Tue, Dec 22, 2009
lookit! I have my P-day earlier this week! :-/ I wish I had known this before last week so that I could tell you guys, but that's how life goes I suppose... at least I still get to email. :D it's cause we have the mission Christmas party tomorrow. and then we have CHRISTMAS!!! WOOO!!!!!! OK. so first off, I just wanna wish everybody out there that still cares enough about me to check my blog and even bother to open my lame-o emails, a very merry Christmas! :D *ahem* lo siento. howsabout: FELIZ NAVIDAD! YAY! es éso mejor? sÃ, yo Pienso. excelente.
AnYwAyS, guess what everybody? :D you know that nice little ingrown toenail that I mentioned last week? well, it didn't get any better. and even cooler than that, I got SURGERY on it today! :D SWEET! yup, it's the best ever when they start digging around inside your toe with a little metal scoop. good deal. yup yup yeppers. so yes... my toe's a little tender now, and the anethesia... <--GROSS, I forgot how to spell it! :'( ANYWAYS, that nice little stuff they put to make things not hurt very much is wearing off, so I'm getting this nice little pain down there. yeah... and Other news, that a bit less disgusting. Fernando was BAPTIZED this last Sunday! :D that was the coolest ever!1!!!1111oneoneone111!! he's a very very VERY good guy, and the spirit was there VERY strongly. he even gave his testimony afterwards. I'm gonna send a picture of me and Elder bailey and him home so you all can see. :D Elder Bailey did the Baptism (which is probably better, cause of my toe) and the whole thingie went really swell. :3 but yeah, other than that, this weeks been really really tuff, cause I haven't been able to walk very much. So, this whole time we've been doing lots of searching for old investigators and stuff like that. but yeah, tomorrow is the Christmas party or the mission. there's gonna be a program, lunch, and a talent show. anyone in the mission can do something, but there's not really... heh, there's not really a whole lot that we can do. thres pretty much singing or playing an instrument. president Dewsnup didn't even want jokes. xD so yeah... but I thought about doing something, but not really at the same time. I wanted to have WAY more time to practice than I had... plus, I would have had to have picked up a guitar from a member to practice on, and all that stuff. just too much effort. ha ha ha, but no, it was more about the whole preparation thing. :) and THEN! we also have our CALL HOME!!! SWEET! I wish I could get in contact with you on more time before Christmas, cause then I could get some info on when to call you and all that stuff... you know, stuff that's kinda IMPORTANT. but ok... so we have dinner plans at a members house at 4:00. and for YOU GUYS, that's at 2:00... or at least, it SHOULD be. and I have moms cell phone number, so I can just call that, and then wherever you guys are, I can get the house phone number and call you guys there. like, if you guys are at Grandma Jan's I can just get the number from you. :3 the number is ***-***-****, right?(number blanked out by the moderator to protect the innocent) it better be, cause that's what I remember it was. if not... crap. then I'm screwed. ha ha ha!so yeah... I guess I'll be calling around 2 your time then. :)
lets see... other things of interest... OH!!! If I get the chance to stay here in Caguas for the next transfer, the stake is going to have an apostle and an area 70 come the 24th of January! SWEET! I wonder who it's going to be... I dunno, but I'm excited. :D quite fantastical!
wooOO! ok... OH! I also gave myself another haircut... :'( I ALWAYS hate doing that. blarg.
yes yes, so you guys have my apartment address. I have one more revision for that:
Urb. Bairoa park
S6-1 AVE. Parque de Napoleon
Caguas, PR 00725
yeah... it's AVE instead of Calle. but whatever. it's the same, since they go more by the neighborhoods, rather than the streets. so yeah... I GUESS it's not really important... xD
OK! I'm off to send some pictures now! WEEE!!!
I Love you all, back there in Washington. especially everybody. gosh, I can't really pick out some specifics, but... nyah, who cares. I love my family, the Franzens, the Keys family, My Grandma Jan, My Grandma Nita, My Grandpa Ed, My Grandpa Tony, Lou, all of my friends, and everybody else that I don't have any time to list off, but I want EVERYBODY that reads my emails, that I Love them ALL! WOO!
Anyways, off to send some picatures!
Till this Thursday (or next week, if you aren't my family! :D )
~Elder Brandon Bryan :3
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
warning! spontanious combustion warning due to so much awesome.
Wed, Dec 16, 2009
yeah, it's a nice little bonus that I got the package right after we got home this last wednesday. I thought it was pretty funny. xD but yes. I have finally procured myself the ACTUAL address, so feel freee to publish this one. oh, and I actually got a letter from Great Grandma this last week as well. AND your letter apologizing. xD ha ha ha, but yes. ah, and so I wanna give you the REAL address. :3 but i still have yet to get that post card... hmm.
it is here.
Urb. Bairoa Park
S6-1 Calle Parque de Napoleon
Caguas, PR 00725
woot!
but yeah. well, I DO like President Dewsnup. He just has NO sense of humor! xD I think it's SO funny! all the members that have talked to us about him are like "does he just not have a sense of humor? I never even see him smile!" Ha Ha! but yeah, he's pretty sweet. and a total GENIUS! jeeze, that guy comes up with everything! I don't know what it is, but even if he's just READING the scriptures i feel smarter. xD ha ha ha!
yeah, Elder Bailey had been thinking that mail was just taking longer because of the fact that it's around Christmas time. makes sense. but now that you have my address, you're gonna publish it on the blog so that every single one of my friends can send me tons of christmas presents, right?! casue I just can't wait for that! :D :D yay, presents! :3
also, about that one dollar CD: that thing is SWEET! me and Elder Bailey LOVE it. theres some really good songs on there and we've been listening to it for the past week every night. yeah christmas music! :D
are you putting my money in my/OUR account? my WaMu one? cause thats good to know. :)
and actually, I have YET to get my package from steph yet, but I just sent her my address, so hopefully she can toss me the package for Christmas. :3
AH! the new apartment is SO nice! I think I got pretty nicely spoiled this transfer. we have a stove that works, (and thats propane even) and our room is SSOOOOO quiet. some of the Elders taht have visited are like "man, this room is like a BUNKER!" ha ha ha! and we even have AC! OH YEAH!
as for the other stove, Elder Dye just bought it, cause it was only $15, so I'm good. we went for a cheaper one just in case.
ah, the Tie... wait, didn't I explain about that tie that I sent? oh well. either way, I got that from the second transfer meeting that I went to. it was just chillin in a bag outside, and I was like "OH MY GOSH, that thing is epic nice." and so I took it. cause that bag was a freebie bag. and I like that tie very much. SO much, in fact, that I didn't want anything to happen to it, so I sent it home. now... if you could keep it safe, that would be nice. :3 ah, and speaking of keeping things safe, you're doing so for my pillow, right? casue thats a VERY nice pillow, and I wouldn't want anything to happen to that baby. so keep it safe! :P
naw, Fernando hasn't gotten baptized yet. his baptismal date is for this sunday after church. weve got three more lessons with him starting tomorrow all the way until saturday, so we'll be doin lots of preparation. he told us last night that he wanted to do some extra study, on top of the three pamphlets that we already gave him (!) so he started studying about baptism (OH MY GOSH, HE'S PERFECT!) using the index in the back of his book of mormon he has. CRAZY! I'm so excited!
speaking of being excited, I've got some good news. I just saved a load of money on my car insurance by switching to Geicko! SWEET!
yes. and something else that I am just SO excited for: IVE GOT AN INGROWN TOENAIL! SWEET! YAY! and it came out of NO WHERE!!!! :'( dah, I have NO idea how this happened, because I haven't changed how i've been cutting my toenails or anything, but it's nicely infected now, (yes, joyous.) and sister Dewsnup has been out at St. Kitts with president Dewsnup for interviews and zone conference over there, so I haven't been able to get back to me. :'( but they get back this afternoon, so hopefully she'll get back to me then. which would be quite nice, you know. but I've been soaking it in Salt water and putting antibiotic cream and bandaids on it to keep it from gettin SUPER bad. so we'll see what they say when they call me *sigh* it's gonna be
pretty sweet I guess. :)
wait a second. I already TOLD you where Elder Bailey was from... *sniff* you read my email... right? :'(
gosh. :P he's from Idaho. :P I'm not sure if his mom is on the email list... I'll ask him. :)
my goodness, heck YES Andreas letter was out of the blue! I didn't get her message on facebook till last week, so I had no idea! but it was good stuff. so well see how it goes. like she said, she wouldn't mind writing me, and heh, I DEFINATELY don't mind writing her. not one bit! she too cool NOT to write! :D
yeah... I FINALLy heard from miss stephanie last week. it was... a VERY interesting letter. I'm not really sure what to make of it. I'm STILL trying to figure it out. hmm. well, I guess I could write her about it, right? yes yes, I shall do this. also, I sent her a card for her birthday. I thought it was pretty entertaining, but we'll see, I suppose. I sent it before I got her letter (it was at the mission office) so yeah. Ionnono.
oh MAN! I'm excited to hear about Hannahs play!!!111oneoneone!! you recorded it, right? cause that would be pretty sweet to see when I get back. :)
well, Ella did say that her mom was keeping some tight reins on her because of her grades, right? ...maybe it's just that. or, what you COULD do is pick up an international phone card and toss her a phone call. Im sure that would work too, right?
hmm... seminary. what it meant to me, eh?
ok. well, Seminary... gosh. ok. so, for me, seminary was nice. I didn't mind getting up early, so didn't really worry about that. what I noticed for myself though, was that becasue of the fact that I got to study the gospel in the morning, before I studied anything else, I felt much more... I dunno. focused. I've kinda noticed the same with when I do my studies here. I'm more focused, my mind is clearer. so it was good in the sense that I was more focused for the day ahead. it really helped to get that boost of the spirit in the morning. gosh... I might have to supllement this witha letter so I can be a bit more FOCUSED. yeah, I think I might do that.
anyways, I gotta bust a move to go reply to Dad's email. :)
I LOVE EVERYBODY TONS!
~Brandon! :D
yeah, it's a nice little bonus that I got the package right after we got home this last wednesday. I thought it was pretty funny. xD but yes. I have finally procured myself the ACTUAL address, so feel freee to publish this one. oh, and I actually got a letter from Great Grandma this last week as well. AND your letter apologizing. xD ha ha ha, but yes. ah, and so I wanna give you the REAL address. :3 but i still have yet to get that post card... hmm.
it is here.
