Elder Brandon Harley Bryan: Re: The weather outside is frightful!

Wed, Dec 15, 2010

Hola! ok, entonces, the su is used for the usted form. mas formal. generally you would use that for more... well, whenever you would address someone respectfully. but the Tu form is more for people that you are close with. good friends, family, stuff like that. so YOU would want to say Tu madre. :) but yeah... mi is still my. :)

woo! another week in Yauco. :) things are goin pretty good. in fact, I've good some good news and some bad news... OK. bad news first. Marcia and Francisco had a baptismal date... but it dropped. it had been for this coming Saturday... but it just couldn't happen... yeah. downer... but the GOOD news is, it was only moved because Francisco had work and Marcia had a test in school. so we reset it for this FRIDAY!!!! :D ALRIGHT! YEAH! WOOHOO! Francisco, Marcia and their son Justin are all going to be baptized this FRIDAY!!!!!! :D FREAKIN SWEET! we set the date for this Friday with them on Saturday night. and they are so totally ready. and I'm so totally excited. and this is so totally awesome! a WHOLE FAMILY!!!! :D
as for Damarys, she's pretty much just completely dropped off the face of the planet since her mom has had to go to the hospital... and I'm kinda afraid that the answer about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon she received has faded because she doesn't have the same fire anymore....darn, things that always come up! but we've been trying and trying to get a hold of her... we're going to keep trying.

other important news: you called it right. we're not going to be having P-Day next week because of Christmas and phone calls. plus the Christmas party, which spans TWO DAYS is going to be on Tuesday and Wednesday. but news about phone calls is that we're going to be making them in members houses... so now we just have to find a member that will let us use their phones... we can't go to the branch presidents 'cause they have a missionary out... so we're gonna do some searching... :-/ however... a good time to cal is the question. especially since I'm not going to be getting email from you next week (as far as I know)... :)

AH! and cool news for the Christmas party! :D President asked me and Elder Lehr to sing the Villancico Yaucano and a few other Christmas songs for the talent show. and the really cool part IS: I GET TO USE A GUITAR!!!! :DDDDDDDD WOOT! so I have one borrowed from the Branch president, and as well.... we might be singing it not only for the talent show, but for a special presentation that president alvarado is trying to get set up in the Pearl theater in ponce. in front of a TON of people!!!!! FREAKIN SWEET!!!! :D but thats not set in stone yet. but I have a feeling that is why the Christmas party spans two days. :3

as for my kidney... nope. still hurts... and the down side is, when I stayed the night at the zone leaders apartment last week while I was up in ponce, Elder Oviatt let me use his VERY nice mattress ( A Seely) and I still woke up from kidney pain, so it's not the mattress that I'm sleeping on. it really IS just pain in my kidney. my thoughts echo your own in that really it does just seem like it's me kidney (arrrr!) that be hurtin me and keeping me awake... I'll try some more lemon juice and stuff. I got the melatonin and that at the very least is helping me a little bit with the sleep that I DO get, but I still can't sleep a complete night through. however, you're right. this pain is going on WAY too long after my stone for it to be normal. so I think I might talk with Sister Alvarado to see what I can do. if there's anything that she knows about or stuff... AH! we also have a mission nurse now, so I think she might refer me to her... Sister Icely is her name. she was a nurse before, so she knows some stuff. maybe that will help. :)

heh heh heh... well... we actually only spent two hours in Marshall's, and then a half an hour in the skate/surf shop right next door. :3

what the hecksters is a pineapple express?! :-O I've never heard of that before... well, except for the movie, I guess. but from what I gather, I have a feeling it involves rain. lots of it. and wind. lots of it. but other than that... that all I've got.

hmmm.... maybe I just read things wrong or did some bad math. probably some bad math. oh wells. ice cream is good. money is nice. cheese. muffins. plastic food. yum.

anyways. the letter from Elder Lehr's mom: talked a little bit about how much of a good friend I've been to Elder Lehr and that she wanted to thank me for it. About the tie (protection instructions from Elder Lehr and his want to take his dads ties) and a bit about how she would always would scare him at home and how I scare him here ( I guess he shared that with her. either that or she has some amazing telepathic abilities) and a few other things that I can't remember because of sleep deprivation. but it was a very nice letter. very very nice.

I'm going to try and get my package out today as well... if not the week after. I've got to get you my picatures! and I need to send my birthday cards out to everyone, because they are horribly late and I'm a failure! >:( gosh darn it. :( however, my present from tawny hasn't arrived as of yet... is it possible that she might have sent it to the mission office? I'm just hoping that something bad hasn't happened to it, because Stephy sent me out a b-day present four weeks ago and it still has yet to get here... which is weird because everything else seems to be getting here... I dunno. I hope that at the very least was just a one time fluke. I don't need more mail disappearing. :-/

whoa cool! Lego Creationary sounds AWESOME!!!! :D that would be so cool! sounds like something I'm gonna have to pick up when I get back. :3

well, Robins been pretty nice so far I think... I'm just kinda losing out because I haven't emailed her back yet... :-/ but I actually got back to Donny last week... and yeah.

YAY Theresa went to the Christmas party! :D Donny actually told me that She had been talking with him about receiving the missionaries after she moves out. sounds like she wants to learn about the church. and now that I have Bryan coming with me to school it's just a matter of time before I suck him in too! *evil laugh* AH HA HA HA! the power is mine to control!!!!! *crazy face*

Picatures:

1) me on the tower