Wed, Apr 07, 2010
well, heres my email! I was hoping to at least get an email asking how I WAS, but I guess not, huh? :P jeeze. oh wells. at least now I can say that I've felt pain worse than childbirth. that counts for something, right? heh heh. (for those of you that don't know yet, I have a KIDNEY STONE! YAY!)
Anyways. I got out of the hospital yesterday and was just so dead that president told me and Elder Harvey to go to the apartment to sleep. blech, and today I'm not much better. Heh, but I'm not dead, and that's what counts. however, I'm not really sure how long I'm gonna be able to make this email seeing as my hand is super sore from where the i.v. was and somehow I think I may have pulled a muscle in my left arm... huh. I don't know. I'm just falling apart, ya know? :'(
anyways. today is the super P-Day! :D YAY! the whole mission (except for those on the islands, those poor guys) is getting together for a p day of sports and games and FOOD! YAY! not that I can really eat. BLARG so lame. but yeah.
so on Sunday, I woke up and my side hurt a little bit. no biggie, just a little worse than normal, so I called sister dewsnup and let her know. She noted it and told me to call her if it got any worse. Well, we pulled up to the church and it was a little worse, but not horrible (and she didn't want me to take any Ibuprofen because the mission doctor had me taking quadruple dosage to see if there was just major tension on my back, and this Sunday was the day that I was gonna quit takin that) so I didn't take any yet. well, waiting for conference to start, it just kept getting progressively worse to the point where I didn't really feel like I could NOT take an Ibuprofen and took one. but it didn't help. so, I spent the first little bit of conference in the bathroom trying to see if that would help. after about thirty minutes of that I decided to head back to the apartment. well, after some throwing up, we FINALLY got a hold of sister Dewsnup and she sent us off to the emergency room. by that time I felt like I was dying. A LOT. yeah...
based on descriptions of me from Elder Johnson and Walker, my zone leaders, I was green. VERY green. and I was throwing up and convulsing with pain. you know. the usual. anyways, it was a long weekend. everything feels like such a far off dream now... and now I feel like I'm just floating along. la la la. but really though. everything in my mind is fuzzy and slow and I feel groggy. :-/ *sigh* so much funion. yes. funion.
wow, I can't even really think right now. well, I CAN say this: no worries, OK? I'm not dead, I'm getting better, and I have three weeks to get this stone out or I have to go in for surgery. sweet.
but yes. thank you all so much for your prayers and just in case, keep prayin for me, eh? that would be really nice. :3
OK, so now that It's taken me so long to get this all typed up, elder Harvey is getting impatient that I'm not done yet and he wants to go to super P Day... well, I love you all, and I hope to hear from you NEXT WEEK! :P
REALLY. no worries. :D
so yes. once again, I love you all and I hope to hear from you soon!
BAI!
~Brandon (Elder 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
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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