Dated 9/16/09
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-Elder Brandon Bryan, your favorite missionary.
Oh my GOODNESS! I can't believe I forgot to put this in my e-mail and in your letter! I got a baptism! Dah! I feel so ridiculous for not remembering that! I got to baptize her and everything! I have pictures, but I have pictures sent them yet and I can't I forgot! duh! OK. I'm going to start have to start making a list of things that I need to remember to write about in my e-mail and letters, 'cause by the time I get to Wednesday I'm so pooped out. but I'm aiming to be more productive.=D
Anyways, her name is Herminia. She's an older lady, and she's actually the mother of Elder Maldonado's converts from I think about three or two month's ago. But he's been working on her to help her get prepared for baptism, and all she really had left was to kick her coffee habit and she did!=D So Elder Maldonado, since I helped teach her a little bit while I was here(a little TeeNIE bit, ha, ha!) he said I could baptize her! WOW! a week and a half into my mission and I'm already baptizing people!? alright! ha ha!
So yea. please if you get the chance, share that with everybody, 'cause I wasn't able to include that in my e-mail.
Anyways, I need to go do personal study now, since I'm using that time to write this! ha ha!
Love you!
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
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