Ok so I did - Too much Puerto Rican Sun and Water

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

(also! more pictures. DAH! I forgot a Subject line for the last email.... lets make it... oh, I don't know.... come up with something. :D)


1) BEHOLD! the Scratader. a hybred... hibred? bighbred? highbread? <--- thats the "special bread" I think. ha ha ha! anyways... a hibred... hybrid AH! there it is. he's a hybrid between scrat and a predator. and very Epic. be carefull. :D

2) yay! Elder Harvey, Annie and I! :D that was at a family home evening that we had at the parents house of a recently left missionary. (they arent members yet)



3) mmm. a Polo and a tie. the new hot style for 2011! trying to keep right in front of the next hot fashion, yo!

Re: Howdy dude ;D

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

AH!!!!! I remember now. but I don't really remember telling Annie not to tell you or not... he he he... yeah. I really don't remember that. no joke. :3 that's pretty sweet that you got those vids of Puerto Rico. share them with the WORLD! everyone must know the awesome that is Puerto Rico.

YAY! stinker kitty! DAH, I'm so glad that you sent me a new pic of her. it's very nice to see that smug face of hers. Ha Ha Ha! and that dunkin' donuts pic is HILERIOUS! I love it.

no way. you seriously got to see the legendary Pippy Longstocking picture?! you gotta get that scan ability up and running cause I need that picture. :3 maybe on your next level up you can put some points into that ability.

ooo, so you guys have moved to Comcast, eh? at least you guys got the computers up and running. thats what counts, right? :D question about the phone TV and internet being combined: if you're using all of them, does that limit the amount of Bandwith the computers can use for the internet? or is the computer just super duper high speed now? :D stinks about not having any DVR though. that's a bummer... you gotta figure out if that is an option, cause it was fantastic being able to record... oh wait. that's said in the front room... so does it work in the living room (our living room) then? and just not in Grandmas? either way, that's kinda inconvenient...

YAY! Stephie loves me! :D I wonder if she put that on there cause she got my letter I sent to her. I hope so, cause I sent that letter like two weeks ago. so she better have it by now. ha ha ha!

hey hey hey! I told you that a member back in Rio Grande gave me a side bag, remember? :P so I DO have a bag, but I'm thinking of finding myself a backpack, cause I'm not sure if the bag is causing this, or a PART of it, but I have some of the most horrible tension in my back... like, I just get up and feel the POO! its horrible. my neck, too. just like... I'm not sure whats causing it, but it really really REALLY sucks. :'( I've been trying to stretch it out and everything, but it just hasn't been getting any better. BLARG! what do I do?

Sincerely,
Stiff necked Steve.

So yeah, Tell sister Schliep HI BACK! :D

so for the baptism (singular, the second one isn't until this Saturday ;) ) it went GREAT! Lester was really excited. I'm gonna attach a foto cause, guess what? I HAVE MY CORD THIS WEEK! YAY! :D but yeah. His mom was super super super happy xD she was baptized about a year ago and has been working on her sons for the past EVER! but Jesus, (hey-zoos, not Jeezus. it's spanish, yo!) has been talking about, "well, when I get baptized..." so yeah, we might aNOTHER one coming up soon after Fernando JR. :D

would I SERIOUSLY not have any problem getting in to LDS BC? even with my HORRIBLE S.A.T. scores and nasty 2.9 of an overall GPA? really? cause that gives me some hope for my life now! SWEET! but you ARE right about Warmoth... Ken is a super smart business man... unless I was gonna stick around, he wouldn't be up for it... hmm... so if I DO get accepted to LDS BC, then I will STILL have to hold off on my Dream of working for Warmoth... hmm... much thought and Prayer for sure. is there any required essays or anything for applying for LDS BC that I should know about? or do I get off easy and only have to send in my nasty grades to 'em?

and yes, that water is VERY potable here in Puerto Rico. almost. it mostly depends on your area, but mostly everywhere here in Puerto Rico is safe for water. however, houses are STILL made out of concrete blocks and are still super hot all the time. :'( buuuuut, I think my teeth should be safe for now. at least after I get that last cavity taken care of this next Wednesday.

