Elder Bryan
My trainer and new address:
Elder Maldonado
Alturas de Rio Grande
Calle 1 A36 Apt. #4
Rio Grande, PR 00745
Elder Bryan's Side Note:-> Elder Maldonado told me that mail sent to this address doesn't get there super often. So if you send stuff to the mission office I'll be able to get all of those wonderful Packages you send all the time once a week. =D
Ah! first letter from the mission field! Whoa!
Woot woot! So here I am sitting in the chapel in Puerto Rico. I'm finally here and safe as evidenced by my photo. Oh, and look at that, you get to see my nice short hair before I send you a picture.
It just feels .... so weird to be here. Actually out here, doing everything that I've been taught to do. It almost feels surreal.:-o But I am really glad to be here, and I'm especially glad to have learn everything I have at the MTC and the CCM.
Ok. So about my first night a little bit. :D yay! first night! OK ... So my trainers name is Elder Maldonado, just like it says up at the top. =) I got to meat his last companion, Elder Teuch (Toich is how it's pronounced. Crazy German words xD) and this is the end of his first 6 weeks here. Guess where he's being transferred now? Barbados! :-o Lucky! alright! and my new area is Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Que Bueno, no? =D I like to think so. It's so cool here. Hills covered in Jungle trees all over the place, and at night time? Oh my goodness, I swear that the movies got their jungle sounds from here.. it is just incredible! also, it's a bit ... better than the Dom Rep. here the water is clean, and the traffic is slightly more organized.
Dah! almost out of time. OK, so we have a hurricane heading our way, we might just get rain and crazy wind, though it all depends where it goes through. but I have to stay inside until that time! (obviously, ha ha!) So I might have more time ... ha, like right now. But yeah Sister Dewsnup is warning us about the things we need to do to prepare, like water and food.
Doh, outta time now, but yeah, I will try the best I can to write soon.
I love you guys so much. I really do. Thank you guys for everything.
Elder Brandon Bryan
Current Location and Address
Puerto Rico, San Juan - East Mission
Puerto Rico, San Juan - Mission
Adjuntas, PR 00601
Mark 1:4 and 9
4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
Christ was not baptized for the remission of sins because he had none. But, as Nephi recounts, he was baptized for the following reasons:
(1) As a token of humility before the Father;
(2) As a covenant that he would keep the commandments;
(3) As a prelude to receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost;
(4) To gain entrance to and be saved in the kingdom of God, for no one, not even the Son of God, can so obtain without baptism; and
(5) As a pattern and an example for all men, and so that he could say: “Follow thou me” and also, “He that is baptized in my name, to him will the Father give the Holy Ghost, like unto me; wherefore, follow me, and do the things which ye have seen me do.” (See 2 Ne. 31:5–12.)
Bruce R. McConkie, “A Man Called John,” New Era, May 1984, 4
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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