Current Location and Address

UPDATE: Reassignment (click)

Puerto Rico, San Juan - East Mission

Puerto Rico, San Juan - Mission
E-mail: Brandon.bryan@myldsmail.net


(Remember to keep things upbeat and supportive try to not to share or say things that might distract or make him feel homesick.)


He will be happy to hear from you all.

Current Location:

P.O. box 33
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, January 5, 2011

Re: start explaning!

Wed, Jan 05, 2011

…. but for what I said about things going on last week... no, it's nothing bad. It's just that I had to go to Ponce because the university was closed in Yauco, and I had been trying to find some pictures for a shirt that me and Elder Lehr had been wanting to make... but the shirt place was closed because of three kings day, DARN IT! blagh! EVERYthings closed because of that. Which absolutely killed us last week, we were lucky to get the foundation last week. But we pulled through just in time.

ok, so I think this week might be a little short in my email, because I'm in Ponce again. :) and the university is closed, but this time it's the one in Ponce that’s closed. We I'm hanging out in the accounting office that’s underneath my NEW APARTMENT! :D with Elder Putnam. he's only got seven months in the mission, and he's from WASHINGTON TOO! :D from Spokane to be exact. :3 and he's sweet. First generation convert, too with an AMAZING testimony. So what the plan is, we're going to be working in both Yauco AND Ponce. And we have to get the foundation in BOTH of the areas. Oh my goodness, I haven't even mentioned what the foundation is... I just realized that. Well, we have a thingie called the foundation, right? To make it simple, it's 20 lessons a week, and 140 contacts. And that is the base, or the FOUNDATION of success. So yeah, we have to get two of those. One in Yauco and one in Ponce and we still have to watch our miles in the car. :-/ crazy. :-O but it's a pretty sweet special assignment, I guess. I'm excited. So we're splitting the week in half, and this weekend I'm gonna be in Ponce, and then next weekend, we're gonna be in Yauco.

buuuuut, seeing as we're having to share a computer and it's taken us forEVER to find a place that would let us email, I might have to go rapidito...

so, geetar... took a little while to get used to playing again... not to mention the strings were pretty stiff on that one, so I had to do LOTS of working with the strength of my fingers to get them back up... but the good news is it only took about a week and a half to get everything sorted out, I don't think it will take too long to get everything back in order when I get back. :)

so, I'm sleeping better, but still not fantastic. I'm only waking up once or twice now, and my kidney doesn't hurt anywhere NEAR as bad as it did at night... I didn't get to try anything new except the ibuprofen, which helped a little bit, but not very much... I dunno. but at the very least, it's not hurting as bad. And that makes me happier, and a bit more rested. I still do wake up tired, but not as stuporly bad as before. :)

I haven’t sent the memory card yet... it's coming. I promise. :]

OK., but I'm gonna have to bust a move and get my email out to president so Elder Putnam can get his email out and we can still shop.

I love you so much mom. I really do. And I'm so glad that we have to opportunity that we have to be an eternal family. so very thankful.

~Elder Bryan (brandon)

(Regarding FaceBook's new look)

AH@! and I swear that I haven't been on facebook. I swear. so I don't know whats going on there. maybe they hooked me up with it because I took a ridiculously long time to do it? I dunno. but just in case, I think you might want to change the password temporarily. at least till I get back. that is, if you can. I don't know if you'll be able to, but take a look and see. :]
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