Urb. Bairoa Park
S6-1 Calle Parque de Napoleon
Caguas, PR 00725
woot!
but yeah. well, I DO like President Dewsnup. He just has NO sense of humor! xD I think it's SO funny! all the members that have talked to us about him are like "does he just not have a sense of humor? I never even see him smile!" Ha Ha! but yeah, he's pretty sweet. and a total GENIUS! jeeze, that guy comes up with everything! I don't know what it is, but even if he's just READING the scriptures i feel smarter. xD ha ha ha!
yeah, Elder Bailey had been thinking that mail was just taking longer because of the fact that it's around Christmas time. makes sense. but now that you have my address, you're gonna publish it on the blog so that every single one of my friends can send me tons of christmas presents, right?! casue I just can't wait for that! :D :D yay, presents! :3
also, about that one dollar CD: that thing is SWEET! me and Elder Bailey LOVE it. theres some really good songs on there and we've been listening to it for the past week every night. yeah christmas music! :D
are you putting my money in my/OUR account? my WaMu one? cause thats good to know. :)
and actually, I have YET to get my package from steph yet, but I just sent her my address, so hopefully she can toss me the package for Christmas. :3
AH! the new apartment is SO nice! I think I got pretty nicely spoiled this transfer. we have a stove that works, (and thats propane even) and our room is SSOOOOO quiet. some of the Elders taht have visited are like "man, this room is like a BUNKER!" ha ha ha! and we even have AC! OH YEAH!
as for the other stove, Elder Dye just bought it, cause it was only $15, so I'm good. we went for a cheaper one just in case.
ah, the Tie... wait, didn't I explain about that tie that I sent? oh well. either way, I got that from the second transfer meeting that I went to. it was just chillin in a bag outside, and I was like "OH MY GOSH, that thing is epic nice." and so I took it. cause that bag was a freebie bag. and I like that tie very much. SO much, in fact, that I didn't want anything to happen to it, so I sent it home. now... if you could keep it safe, that would be nice. :3 ah, and speaking of keeping things safe, you're doing so for my pillow, right? casue thats a VERY nice pillow, and I wouldn't want anything to happen to that baby. so keep it safe! :P
naw, Fernando hasn't gotten baptized yet. his baptismal date is for this sunday after church. weve got three more lessons with him starting tomorrow all the way until saturday, so we'll be doin lots of preparation. he told us last night that he wanted to do some extra study, on top of the three pamphlets that we already gave him (!) so he started studying about baptism (OH MY GOSH, HE'S PERFECT!) using the index in the back of his book of mormon he has. CRAZY! I'm so excited!
speaking of being excited, I've got some good news. I just saved a load of money on my car insurance by switching to Geicko! SWEET!
yes. and something else that I am just SO excited for: IVE GOT AN INGROWN TOENAIL! SWEET! YAY! and it came out of NO WHERE!!!! :'( dah, I have NO idea how this happened, because I haven't changed how i've been cutting my toenails or anything, but it's nicely infected now, (yes, joyous.) and sister Dewsnup has been out at St. Kitts with president Dewsnup for interviews and zone conference over there, so I haven't been able to get back to me. :'( but they get back this afternoon, so hopefully she'll get back to me then. which would be quite nice, you know. but I've been soaking it in Salt water and putting antibiotic cream and bandaids on it to keep it from gettin SUPER bad. so we'll see what they say when they call me *sigh* it's gonna be
pretty sweet I guess. :)
wait a second. I already TOLD you where Elder Bailey was from... *sniff* you read my email... right? :'(
gosh. :P he's from Idaho. :P I'm not sure if his mom is on the email list... I'll ask him. :)
my goodness, heck YES Andreas letter was out of the blue! I didn't get her message on facebook till last week, so I had no idea! but it was good stuff. so well see how it goes. like she said, she wouldn't mind writing me, and heh, I DEFINATELY don't mind writing her. not one bit! she too cool NOT to write! :D
yeah... I FINALLy heard from miss stephanie last week. it was... a VERY interesting letter. I'm not really sure what to make of it. I'm STILL trying to figure it out. hmm. well, I guess I could write her about it, right? yes yes, I shall do this. also, I sent her a card for her birthday. I thought it was pretty entertaining, but we'll see, I suppose. I sent it before I got her letter (it was at the mission office) so yeah. Ionnono.
oh MAN! I'm excited to hear about Hannahs play!!!111oneoneone!! you recorded it, right? cause that would be pretty sweet to see when I get back. :)
well, Ella did say that her mom was keeping some tight reins on her because of her grades, right? ...maybe it's just that. or, what you COULD do is pick up an international phone card and toss her a phone call. Im sure that would work too, right?
hmm... seminary. what it meant to me, eh?
ok. well, Seminary... gosh. ok. so, for me, seminary was nice. I didn't mind getting up early, so didn't really worry about that. what I noticed for myself though, was that becasue of the fact that I got to study the gospel in the morning, before I studied anything else, I felt much more... I dunno. focused. I've kinda noticed the same with when I do my studies here. I'm more focused, my mind is clearer. so it was good in the sense that I was more focused for the day ahead. it really helped to get that boost of the spirit in the morning. gosh... I might have to supllement this witha letter so I can be a bit more FOCUSED. yeah, I think I might do that.
anyways, I gotta bust a move to go reply to Dad's email. :)
I LOVE EVERYBODY TONS!
~Brandon! :D
Thursday, December 10, 2009
WOO! chillin in Caguas! :D
Wed, Dec 02, 2009
ha ha ha! well, I'm glad you liked the kinder Buenos. :D did anyone else like the malta though? ha ha ha, I guess you're not a super big fan of it then, eh? as for myself, it's not super fantastic. I can drink it, but it's just not... the same, ya know? yeah. I don't think that there's prunes in it... but it TOTALLY smells like spaghettios!
yeah! the cake I got was actually from a less active now turned active. her name is Jolanda. she was actually the first person I ever taught out in the mission field. and ever since then I've been stopping by and teaching her and her son, Sebastian and she's become active again!!! :D :D YAY! she's been reading the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and covenants like KaRayZee and she loves it. I'm just so happy that she's become reactivated. :3 but yeah, we stopped by her house the Saturday before my birthday cause we had a lesson, and then she's like, ''oh, hold on one sec'' and then she bings me out a CAKE! :D SWEET!
and then the little girl is Gabby, she's the youngest of the two daughters of the Branch President. SOOO CUTE! oh my gosh. ha ah ah, she had the BIGGEST crush on me and kept telling me that we were going to get married. xD and then when we went to go visit them for my last day in Rio Grande, she told me that after my mission I had to come back to Puerto Rico so that we could get married. ha ha ha! oh, and the whole family (except for the Branch President) speaks English, so I was able actually build a stronger relationship with them, because I could UNDERSTAND them. Ha ha ha!
and HA! I TOLD you about that haircut. but NO, you didn't believe me. :P gosh, it was so bad. I just kept combing it over till it got longer. blech. but yeah... I think the guy was just used to buzzing everybody's hair or cutting black peoples hair (most everybody in the Dom Rep is either black, or has a lot of black in them.) (I hope that doesn't sound racist. that doesn't sound racist. does it? :-O )
ha ha, as for the faux hawk, I WISH... heh heh, it's not a missionary appropriate haircut, is it? I'm not really sure about that... gosh... I can't even really remember that picture... I think it may have been right after I cut my hair... huh. but with it being shorter... I dunno.... I still like it longer, I'm not gonna lie. it IS much better for the heat if it's shorter, but still. I can make a sacrifice to have longer hair! xD
as for the paper ball, I have some pictures of how to do it on my memory card that I sent you. just get a little search through ém. they would be back from when I was at the CCM. :)
that's really interesting that Bryan hasn't responded to the text yet... has he come over since the birthday party? cause he STILL owes me my package. I WANT TO HEAR FROM HIM, dang it! whats the dealio!?
(Q2)How is the new place and companion? We need your address!!!!!!!!! I have your first Christmas package to send but don't know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) ok, so the new place. I'm in Caguas, the fifth largest city in Puerto Rico. it's pretty spiffy over here, ya know? the city is nestled right in the valley (where I harvest my grain, I took a look at my wife and realized she's very plain. but that's just perfect for an Amish like me, you know, I shun fancy things like Electricity.) sweet. ANYWAYS, yes. in a Valley, so it's kinda like Salt lake city, where we have the mountains on both sides and we're in the Valley. ya know, ya know ya know? yes yes. as for the Address... I'm not too sure about it... like, Elder Bailey has told me that he really hasn't used it, so he doesn't really know... he's always just sent stuff to the office. so what you could do is, I have it right here, but what you could do is that you could send a test letter or something to that effect to the apartment address, to see how long it would take to get there, and see if it ACTUALLY does get there, and if it does, then you could put that address up on the Blog. as for now, until we verify, it might be much better to just have the office address on there.
but here's the address:
Urb. Bairoa
Calle Pargue de Romances S-6
Caguas, PR 00725
ok, so be careful with that, it's a wild card. :) but Elder Bailey is Pretty sweet. I'm not gonna lie. he's only got one more transfer than me, but he's got a very nice sense of humor, and even better, he doesn't take everything I say literally! YAY! he enjoys using some sarcasm as well, so I think this transfer is gonna be much SMOOTHER than the last two.
(Q3)And you need to find out if you need an international phone card to call home or a us one so I can send it or you could just go buy one!
3) as for the international phone card, I should be fine there... I still have the others that you gave me, plus we're still in the united states, yo. :P but yeah Hermano Mejias, the ward mission leader here, said that we could use his phones. he's got some cells/his home phone with unlimited national calls, heh, so he told us that we could use those. ha ha, he was also like, ''yeah, you guys can totally use them for as long as you want. an hour, two hours, THREE hours if you're REALLY ''home sick'' ha ha ha, so we're good on that, I think. ( he speaks english, by the way, as well, so I think I'm getting off pretty easy around here! xD but I've noticed that I'm understanding people's spanish a TON more now. SWEET!)
(Q4)How was your Thanksgiving? What did you eat?
