April 30, 2010... A phone call???

About 5 minutes ago, I received a phone call from the MTC. The person on the other end began by saying, Hey Dad, This is Brayden. After I almost picked myself up from the floor, I asked how he is doing. He told me that it was felt that by the confusing information that we had received from the MTC that they allowed him to call to confirm to us that he never had shingles and that he has a small cold sore below his left eye and that everything is good. As originally planned, he will be leaving Utah for Honduras either late Sunday night (anywhere from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. or very early Monday morning (anywhere from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.). To make sure that we get the call, I asked him to call us on my cell phone. It has a speaker phone option and it will be a local call for him from the airport. So it sounds like a trip to Provo either tonight or tomorrow is in order to deliver his last package while here in Utah. I want to get a cassette recorder for him so that he has two options in Honduras to send us recordings. He was only able to talk to me for a couple of minutes.

April 23, 2010.. Preparing to leave the MTC

But guess what?!! I leave next Sunday for Honduras! I leave may 2nd at 830 pm for the airport.. then i fly to georgia at about 1am.. then at 10:50 georgia time I roll out for honduras.. So yeah its finally here I'm so excited!

A couple things.. If you have time I feel like I need some better chill shoes (since I never wanna be barefeet) they have these shoes called Tom's and they're supposed to be way comfy and sweet.. If jen has time to grab some (they have them at nordstrom) and if they're cheap I wouldn't mind some.. but if not its okay.. I'll be able to find some shoes in honduras I assume.. Um... I don't think I really need anything else.. If you send me anything in the mail be sure its here by friday at the latest because I don't know if I'll receive it after that point. Pretty crazy for sure!

I'm way excited to finally go.. Everything is great!

I love you.. I"ll be getting back on in a couple hours if you wanna respond by then.

Les Amo mí familia!

Brayden

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Also If you could send me like 50 cash or I could pull it outta an atm let me know through dear elder how I could get that. I just wanna make sure I'm good as far as that goes with my baggage and stuff at the airport. I'm writing you a letter tonight so know youll get taht soon. Love you. As far as those Tom brand shoes go you can find them online in pretty sweet colors and send them to the m.t.c as long as you make sure they would ship them soon so make sure its on a legit site. Have dad or jennica or slate do it cuz they will know. Thanks so much for the brownines and caramels and a new round of medication! I hope everything is going great at home. I'm about halfway through dads tape. As far as packages and what not all i've heard is the jesus stickers and everything. Be sure to look on missionarymalls website because they have a blog type thing and it will have info and stuff like that from what i've heard.

Um.... Not a whole lot else going on.. Just pretty stoked to leave for Honduras finally.. itll be pretty crazy not being able to speak with almost everyone there only in spanish. Especially my mission president! Expect a call from the airport!

Love you still! haha

Brayden

April 16, 2010 Email to Jennica

Well FIrst and Foremost tell Slate he is a RETARD for spilling dye on him Self.. (PIcture me pulling bending my arm in front of me and yelling YES!) cuz thats what happened. Tell him congrats on the Job.. Earthquake? Crazy.. Well if that isn't exciting I don't know what is.. I miss out on everything cool! lol MMM I ate prime rib at the temple today.. It was delicious.. and yesterday we had biscuits and Gravy for lunch.. someone came after my record of 7 biscuits and gravy.. so me and him were both at 8 and he gave up.. I had to separate myself because I came to win So I ate 9! Yeah.. Don't act like your not impressed. K remember those bomb brownies that had caramel and junk in them.. If you wanna make those when your bored I'd be okay with that.. As far as food goes here.. I hate it now lol.. It was nice for a while but everything tastes the same now and I want real food.. I'm so pumped to go to Honduras in like 2 weeks so that I can eat some legit food! They've got KFC and all that junk down there I guess and tons of good native stuff too! I hope everything Is going well.. Love you and Slate!

Sincerely,

Brayden

P.S. If the moon were made of Spare ribs would ya eat it? I WOULD DO IT>!!

April 16, 2010

Oh My Computere illeterate mother..

You just barely found out about that? Did you just think that the red lines appeared under words for fun?!

Haha sorry..

