Bryce's 21st Birthday--The Real Bryce...from his journal

Well I am 21 today.  Yipee!  Sunday was great.  Nozoko came. She is awesome.  She didn't get fellowshipped for much but she stil liked it.  She has really good questions.  She wanted to go to the fireside with Elder Koliker, Sister Mkosi said she would call her and go with her but she never di.  It was a pretty frustrating experience.  Mbleldo brought a friend to church.  The Johnsons fed us a dessert before our DZ.  It was so rich and i was stuffed and then we had to go to our D/A.  I suffered it hurt so bad and there was even a dessert.  Sister Muuh had the Olympics closing ceremony on and Jimmy Paye came out of the ground and started playing the guitar "a Whole Lot of Love"...we quickly got them to turn the TV off because it was trunking me.  Yesterday was nice email.  They were playing Michael Jackson the whole time then we went to Cape Point.  It's a really nice drive.  We met up with Elder Nielsen, Farr, Baker and Seely.  We played with penguins for a bit then checked out Cape Point for a while.  It was pretty sweet.  We took lots of awesome jumping karate pictures.  It was a fun day.  Then we had an appointment with Nozuko.  She is awesome.  She knows the church is true.  She's gonna get baptized soon.  I can feel it.  Well I think I poisoned myself during lunch.  There was a war going on in my belly and the toilet took the casualties.  We had like nobody for Sacrament today.  I got omo in my eye and it has been hurting all day.  Elder Bean set up a surprise party for me @ Mbdelo's.  He played the drums and we had this not real good cake with tons of frosting from LuLu's bakery.  I am now on exchanges with Elder Smith.

Birthday Month and Thinking of Bryce August 26, 1987

I belong to a missionary mom group.  One mother asked us to write what things our missionaries learned from going on a mission.  I wrote a few things about our returned missionaries and this about Bryce:
I had one son in particular that I was never sure if he really was going to serve a mission.  He was not exactly loving church activity while growing up.  I would drop him off for Young Men's and found out later that he would walk inside the church and walk to the other end, leave and go visit friends.  He struggled with fasting and paying his tithing.  He didn't want to do scouts or Duty to God.  I was thrilled when his last year before applying  to go on a mission, he began to change and his heart soften.  He was thrilled when he was called to South Africa.  I have been able to read his mission journal and in the beginning, he wrote that two years was a very long time. He wrote it several times.   He actually got home sick which surprised him because he was always happy to leave home.
  Things began to fall in to place eventually and all that he had been taught at home, began to make sense to him.  He read the Book of Mormon with a desire to learn for the first time and picked up great study skills as he tried to live the mission rules.  He always avoided all service projects as a teenager and now he learned that he liked to help others and had many opportunities in his mission to help the members with their homes, yards, and to participate regularly in Helping Hands. 
When he left for his mission, his plans were to return and spend the winter snowboarding and working at Park City.  When he returned, he re-took tests that he had bombed in high school and applied at UVU and BYU and was accepted at both.  I know his mission gave him direction.   After he returned, he continued his morning studies of the scriptures, placed goals he wanted to accomplish on his wall by his light switch and had names of his friends that he wanted to help activate, how he was going to do it and the date he would complete his ideas. 
He also came home with a desire to do things with his family.  He apologized several times while on his mission to his grandmothers for staying home when we would go to do things with them.  He promised to do better.  As soon as he got home, he made the trip to see one of his grandmothers and took her to the temple. 
Bryce was blessed by going on a mission, our family was blessed and I think he continues to serve the people of Africa.  

The Hot Pots and Bryce...Ringtones

This is one of my favorite pictures of Bryce.  He is holding MY cell phone that took he took over when  home from South Africa.  I used to get his friends calling  and I would have to explain that Bryce did not have his own cell phone  yes...this is my cell phone.  He took it to the Hot Pots in January and forgot it was in the pocket of his swimsuit.  Thus the demise of my cell phone.  Bryce was rather happy because he got a new cell phone out of the deal when I went to replace my ruined one.  He tried to make recompense  by downloading new ring tones for me.   I never knew what ring tone my mom had until out of the blue a long time later when Bryce was gone, she called my cell.  It was the Beatles, Eleanor Rigby.  Ahhh...look at all those lonely people.   It brought tears because I knew he was trying to remind me to remember the Grandmothers.  His sister Kira was given the song, "Under Pressure" which was appropriate considering she had just started her first job as an RM.   My hubby got a Beatles song also...She Loves You ..yeah, yeah, yeah.  Brooke's song....You're Beautiful....I saw your face in a crowded place.   I always thought that song was a little strange but Bryce had it as a ringtone before his mission for his friends.  His ringtone....Bob Marley.  I don't know the name of the song but he loved Bob Marley.  His ears could pick up the music of Bob in the Townships and it always made him happy. 
I was sad when I got home with my next new cell phone a month ago and none of the ringtones had copied over.  Neither did the picture of Bryce, Dallin and McKay that I had as my wallpaper.  Bryce has a tube of toothpaste up his nose, Dallin has a grapefruit and orange for eyes and McKay is in the middle of them looking cool.