4)mmm, thanksgiving! so it was the day AFTER transfers, but thats ok cause Elder Bailey had some appointments set up. YAY! we went to a recent converts house, the Mendozas. they are SUPER cool. the father speaks English, but no one else does (he was in the air force) they have VERY strong Testimonies. they made us some FANTASTIC super soft turkey, rice, macaroni salad, and for drinks, we had some orange juice xD and we also had a drink that they make over here... I can't remember what it's called at the moment, but normally it has Rum in it, but they left that out. aw darn. ha ha ha! but it was quite tasty. really sweet tasting... I'll try and remember the name. :)
(Q5)what does chacho mean?
5) he he he, Chacho is un palabra Boricua. (it's a native puerto rican word. Boricua is the word the use for like, born puerto rican, I guess?) but chacho means like, gosh, or jeeze. a nice little fun word to use. :)
yay! say hi to the Jones Family for me!
-to the Franzens-
Hi Franzen family! oh my goodness! I got the pictures of your daughter!!!! she is SO CUTE!
I'm getting better at my spanish, so I'm thinking that I might attempt to send you guys a letter in spanish this week. I really hope you'll be able to understand me! ha ha ha! but yes, I've been meaning to send one sooner, but packing for transfers took a bit longer than I expected. Entonces, voy a tratar y darles una carta ESTE semana!
pero, Ustedes son el mejor que hay!
Con mucho Amor,
~Elder Bryan
-End transmission for the Franzens-
well, it's good that Grandma Laster enjoys hearing from me. thats what counts, right? xD as for the list of smilies, it might be better for you to make a list... I've been trying to, but I just get so wrapped up in stuff that it makes it difficult. :'(
you better get dad on editing those emails. that's important, you know.
but yeah, let dad know I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to reply to his email today... gah, I feel horrible. ok. I'm gonna try and send you guys a letter today. I got TONS of stuff to talk about, cause it's a whole new area and everything, so I'll do what I can. :)
so remember about the address: send a tester letter first, just to see if it works. the little Teenie mailbox we have doen't have a top on it. it's one of those ones that you hang up on the wall, so I'm gonna see what I can do about that. maybe fasten a little to out of scraps... I don't know. I just gotta come up with somethin so the letters don't get wet. I'll see what I can do. but don't forget, send a TEST LETTER FIRST. I don't want any of my precious Mana to get lost. :)
so yes, I Love you guys a MUCHOTONSPLUSSEVEN!!!
~Elder Brandon Bryan
as for 6 & 7, I'll address those in my letter! LOVE YOU GUYS!
ha ha ha! well, I'm glad you liked the kinder Buenos. :D did anyone else like the malta though? ha ha ha, I guess you're not a super big fan of it then, eh? as for myself, it's not super fantastic. I can drink it, but it's just not... the same, ya know? yeah. I don't think that there's prunes in it... but it TOTALLY smells like spaghettios!
yeah! the cake I got was actually from a less active now turned active. her name is Jolanda. she was actually the first person I ever taught out in the mission field. and ever since then I've been stopping by and teaching her and her son, Sebastian and she's become active again!!! :D :D YAY! she's been reading the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and covenants like KaRayZee and she loves it. I'm just so happy that she's become reactivated. :3 but yeah, we stopped by her house the Saturday before my birthday cause we had a lesson, and then she's like, ''oh, hold on one sec'' and then she bings me out a CAKE! :D SWEET!
and then the little girl is Gabby, she's the youngest of the two daughters of the Branch President. SOOO CUTE! oh my gosh. ha ah ah, she had the BIGGEST crush on me and kept telling me that we were going to get married. xD and then when we went to go visit them for my last day in Rio Grande, she told me that after my mission I had to come back to Puerto Rico so that we could get married. ha ha ha! oh, and the whole family (except for the Branch President) speaks English, so I was able actually build a stronger relationship with them, because I could UNDERSTAND them. Ha ha ha!
and HA! I TOLD you about that haircut. but NO, you didn't believe me. :P gosh, it was so bad. I just kept combing it over till it got longer. blech. but yeah... I think the guy was just used to buzzing everybody's hair or cutting black peoples hair (most everybody in the Dom Rep is either black, or has a lot of black in them.) (I hope that doesn't sound racist. that doesn't sound racist. does it? :-O )
ha ha, as for the faux hawk, I WISH... heh heh, it's not a missionary appropriate haircut, is it? I'm not really sure about that... gosh... I can't even really remember that picture... I think it may have been right after I cut my hair... huh. but with it being shorter... I dunno.... I still like it longer, I'm not gonna lie. it IS much better for the heat if it's shorter, but still. I can make a sacrifice to have longer hair! xD
as for the paper ball, I have some pictures of how to do it on my memory card that I sent you. just get a little search through ém. they would be back from when I was at the CCM. :)
that's really interesting that Bryan hasn't responded to the text yet... has he come over since the birthday party? cause he STILL owes me my package. I WANT TO HEAR FROM HIM, dang it! whats the dealio!?
(Q2)How is the new place and companion? We need your address!!!!!!!!! I have your first Christmas package to send but don't know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) ok, so the new place. I'm in Caguas, the fifth largest city in Puerto Rico. it's pretty spiffy over here, ya know? the city is nestled right in the valley (where I harvest my grain, I took a look at my wife and realized she's very plain. but that's just perfect for an Amish like me, you know, I shun fancy things like Electricity.) sweet. ANYWAYS, yes. in a Valley, so it's kinda like Salt lake city, where we have the mountains on both sides and we're in the Valley. ya know, ya know ya know? yes yes. as for the Address... I'm not too sure about it... like, Elder Bailey has told me that he really hasn't used it, so he doesn't really know... he's always just sent stuff to the office. so what you could do is, I have it right here, but what you could do is that you could send a test letter or something to that effect to the apartment address, to see how long it would take to get there, and see if it ACTUALLY does get there, and if it does, then you could put that address up on the Blog. as for now, until we verify, it might be much better to just have the office address on there.
but here's the address:
Urb. Bairoa
Calle Pargue de Romances S-6
Caguas, PR 00725
ok, so be careful with that, it's a wild card. :) but Elder Bailey is Pretty sweet. I'm not gonna lie. he's only got one more transfer than me, but he's got a very nice sense of humor, and even better, he doesn't take everything I say literally! YAY! he enjoys using some sarcasm as well, so I think this transfer is gonna be much SMOOTHER than the last two.
(Q3)And you need to find out if you need an international phone card to call home or a us one so I can send it or you could just go buy one!
3) as for the international phone card, I should be fine there... I still have the others that you gave me, plus we're still in the united states, yo. :P but yeah Hermano Mejias, the ward mission leader here, said that we could use his phones. he's got some cells/his home phone with unlimited national calls, heh, so he told us that we could use those. ha ha, he was also like, ''yeah, you guys can totally use them for as long as you want. an hour, two hours, THREE hours if you're REALLY ''home sick'' ha ha ha, so we're good on that, I think. ( he speaks english, by the way, as well, so I think I'm getting off pretty easy around here! xD but I've noticed that I'm understanding people's spanish a TON more now. SWEET!)
(Q4)How was your Thanksgiving? What did you eat?
4)mmm, thanksgiving! so it was the day AFTER transfers, but thats ok cause Elder Bailey had some appointments set up. YAY! we went to a recent converts house, the Mendozas. they are SUPER cool. the father speaks English, but no one else does (he was in the air force) they have VERY strong Testimonies. they made us some FANTASTIC super soft turkey, rice, macaroni salad, and for drinks, we had some orange juice xD and we also had a drink that they make over here... I can't remember what it's called at the moment, but normally it has Rum in it, but they left that out. aw darn. ha ha ha! but it was quite tasty. really sweet tasting... I'll try and remember the name. :)
(Q5)what does chacho mean?
5) he he he, Chacho is un palabra Boricua. (it's a native puerto rican word. Boricua is the word the use for like, born puerto rican, I guess?) but chacho means like, gosh, or jeeze. a nice little fun word to use. :)
yay! say hi to the Jones Family for me!
-to the Franzens-
Hi Franzen family! oh my goodness! I got the pictures of your daughter!!!! she is SO CUTE!
I'm getting better at my spanish, so I'm thinking that I might attempt to send you guys a letter in spanish this week. I really hope you'll be able to understand me! ha ha ha! but yes, I've been meaning to send one sooner, but packing for transfers took a bit longer than I expected. Entonces, voy a tratar y darles una carta ESTE semana!
pero, Ustedes son el mejor que hay!
Con mucho Amor,
~Elder Bryan
-End transmission for the Franzens-
well, it's good that Grandma Laster enjoys hearing from me. thats what counts, right? xD as for the list of smilies, it might be better for you to make a list... I've been trying to, but I just get so wrapped up in stuff that it makes it difficult. :'(
you better get dad on editing those emails. that's important, you know.
but yeah, let dad know I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to reply to his email today... gah, I feel horrible. ok. I'm gonna try and send you guys a letter today. I got TONS of stuff to talk about, cause it's a whole new area and everything, so I'll do what I can. :)
so remember about the address: send a tester letter first, just to see if it works. the little Teenie mailbox we have doen't have a top on it. it's one of those ones that you hang up on the wall, so I'm gonna see what I can do about that. maybe fasten a little to out of scraps... I don't know. I just gotta come up with somethin so the letters don't get wet. I'll see what I can do. but don't forget, send a TEST LETTER FIRST. I don't want any of my precious Mana to get lost. :)
so yes, I Love you guys a MUCHOTONSPLUSSEVEN!!!
~Elder Brandon Bryan
as for 6 & 7, I'll address those in my letter! LOVE YOU GUYS!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The winds of change are blowin! and they are blowin' me to...
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
WOOO! *wind blows* I'm going to... what?! I can't hear you! the wind is too loud!
*wind stops* whew. ok! so I'm getting sent to Caguas! It's like fifteen minutes south of Bayamon, which is where the mission office is. from what I've been told, it's the second biggest (or third biggest) city in puerto rico, next to San Juan and Ponce. :) so I'm gonna be BiiiiZiE! so HA! I'm not going to the Desert, you bum. :P NYAH! yup yup yeppers. and my new companion is going to be Elder Bailey. man, I saw his picture that Elder Dye had (he was a moving Elder, the people that move stuff around in the mission and take people to and from the Airport and stuff like that, so he hada nifty littly packet of all the missionaries and their pictures and the addresses of all the apartments, which I was supposed to GRAB FROM HIM but we forgot!) plus, we had to run to Santurce for a checkup appointment he had about his foot (he had a nasty nasty NASTY ingrown toenail. xD ) but anyways, I saw his picture and he TOTALLY looks like Hayden Christianson, the guy that played Anakin In numbers two and three. ha ha ha!
yeah! thanksgiving is Totally gonna be a toss up for me. I can only hope that the memebers of the WARD (that's right, it's a ward now!) love him enough to have invited us to go eat over and their houses :3 Mmmm, that would be nice, eh?! :D
Love you guys mucho mucho mucho!