But Seriously that earthquake thing is Crazy! Elder Whites uncle is the engineer of the provo temple so before we ate lunch we talked to him for a second and he told us about it.. Pretty crazy! Also heard about some Volcano or something? Goll the world is coming to an end it would appear. Speaking of which I would like you to email me a list of all the signs of the second coming (its on the internet somewhere) Um.. Everything is still graet.. My spanish is coming along pretty well.. I can say anything I want as far as pertaining to the gospel which is cool. You just kind of loose your personality because you don't know all the words to express yourself.

Again not a whole lot entertaining is going on here.. I do have a funny story about an Elder in my District though.. Elder hafen was praying in spanish a coupld weeks ago and prayed for us missionaries in the district to have more castidad.... He meant to say the word caridad (charity) and we all began to laugh really hard hearing a missionary pray for Castidad.. Which is chastity.. I know i told someone that story already so i hope I'm not repeating myself on that.

I leave in a couple weeks i Hope so I'm way excited! Pray I don't get delayed! I love you all and hope everything is great at home..

Yo Amo Ustedes! (I love you all)

Su hijo y hermano, Brayden

April 9, 2010

I got some on this thing we call the free table (an abondoned ironing board that when people leave they put their junk on it. Gosh it's so nice out here.. Our walk to the temple was like perfect... definitely gonna miss a thing called spring when i go down to honduras. My Spanish might sound good but I'm not even close.. But when I get out in the field I will learn a lot more a lot faster.. I recorded a tape for you guys today so you'll get that soon! I love you.. hope everything is going great!

Love,

Your son

April 2, 2010

Well Mom.. Things are the same here.. just chugging along and working hard to be the best missionary i can and to get good at spanish... Last Sunday the Presidency called me as District leader so having that responsibility has helped to try and work even harder in knowing that I'm supposed to set the example for the rest of my district. All these Missionaries are so great and I would not have befriended them in any other situtation because were all so different but I love them all. I love receiving your letters.. I can only imagine how long it takes to write in calligraphy. It looks soo goood! Seriously its pro.. I showed my zone and they were like "She had to have printed that from a computer" or "Your mom can use a Quill?" haha.. they are awesome. I can't believe the bill passed! Thats insane.. that same night I had a dream that President Obama got killed or died or something.. pretty weird.. But I hope everything is going well for you. Sorry I don't have much time to write!

 

Basically You really can't know how great the work is.. and how great the church is.. until it is literally your entire life and your giving 100% of your efforts in helping the work progress. Theres no way there would be 55,000 young men my age out in the mission field if this wasn't the true Church. The MTC is a great and fun place.. although I do miss my mothers cooking. If any of you young men are on the fence about a mission.. Choose the right and serve. It's already been the greatest thing I've done in my life and I haven't even been out a full month! Heavenly Father will never ask you to sacrifice something if it isn't well worth your while. Remember that everything we do for Heavenly Father, we are paid back in exponentially greater Blessings.

 

I love you Mom! Thank you so much for all you do! Send me Emery in a box K?

March 26, 2010

 hope everything is going great.. I recorded some stuff for you guys to listen to but i recorded one last week and one this week so i don't knwo what is repeated and what isn't I said in my recording i needed a new shirt but I don't.. if you just send the one i already have thatd be great.

Dad I really enjoyed what you wrote me about even though some of it was a bit over my  head. the gospel really is such a great thing to do. I'm almost finished with the book of mormon already and started like a week before i left.
K so it looks like it's not going to let me send recordings.. major bummer.. I guess You'll just have to get like 20 of them when i go down to honduras. I thought I'd be able to email you guys pictures and recordings but i won't be able to till i get out in the field.

I appreciate all you guys do for me.. I'm sure its not easy to find the time to do all these things for me.

Your email you sent me was way short so I don't really know what else to say. Things here and pretty much the same always.. not really any investigators or anything new thats going on. A lot of our zone is leaving this week which I'm kinda bummed about.. these guys have like become really close friends.. Definitely friends I'll continue to have after my mission. Everything Is still great though.. Me and ELder white taught the first lesson in spanish twice this week.. we for sure suffered through it but it was understandable and we were able to get our point accross.

 

Taylor,

 You never wrote me back last week punk! What gives?! I hope your doing well still!

 

 

Well hope everything is great.. Let me know if I can do anything for you guys.. 

I love you all