BEHOLD! Lesters baptismal fotos attached! 1) Lester, Elder Harvey, and I. 2) Lester and the bishop 3) Lester and his mom, Adelin Nieves.

sweet. OH WOW! that's super awesome that Hannah got almost 100 on her final! SWEET! I didn't get to hear anything about her concert from her yet, though. I'm excited to hear about it, however.

DAH! poor sister Hansen... that really sucks. that would seriously kill me if I won tickets and they told me that they were for a different night that it actually was but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get a huge letter from Grandma about the concert. I'm pretty excited to hear about it though. :D

excellent. I'm glad that Cameron got my letter. I didn't get a reply yet from him, though! where is it?! >:(

also, I have some news. we are losing a TON of our senior couples here. and president Dewsnup has been mentioning to missionaries to talk to their families and friends. (also, single sisters can serve a mission no matter what age) and so, if someone signs up for a mission, President Dewsnup can put in a request for that person to come to this mission. President Dewsnup has mentioned that it's basically almost free to live here for the mission and that it's practically a vacation here anyway. ha ha ha, so if you happen to know anybody that would like to serve a mission in the Caribbean *wink wink nudge nudge* you know who to talk to. :D

aw, thank you for loving my "awesomeness" sometimes I don't feel so awesome, but it's good to know that you still think so. xD ha ha ha! :D

but yeah, we have our baptism this week with Fernando, Saturday at nine in the morning, and then we also are working with a newly wed couple that we found about a week and a half ago that I'm pretty excited about. they seem very Promising, and they accepted a baptismal date of march 13th. so we'll see how things go! :D

but yeah... I gotta bust a move and Email Robin now.

I LOVE YOU!!!

~Brandon (Elder Bryan)

One for the Money, Three to get ready, Toe to go

WOOT!



ok, number one. BEHOLD THE POWER OF ELDER BAILEY!



number two: YAY! Fernando's baptism. date: 12/20/2009



number three: sweet final day of my toe picture. ENJOY! :D I've got some other sweet ones too. :D

Re: to both, just to be sure!

Tue, Feb 16, 2010

I wanted you to wait to tell you what? o.O I can't remember what you're talking about... OH! for sending you pictures? ha ha ha! no no no, I just thought that it would be funny to say. I really wasn't just gonna make you wait, I just didn't have my camera cord. :3 wait... that doesn't make any sense... inside information? for what? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!? :'( maybe about being transferred? well, for that I didn't know until yesterday! :D and now I know! :D I'm not going anywhere! YAY! I get to stay right here in Caguas! woopee! and with Elder Harvey too. he ain't goin' NO where, so for the first time in my mission, I now have a companion for more than one transfer. sweet. now I feel a bit less ridiculous. :D

Dah! I KNOW I need to eat Annie's food! it's just so hard after being stuffed full of OTHER food! :'( but quite honestly... she feeds us quite a bit. :3 quite a bit indeed.

ok. so now for my dentist appointment. it went well. not too many problems (ha ha ha, well NONE, actually. xD ) but still. it went well. they took care of one on my right side, upper. there were actually two over there, right next to each other, that costed about $160 *sigh* so I paid for that, yes, with my home money. :P and now I've got to take care of the one on the other side. my tooth though is really really sensitive, and has been for the past two days. not before that, but now it seems to be getting more and more sensitive, so I have to talk about that to them next week. they drilled it out and did a reconstruction on my tooth... gah, and I've got to get one on the other side taken care of as well, which is on the appointment next week. and like you were asking about the dentist, yeah, it's basically the same here as it is there. at least THIS one is. but it's not too bad. As for that water battle with the filter that you mentioned, he he he, we actually got one for Christmas from the mission, so actually, you don't have to worry about that. :D

hmmm... that article about the missions changing really IS poorly written, heh heh, cause we are most definitely not combining with the Dom Rep mission. it's just us and the San Juan west mission, which is going to be the San Juan mission. As for the Santo Domingo east and the west indies mission I BELIEVE should be combining with each other. but not us, oh no.