~Brandon
WOOO! *wind blows* I'm going to... what?! I can't hear you! the wind is too loud!
*wind stops* whew. ok! so I'm getting sent to Caguas! It's like fifteen minutes south of Bayamon, which is where the mission office is. from what I've been told, it's the second biggest (or third biggest) city in puerto rico, next to San Juan and Ponce. :) so I'm gonna be BiiiiZiE! so HA! I'm not going to the Desert, you bum. :P NYAH! yup yup yeppers. and my new companion is going to be Elder Bailey. man, I saw his picture that Elder Dye had (he was a moving Elder, the people that move stuff around in the mission and take people to and from the Airport and stuff like that, so he hada nifty littly packet of all the missionaries and their pictures and the addresses of all the apartments, which I was supposed to GRAB FROM HIM but we forgot!) plus, we had to run to Santurce for a checkup appointment he had about his foot (he had a nasty nasty NASTY ingrown toenail. xD ) but anyways, I saw his picture and he TOTALLY looks like Hayden Christianson, the guy that played Anakin In numbers two and three. ha ha ha!
yeah! thanksgiving is Totally gonna be a toss up for me. I can only hope that the memebers of the WARD (that's right, it's a ward now!) love him enough to have invited us to go eat over and their houses :3 Mmmm, that would be nice, eh?! :D
Love you guys mucho mucho mucho!
~Brandon
staring in the right direction. (oo, that sounds mysterious) ha ha ha!
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
DAH! I'm sorry guys... the email place was closed for some reason... it was the day after Veterans day, but it was still closed... I had meant to get a snail mail letter-ness-ist out to you guys, but I had tossed Tawny a letter instead. I just felt like I should so I went with that.
and of robin. yes. I was QUITE surprizded to find myself an email in my in box from her. YAY! heh, I tossed just her one back a second ago, so we'll see if I can sneak a second one out of her before she realizes whats goin' down! ha ha ha!
but yes, I DID get my package!!! :D YAY! I got it last Saturday, imagine my surprise. I was totally expecting to just get them when I went to the mission office (oh, speaking of which. this next week is transfers, so my P-day is gonna be on Tuesday. plus, through some interesting events, I have found out that this next transfer I'm being transferred! :-O I don't know to where. all I knowz is that itz happenings.) but yeah. ah... and the padding. PERFECT! :D I'm working on figuring out who I can talk to to get the cheapest help for my "cavity". I'm not sure if it is or not, but I wanna find out, so like you said, and x-ray would be better. :)
and for the cards. OH my GOSHES! you gaiz are the BESTORZ! but really. those cards really mean a lot. I'm just really thankful for everyone that tossed in their words. AND to those people that didn't: "HEY! whats the dealio! just because I'm gone doesn't mean you don't have to wish me a happy birthday! thats just not fair!"
I also wish to thank my fans. without them, I would be nothing
HA HA HA!, but really though. tell everyone thank you. and please, let everyone know that I'm really thankful for their messages on facebook too. and TELL MISS ALISON BODY THAT SHE NEEDS TO MAIL ME. thats just ri-DICULOUS that she hasn't yet! I thought we were friends! :'( wheres my letter, miss alison!? I'm WAITING. :P
ah. and SPEAKING of umbrellas, you know... I'm not too sure where my umbrella went... but it seems to have disappeared. LAME! so yeah... and since we're going into the whole rainy season... yeah. that would be really cool if, you know. yeah. exactly. perfect. See? you know.
whats snap fish? I've actually never heard of that before. and for the Costco thing... I COULD do that, but I've already got the box and the sticky notes for labeling things and all that. you know. so I mean, I COULD just toss you the mem card anyways, cause I DO have a second one. :3
plus, I THOUGHT I had a picture of my exercise thing, but I don't... so I can't toss you a picture just yet, but I want to. of course, I could just toss it on the camera and then send it home on the memory card for ya guys.but for now... it's called a "Varigrip" made by planet waves. it's black. :) maybe that might help for now? I dunno. see what you can go. you go girl! xD
also, tell the Keys family thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for the CARD!!!! :D it was a hoops and yo yo card, and it was GREAT! ha ha ha!so I really want to thank them for the card. and they've always been there for me, ya know? it just means so much to me, and I wanna thank them for it. I'm trying to get everyone a letter back, too. I'm really working on my thank you cards as well... :-/ but I'm doing the best I can. :) and they are gonna send me a package?! SWEET! that's the best! :D :D :D
also, can't wait to get the mouthpiece. :3 ha ha ha! but as for the size, it SHOULD be right under the lip of the mouthpiece, would I would have it on my mouth. and the size that I'm lookin fer is the 7c, but if you cant find that, the 3c would be good. It SHOULD say like "Bach 3c" on it, and the 7c should be the same. :)
and yes, hopefully I don't get transferred out to the islands, or at LEAST I could go to the American Virgin Islands, that way it's still American, eh? ha ha! but we'll see. I SHOULD know by next week, Monday, if not then Tuesday. just in time to let you guys know! :D xD
ha ha ha! that's so great with the whole Tawny putting that on her facebook status! but no, neither have written me yet, but that's just how life goes. ha! if somebody else doesn't do it, then do it yourself, eh? so I'll probably end up writing Amy today, too. xD
they DO celebrate Thanksgiving out here! for food, they have, from what I've heard, they have some EXCELLENT turkey, and rice with chic peas, and... macaroni and cheese? that's right. macaroni and cheese. ha ha ha! but it's like baked instead.. well... maybe not? it's just like... extra creamy? I dunno. Elder Dye is telling all this too me as I type. xD he also said that sometimes they deep fry their turkey as well.
HEY, and you better get on Bryan for sending me that package. he hasn't sent me a letter ONCE, and I've send him what... two? wheres that package that he promised me back in the MTC? that bum. but I better get it soon. cause he wasn't supposed to get his dinner until I got my letter!
and please, if you would, please jump into my facebook emailizors. that would be pretty tight to know what people have sent me. you know. :D
gosh! I wish I could get to know your "new clients". if they're that funny they'd be pretty sweet to chill with! :D xD
but my suggestion for your prayers: the lord WANTS to bless us, but he CAN'T unless we ask him. so if you pray to the lord, showing him that you REALLY WANT some help, it will happen. unfortunately, it doesn't always happen on OUR time. sometimes there is something that we need to learn from our experience. but everything happens on the LORDS time... so maybe there's something that needs to happen first. but I can suggest something that will help: companionship prayer! :D get with dad, and have your guys' companionship prayer. :) that is, if you haven't been. :) I don't really know. but if we exersize our faith by showing him that we want to pray to him for help, he will do it. on this subject, I've got a few scriptures.
3 Nephi 18:21- this one is when Christ is talking with the Lamanites when he came. it's about prayer, and how we should do it in our families. you know. ;) also verse 15 in the same chapter is a good one. :)
[ 15 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always, lest ye be tempted by the devil, and ye be led away captive by him.
18 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.]
and in Alma 34:17-28. this scripture is when Alma is teaching when Amulek (two of the best missionaries EVER!) and in these verses they are talking about prayer and how important it is.
[17 Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you;
18 Yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is mighty to save.
19 Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in prayer unto him.
20 Cry unto him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all your flocks.
21 Cry unto him in your houses, yea, over all your household, both morning, mid-day, and evening.
22 Yea, cry unto him against the power of your enemies.
23 Yea, cry unto him against the devil, who is an enemy to all righteousness.
24 Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye may prosper in them.
25 Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they may increase.
26 But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness.
27 Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your welfare, and also for the welfare of those who are around you.
28 And now behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you, do not suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need—I say unto you, if ye do not any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith.]
also, don't EVER forget the power of fasting. if you and Dad fast together, I can promise that the lord will pour out the means by which he may find the job he needs. and lastly (on this point I guess. I kinda feel like I'm rambling about a topic that you guys don't really need help with. I dunno, I'm not there! xD) sometimes, the Lord needs us to learn something from certain afflictions, to prepare us better for the future. for whats to come. which are ALWAYS bigger and better blessings. :)
ANYWAYS, I guess I could stop rambling about something I don't really know anything about. ha ha ha!
oh poo! I'm out of time. ok. so I'm going to try to get my box sent out sometime this week. I went to the post office and pick up the box, so now I just have to fill it!
ha ha ha! I love Stephens response! :D
tell Hannah I LOVE HER TOO! :D I have a surprise coming for Bryan, Hannah and Donny soon as well. I might just toss it in the box to avoid having to use a stamp. xD
so I gotta peace out, yo!
Love you guys! Everyone! even Bryan, but it's only a half love for him, cause he still hasn't sent me my letter. :P
~Brandon
yeah, woo!
DAH! I'm sorry guys... the email place was closed for some reason... it was the day after Veterans day, but it was still closed... I had meant to get a snail mail letter-ness-ist out to you guys, but I had tossed Tawny a letter instead. I just felt like I should so I went with that.
and of robin. yes. I was QUITE surprizded to find myself an email in my in box from her. YAY! heh, I tossed just her one back a second ago, so we'll see if I can sneak a second one out of her before she realizes whats goin' down! ha ha ha!
but yes, I DID get my package!!! :D YAY! I got it last Saturday, imagine my surprise. I was totally expecting to just get them when I went to the mission office (oh, speaking of which. this next week is transfers, so my P-day is gonna be on Tuesday. plus, through some interesting events, I have found out that this next transfer I'm being transferred! :-O I don't know to where. all I knowz is that itz happenings.) but yeah. ah... and the padding. PERFECT! :D I'm working on figuring out who I can talk to to get the cheapest help for my "cavity". I'm not sure if it is or not, but I wanna find out, so like you said, and x-ray would be better. :)
and for the cards. OH my GOSHES! you gaiz are the BESTORZ! but really. those cards really mean a lot. I'm just really thankful for everyone that tossed in their words. AND to those people that didn't: "HEY! whats the dealio! just because I'm gone doesn't mean you don't have to wish me a happy birthday! thats just not fair!"
