Tue, Dec 22, 2009
lookit! I have my P-day earlier this week! :-/ I wish I had known this before last week so that I could tell you guys, but that's how life goes I suppose... at least I still get to email. :D it's cause we have the mission Christmas party tomorrow. and then we have CHRISTMAS!!! WOOO!!!!!! OK. so first off, I just wanna wish everybody out there that still cares enough about me to check my blog and even bother to open my lame-o emails, a very merry Christmas! :D *ahem* lo siento. howsabout: FELIZ NAVIDAD! YAY! es éso mejor? sÃ, yo Pienso. excelente.
AnYwAyS, guess what everybody? :D you know that nice little ingrown toenail that I mentioned last week? well, it didn't get any better. and even cooler than that, I got SURGERY on it today! :D SWEET! yup, it's the best ever when they start digging around inside your toe with a little metal scoop. good deal. yup yup yeppers. so yes... my toe's a little tender now, and the anethesia... <--GROSS, I forgot how to spell it! :'( ANYWAYS, that nice little stuff they put to make things not hurt very much is wearing off, so I'm getting this nice little pain down there. yeah... and Other news, that a bit less disgusting. Fernando was BAPTIZED this last Sunday! :D that was the coolest ever!1!!!1111oneoneone111!! he's a very very VERY good guy, and the spirit was there VERY strongly. he even gave his testimony afterwards. I'm gonna send a picture of me and Elder bailey and him home so you all can see. :D Elder Bailey did the Baptism (which is probably better, cause of my toe) and the whole thingie went really swell. :3 but yeah, other than that, this weeks been really really tuff, cause I haven't been able to walk very much. So, this whole time we've been doing lots of searching for old investigators and stuff like that. but yeah, tomorrow is the Christmas party or the mission. there's gonna be a program, lunch, and a talent show. anyone in the mission can do something, but there's not really... heh, there's not really a whole lot that we can do. thres pretty much singing or playing an instrument. president Dewsnup didn't even want jokes. xD so yeah... but I thought about doing something, but not really at the same time. I wanted to have WAY more time to practice than I had... plus, I would have had to have picked up a guitar from a member to practice on, and all that stuff. just too much effort. ha ha ha, but no, it was more about the whole preparation thing. :) and THEN! we also have our CALL HOME!!! SWEET! I wish I could get in contact with you on more time before Christmas, cause then I could get some info on when to call you and all that stuff... you know, stuff that's kinda IMPORTANT. but ok... so we have dinner plans at a members house at 4:00. and for YOU GUYS, that's at 2:00... or at least, it SHOULD be. and I have moms cell phone number, so I can just call that, and then wherever you guys are, I can get the house phone number and call you guys there. like, if you guys are at Grandma Jan's I can just get the number from you. :3 the number is ***-***-****, right?(number blanked out by the moderator to protect the innocent) it better be, cause that's what I remember it was. if not... crap. then I'm screwed. ha ha ha!so yeah... I guess I'll be calling around 2 your time then. :)
lets see... other things of interest... OH!!! If I get the chance to stay here in Caguas for the next transfer, the stake is going to have an apostle and an area 70 come the 24th of January! SWEET! I wonder who it's going to be... I dunno, but I'm excited. :D quite fantastical!
wooOO! ok... OH! I also gave myself another haircut... :'( I ALWAYS hate doing that. blarg.
yes yes, so you guys have my apartment address. I have one more revision for that:
Urb. Bairoa park
S6-1 AVE. Parque de Napoleon
Caguas, PR 00725
yeah... it's AVE instead of Calle. but whatever. it's the same, since they go more by the neighborhoods, rather than the streets. so yeah... I GUESS it's not really important... xD
OK! I'm off to send some pictures now! WEEE!!!
I Love you all, back there in Washington. especially everybody. gosh, I can't really pick out some specifics, but... nyah, who cares. I love my family, the Franzens, the Keys family, My Grandma Jan, My Grandma Nita, My Grandpa Ed, My Grandpa Tony, Lou, all of my friends, and everybody else that I don't have any time to list off, but I want EVERYBODY that reads my emails, that I Love them ALL! WOO!
Anyways, off to send some picatures!
Till this Thursday (or next week, if you aren't my family! :D )
~Elder Brandon Bryan :3
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
Saturday, December 26, 2009
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