hey guys!
well first of all i want to be sure and wish mom a happy early birthday! i noticed that you didnt mention anything about your birthday in your email hahah so if that was your way of testing me to see if id remember haha i think i passed. but i hope that you have an awesome birthday tomorrow. be sure to let me know next week how it went and what you guys did and stuff.
well i know that i said that we were gonna change our pday to today cause we were gonna go to capital, but what happened is that monday morning, president stapley called me and told me that he felt like the missionaries for now shouldnt be going to capital. it was actually really cool what he told me cause he said that he felt like something inside him told him that he hadnt been listening until then and that he had to start listening more. i told him that we would all respect that. so we actually had pday on monday like normal. we just didnt write emails that day. but it was fun cause it rained on monday, but we went and played soccer in anyways. it was seriously so much fun, cause we were all racing around in the rain. it was a blast hahah...
well to fill you all in a little bit on everything that has happened, i guess ill start off by telling you all that brenda got baptized this sunday at like 8 in the morning. i wanna thank you all for your prayers for her and her family. we didnt end up sleeping over in the church like we were kinda planning, but we did end up waking up at 5 that morning to get to the church at 6:30 to fill the baptismal font. we made sure that it was nice and warm for her and everything too hahah. the baptism was really great too. i think we were all a little tired, but it turned out really awesome. then she got confirmed right after when church started. im attaching some pictures for you guys so that you can see. just ignore the dorky face that im making in the one. my comp is making really weird faces too, but thats just cause it was super bright and he couldnt see anything.
we´ve also had some other really awesome things happen this week. i think that it was either last monday or tuesday, when we had a lesson with mary, milagros, and agustina. we had a really good lesson where we talked about the plan of salvation and the importance of baptism here on the earth. we were able to take out a baptismal date with milagros for the same day as her sister. so they´re both gonna get baptized on the 27th of this month. they were also able to go to a baptism from another ward and able to see what its gonna be like. milagros came back from that even more excited for her baptism, so we were really excited about that...then i dont know if it was that same day or the next day, we went over to visit rossana. shes seriously progressing so well now! like the other day she told me that she read in the book of mormon for like the second time in her entire life not counting when we´ve read with her! it may sound like something little, but coming from her that was huge. but she told us that she has her answer about the church and everything, so we were also able to take out a baptismal date with her for the 27th of this month. i know that the Lord has really blessed us here in this area, especially lately. the thing now is that we want to keep up with that. we´ve been focusing alot this week on working with all the people that have baptismal dates, and finding new people to teach.
mom, happy birthday again! i hope that its a great day for you. oh and it sounds like its gonna be alot of fun since uncle jeff, aunt krista, and all them are coming down for thanksgiving. be sure to tell them all i say hi. dad, i heard that the giants won the world series, which surprised me alot. from what i heard, they had a wayyy good pitching staff. well i guess its better than some team from the east winning. gotta support a west coast world series, right? sean, dude im way stoked about the lakers. i cant believe that theyre already starting! crazy stuff dude. theres a friend of mine in the zone that i always talk to about the lakers. and hopefully the chargers are startin to bounce back a little too. im gonna try to not get my hopes up though. paige, it looks like the dance was alot of fun the other week. im also looking forward to seeing some of those cheerleading moves that mom told me about. i may have to show you some of my own too. bridg, i looked like you had a really good time at the halloween dance at your school with your friend.
alright guys, well im gonna get goin. but its all good cause this monday ill be writing again like normal. hopefully ill be able to tell you that we´ve had more success and been able to take out more baptismal dates with people. thanks for the prayers on behalf of our investigators, and for me. i love you all. until next week...
con cariño,
elder ryan hall
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