I also wish to thank my fans. without them, I would be nothing
HA HA HA!, but really though. tell everyone thank you. and please, let everyone know that I'm really thankful for their messages on facebook too. and TELL MISS ALISON BODY THAT SHE NEEDS TO MAIL ME. thats just ri-DICULOUS that she hasn't yet! I thought we were friends! :'( wheres my letter, miss alison!? I'm WAITING. :P
ah. and SPEAKING of umbrellas, you know... I'm not too sure where my umbrella went... but it seems to have disappeared. LAME! so yeah... and since we're going into the whole rainy season... yeah. that would be really cool if, you know. yeah. exactly. perfect. See? you know.
whats snap fish? I've actually never heard of that before. and for the Costco thing... I COULD do that, but I've already got the box and the sticky notes for labeling things and all that. you know. so I mean, I COULD just toss you the mem card anyways, cause I DO have a second one. :3
plus, I THOUGHT I had a picture of my exercise thing, but I don't... so I can't toss you a picture just yet, but I want to. of course, I could just toss it on the camera and then send it home on the memory card for ya guys.but for now... it's called a "Varigrip" made by planet waves. it's black. :) maybe that might help for now? I dunno. see what you can go. you go girl! xD
also, tell the Keys family thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for the CARD!!!! :D it was a hoops and yo yo card, and it was GREAT! ha ha ha!so I really want to thank them for the card. and they've always been there for me, ya know? it just means so much to me, and I wanna thank them for it. I'm trying to get everyone a letter back, too. I'm really working on my thank you cards as well... :-/ but I'm doing the best I can. :) and they are gonna send me a package?! SWEET! that's the best! :D :D :D
also, can't wait to get the mouthpiece. :3 ha ha ha! but as for the size, it SHOULD be right under the lip of the mouthpiece, would I would have it on my mouth. and the size that I'm lookin fer is the 7c, but if you cant find that, the 3c would be good. It SHOULD say like "Bach 3c" on it, and the 7c should be the same. :)
and yes, hopefully I don't get transferred out to the islands, or at LEAST I could go to the American Virgin Islands, that way it's still American, eh? ha ha! but we'll see. I SHOULD know by next week, Monday, if not then Tuesday. just in time to let you guys know! :D xD
ha ha ha! that's so great with the whole Tawny putting that on her facebook status! but no, neither have written me yet, but that's just how life goes. ha! if somebody else doesn't do it, then do it yourself, eh? so I'll probably end up writing Amy today, too. xD
they DO celebrate Thanksgiving out here! for food, they have, from what I've heard, they have some EXCELLENT turkey, and rice with chic peas, and... macaroni and cheese? that's right. macaroni and cheese. ha ha ha! but it's like baked instead.. well... maybe not? it's just like... extra creamy? I dunno. Elder Dye is telling all this too me as I type. xD he also said that sometimes they deep fry their turkey as well.
HEY, and you better get on Bryan for sending me that package. he hasn't sent me a letter ONCE, and I've send him what... two? wheres that package that he promised me back in the MTC? that bum. but I better get it soon. cause he wasn't supposed to get his dinner until I got my letter!
and please, if you would, please jump into my facebook emailizors. that would be pretty tight to know what people have sent me. you know. :D
gosh! I wish I could get to know your "new clients". if they're that funny they'd be pretty sweet to chill with! :D xD
but my suggestion for your prayers: the lord WANTS to bless us, but he CAN'T unless we ask him. so if you pray to the lord, showing him that you REALLY WANT some help, it will happen. unfortunately, it doesn't always happen on OUR time. sometimes there is something that we need to learn from our experience. but everything happens on the LORDS time... so maybe there's something that needs to happen first. but I can suggest something that will help: companionship prayer! :D get with dad, and have your guys' companionship prayer. :) that is, if you haven't been. :) I don't really know. but if we exersize our faith by showing him that we want to pray to him for help, he will do it. on this subject, I've got a few scriptures.
3 Nephi 18:21- this one is when Christ is talking with the Lamanites when he came. it's about prayer, and how we should do it in our families. you know. ;) also verse 15 in the same chapter is a good one. :)
[ 15 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always, lest ye be tempted by the devil, and ye be led away captive by him.
18 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.]
and in Alma 34:17-28. this scripture is when Alma is teaching when Amulek (two of the best missionaries EVER!) and in these verses they are talking about prayer and how important it is.
[17 Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you;
18 Yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is mighty to save.
19 Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in prayer unto him.
20 Cry unto him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all your flocks.
21 Cry unto him in your houses, yea, over all your household, both morning, mid-day, and evening.
22 Yea, cry unto him against the power of your enemies.
23 Yea, cry unto him against the devil, who is an enemy to all righteousness.
24 Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye may prosper in them.
25 Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they may increase.
26 But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness.
27 Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your welfare, and also for the welfare of those who are around you.
28 And now behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you, do not suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need—I say unto you, if ye do not any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith.]
also, don't EVER forget the power of fasting. if you and Dad fast together, I can promise that the lord will pour out the means by which he may find the job he needs. and lastly (on this point I guess. I kinda feel like I'm rambling about a topic that you guys don't really need help with. I dunno, I'm not there! xD) sometimes, the Lord needs us to learn something from certain afflictions, to prepare us better for the future. for whats to come. which are ALWAYS bigger and better blessings. :)
ANYWAYS, I guess I could stop rambling about something I don't really know anything about. ha ha ha!
oh poo! I'm out of time. ok. so I'm going to try to get my box sent out sometime this week. I went to the post office and pick up the box, so now I just have to fill it!
ha ha ha! I love Stephens response! :D
tell Hannah I LOVE HER TOO! :D I have a surprise coming for Bryan, Hannah and Donny soon as well. I might just toss it in the box to avoid having to use a stamp. xD
so I gotta peace out, yo!
Love you guys! Everyone! even Bryan, but it's only a half love for him, cause he still hasn't sent me my letter. :P
~Brandon
yeah, woo!
1st e-mail from Gramma Nita
Wed, 4 Nov 2009
YAY! first email ever! :D alright, I'm so excited! :D :D <-- now, just in case, those are smilie faces. kinda like: :) except with a bigger smile! :D
but I'm really glad that my letter for Cole got there safe and sound. thats very good. I really hope that he really really likes it. I'm gonna try to keep a nice constant letter conversation between me and him. be a good influence, ya know? :D
and you know, I don't even know if I can really express how much getting a letter from you ever week means to me. it's just so fantastic to hear from you. ESPECIALLY about when you wrote me about Bryan reading my letter. that just gives me that extra little boost to do the very best I can as much as I can.
and I got your postcard/Halloween card yesterday! HA HA HA! I loved it! and the other halloween cards that you sent me were absolutely fantastic. excellent puns! :D YES!
I really hope to hear about you trip to Cali! I really hope that it went quite fantastic and I'm really glad that Grandpa was able to recieve my letter. I'm really happy that I was able to see him before I went into the MTC as well. I just really wish I coulda gotten more time to spend with him, you know? but thats what I get AFTER the mission! :D
but yes. I'm really looking forward to getting my letters from you and I hope to get them soon! :D
I love you so very much grandma!
SUPER hugs and Kisses!
~Brandon
YAY! first email ever! :D alright, I'm so excited! :D :D <-- now, just in case, those are smilie faces. kinda like: :) except with a bigger smile! :D
but I'm really glad that my letter for Cole got there safe and sound. thats very good. I really hope that he really really likes it. I'm gonna try to keep a nice constant letter conversation between me and him. be a good influence, ya know? :D
and you know, I don't even know if I can really express how much getting a letter from you ever week means to me. it's just so fantastic to hear from you. ESPECIALLY about when you wrote me about Bryan reading my letter. that just gives me that extra little boost to do the very best I can as much as I can.
and I got your postcard/Halloween card yesterday! HA HA HA! I loved it! and the other halloween cards that you sent me were absolutely fantastic. excellent puns! :D YES!
I really hope to hear about you trip to Cali! I really hope that it went quite fantastic and I'm really glad that Grandpa was able to recieve my letter. I'm really happy that I was able to see him before I went into the MTC as well. I just really wish I coulda gotten more time to spend with him, you know? but thats what I get AFTER the mission! :D
but yes. I'm really looking forward to getting my letters from you and I hope to get them soon! :D
I love you so very much grandma!
SUPER hugs and Kisses!
~Brandon
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
yay! pictures of the Yunque!
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
yay! number one is our group in the gwa gwa (ha ha, a bus. it's puerto Rican for bus, or larger car, like an SUV. I don't know why, but it is. and it's only like that here in perto Rico) that a member drove us up in. cool beans!
number two is the waterfall that we all hiked up to. :D I had one of the sisters take the picture for me. notice Elder Sierra just chillin next to me on the rock. there were some other people there as well. I swear thats not my girlfriend in the background! ;) ha ha ha!
I would send more at a time, but they are too beefy! :)
~Enjoy!
