yeah yeah yeah. excuses excuses. :P

Wed, Oct 21, 2009

yay, DOUBLE LONG! now lets hope if I can reply to it all, eh?! :D

ok, it's all good if you didn't get the package sent out. I'll eventually get it, right? yeppers. so I should be all good, as long as I get it. that's what counts the most.

ha ha ha! I love you story though! ha ha ha! that must have been fun!!! ha ha, same box DIFFERENT LETTERS! goodness. I wish I coulda seen that. that would have been great.(mom says-long story about a rude clerk at the post office)

hey, I thought I told you about the mouth guard... oh wells. currently we don't have a stove that works well enough to boil water, so I'm kinda, heh heh, like a fish out of water. (well, that was lame. sorry to waste your time there. :P ) so I can't really set the mouth guard yet. but we're going to call the people in the area, the Molinas, that do the apartment check ups if they can hook us up with a new stove that WORKS, cause the one we have also just randomly decides to turn off... also, it's not grounded, so we get shocked every time we touch the metal base. NO BUENO. so yeah. we need to get that taken care of. :)

ah, as for my new comp. I've gotten to know quite a bit more about my companion in the last week. his name is Elder Dye. he quite honestly beats the crap out of Elder Maldonado with his awesome. no joke. Elder Maldonado had no sense of humor whatsoever. and quite honestly, he was a bit to wrapped up in himself. this might sound a bit harsh, bit he didn't really train me. I didn't learn anything from him. he never told me what was going on, and during most of our appointments I just sat there. and he was quite literally a robot in our lessons. same lessons, same questions. same EVERYTHING. so from that...

yeah. but honestly, it had gotten bad enough that I was thinking that if I had to spend anymore than those six weeks, I wouldn't make it. it was... wow, it was bad. but WOW. ELDER DYE knows how to teach. he's super cool. AND, he's got a great sense of humor. much nicer. and you know what? he listens to what I say! WHAT?! crazy, I know, but it's true. :D but he is from Orem Utah, and he speaks PERFECT English. ha ha ha! :P oh, and his Spanish isn't half bad either. he's got 17 months in the mission, so he's doin pretty good for himself. ah, and transfers were pretty cool. ha ha ha, I still feel like a greenie though cause I still have no idea what I'm doin. but Elder Dye has been commissioned to teach me anew! YAY! "new trainer!"

... you know, I wouldn't mind if you want to toss me a letter, too. :D mail is actually quite reliable here, from what I've discovered, so if you want, you can toss my current address around, cause I have no idea the next time I get the chance to get to the mission office... but it might be this Thursday... ha ha ha!

I'm not too certain about my suit... I need to find out when Elder Dye wants to run out to do that. he wouldn't mind. I still need to find out when I can get my license, as well. those might end up happening on the same day. :)

wow! travis is going to Texas? where at? Jordan Peterson, my friend from EFY is in Texas. I can't remember exactly where, though. maybe later. xD

yeah, I WAS eating mixed vegetables out of a can. CAUSE ELDER MALDONADO DIDNT EVER EAT!!!! :'( that's all that we had vegetable wise! but it's ok, Elder Dye likes to eat, just like me. :) first thing we did when we got here was go and fill our apartment with food. (cause we literally had NOTHING)

tell sister that she is GORGEOUS, and that she has nothing to worry about. Helaman 5:12, or Alma... 24:34? 24:30? I can't remember WHERE it is exactly, but it goes "the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his bretheren where made light, so that they could be up their burdens with ease, that they did submit with patience and diligence to all the will of the Lord" or somethin to that effect. if you have the chance to look that up, por favor, haz lo. :)

yay! MR BAIN!!! I actually have a letter that I am in the process of writing him to thank him for being such an incredible teacher. but don't tell him. I gotta get it written! xD

oh yeah! I got a post card from Grandma Jan and Grandpa Ed from Paris! :D so awesome that they finally got the chance to go! :D

gosh, those cats. they are such weenies! my goodness. at least you got some time with blue and vortex for a while though, right? :D (We dog sat for a friend)

as for April. whats the dealio? she even TOLD me that she would write me. you should get on her for that. that bum. xD

aw, lucky! you get to go to Utah AGAIN! man, you are just spoiled. :P

shawn, shawn, shawn... what happened? I don't understand how you could be SO CLOSE to going on your mission and then going so FAR AWAY.... and the fact that he's gotten baptized in another church? that just doesn't make any sense! why? is there somehow something that THAT church offers that the TRUE church of GOD himself established doesn't? I don't get it. do you know?

wow... you guys had a high speed chase?! crazy! and they killed him, too... I wonder why he was runnin...? speaking of shooting and stuff though. heh heh heh, we have some apartments that are next to our neighborhood of Alturas (se llama Galateo) that have shootouts almost every night. ha hah ha! sometimes it's super bad, sometimes it's not that bad at all, maybe one or two shots. but here in Rio Grande, there is just... things are just going downhill. there was a guy that was robbed at one of the local mini stores... there's a gang that chills in a neighborhood down the freeway (highway 3) called Rio Grande Estates. they leave us alone cause we are men of God (sweet!) but still. we need to be more careful at night.

goodness. two days ago we did service for this investigator, and he had a house that was all the way up on the side of the Yunque, so we had a super super super awesome view of the island. but anyways, he took us up there and we cleared out his driveway cause all the grass and trees here grow year round (CAUSE ITS SUMMER ALL THE TIME! :D) so we helped him with that, and after wards he took us out for sandwiches that were AWESOME! but yeah, I gots some pictures of that, too.

now, I don't have time to send any pictures this week, but we have some pictures from the service, and I have some from El Yunque that I have to get sent. :) but we have to go get food though, so I'll get those sent first before ANYTHING next week.

give my baby a hug for me (ha ha ha, Bryan), and hug shadow too.

I love you all so much! and I'm gonna start focusing on more stuff that's happening around here too. also, my Spanish is doing better, cause Elder Dye actually lets me participate in the lessons! YAY! :D but yeah. Elder Maldonado was sent out to Salinas, on the south side of the island, in the desert! ha ha ha!

ah!!! AND elder Dye was there with the Elder that gave Johnny Depp the pass along card!!!! and HE HAS A PICTURE OF IT!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D so he's going to give ti to me!!! so COOL!


anyways!!! I gots to go!!! I love you guys so much!

talk to you guys next week!

~Elder Brandon Bryan