Kim and I  went up to the hot pots yesterday.  We like to do Bryce things in August.  It was a beautiful day, no one was naked and there were few people soaking in the warm water.  We had to hurry because I had a meeting so we got up there, tested the water, said yep these are the hot pots, and hurried back down the trail.  It was great.
I am glad Bryce had some adventures when he got home.  Even at the sacrifice of my phone. Thanks Pete. 

chameleon in South Africa...a pet

This was a pet that Bryce and Elder Nielsen kept for a while.

Funny Bryce Wrote in Journal

Aug 7, 2005
This is my journal.  I don't like it...it is dumb but I have to write in it because I live in a communist household.
August 21, 2005
I am so awesome!  I will be 18 this Friday and I am the coolest person ever!
August 29, 2005
Well my birthday was pretty cool except the girls from Highland came over then it wasn't as cool but still way fun.  We had a way cool barbique with steak and played lots of Halo.  There was like 20-25 people4 there.
Sept. 11, 2005
Well, I'd rather not write in you today but I have no choice, like the majority of my entries...which influences the way I write.  The end.
Oct. 30, 2005
Dear Diary, today I blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I am awesome.
Nov. 13, 2005
Weather this Nov. has been crap.  It hasn't ever really snowed on the mountains yet and it's not cold at all and Park City and The Canyons are suppose to open this week but they might not have enough snow.
Jan 8, 2006
Goals:  improve 1. mourning prayers 2. Book of Mormon 3. 500 savings to 3,000 4. Read 5. ACT 25 6. Bless Feb.  ( I can't tell what that means--Bryce's writing always needs interpretation)
Feb. 12, 2006 
It has been the new millennium for a little over six year now and I still don't have a flying car or a robot that does things for me that I don't want to do....what a rip. 
Feb. Mystery 2006
I will make this entry brief because I need to pee...I am me.
Feb. 26, 2006
Today is my half birthday.  Yesterday I landed my first 720 degree and rode it out that means I am cool ( with full gidbage).
April 30, 2006
I went to SLC yesterday to date some Brigham City honies ( girls) It was pretty fun.  We went on top of the biggest building in Utah it was neat.  My date's name was Allison...probably.
May 12, 2006
I don't want to write but it's Mother's Day so I will.  It is hot outside and I caught 3 horn toads yesterday.  Their names are Mark, Vebrou, Leprey.
May 21, 2006
I went to Brigham City with some guys and we bowled and golfed and boated.  It was fun then we got home and did gymnastics and barbaqued.
May 28, 2006
I graduated, started landscaping, and my big toe hurts!   It's not fun but it pays okay and it will do.
July 23, 2006
I got my mission call in June to South Africa Capetown.  I'm done with landscaping and work at Rocky Mountain ATV and make $9 an hour stocking things.   I like it...it's pretty good job.
2 Nov. 2008
Wow 6 years of journal in 30 pages...that's like 5 pages a year or .20 pages per month.  Wow.  Well Sunday I woke up early and sat on the stand ready to give my talk.  There was a youth speaker then Dallin then we sang and then it was me to finish.  I was suppose to speak for 15 min. but there was 30 mins. left but I spoke for 30 min. with no problem.  It was actually kind of fun speaking.  I guess that's because I was well prepared.

Solofonirainy Fanambinantsoa Randrianirinaniarivo is home!

Hello! sister Christensen how are you doing myself i'm doing verry well i'm very happy to write to you to day because i can do that again from now i finished , mission on the 28- 05-2010 and i'm home now i just want to thank you for all the letter that you wrote to me throughout my mission i realy  appreciate all of them my mission was very nice i realy loved it it was also very nice to see my family again i love them and i know God love my family also yesterday was Mothers day here in Madagascar so that was a wonderful time to spend with the family especialy after not seeing them for two years i i shared my testimony yesterday at church it was nice it seems as if i changed to another area because there are many people which i do not know in my ward you know what i already had a calling and i will be the first counsular ofd the bishopric pray for me so that i can accomplish my new calling here in Madagascar the situation is not very good at the moment because of the crise politic so i realy dont know what to do at the moment i need a help if you can help me to continue on on my life because here its very bad many people are struggling to find job or school but i know God has a plan for me whene i came home i lost all of my stuff at the airport i do not know where they are now and im using some of my brother clothing thats all here after mission seems a litlle dificult but its fine tell me about whats happening in your side thats all Sister Christensen have a good week 

Bryce trained Elder Ronny.  After Bryce's accident, Elder Ronny began writing letters to me each Monday morning just like Bryce did when he was in South Africa.  Later he had to stop writing to anyone but his family on the internet and this is the first letter we have gotten for many months.  I hope everyone that knows Fanambinantsoa will remember him in their prayers!

Something Bryce Said in His Missionary Journal Dec. 15, 2007

Well, I think Heavenly Father knew how weird and depressing today was for  me so I think he blessed me by playing Bob Marley everywhere I went ...it was good.














This is painted on Bryce's bedroom wall.