Re: OOOPS!

Wed, Jun 30, 2010

oh goodness. well well. yeah. I most definitely does sound VERY MUCH like you've been having a very interesting last two weeks. I had been wondering how bad things had been going on with you when you said that they were pretty... interesting... especially cause Steph has been having *ALMOST* as much of an interesting week as you... but wow. you win, for sure.

so, first things first. looking at that throat picture... its looking like the Laryngeal Ventricle would be the thing that I might have pushed on. which would correspond to what Sister Dewsnup said about it possibly being something connect to my larynx. So, If that's the thing that I would have pushed on, that would have explained the slight swelling and problems with my voice. cause it looks like they are quite fairly close to the "vocal fold and false vocal fold" wee! look at me pretending to know what I'm talking about! :D so yes. now I know to not mess with that, eh? ...yes.

so, for your question about Sister Krout. I'm not sure if I already said that she was from Washington, but I'm trying to think about where EXACTLY she's from... it might have been over in eastern Washington... but it might have also been down by Tri Cties... naw... that was Elder Brownie... yeah. I think that Sister Krout is from over in Eastern Washington. I'll have to ask her a bit later. but sister Vazquez is From Guatemala. :)

YAY, hump day package! :D the best part about having the moving Elders in our district is the fact that they pretty much have to go to the mission office once a week to take care of things, so we get hooked up with mail and everything every week at district meeting :D so I should be able to get my stuff at the latest by next Tuesday (heh, as far as I can imagine. things are just so ridiculously unpredictable in the mission that I've just really quit trying to make plans for things other than myself.) wait. you want to know if what you sent was LAME? whats that supposed to mean? like, you WANT it to be lame, or just ridiculous, or what? xD ha ha ha! but I should be able to let you know by next week. :D if it anything "lame" anyways, I'll probably enjoy it.

NUH UH! I got a shirt from Tomas too?! :D SWEET! gosh, now I feel special. it's really cool that we got victor's younger Brother as our new student. Victor's awesome-awesome. you gotta gets that to me. :D

So yeah. sorry about forgetting about the memory card... heh heh... I didn't mean to...? I promise I'll get that out the next thing I send. but I'm glad you enjoyed the nails. heh, Elder Ralston thinks I'm a dork for picking ém up. He just doesn't understand. geniuses (geniui?) are always criticized in their time. :P

wait. Seattle has a Rock and Roll marathon?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!!!11111oneoneone!!1 When did THIS happen?! is it every year? do you know who played this year? if it was fairly recent... wouldn't that mean that I would pretty much be able to go right when I get back? :D

and Bryan came over for dinner? huh. any news? anything interesting?

so, for my socks and shoes, I'm actually... my shoes are actually doing quite nicely. the rubber on the bottom of these things is just super hard! so I might just get nice and lucky and not have to replace any of my shoes! :D that would be a bonus. especially since they are just so ridiculously expensive. :-/ and for socks... they are failry fine as well. I've... *sniff* I've lost one of my Sunday socks (you know, the day of the week socks?) and some of those are getting worn out... but other than that, everything is looking fairly fine. P-day clothes... well, lets just say I've ran into some new things, so everything there is covered. :D I might just have to toss you a picture of the piece of woven gold that I have. :3 plus, if you're EVER strapped for ideas about what to send me, just remember: Goldfish are my friend. ;) and for Annie's husband, heh heh. that's kinda funny that she put widow... her ex is NOT dead, but I wonder if she just "wishes" he were, or if she just considers him to be... ha ha ha! either one I would expect from her... but I couldn't say for sure. :D but he is American. and ex missionary of about... twelve years ago? Creo. I mean... I think. but he is CURRENTLY living in Mexico with his... new wife? I'm exactly very clear on that one anymore... so yeah... that would be about that. any other questions to stimulate my mind?

Heh heh, changes from the new mission president? hmmm... that's a really good question... as far as I can tell, nothing YET, but that might just be because the missions don't combine until the first of July...wait a second. isn't that my ONE YEAR MARK?! WHAT!? as you said. hump day for sure. (GAH, thats so weird. I've already been gone for a year? WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING THIS WHOLE TIME?! :-O ha ha ha!) where does the time go? seriously. but we all keep hoping they're going to have a BIG new mission wide meeting to get all this stuff organized. however, we don't know anything yet, so we'll see. next week is possibly when things might start trickling down to us lowly foot soldiers.

OH! fun story. so, you know how we've been having those super heavy rains these past few weeks? well, since our apartment is on the second story, we've got ourselves this little balcony out the back of the apartment. well, this balcony has a drain for the rain, but it's just this little PVC pipe stuffed into the concrete wall. so, now that we've have this set up, last Thursday, we had come back for lunch. perfect timing, cause it just started POURING buckets. I was just so scared that I was gonna get hit with a bucket we ran back to the apartment to avoid getting hit. (plus I heard that it was going to rain metal ones that day, and I'm not a fan of those. they're kinda heavy :-/ ) so as we start making lunch, this rain is just EXPLODING everywhere, and it was so windy. then all of a sudden, water just starts pouring in from outside!!! turns out that little dinky drain in the wall was just no match for the rain. sooooo, as things went on, the water got deeper in the apartment to about... well, half a foot? it was definitely around my ankles. goodness... so we open the front door and we start sweeping the water out of the apartment down in the (concrete) stairwell that heads outside and we got ourselves a nice little river going out the door, heh heh heh! yeah... it was fun. the WEIRDEST thing was that it didn't get ANYTHING DAMAGED! neither of the couches, nothing paper. nothing! we definitely were blessed by the lord there. I don't even know how it worked out, but he helped us for sure.

hmmm... got a picture of that blown blood vessel in your eye?! :D

other news for the week? hmmm.... our searching continues ever still for a person that will actually even BE at their appointment... *sigh* so the apartment river is probably the BIGGEST thing thats happened in the last week. :-/

well... I actually got to use all my time today! :D YAY! plus a little bit extra... So... I've gots ta be bustin a move now!

to finish,

I LOVE YOU more than Elder Ralston likes to be sarcastic. :D
XO!!11one!11cheese!!!


~Brandon :)