for the islands that we are losing, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao (part of the west mission right now) they are going to the Dom Rep mission. they actually ARE the ABC islands. :P and Barbados is going to the west Indies mission. we get to keep the rest, from what I remember. :)

OO! they didn't tell us who the new mission president was going to be! Jorge M Alvarado, huh? sounds like a Latino name! it's gonna be interesting. I wonder if there's anyone else that knows? when they DO put up the Bio of him, please DO send me that. I wanna know about him. :D and I'm really excited that we're gaining Ponce in the mission. I think it would be SWEET to get the chance to go THERE! :D oh yeah!

yes yes. Elder HARVEY is my companion, NOT elder Bailey. :P but I DID mention things about him in my LAST email! but you're right... I haven't really talked about him... well, he's from Logan, like I said. he's got a farm out in Wyoming. he's more of a Farmie kinda guy. not much for the city. Loves Cars, longs walks on the beach, the smell of rain. ha ha ha! no no no, not the last two, but he really DOES love cars. knows quite a bit about ém, in fact. so yeah... about five eleven, 200 pounds, light brown hair. he's got a girlfriend ladies, so no touchie! ha ha ha! anyways... yeah... what more to say? I don't know... I'm really tired so I can't exactly think right now... :-/ I know, I know... LAME :'( oh, and he's only got 8 months left. yup yup yeppers.

so for my email, now, my email is brandon.bryan@myldsmail.net I still can receive emails from the other one, which will be bumped over to this one, but I don't know for how long. SO, it would be easier just to send 'em to the new one, yo! just do it. like Nike says. also, I bought a sweet Thundercats shirt today. I'm excited. :D

SPEAKING of today, we just went bowling! :D YEAH! I wold send the pictures, but I forgot my cord again... I'M SORRY! I'm always just SO TIRED... *sigh* I'll get them next week for sure. but yeah, we WERE supposed to go with the zone leaders, but Elder Donovan is getting transferred to Barbados... so we brought Lester, our super cool super awesome investigator with us. (that was already part of the plan anyways, but still. :D ) but yeah, it was really fun.

ha ha ha! sweet deal for the tubing up at paradise! sounds like Donny and Cameron had it good for that activity! all girls and them? ha ha ha! xD

so for the dunking, Lester's baptism is this Sunday, and he's not sure who will do it yet, so we'll find out sometime this week. for Fernando the Younger, well... we don't know that one either ha ha ha! we gave him a little paper that he could fill out with the prayers, hymns, talks and baptism, so we'll find out soon enough who he wants to choose to do the dunkin xD

wait, are you saying that your birthday isn't important?! heck yes its important, what are you crazy?! :P I needa get you somethin'. maybe... I think I've got an Idea.

DAH! no FREE TIME when I get back?! :'( what about visiting Puerto Rico with you and Dad? don't you wanna do that? as for the job, will I have time for that if I'm gonna be running off to school two months after I get back? but then again... *IDEA* oh my gosh... you know what? If I don't get into any school cause of my crappy grades, I'm probably gonna have to go to pierce for a little bit, right? to boost my grades? oh my goodness... this would be incredible... oh my goodness. ok, so if I have to stay a little bit to go to pierce... that would mean that I would get the chance to work at Warmoth... oh man. Ken DID say to check them out when I get back, as long as I promised to continue with my schooling. and I don't got no prawblem wif dat! :D oh man, that would be SO sweet! (as emphasized by my giant text.) what do you think? do you think I have a much bigger probability of having to stay and boost my *sigh* my crappy grades before I go anywhere? what do you think about the whole working at Warmoth thing? cause I've even already met Ken, and Thim at Macys is his Ex wife, and we talked quite a bit when I was there... so I think I might have a little step up if I were to go with it. oh goodness that would be sweet.

Blarg! I KNOW I haven't said what Elder Bednar talked about... ok. I'm probably gonna have to grab that next week, cause I can't really remember right now in my tired state... :-/ I know I know, another week, but hold your horses! :P I'll get it, I promise. :P

ha ha ha, no, I have yet to hug my companion. He saves those only for in the evening after comp prayer.

and I would really love to get a Valentines day card. :3 I LOVE YOU! :3

so yeah... I gots to bust a move, outta time, just like always. :'( why is time always so short?!!11oneoneone??!

also, has Bryan sent my package yet? I've been waiting since November.

and keep torturing my cat, cause she's gonna have to get used to all the torture when I get back Ha ha ha!
but yeah, it's time to bust a move, yo! LOVE YOU!

