Wed, Nov 24, 2010
BLARG! darn you thanksgiving weekend! :'( so, our email place was closed. we had to come over to ponce to do our email... but it closes at ONE! :'( suckage! blarg.
OK, so Rapidito: we had a lesson with an investigator: Damary's, this last Sunday, and well... she was reading the Book of Mormon and REALLY wanted to know if it was true. she prayed, and she received a VERY explicit answer to her prayer. :) mmm, ghood stuff. and she wants to get baptized as soon as possible. and so were planning for the 18th of December. :3 woo! huzzah por la verdad!
HECK YEAH I GOT BRYAN'S PRESENTS! :D
do you realize that I noticed that you crossed out the expiration date on those pears? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!?!?!?!?!? what IS this?! gosh. I opened one up and took a look inside. very questionable looking. very much so. fortunately the other one was fine. but STILL! >:(
I love my b-day card. very funny! :)
would you mind sending me a picture of the San Diego temple? a cousin of a less active family is asking us tons of questions about the church and he's visited that temple before, and I told him I would try to get him a picture of it. :)
Tawny found me the most amazing Christmas present? that's so epic you don't think you can top it? :3 ooooo... wow. it has to be good. I'm definitely going to have to make a video then.
they DO actually celebrate Thanksgiving. ha ha ha. it's a holiday! OF COURSE they're going to celebrate it! and we've been invited to a TON of peoples houses to eat... so hopefully we'll get the chance to share something with somebody that day. xD
CRAZY SNOW! darn it... how come I COULDN'T be there! blarg. oh wells. when I get back that just means there's going to be more next year. :3
sooo sorry this email isn't any longer... but they are about to close up, so I've got to bust a move...
I love you more than I miss the SNOW! :'(
~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, November 24, 2010
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