Brandon/Elder Bryan
cool paperclips make the world go 'round! :D
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
que pasa con que? :D
aw, it's all good if you didn't get the chance to write me. it happens, you know? I mean... I'm only you most loved child, halfway across the WORLD. I understand. :P
ha ha ha! but it's all good. I know how things go with sister slade. xD
OH MAN!!!! you got to sit near President Uchtdorf?! you lucky punk! did it look like he enjoyed it? did YOU enjoy it? what songs were played? how come WE didn't go see that when I was there? :D :P man... all those musicians from Asia are just sick awesome. its not fair. but you know? all it takes is some work. that's all you have to do. work and dedication. (fo sho!)
thats so cool that you got to chill with Neumann, Rasmussen and Jesse! AND you guys went to Moochies together? cool beans. coooooool beans. xD I hope you enjoyed one of those cheese steaks for me. :P
wow. MAN, things just keep hitting up Don and Joanna left and right! that's hard... wow. and the cook just...? wow. disappointing. I wonder what made him think that he could get away with it. it's good that they got him though. it's interesting that he got caught for SOMETHING ELSE too. and YES!! I'm so glad that they were able to find the bag. I KNEW it was there somewhere. xD that's good that he feels that way about the guardian angel, eh? maybe it will lead to him getting reactivated? ha ha ha! aw! :'( I hope Joanna feels better about Baby... She was a good Dog.
wait. you guys got letters from Ehren? WHAT?! wheres mine?! :'( wait... did he also send Robin one? ha ha ha! gosh. WHY DIDN'T HE SEND ME ONE?! RIDICULOUS!
this week? estoy FANTASTICO! :D I've got Elder Dye as a companion! heck yes! I'll toss some pics of him in with my pics of the Yunque this week. sweet!
heh heh heh, well, the small mini stove that we have (on top of the Main stove) isn't put there by the land lord... it's actually from the housing coordinators, the Molinas. so pretty much what we have to do is just pick up a new one (cause the Molinas never answer their phone for us... I don't know why) and then give the mission the receipt to get reimbursed for it. :)
oh goodness! we have this one member, Hermana Luz, that feeds us every Thursday! :D wow, she makes some good Arroz y Habichuelas. mm mm, tasty. that and the culture here is all about sharing food. "are you guys hungry?" "Ustedes quieren un efresco?" "here, lets just put some of this food in a bag for you to take home" oh my gosh! we had food coming out of the yin yizzle last week! our fridge was filled beyond capacity last week. ha ha ha! I got a picture of it cause it was so funny. OH!!!! speaking of food as well. we had one member totally give us the most ginourmous grapefruit in the WORLDDDD!!!! I got a picture of that too, cause it was... wow. bigger than four of my fists put together. KARAIZEE!
heck YES we have a microwave! :D Elder Maldonado just didn't know how to eat, so we never had REAL vegetables around. but we do now! :D so I get to pop that popcorn you sent me! :D
aw, and the laundry bag? perfect. absolutely perfect. the threads on that thing is superb. :D speaking of all the stuff you sent me. :D I got the notice for the package on Friday! wow! so if you sent it on Wednesday, that means it got to me in two days! skidoosh, super speedy.
and as for my birthday... what DO I want? well, for starters... I wold have to say, my gospel Principles book. you know, cause being able to understand that book would be pretty fantastic. not gonna lie. xD oh! and maybe a new Varigrip. that finger strength thing that I bought, cause one of the fingers that had been broken on it finally gave up the ghost. xD so yeah... I could send you a picture of that so you could make sure to get the right one. ;) not saying that you would get the wrong one or anything. no. that's just ridiculous. but just to be positive. you know? yeah. but what else...? for my birthday? wow... I can't even think of anything... maybe I could try and come up with a list of things by next week? :D ha ha ha!
and as for being starved for music? yes. very much so. Elder Dye has a very nice collection of CD's, and two weeks ago he picked up a CD player, but that's only gonna last until he's not my companion anymore, right? yeah. as for getting the music to me? well... you COULD send it to me as a CD, I GUESS... I'm not exactly sure how you could get it to me in MP3 form... no sé exacto... maybe a simple CD player and some CDs? gosh, I just don't even know.
oh my GOSH. Bryan WOULD do that. ha ha ha! that's so great though! ha ha ha! I think you should take him up on the idea. but make sure you make him say the prayer. ha! I can almost imagine him saying, "well, I was Brandon last week, but now its MY birthday this week" ha ha ha!\
sounds like that stake standards night must have been a good one. texting is ever so slightly addicting you know. *cough* robin *cough cough* what? what was that?
Anyways, YAY! Donny's a life scout!!! YES! now get on him to get working on those Merit badges. he needs to get his eagle. xD
aw, my booger knows when you're talking to me! :D yay! I can almost feel the fake love coming from the hard black and white text on the screen. mm. love it. xD
"hi Dad!" lets see... what did I learn from my last comp? the biggest thing would probably be... trusting in the lord. and hope. but those two go hand in hand together. however, yes. I learned most of all, to trust in the Lord. there is a reason why we go through things. through ALL things. and they are to help us learn, and become who we need to be, and who the Lord wants us to be. so, even though my first companion was a horrible experience, I learned quite a bit about myself. about who I REALLY am, and what I'm striving to do and become. very nice, in fact. quite nice indeed.
oh goodness... I GUESS you could send me an envelope, but I've got some other stuff that I would like to send home too, like all of my Ties. ha ha ha! gosh, all the ones I brought from home would DIE if I used them here! the humidity would just destroy them, and I don't want anything to happen to them. xD so I might just get a box together of some stuff that I would like to preserve and keep safe so I don't have to keep lugging them around, ya know? so I'll do the best that I can there.
and on the memory card.... well, I've got some pretty entertaining videos, but I also have some recordings of some riffs that I came up with. now, I don't care if you listen to them, but just so you know, that's what they are. so don't let anything happen to them! :P but then again... if I send you the memory card then I won't have the pictures to look at MYSELF! :P hmmm... maybe I could just send it to ya anyways. I mean, you DO have to send it back, right? that and my memory card still has enough space for 2,000 more pictures. ha ha ha! I don't know. I'll see how getting that box goes. :3
so yeah. lets see whats happened around here. oh! I tried a malta here! non alchoholic malta is quite popular here in Puerto Rico, and Omayra, the recent convert /daughter of Herminia, ANOTHER recent convert gave one each to me and Elder Dye after one of our lessons. BLECH!!!! TOTALLY DISGUSTING! ha ha ha! wow, it smelled like spaghettios... and it tasted like... carbonated... I don't even know. maybe I could just describe it as carbonated spaghettios? GRODY!
lets see. oh! last night we had be giving a lesson to Mili (Milagros), ha, ANOTHER recent convert, and like halfway through the lesson, the power went out. HA HA! we had been teaching about Lehi's Dream, and right smack dab in the middle, the power just goes "SCHWOOP" and goes out. and then like three seconds later this HUGE roll of thunder goes over the house. SWEET! so we gave the other half of the lesson in the dark. ha ha ha! and the house us up near the Yunque so it was DARK. ha ha! luckily for us though, David, a member that we brought with us to the lesson had a flashlight on his PHONE! ha, so we used that for the rest of the lesson, and then right before we were about to finish up, the power comes back on. ha ha! it was cool. and you know what? it also reminded me about that concert that we had at GK when the power went out. that was such a cool experience. both the lesson AND the concert. yeah. good stuff.
Well, I gotta get some pictures sent to you, so I guess I'll end the email and get to the stuff that you really care about. :P ha ha ha!
so anyways, I love you LOTS!!! talk to you next week! oh... also, would you tell Bryan that he NEEDS to write me back? whats the dealio with that? I sent him a letter TWO WEEKS ago. he's TOTALLY had enough time. plus, he could even send it to my apartment address! even less hassle for him, cause i would be gar-raun-teed to get it in about two days. so yes. you should make that a condition for his/MY birthday dinner. (ha ha ha!)
I Love you guys so much!
~Brandon/Elder Bryan
que pasa con que? :D
aw, it's all good if you didn't get the chance to write me. it happens, you know? I mean... I'm only you most loved child, halfway across the WORLD. I understand. :P
ha ha ha! but it's all good. I know how things go with sister slade. xD
OH MAN!!!! you got to sit near President Uchtdorf?! you lucky punk! did it look like he enjoyed it? did YOU enjoy it? what songs were played? how come WE didn't go see that when I was there? :D :P man... all those musicians from Asia are just sick awesome. its not fair. but you know? all it takes is some work. that's all you have to do. work and dedication. (fo sho!)
thats so cool that you got to chill with Neumann, Rasmussen and Jesse! AND you guys went to Moochies together? cool beans. coooooool beans. xD I hope you enjoyed one of those cheese steaks for me. :P
wow. MAN, things just keep hitting up Don and Joanna left and right! that's hard... wow. and the cook just...? wow. disappointing. I wonder what made him think that he could get away with it. it's good that they got him though. it's interesting that he got caught for SOMETHING ELSE too. and YES!! I'm so glad that they were able to find the bag. I KNEW it was there somewhere. xD that's good that he feels that way about the guardian angel, eh? maybe it will lead to him getting reactivated? ha ha ha! aw! :'( I hope Joanna feels better about Baby... She was a good Dog.
wait. you guys got letters from Ehren? WHAT?! wheres mine?! :'( wait... did he also send Robin one? ha ha ha! gosh. WHY DIDN'T HE SEND ME ONE?! RIDICULOUS!
this week? estoy FANTASTICO! :D I've got Elder Dye as a companion! heck yes! I'll toss some pics of him in with my pics of the Yunque this week. sweet!
heh heh heh, well, the small mini stove that we have (on top of the Main stove) isn't put there by the land lord... it's actually from the housing coordinators, the Molinas. so pretty much what we have to do is just pick up a new one (cause the Molinas never answer their phone for us... I don't know why) and then give the mission the receipt to get reimbursed for it. :)
oh goodness! we have this one member, Hermana Luz, that feeds us every Thursday! :D wow, she makes some good Arroz y Habichuelas. mm mm, tasty. that and the culture here is all about sharing food. "are you guys hungry?" "Ustedes quieren un efresco?" "here, lets just put some of this food in a bag for you to take home" oh my gosh! we had food coming out of the yin yizzle last week! our fridge was filled beyond capacity last week. ha ha ha! I got a picture of it cause it was so funny. OH!!!! speaking of food as well. we had one member totally give us the most ginourmous grapefruit in the WORLDDDD!!!! I got a picture of that too, cause it was... wow. bigger than four of my fists put together. KARAIZEE!
heck YES we have a microwave! :D Elder Maldonado just didn't know how to eat, so we never had REAL vegetables around. but we do now! :D so I get to pop that popcorn you sent me! :D
aw, and the laundry bag? perfect. absolutely perfect. the threads on that thing is superb. :D speaking of all the stuff you sent me. :D I got the notice for the package on Friday! wow! so if you sent it on Wednesday, that means it got to me in two days! skidoosh, super speedy.
and as for my birthday... what DO I want? well, for starters... I wold have to say, my gospel Principles book. you know, cause being able to understand that book would be pretty fantastic. not gonna lie. xD oh! and maybe a new Varigrip. that finger strength thing that I bought, cause one of the fingers that had been broken on it finally gave up the ghost. xD so yeah... I could send you a picture of that so you could make sure to get the right one. ;) not saying that you would get the wrong one or anything. no. that's just ridiculous. but just to be positive. you know? yeah. but what else...? for my birthday? wow... I can't even think of anything... maybe I could try and come up with a list of things by next week? :D ha ha ha!
and as for being starved for music? yes. very much so. Elder Dye has a very nice collection of CD's, and two weeks ago he picked up a CD player, but that's only gonna last until he's not my companion anymore, right? yeah. as for getting the music to me? well... you COULD send it to me as a CD, I GUESS... I'm not exactly sure how you could get it to me in MP3 form... no sé exacto... maybe a simple CD player and some CDs? gosh, I just don't even know.
oh my GOSH. Bryan WOULD do that. ha ha ha! that's so great though! ha ha ha! I think you should take him up on the idea. but make sure you make him say the prayer. ha! I can almost imagine him saying, "well, I was Brandon last week, but now its MY birthday this week" ha ha ha!\
sounds like that stake standards night must have been a good one. texting is ever so slightly addicting you know. *cough* robin *cough cough* what? what was that?