~Brandon (Elder Bryan)

PS: I LOVE the picture that you put up as my Facebook pic. PERFECT! HA HA HA! Annie showed me last time we were there.

MONKEY!

Re: he talked about....?

Wed, Feb 10, 2010

Ha Ha Ha! Annie ("Sister Martinez") TOLD me that she found you! sweet! ha ha ha, we had actually been talking about stuff and then Facebook came up and she was like, "oh, do YOU have a Facebook?" and I said yes, so she found me on there, and I told her to look you up to. heh heh, I guess she wanted to send some pictures too! xD blarg! It's not MY fault I don't have all the time in the world to just toss a million pictures around! :P jeeze.

as for what she was trying to say, hmmm... in Spanish texting and stuff, they usually take the "que" down to "q", so it could either mean "that" or "what" depending on the context... AH NO! she said that I eat slow when she cooks?! DAH! It's not true! it's just that usually when she cooks, it's like right after we've eaten, or we just had lunch or something! :'( blah! besides. she's never even made us hamburgers. hmmm.... enchantment would be enjoyment, yes. encanto is either "to love", or "to enchant" depending on the context. :) um, Elder Bailey got transferred. six weeks ago. :P gosh, don't you remember that I told you that?! he got moved to Antigua. my new companion is Elder Harvey now. and... has been. for six weeks. this is our last week before transfers. with Elder HARVEY. and Yes, she Is divorced. it was... *sigh* it was an RM, and he... didn't really know what it meant to be Married. he was... a player I guess you could say. long story... :-/ chevere means cool here, but in some areas it means terrific. :D but it's pretty much used just like we use cool. so yes. it means cool. :D ha ha ha! yeah, her Brother DID give me glasses. I guess she DID take some pictures with me waering them... heh, I completely forgot that she did. HA! but I LOVE those things. in those pics I had been wearing Her Brothers, but he picked me up some after I told him that I absolutely LOVED them! he grabbed me some Brown ones, but they didn't look as cool, so hes gonna check and see if he can find the black ones so that I can enjoy them with ALL of my outfits. xD Ha Ha! yes, after we went to go eat at her house on Sunday, she gave me one of those giant KitKats and got elder HARVEY, not BAILEY anymore (:P), a Resees. those are his favorite. xD

shes totally super cool mega awesome +5. :D aw, YES! send her a picture of me with the long hair! I think that she told me that she saw some of those on dads Facebook, but she would totally love to get one! ha ha ha! I told her about it and she was like "do you have pictures?" but I didn't... so yeah, hook her up, yo! :D she also watched my little video up on YouTube. ha ha ha, beastie, that crazy cat xD yeah, I can tell her about that, no problem. :)

I do NOT have seven months! I only have five and a half. :P the CCM and MTC don't count!

Ha Ha HA! yeah, I'm glad that my letter made it to the Keys alright. :D

oh man... did I really make $5408?! BLARG! where did all of it go?! :'( man, I suck... how exactly does a tax return work, anyways? cause I was wondering about that. Tawny told me in her letter that she's getting back like a thousand bucks, so I was like, wow... I wonder if I get money back... but I don't even really know how it works... you wanna hook me up, yo? :)

yes... I must get a letter out to Darren soon. I will do that today. :)

as for my dentist appointment... heh, that's actually today. :3 I completely forgot that it was today, and not next week... so yeah, today at one thirty. it's gonna be super fun, yo! I can't wait! :D yeah, and elder HARVEY, NOT BAILEY anymore, has to get like six hundred dollars worth of work on his teeth... sweet. I'm just getting one filling, but he's got quite a bit of work to do. the water out in Antigua has a LOT of sulfer in it, and he said it just goes to town on your teeth. so Elder BAILEY out there, Not Elder HARVEY anymore, is going to have lots and lots of fun. :D so yeah... but the dentist is here in Caguas, just right down the street from Annie's house, actually xD ha ha ha!

