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 19, 2009
warning! spontanious combustion warning due to so much awesome.
yeah, it's a nice little bonus that I got the package right after we got home this last wednesday. I thought it was pretty funny. xD but yes. I have finally procured myself the ACTUAL address, so feel freee to publish this one. oh, and I actually got a letter from Great Grandma this last week as well. AND your letter apologizing. xD ha ha ha, but yes. ah, and so I wanna give you the REAL address. :3 but i still have yet to get that post card... hmm.
it is here.
Urb. Bairoa Park
S6-1 Calle Parque de Napoleon
Caguas, PR 00725
woot!
but yeah. well, I DO like President Dewsnup. He just has NO sense of humor! xD I think it's SO funny! all the members that have talked to us about him are like "does he just not have a sense of humor? I never even see him smile!" Ha Ha! but yeah, he's pretty sweet. and a total GENIUS! jeeze, that guy comes up with everything! I don't know what it is, but even if he's just READING the scriptures i feel smarter. xD ha ha ha!
yeah, Elder Bailey had been thinking that mail was just taking longer because of the fact that it's around Christmas time. makes sense. but now that you have my address, you're gonna publish it on the blog so that every single one of my friends can send me tons of christmas presents, right?! casue I just can't wait for that! :D :D yay, presents! :3
also, about that one dollar CD: that thing is SWEET! me and Elder Bailey LOVE it. theres some really good songs on there and we've been listening to it for the past week every night. yeah christmas music! :D
are you putting my money in my/OUR account? my WaMu one? cause thats good to know. :)
and actually, I have YET to get my package from steph yet, but I just sent her my address, so hopefully she can toss me the package for Christmas. :3
AH! the new apartment is SO nice! I think I got pretty nicely spoiled this transfer. we have a stove that works, (and thats propane even) and our room is SSOOOOO quiet. some of the Elders taht have visited are like "man, this room is like a BUNKER!" ha ha ha! and we even have AC! OH YEAH!
as for the other stove, Elder Dye just bought it, cause it was only $15, so I'm good. we went for a cheaper one just in case.
ah, the Tie... wait, didn't I explain about that tie that I sent? oh well. either way, I got that from the second transfer meeting that I went to. it was just chillin in a bag outside, and I was like "OH MY GOSH, that thing is epic nice." and so I took it. cause that bag was a freebie bag. and I like that tie very much. SO much, in fact, that I didn't want anything to happen to it, so I sent it home. now... if you could keep it safe, that would be nice. :3 ah, and speaking of keeping things safe, you're doing so for my pillow, right? casue thats a VERY nice pillow, and I wouldn't want anything to happen to that baby. so keep it safe! :P
naw, Fernando hasn't gotten baptized yet. his baptismal date is for this sunday after church. weve got three more lessons with him starting tomorrow all the way until saturday, so we'll be doin lots of preparation. he told us last night that he wanted to do some extra study, on top of the three pamphlets that we already gave him (!) so he started studying about baptism (OH MY GOSH, HE'S PERFECT!) using the index in the back of his book of mormon he has. CRAZY! I'm so excited!
speaking of being excited, I've got some good news. I just saved a load of money on my car insurance by switching to Geicko! SWEET!
yes. and something else that I am just SO excited for: IVE GOT AN INGROWN TOENAIL! SWEET! YAY! and it came out of NO WHERE!!!! :'( dah, I have NO idea how this happened, because I haven't changed how i've been cutting my toenails or anything, but it's nicely infected now, (yes, joyous.) and sister Dewsnup has been out at St. Kitts with president Dewsnup for interviews and zone conference over there, so I haven't been able to get back to me. :'( but they get back this afternoon, so hopefully she'll get back to me then. which would be quite nice, you know. but I've been soaking it in Salt water and putting antibiotic cream and bandaids on it to keep it from gettin SUPER bad. so we'll see what they say when they call me *sigh* it's gonna be
pretty sweet I guess. :)
wait a second. I already TOLD you where Elder Bailey was from... *sniff* you read my email... right? :'(
gosh. :P he's from Idaho. :P I'm not sure if his mom is on the email list... I'll ask him. :)
my goodness, heck YES Andreas letter was out of the blue! I didn't get her message on facebook till last week, so I had no idea! but it was good stuff. so well see how it goes. like she said, she wouldn't mind writing me, and heh, I DEFINATELY don't mind writing her. not one bit! she too cool NOT to write! :D
yeah... I FINALLy heard from miss stephanie last week. it was... a VERY interesting letter. I'm not really sure what to make of it. I'm STILL trying to figure it out. hmm. well, I guess I could write her about it, right? yes yes, I shall do this. also, I sent her a card for her birthday. I thought it was pretty entertaining, but we'll see, I suppose. I sent it before I got her letter (it was at the mission office) so yeah. Ionnono.
oh MAN! I'm excited to hear about Hannahs play!!!111oneoneone!! you recorded it, right? cause that would be pretty sweet to see when I get back. :)
well, Ella did say that her mom was keeping some tight reins on her because of her grades, right? ...maybe it's just that. or, what you COULD do is pick up an international phone card and toss her a phone call. Im sure that would work too, right?
hmm... seminary. what it meant to me, eh?
ok. well, Seminary... gosh. ok. so, for me, seminary was nice. I didn't mind getting up early, so didn't really worry about that. what I noticed for myself though, was that becasue of the fact that I got to study the gospel in the morning, before I studied anything else, I felt much more... I dunno. focused. I've kinda noticed the same with when I do my studies here. I'm more focused, my mind is clearer. so it was good in the sense that I was more focused for the day ahead. it really helped to get that boost of the spirit in the morning. gosh... I might have to supllement this witha letter so I can be a bit more FOCUSED. yeah, I think I might do that.
anyways, I gotta bust a move to go reply to Dad's email. :)
I LOVE EVERYBODY TONS!
~Brandon! :D
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