Anyways, YAY! Donny's a life scout!!! YES! now get on him to get working on those Merit badges. he needs to get his eagle. xD
aw, my booger knows when you're talking to me! :D yay! I can almost feel the fake love coming from the hard black and white text on the screen. mm. love it. xD
"hi Dad!" lets see... what did I learn from my last comp? the biggest thing would probably be... trusting in the lord. and hope. but those two go hand in hand together. however, yes. I learned most of all, to trust in the Lord. there is a reason why we go through things. through ALL things. and they are to help us learn, and become who we need to be, and who the Lord wants us to be. so, even though my first companion was a horrible experience, I learned quite a bit about myself. about who I REALLY am, and what I'm striving to do and become. very nice, in fact. quite nice indeed.
oh goodness... I GUESS you could send me an envelope, but I've got some other stuff that I would like to send home too, like all of my Ties. ha ha ha! gosh, all the ones I brought from home would DIE if I used them here! the humidity would just destroy them, and I don't want anything to happen to them. xD so I might just get a box together of some stuff that I would like to preserve and keep safe so I don't have to keep lugging them around, ya know? so I'll do the best that I can there.
and on the memory card.... well, I've got some pretty entertaining videos, but I also have some recordings of some riffs that I came up with. now, I don't care if you listen to them, but just so you know, that's what they are. so don't let anything happen to them! :P but then again... if I send you the memory card then I won't have the pictures to look at MYSELF! :P hmmm... maybe I could just send it to ya anyways. I mean, you DO have to send it back, right? that and my memory card still has enough space for 2,000 more pictures. ha ha ha! I don't know. I'll see how getting that box goes. :3
so yeah. lets see whats happened around here. oh! I tried a malta here! non alchoholic malta is quite popular here in Puerto Rico, and Omayra, the recent convert /daughter of Herminia, ANOTHER recent convert gave one each to me and Elder Dye after one of our lessons. BLECH!!!! TOTALLY DISGUSTING! ha ha ha! wow, it smelled like spaghettios... and it tasted like... carbonated... I don't even know. maybe I could just describe it as carbonated spaghettios? GRODY!
lets see. oh! last night we had be giving a lesson to Mili (Milagros), ha, ANOTHER recent convert, and like halfway through the lesson, the power went out. HA HA! we had been teaching about Lehi's Dream, and right smack dab in the middle, the power just goes "SCHWOOP" and goes out. and then like three seconds later this HUGE roll of thunder goes over the house. SWEET! so we gave the other half of the lesson in the dark. ha ha ha! and the house us up near the Yunque so it was DARK. ha ha! luckily for us though, David, a member that we brought with us to the lesson had a flashlight on his PHONE! ha, so we used that for the rest of the lesson, and then right before we were about to finish up, the power comes back on. ha ha! it was cool. and you know what? it also reminded me about that concert that we had at GK when the power went out. that was such a cool experience. both the lesson AND the concert. yeah. good stuff.
Well, I gotta get some pictures sent to you, so I guess I'll end the email and get to the stuff that you really care about. :P ha ha ha!
so anyways, I love you LOTS!!! talk to you next week! oh... also, would you tell Bryan that he NEEDS to write me back? whats the dealio with that? I sent him a letter TWO WEEKS ago. he's TOTALLY had enough time. plus, he could even send it to my apartment address! even less hassle for him, cause i would be gar-raun-teed to get it in about two days. so yes. you should make that a condition for his/MY birthday dinner. (ha ha ha!)
I Love you guys so much!
~Brandon/Elder Bryan
yeah yeah yeah. excuses excuses. :P
Wed, Oct 21, 2009
yay, DOUBLE LONG! now lets hope if I can reply to it all, eh?! :D
ok, it's all good if you didn't get the package sent out. I'll eventually get it, right? yeppers. so I should be all good, as long as I get it. that's what counts the most.
ha ha ha! I love you story though! ha ha ha! that must have been fun!!! ha ha, same box DIFFERENT LETTERS! goodness. I wish I coulda seen that. that would have been great.(mom says-long story about a rude clerk at the post office)
hey, I thought I told you about the mouth guard... oh wells. currently we don't have a stove that works well enough to boil water, so I'm kinda, heh heh, like a fish out of water. (well, that was lame. sorry to waste your time there. :P ) so I can't really set the mouth guard yet. but we're going to call the people in the area, the Molinas, that do the apartment check ups if they can hook us up with a new stove that WORKS, cause the one we have also just randomly decides to turn off... also, it's not grounded, so we get shocked every time we touch the metal base. NO BUENO. so yeah. we need to get that taken care of. :)
ah, as for my new comp. I've gotten to know quite a bit more about my companion in the last week. his name is Elder Dye. he quite honestly beats the crap out of Elder Maldonado with his awesome. no joke. Elder Maldonado had no sense of humor whatsoever. and quite honestly, he was a bit to wrapped up in himself. this might sound a bit harsh, bit he didn't really train me. I didn't learn anything from him. he never told me what was going on, and during most of our appointments I just sat there. and he was quite literally a robot in our lessons. same lessons, same questions. same EVERYTHING. so from that...
yeah. but honestly, it had gotten bad enough that I was thinking that if I had to spend anymore than those six weeks, I wouldn't make it. it was... wow, it was bad. but WOW. ELDER DYE knows how to teach. he's super cool. AND, he's got a great sense of humor. much nicer. and you know what? he listens to what I say! WHAT?! crazy, I know, but it's true. :D but he is from Orem Utah, and he speaks PERFECT English. ha ha ha! :P oh, and his Spanish isn't half bad either. he's got 17 months in the mission, so he's doin pretty good for himself. ah, and transfers were pretty cool. ha ha ha, I still feel like a greenie though cause I still have no idea what I'm doin. but Elder Dye has been commissioned to teach me anew! YAY! "new trainer!"
... you know, I wouldn't mind if you want to toss me a letter, too. :D mail is actually quite reliable here, from what I've discovered, so if you want, you can toss my current address around, cause I have no idea the next time I get the chance to get to the mission office... but it might be this Thursday... ha ha ha!
I'm not too certain about my suit... I need to find out when Elder Dye wants to run out to do that. he wouldn't mind. I still need to find out when I can get my license, as well. those might end up happening on the same day. :)
wow! travis is going to Texas? where at? Jordan Peterson, my friend from EFY is in Texas. I can't remember exactly where, though. maybe later. xD
yeah, I WAS eating mixed vegetables out of a can. CAUSE ELDER MALDONADO DIDNT EVER EAT!!!! :'( that's all that we had vegetable wise! but it's ok, Elder Dye likes to eat, just like me. :) first thing we did when we got here was go and fill our apartment with food. (cause we literally had NOTHING)
tell sister that she is GORGEOUS, and that she has nothing to worry about. Helaman 5:12, or Alma... 24:34? 24:30? I can't remember WHERE it is exactly, but it goes "the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his bretheren where made light, so that they could be up their burdens with ease, that they did submit with patience and diligence to all the will of the Lord" or somethin to that effect. if you have the chance to look that up, por favor, haz lo. :)
yay! MR BAIN!!! I actually have a letter that I am in the process of writing him to thank him for being such an incredible teacher. but don't tell him. I gotta get it written! xD
oh yeah! I got a post card from Grandma Jan and Grandpa Ed from Paris! :D so awesome that they finally got the chance to go! :D
gosh, those cats. they are such weenies! my goodness. at least you got some time with blue and vortex for a while though, right? :D (We dog sat for a friend)
as for April. whats the dealio? she even TOLD me that she would write me. you should get on her for that. that bum. xD
aw, lucky! you get to go to Utah AGAIN! man, you are just spoiled. :P
shawn, shawn, shawn... what happened? I don't understand how you could be SO CLOSE to going on your mission and then going so FAR AWAY.... and the fact that he's gotten baptized in another church? that just doesn't make any sense! why? is there somehow something that THAT church offers that the TRUE church of GOD himself established doesn't? I don't get it. do you know?
wow... you guys had a high speed chase?! crazy! and they killed him, too... I wonder why he was runnin...? speaking of shooting and stuff though. heh heh heh, we have some apartments that are next to our neighborhood of Alturas (se llama Galateo) that have shootouts almost every night. ha hah ha! sometimes it's super bad, sometimes it's not that bad at all, maybe one or two shots. but here in Rio Grande, there is just... things are just going downhill. there was a guy that was robbed at one of the local mini stores... there's a gang that chills in a neighborhood down the freeway (highway 3) called Rio Grande Estates. they leave us alone cause we are men of God (sweet!) but still. we need to be more careful at night.
goodness. two days ago we did service for this investigator, and he had a house that was all the way up on the side of the Yunque, so we had a super super super awesome view of the island. but anyways, he took us up there and we cleared out his driveway cause all the grass and trees here grow year round (CAUSE ITS SUMMER ALL THE TIME! :D) so we helped him with that, and after wards he took us out for sandwiches that were AWESOME! but yeah, I gots some pictures of that, too.
now, I don't have time to send any pictures this week, but we have some pictures from the service, and I have some from El Yunque that I have to get sent. :) but we have to go get food though, so I'll get those sent first before ANYTHING next week.
give my baby a hug for me (ha ha ha, Bryan), and hug shadow too.