and for Fernando, he put his OWN date for the 27th. :D we also have another guy, Lester, who is the son of a recent convert who put his own date as well for the 20th. so I've got two baptisms comin up, yo! :D and we also had a person who has come to church with a friend this last week who is pretty interested. we've got an appointment with her this Thursday and it's pretty likely that we're going to have a date placed with her the next week after the 27th... so yeah. life's pretty good out here I guess. xD

ok ok... so no tie hunting this last week... so whats new beginnings? and do you think you can go and do some tie hunting THIS week? :3 cause that would be pretty sweet you know. just throwing that out there. :3

BLARG! I KNEW your birthday was coming up! DAH! I never remember when it IS though! ... when is it? :) also... when exactly is Ehren's birthday as well? I gots to know that too. :)
hmm... heyitsfree.net sounds like a quite fantastic website... you gotta remind me about that when I get home. I've got some birthdays to catch up on. ;)

ha ha ha, I like that Annies been sending you emails. I think its sweet! it kinda makes it like... I dunno, like there,s a more connectino, I guess? I dunno. but I'm glad you guys are talking. :D

yes yes. don't you forget that next week is transfers! I SHOULD be able to have the opportunity to write no problem next week, so we'll see how the cookie crumbles. :D

so, a few other things to throw in here:

-is donny still using my backpack!? He better not be!

-also, Ive got big news! in June, something big is happening. it's bigger and better than ever! its: the combining of the Puerto Rico San Juan east and west missions! *ScReAmS* NOOO! but yes. it's true. and there is no escape.

-something else. myldsmail.net has now combinded itself with Gmail. so now, myldsmail is much better, much more awesome, and I'm lacking all of my email contacts! :D yay! so now, you gotta hook me up with all my emails that I sent you so that you could send THEM emails. well, send 'em already! also, I'm not exactly sure why, but they changed my email. it was kinda like this automatic "we're going to give you a new email thing"... BUT, all the OLD emails I have, and all emails that are sent to brandonhbryan@myldsmail.net will be automatically sent to me at brandon.bryan@myldsmail.net so yeah... thats my new email./ use it, love it, keep it in your hearts. thank you.

-also, have you fixed the BlendTech yet? cause I know for a fact that when I get back from the mission I'm gonna want a berry smoothie! cause then I'll have TIME TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ONE! sweet. free time. mmmmmm, free time. and practice my guitar time.... mmmmmm. that will be nice.

but yeah... not much has really happened this week so far... hmmm... not really much at all, really. we've been doing lots of finding because we have time to... yup. thats about it. so yeah. not much else. :D

and now its time to go. welp, I love everybody! have a good February tenth to the sixteenth! WEEE!!!!

~Brandon (Elder Bryan)

how come forks have four prongs?!

Wed, Feb 03, 2010

CAUSE THEY'RE FOUR-ks. :D HA HA HA! lame. xD

Ha Ha Ha! I'm glad that the short bus comment was entertaining! xD ha ha ha!

naw, Elder Bednar actually had to leave right after that stake conference to the airport, so he busted a move pretty quick outta there. but he talked a little bit about (yes, he did not finish his sentence)

yeah, you know. that whole getting to sleep on time thing really makes everything a little different. you sleep a lot better too. ;) that's good that Dad has gotten into a nice routine for work AND school. is he just super busy all the time now? :-/

who did Robin bring to the Priest Laurel activity? just a friend from school? DAH! I can't believe that you told Brother Christianson that! blarg... I'm NOT a problem child... :'( *cries* ITS NOT TRUE! >:(

whoa! Sister Earl and McCorkle went home?!11oneoneone?! that's crazy! and no. I Have NOT been out for seven months, thank you. I only count the time in the field. the MTC and CCM don't really count. so I've only been out for 5 months. nyah. :P

wait... whats the Levy election for...? :)

and I just said hi to Robin, along with a fairly decent sized email, so she should have a corazón apacible now. (quiet heart. xD)

are you serious?! did I seriously make over $5000 last year?! how is this POSSIBLE!? dang... I would've had MORE than enough money... for the amp, a cab, AND a custom Warmoth... *sigh* blarg. well, I SHOULD still have some money left over when I get back. BESIDES, I did pay for some stuff back at the beginning of my mission. ;) Plus, I'm gonna have to buy like a whole new wardrobe! :D I need new clothes when I get back, yo.

