Hey! You and I are in the same ward! I’m a Bloggernacle regular who likes to complain about how nobody else in the Bloggernacle lives in Los Angeles. My wife and I will have to have you and your wife over for dinner, so you can have your “dinner party.”

You and I have spoken a couple times about law school; I’m the HLS grad who taught the Word of Wisdom lesson last week in Priesthood. I will probably be singing in the choir with you too (Bishop’s orders).

If and when you get sick of the heathens and wanna-bes at this site, you’re always welcome to come on over to By Common Consent (click the link on the sidebar), where the real intellectual firepower resides.

See you on Sunday.

Aaron B

josé moved back to brazil about 6 years ago, and since then bragança hasnt had any real branch. Lúcia, that´s my wife´s name. that girl eduarda did get baptized, but she later moved and went inactive. they pretty much didnt like bragança that much, and all moved back to brasil, except my wife who did medical school here in portugal. i´ll talk to them and see if they remember you, im sure abilio will, cause that guy has got a great memory.

hope that this has been a nice reminder of the mission days

Welcome, your majesty. You haven’t missed much, but feel free to peruse the archives and resurrect past conversations. Except those with “Signature” in the title.

Like many of you, I am a young lawyer, from the West but schooled in the East. Now I am in the middle of a one year jaunt (a.k.a. clerkship) in Los Angeles.

I look forward to some interesting discussions with you all going forward. From what I can tell, this and some of the related blog sites will be a great place for me to put in my two cents and engage in some meaningful exchanges.

(I am also excited to use my middle name as my blog identity. The name does have a pretentious sound to it, especially combined with my newly acquired hyphenated last name, so I hope you will not hold that against me.)

M. Buxton Archer-Beck

Wow, you just described the entire Braganca branch during the time I was there. And Jose is still branch pres? Sheesh, poor guy. He was just entering his second stint as I left, I believe.

Yes, I remember the family well. I remember Jose, Cesar, Abilio, and a daughter…..Francisca? Is that your wife? I know I’ve got the name wrong, but I do remember a dark haired girl that was nice to us. We taught the discussions to Cesar’s girlfriend Eduarda, who, as I recall, got very close but didn’t make it all the way (this is all very vague memories from 1995). We did spend plenty of time in their home though, eating and chatting and teaching and things. I still have a very vivid memory of their kitchen (Cesar would tease the greenie American about drinking their punch, claiming it was tea). I doubt they’d remember me as it was my second area and I still didn’t speak very well, but they might remember my native companion, Elder Carvalho, who was there quite a long time, working with them.

Anyway, say hello to all your in-laws, who I remember very fondly as the only bright spot in a very difficult time of my mission (see above-mentioned companion). Do they still run that company of theirs up there?

[raise your glasses of sparkling cider]: A toast to T&S. May your server never fail you, may your bloggers keep expanding, and may the light of truth and humor continue to break through from time to time!

Cheers!

Thanks so much for the update!

(If you’d like any help with the redesign, don’t hesitate to ping me!)

her name is sara, and her daughter’s names are norma and (ah ) i forgot the youngest ones name, but norma is 16 and the other one is 12. she is married and her husband isnt a member, but he is a nice guy.