve got a busy week full of rehearsals and stuff. have an awesome time. hoping you guys can record some of your songs or something. bridg, haha i dont know if you would have said that im always happy when i was at home hahah. at least the picture didnt show my character of liking to mess with you and paige hahah.
alright guys, ive gotta go. ill be writing you all again on monday like normal, so dont worry about that hahah. thanks for all you guys do for me. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall