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Wed, Oct 28, 2009

que pasa con que? :D

aw, it's all good if you didn't get the chance to write me. it happens, you know? I mean... I'm only you most loved child, halfway across the WORLD. I understand. :P

ha ha ha! but it's all good. I know how things go with sister slade. xD

OH MAN!!!! you got to sit near President Uchtdorf?! you lucky punk! did it look like he enjoyed it? did YOU enjoy it? what songs were played? how come WE didn't go see that when I was there? :D :P man... all those musicians from Asia are just sick awesome. its not fair. but you know? all it takes is some work. that's all you have to do. work and dedication. (fo sho!)

thats so cool that you got to chill with Neumann, Rasmussen and Jesse! AND you guys went to Moochies together? cool beans. coooooool beans. xD I hope you enjoyed one of those cheese steaks for me. :P

wow. MAN, things just keep hitting up Don and Joanna left and right! that's hard... wow. and the cook just...? wow. disappointing. I wonder what made him think that he could get away with it. it's good that they got him though. it's interesting that he got caught for SOMETHING ELSE too. and YES!! I'm so glad that they were able to find the bag. I KNEW it was there somewhere. xD that's good that he feels that way about the guardian angel, eh? maybe it will lead to him getting reactivated? ha ha ha! aw! :'( I hope Joanna feels better about Baby... She was a good Dog.

wait. you guys got letters from Ehren? WHAT?! wheres mine?! :'( wait... did he also send Robin one? ha ha ha! gosh. WHY DIDN'T HE SEND ME ONE?! RIDICULOUS!

this week? estoy FANTASTICO! :D I've got Elder Dye as a companion! heck yes! I'll toss some pics of him in with my pics of the Yunque this week. sweet!

heh heh heh, well, the small mini stove that we have (on top of the Main stove) isn't put there by the land lord... it's actually from the housing coordinators, the Molinas. so pretty much what we have to do is just pick up a new one (cause the Molinas never answer their phone for us... I don't know why) and then give the mission the receipt to get reimbursed for it. :)

oh goodness! we have this one member, Hermana Luz, that feeds us every Thursday! :D wow, she makes some good Arroz y Habichuelas. mm mm, tasty. that and the culture here is all about sharing food. "are you guys hungry?" "Ustedes quieren un efresco?" "here, lets just put some of this food in a bag for you to take home" oh my gosh! we had food coming out of the yin yizzle last week! our fridge was filled beyond capacity last week. ha ha ha! I got a picture of it cause it was so funny. OH!!!! speaking of food as well. we had one member totally give us the most ginourmous grapefruit in the WORLDDDD!!!! I got a picture of that too, cause it was... wow. bigger than four of my fists put together. KARAIZEE!

heck YES we have a microwave! :D Elder Maldonado just didn't know how to eat, so we never had REAL vegetables around. but we do now! :D so I get to pop that popcorn you sent me! :D

aw, and the laundry bag? perfect. absolutely perfect. the threads on that thing is superb. :D speaking of all the stuff you sent me. :D I got the notice for the package on Friday! wow! so if you sent it on Wednesday, that means it got to me in two days! skidoosh, super speedy.

and as for my birthday... what DO I want? well, for starters... I wold have to say, my gospel Principles book. you know, cause being able to understand that book would be pretty fantastic. not gonna lie. xD oh! and maybe a new Varigrip. that finger strength thing that I bought, cause one of the fingers that had been broken on it finally gave up the ghost. xD so yeah... I could send you a picture of that so you could make sure to get the right one. ;) not saying that you would get the wrong one or anything. no. that's just ridiculous. but just to be positive. you know? yeah. but what else...? for my birthday? wow... I can't even think of anything... maybe I could try and come up with a list of things by next week? :D ha ha ha!

and as for being starved for music? yes. very much so. Elder Dye has a very nice collection of CD's, and two weeks ago he picked up a CD player, but that's only gonna last until he's not my companion anymore, right? yeah. as for getting the music to me? well... you COULD send it to me as a CD, I GUESS... I'm not exactly sure how you could get it to me in MP3 form... no sé exacto... maybe a simple CD player and some CDs? gosh, I just don't even know.

oh my GOSH. Bryan WOULD do that. ha ha ha! that's so great though! ha ha ha! I think you should take him up on the idea. but make sure you make him say the prayer. ha! I can almost imagine him saying, "well, I was Brandon last week, but now its MY birthday this week" ha ha ha!\

sounds like that stake standards night must have been a good one. texting is ever so slightly addicting you know. *cough* robin *cough cough* what? what was that?