I love you all so much! and I'm gonna start focusing on more stuff that's happening around here too. also, my Spanish is doing better, cause Elder Dye actually lets me participate in the lessons! YAY! :D but yeah. Elder Maldonado was sent out to Salinas, on the south side of the island, in the desert! ha ha ha!
ah!!! AND elder Dye was there with the Elder that gave Johnny Depp the pass along card!!!! and HE HAS A PICTURE OF IT!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D so he's going to give ti to me!!! so COOL!
anyways!!! I gots to go!!! I love you guys so much!
talk to you guys next week!
~Elder Brandon Bryan
yay, DOUBLE LONG! now lets hope if I can reply to it all, eh?! :D
ok, it's all good if you didn't get the package sent out. I'll eventually get it, right? yeppers. so I should be all good, as long as I get it. that's what counts the most.
ha ha ha! I love you story though! ha ha ha! that must have been fun!!! ha ha, same box DIFFERENT LETTERS! goodness. I wish I coulda seen that. that would have been great.(mom says-long story about a rude clerk at the post office)
hey, I thought I told you about the mouth guard... oh wells. currently we don't have a stove that works well enough to boil water, so I'm kinda, heh heh, like a fish out of water. (well, that was lame. sorry to waste your time there. :P ) so I can't really set the mouth guard yet. but we're going to call the people in the area, the Molinas, that do the apartment check ups if they can hook us up with a new stove that WORKS, cause the one we have also just randomly decides to turn off... also, it's not grounded, so we get shocked every time we touch the metal base. NO BUENO. so yeah. we need to get that taken care of. :)
ah, as for my new comp. I've gotten to know quite a bit more about my companion in the last week. his name is Elder Dye. he quite honestly beats the crap out of Elder Maldonado with his awesome. no joke. Elder Maldonado had no sense of humor whatsoever. and quite honestly, he was a bit to wrapped up in himself. this might sound a bit harsh, bit he didn't really train me. I didn't learn anything from him. he never told me what was going on, and during most of our appointments I just sat there. and he was quite literally a robot in our lessons. same lessons, same questions. same EVERYTHING. so from that...
yeah. but honestly, it had gotten bad enough that I was thinking that if I had to spend anymore than those six weeks, I wouldn't make it. it was... wow, it was bad. but WOW. ELDER DYE knows how to teach. he's super cool. AND, he's got a great sense of humor. much nicer. and you know what? he listens to what I say! WHAT?! crazy, I know, but it's true. :D but he is from Orem Utah, and he speaks PERFECT English. ha ha ha! :P oh, and his Spanish isn't half bad either. he's got 17 months in the mission, so he's doin pretty good for himself. ah, and transfers were pretty cool. ha ha ha, I still feel like a greenie though cause I still have no idea what I'm doin. but Elder Dye has been commissioned to teach me anew! YAY! "new trainer!"
... you know, I wouldn't mind if you want to toss me a letter, too. :D mail is actually quite reliable here, from what I've discovered, so if you want, you can toss my current address around, cause I have no idea the next time I get the chance to get to the mission office... but it might be this Thursday... ha ha ha!
I'm not too certain about my suit... I need to find out when Elder Dye wants to run out to do that. he wouldn't mind. I still need to find out when I can get my license, as well. those might end up happening on the same day. :)
wow! travis is going to Texas? where at? Jordan Peterson, my friend from EFY is in Texas. I can't remember exactly where, though. maybe later. xD
yeah, I WAS eating mixed vegetables out of a can. CAUSE ELDER MALDONADO DIDNT EVER EAT!!!! :'( that's all that we had vegetable wise! but it's ok, Elder Dye likes to eat, just like me. :) first thing we did when we got here was go and fill our apartment with food. (cause we literally had NOTHING)
tell sister that she is GORGEOUS, and that she has nothing to worry about. Helaman 5:12, or Alma... 24:34? 24:30? I can't remember WHERE it is exactly, but it goes "the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his bretheren where made light, so that they could be up their burdens with ease, that they did submit with patience and diligence to all the will of the Lord" or somethin to that effect. if you have the chance to look that up, por favor, haz lo. :)
yay! MR BAIN!!! I actually have a letter that I am in the process of writing him to thank him for being such an incredible teacher. but don't tell him. I gotta get it written! xD
oh yeah! I got a post card from Grandma Jan and Grandpa Ed from Paris! :D so awesome that they finally got the chance to go! :D
gosh, those cats. they are such weenies! my goodness. at least you got some time with blue and vortex for a while though, right? :D (We dog sat for a friend)
as for April. whats the dealio? she even TOLD me that she would write me. you should get on her for that. that bum. xD
aw, lucky! you get to go to Utah AGAIN! man, you are just spoiled. :P
shawn, shawn, shawn... what happened? I don't understand how you could be SO CLOSE to going on your mission and then going so FAR AWAY.... and the fact that he's gotten baptized in another church? that just doesn't make any sense! why? is there somehow something that THAT church offers that the TRUE church of GOD himself established doesn't? I don't get it. do you know?
wow... you guys had a high speed chase?! crazy! and they killed him, too... I wonder why he was runnin...? speaking of shooting and stuff though. heh heh heh, we have some apartments that are next to our neighborhood of Alturas (se llama Galateo) that have shootouts almost every night. ha hah ha! sometimes it's super bad, sometimes it's not that bad at all, maybe one or two shots. but here in Rio Grande, there is just... things are just going downhill. there was a guy that was robbed at one of the local mini stores... there's a gang that chills in a neighborhood down the freeway (highway 3) called Rio Grande Estates. they leave us alone cause we are men of God (sweet!) but still. we need to be more careful at night.
goodness. two days ago we did service for this investigator, and he had a house that was all the way up on the side of the Yunque, so we had a super super super awesome view of the island. but anyways, he took us up there and we cleared out his driveway cause all the grass and trees here grow year round (CAUSE ITS SUMMER ALL THE TIME! :D) so we helped him with that, and after wards he took us out for sandwiches that were AWESOME! but yeah, I gots some pictures of that, too.
now, I don't have time to send any pictures this week, but we have some pictures from the service, and I have some from El Yunque that I have to get sent. :) but we have to go get food though, so I'll get those sent first before ANYTHING next week.
give my baby a hug for me (ha ha ha, Bryan), and hug shadow too.
I love you all so much! and I'm gonna start focusing on more stuff that's happening around here too. also, my Spanish is doing better, cause Elder Dye actually lets me participate in the lessons! YAY! :D but yeah. Elder Maldonado was sent out to Salinas, on the south side of the island, in the desert! ha ha ha!
ah!!! AND elder Dye was there with the Elder that gave Johnny Depp the pass along card!!!! and HE HAS A PICTURE OF IT!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D so he's going to give ti to me!!! so COOL!
anyways!!! I gots to go!!! I love you guys so much!
talk to you guys next week!
~Elder Brandon Bryan
gah! turns out you didn't get my letter soon enough, eh? :'(
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
sad day. oh wells. I had sent a little letter (on another day other than Pday... I just wanted to make sure you got to know before I got here today, but I guess you didn't get the chance to receive it soon enough) well, no matter. just to let you know, every six weeks, due to the transfer meeting, ( yes, which is every six weeks xD ) our P-day gets moved to the Tuesday before. so here I am, today, instead of tomorrow. :)
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dang it! we came here a bit earlier, cause all the washers and Dryers were taken, and they are going to close fifteen minutes before my time is up for lunch!!!! (which is in five minutes) DANG IT!!! what is the deal?
dah! so we went to the Yunque (jungle)last week. I have no idea if I will get the chance to send my pictures, but we got some cool ones. we got to see a few water falls. it was gorgeous there!
and we got a call from President Dewsnup last night about transfers. I am to remain here in Rio Grande. :-O and Elder Maldonado is headed off to Salina, which is on the southern part of the Island and it's a desert there. ha ha ha! how fun, eh? yeah, for sure. but yes... my new companion is to be Elder Dye. and I meet him tomorrow. woot, craziness!
so yes. this Sunday I fasted for Bryan. please please PLEASE answer his questions. :D I just want him to become as prepared as possible. :)
I don't know if I'll have enough time to get some pictures sent this week (especially from the Yunque, but I'll see what I can do.)
so, to get questions answered while I have the chance:
so the Branch we have here. it's pretty small, people wise. but with area, it's pretty large... maybe about 55 members. there's some interesting ones here. you know how that goes. with only a few "sturdy" members, it's makes it difficult to build a foundation for the rest. :)
and alas, my time is up. so I wish you a good next week, and hope to hear from you again! xD can't wait for my package tomorrow! woot!
Love you mucho!
~Brandon
sad day. oh wells. I had sent a little letter (on another day other than Pday... I just wanted to make sure you got to know before I got here today, but I guess you didn't get the chance to receive it soon enough) well, no matter. just to let you know, every six weeks, due to the transfer meeting, ( yes, which is every six weeks xD ) our P-day gets moved to the Tuesday before. so here I am, today, instead of tomorrow. :)
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dang it! we came here a bit earlier, cause all the washers and Dryers were taken, and they are going to close fifteen minutes before my time is up for lunch!!!! (which is in five minutes) DANG IT!!! what is the deal?
dah! so we went to the Yunque (jungle)last week. I have no idea if I will get the chance to send my pictures, but we got some cool ones. we got to see a few water falls. it was gorgeous there!
and we got a call from President Dewsnup last night about transfers. I am to remain here in Rio Grande. :-O and Elder Maldonado is headed off to Salina, which is on the southern part of the Island and it's a desert there. ha ha ha! how fun, eh? yeah, for sure. but yes... my new companion is to be Elder Dye. and I meet him tomorrow. woot, craziness!
so yes. this Sunday I fasted for Bryan. please please PLEASE answer his questions. :D I just want him to become as prepared as possible. :)
I don't know if I'll have enough time to get some pictures sent this week (especially from the Yunque, but I'll see what I can do.)
so, to get questions answered while I have the chance:
so the Branch we have here. it's pretty small, people wise. but with area, it's pretty large... maybe about 55 members. there's some interesting ones here. you know how that goes. with only a few "sturdy" members, it's makes it difficult to build a foundation for the rest. :)
and alas, my time is up. so I wish you a good next week, and hope to hear from you again! xD can't wait for my package tomorrow! woot!
Love you mucho!
~Brandon
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