ha ha ha! sister Curtis really wrote the same stuffs? well, no problem then. I'll get right on writing Darren. :3

YES!!! Joe Satriani DVD and CD waiting for me when I get back. ALRIGHT! was it a NEW CD by him? :3

didn't Bree and Bryan both say that the package would be on it's way soon last time? and the time before that? COME ON! :'(

oo, Tell April and Angela ""HI!" :D and tell April that she needs to write me. now. cause she's a bum.

Eh... I dunno If I'll stay with this comp or not... I guess it all depends. :P however, more than anything I really really REALLY hope that I stay here in Caguas, more than anything. I LOVE it here. all the people are totally the bestest.

yes. where is my old memory card? HMMMM? you send you would send that back! jeeze! :P

so, news from this week! WOO! I'm excited now.OK, so, you remember me recent baptism, with Fernando? the guy that was TOTALLY prepared and found out about the church through the internet? well, we had a lesson with his SON this last Saturday, our second one after sharing the restoration DVD with him and leaving him a book of mormon and 2 Nephi 31 to read, about the doctrine of Christ. He is PERFECT!!!! OH MY GOSH! so we get there, and he pulls out his Book of Mormon, and a NOTEBOOK, and he's goes ÿeah, I read what you guys left me, and it just all makes sense. and then, I was flipping through the book and was picking out chapters that I liked"". He totally read like 10 chapters EXTRA than what we left him! WHAT?! he read Alma 7, Mormon 7, Moroni 7,8,10, 2 Nephi 31, and a few others that I can't remember right now. and those are some of the most doctrinal chapters in the Book of Mormon. he is a beast! Moroni 8 is about the baptizing of little children, and he was like "yeah! I had a question about this before! it totally makes sense why they shouldn't baptize kids." and he's just... wow. hes just got this incredible hunger for the Gospel, just like his father does. speaking of which, Fernando... wow. (side note: his sons name is Fernando as well ha ha ha!) so Fernando, the FATHER, has been doing his studying. he works in the Radio, so while he's there, he's got TONs of time to read and stuff, so hes been studying the duties of a priesthood holder, the Book of Mormon, DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS, AND the Gospel principles book. all. at. once. holy COW! (Santa Vaka! (except tha'ts not a saying in Spanish. xD)) they both are very prepared for the gospel, and I'm really excited about Fernando (his son) he's only 18, and he has this HUGE hunger for the gospel. right after our lesson with him on Saturday, we had a lesson with his father right afterwards, for after baptism lessons, and we retaught the plan of salvation a little bit. that was going to be our next lesson with his son, this THURSDAY, and while we were teaching it, Fernando his SON comes out and says, hey, I just read about that in the pamphlet you guys gave me! and sat in on the rest of the lesson. Wow. super totally awesome. plus, after our lesson with the SON, he asked for all the chapters that we had on the plan of salvation. *jaw drops* WHAT?! so we gave him four chapters: 2 Nephi 2, 2 Nephi 7,Aalma... 34 I think and Alma 40... I think. I can't remember right now... hm... blarg... I need to remember that... eh, I should have it in my planner. :)

so yeah... super awesomeness. AH! I have lost myself my memory card to USB thing... (thats why I wasn't able to send pictures last week) *sigh* so I'll probably pick one up at Walmart today. BUT, I do have my camera cord with me today so I CAN send SOME pictures. :) I'll get those sent in just a sec.

Also, how is your search for the EVH style tie goin?! :D Tell me you're still LOOKING! :D do you think there might be one hiding on the internet some wheres? :3 I bet you $2 there is! BUT, you can't win the $2 unless you LOOK! :D ;) GO! go and look! :D :D DO IT! *eye twitches*

so yeah... lemme get those pictures sent. :D

I love you guys lots!

~Brandon (Elder Bryan) :3