July updates from Elder Brian

7-5-2011 That is crazy that tomorrow I will have been on my mission for 18 months.  Can you believe that?  Wow.  I was remembering everything that happened last 4th of July, where I was, and what I was doing, and I hadn’t quite been out for 6 months yet.  The last year just flew by.  [...]

Elder Brian’s June updates

6-7-2011 I am doing so good, the weather is cool (we are in “June Gloom” right now).  But it is super nice.  The ocean is beautiful and I love seeing it every day! Miercoles: We went to the train station and we sang hymns and contacted people and it was SO fun.  We had some [...]

Elder Brian’s latest photos

Brian sent a photo CD with some new shots of him.  These include the mono months. (Click on any photo to see them all in a gallery).

Elder Brian’s May updates

May 3, 2011 Martes:  We woke up early and we drove down to Del Mar to see Elder Perry.  I played an hour of prelude before our mission meeting that we had at 11 and then another 1 1/2 hours of prelude while we were waiting for Elder and Sister Perry and President and Sister [...]

Sitting on Santa’s lap…over time

I have taken pictures of people sitting on Santa’s lap at the Carey Christmas party for the last several years and thought it would be fun to see how we’ve changed through the years.  So here are some photos, organized by family. See us sit on Santa’s lap.  See us have fun.  See us get [...]

April updates from Elder Brian

April 5, 2011 To get right to the chase…I am ill.  Very ill.  I have been sick for two weeks and the doctor came over a week and a half ago and said that it was a bacterial infection so I was on Augmentin but then I was getting worse.  It got to the point [...]

March updates from Elder Brian

March 1, 2011 Domingo: I LOVE SUNDAYS!!! They are the best day of the week. In church I performed. I played piano and sang. I had a boom mike set up and everything, it was pretty intense. I performed my arrangement of a Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief. You HAVE to hear it, when I [...]

February updates from Elder Brian

February 1, 2011 Sabado: We went up to Dixon Lake, this park in North Escondido, and we were able to talk to some people up there. Then we drove up to Valley Center to do a baptismal interview for [elders there]. To finish off the evening, we went over to [a family] and we talked [...]