Wed, Jan 26, 2010
WOOOOO! oh my goodness. this week has been sufficiently ridiculous to beat out anything thus far that’s happened. Well... maybe. I still think Steve takes the cake, but we'll see. my gosh. so lemme start with last week, because I didn't really get to email. Obviously :) alright. so you know what happened.? here we are, Elder Putnam and I, passing through the two weeks that we had together of that transfer, happily working quite hard, I must say, and we go to bed last Wednesday night completely expecting to be working together still until the end of the next transfer. so we say our prayers and finish the end of the night quite nice and chill. And I go to sleep. Then all of a sudden, I wake up to the phone ringing at 11:45 AT NIGHT nonetheless, and I wake up all groggy "what the heck? Who’s calling us so ridiculously late!" gah! So I get up and grab the phone. Lo and behold, it's the assistants. Talk about coming like a thief in the night! ;) Well, I answer it, and it's Elder Knudsen (kuh-noot-son) (yeah, I know. weird way to pronounce that, right?) I answer the best that I can: "he... hello?" Knudsen: "good evening Elder Bryan! You awake?!" (I could just hear his big smile on as he said that) Me: "well... yeah, I guess." Knudsen:"PERFECT! :D cause I had some news for you!" that was when I woke up. They never say that unless it's something big. I don't remember what Elder Knudsen had started to say at that point, but I DO remember that president just reached over and grabbed the phone out of his hands and goes "GOOD MORNING ELDER BRYAN!" (I swear, he has to have some sort of secret IV hooked up to him somewhere that’s just loaded with sugar, cause he is hyper. always. no matter WHAT time it is.) "How’s it goin?!" he continued. "well, I... I'm fine I guess. A little tired though" I replied. President: "GOOD! At least you're awake! :D" (I swear, his smile was bigger than Elder Knudsen's was.) "cause I have a special assignment for you." then he ran through some interview questions, just to make sure, and then told me: "you and Elder Putnam are going to be at the office tomorrow morning at seven o clock sharp. Ok? Cause guess what?! You both are going to be TRAINING! WOO!" I don't think it really hit me what was actually happening, but I said "WOO!" anyways. He then proceeded to give us some instructions about housing and location, but yet had he to tell us who we were to train. In fact, he NEVER told us who and so, I go back to sleep. Cause I'm tired, you know? And by the time the conversation-ism was all taken care of, it was 12:30. Late and I sleep bad enough as it is! Especially since we had a two hour drive ahead of us and we needed to get up at 5 to get there on time. Wonderful. Five o clock rolls around and I wake up, and Elder Putnam tells me that he barely slept last night. HA, I bet. If I had been training at 7 months I'd be freaking' too. (I'd probably have to call beacon.) So it was a good thing I was the one driving. After about an hour of waiting, POR FIN I get to meet my new companion. So who is it? Who IS this mystery man that is my new companion? The man that I have been with for a week already? is there enough tension built up yet? "why is his head so big? wai-i-i is his head so big?" (obscure cartoon reference. please ignore.) its ELDER... *gasp* oh noes! sudden memory lapse! loozinguh brane powr... mynd shuphting dowen... *kneou kneou kneou*
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AH! whoa! what a weird dream! man, that was... that was crazy! I almost though I was training for a second! WHew! that would have been ridiculous. *looks up from computer screen* DAH! it's all real! NOOOO! THIS ISN'T possible! losing vision... *faints*
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*wakes up* AH! whoa! what a weird dream! man, that was... that was crazy! I almost though I was training for a second! WHew! that would have been ridiculous. *looks up from computer srceen* DAH! it's all real! NOOOO! THIS ISN'T possible! losing vision... *faints*
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*bee... Ok. well that's enough of that I suppose. I guess I should just break the news then. I'm training! :D his name is Elder Black! :D and he's from New York. But not from the city. he's an upstate guy. :) a little teeny tiny place called Hannible. but he says he's from Fulton, right near Syracruse. but that's because Hannible has only about 800 people in it. ;) TAY-Y-Y-NY! I'll toss some pictures that we've gotten this past little week... well... that would only be two, but still. it's better than nothing, right? :) Elder Putnam is training Elder Zepeda, from Honduras. (I think president might have done that to help out Elder Putnam with his Spanish. xD )
so yes. this week has definitely been crazy. It’s now going' back to the basics. Review everything from the beginning. But I tell ya, it's definitely interesting being on the other side of the training. I can definitely see how much my Spanish has improved now. heh, and my comprehension as well. But, instead of working in Ponce 4 with Elder Putnam, I am now sharing an area with Elders Radmall and Hargadon, with one more transfer than me and only 7 weeks respectively. We are also sharing apartments with them as well. I kicked Elder Putnam and Elder Zepeda out and we got to stay. :3 Soooo, since we are sharing the area, we were thinking of just starting from scratch... since it's going to be kind of difficult to get up to date on all their investigators, wo we've been doing lots of finding this past week and it's paying off, too. We’ve found four new families that we're going to be teaching in the next couple of days! WOO! I think it's a perfect way to help Elder Black get used to the whole, working hard to find people to teach. Nothing comes for free. Plus, you have to build a strong foundation on the basics before you start to build your fancy house. :)
So there we are! We’re building up our very own teaching pool from scratch.
But, I've been taking too long! I need to make things more streamlined! On to your stuffs!
I still have yet to get my special delivery... hmmm... interesting and no one seems to be saying anything about it, either. I think president might have just shook it around a little bit then decided to take it, because he hasn't said anything to me either. *narrows eyes* hmmm.
So for my health, I'm feeling a bit better.... I can eat more, plus the fact that we're on bicycle makes me a lot more hungry. Bonus, and I'm sleeping a bit better, if that wasn't eminent by my ridiculous introduction. :) still not amazing, but much better nonetheless. And that's what counts, right? I just hope that it'll continue...
oh my gosh. is Elder Harvey sending me a wedding invitation?! ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!? ALREADY!? jeeze. but, I take it you were able to find my password for facebook then? That’s good, cause I'm not really sure what it is anymore... :-/ eh heh heh... :)
Goodness... I'm gonna have to bust a move. I've taken a long time doing email today. hopefully things will be a bit more settled next week. they were a bit hectic before, but Elders Radmall and Hargadon are pretty chill and clean, so that will help a bit. :)
AH! and address! since we will only be going to Yauco once a week if we really REALLY need to, and this apartment doesn't really have a mailbox, you're probably going to have to put my address as the mission office for now. Just to be sure, because I don't really know what it is for now. I’ll ask today and get back to you on that.
I love you more than president loves doing crazy things!! (Like calling at ridiculous hours and asking me to train!!!!!!!!)
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