Anyways, YAY! Donny's a life scout!!! YES! now get on him to get working on those Merit badges. he needs to get his eagle. xD

aw, my booger knows when you're talking to me! :D yay! I can almost feel the fake love coming from the hard black and white text on the screen. mm. love it. xD

"hi Dad!" lets see... what did I learn from my last comp? the biggest thing would probably be... trusting in the lord. and hope. but those two go hand in hand together. however, yes. I learned most of all, to trust in the Lord. there is a reason why we go through things. through ALL things. and they are to help us learn, and become who we need to be, and who the Lord wants us to be. so, even though my first companion was a horrible experience, I learned quite a bit about myself. about who I REALLY am, and what I'm striving to do and become. very nice, in fact. quite nice indeed.

oh goodness... I GUESS you could send me an envelope, but I've got some other stuff that I would like to send home too, like all of my Ties. ha ha ha! gosh, all the ones I brought from home would DIE if I used them here! the humidity would just destroy them, and I don't want anything to happen to them. xD so I might just get a box together of some stuff that I would like to preserve and keep safe so I don't have to keep lugging them around, ya know? so I'll do the best that I can there.

and on the memory card.... well, I've got some pretty entertaining videos, but I also have some recordings of some riffs that I came up with. now, I don't care if you listen to them, but just so you know, that's what they are. so don't let anything happen to them! :P but then again... if I send you the memory card then I won't have the pictures to look at MYSELF! :P hmmm... maybe I could just send it to ya anyways. I mean, you DO have to send it back, right? that and my memory card still has enough space for 2,000 more pictures. ha ha ha! I don't know. I'll see how getting that box goes. :3

so yeah. lets see whats happened around here. oh! I tried a malta here! non alchoholic malta is quite popular here in Puerto Rico, and Omayra, the recent convert /daughter of Herminia, ANOTHER recent convert gave one each to me and Elder Dye after one of our lessons. BLECH!!!! TOTALLY DISGUSTING! ha ha ha! wow, it smelled like spaghettios... and it tasted like... carbonated... I don't even know. maybe I could just describe it as carbonated spaghettios? GRODY!

lets see. oh! last night we had be giving a lesson to Mili (Milagros), ha, ANOTHER recent convert, and like halfway through the lesson, the power went out. HA HA! we had been teaching about Lehi's Dream, and right smack dab in the middle, the power just goes "SCHWOOP" and goes out. and then like three seconds later this HUGE roll of thunder goes over the house. SWEET! so we gave the other half of the lesson in the dark. ha ha ha! and the house us up near the Yunque so it was DARK. ha ha! luckily for us though, David, a member that we brought with us to the lesson had a flashlight on his PHONE! ha, so we used that for the rest of the lesson, and then right before we were about to finish up, the power comes back on. ha ha! it was cool. and you know what? it also reminded me about that concert that we had at GK when the power went out. that was such a cool experience. both the lesson AND the concert. yeah. good stuff.

Well, I gotta get some pictures sent to you, so I guess I'll end the email and get to the stuff that you really care about. :P ha ha ha!

so anyways, I love you LOTS!!! talk to you next week! oh... also, would you tell Bryan that he NEEDS to write me back? whats the dealio with that? I sent him a letter TWO WEEKS ago. he's TOTALLY had enough time. plus, he could even send it to my apartment address! even less hassle for him, cause i would be gar-raun-teed to get it in about two days. so yes. you should make that a condition for his/MY birthday dinner. (ha ha ha!)

I Love you guys so much!

~Brandon/Elder Bryan