Well last night was a very good night! It was defiantly something that i needed! I loved seeing all of your smiling faces!! Ha it was almost like i hadn't even left home! Tell Nic that he will get his turn for sure next time!! Let him know that i love him so much! And let him know that i am so proud of him for being such a good brother to me and to his sisters, keep it up cause some day he will become like his dad. And he will be one of the most amazing guys i will ever know! 

Well as you all know that this week has been interesting! I have been working real hard on just trying to get used to all the trainer duties! Ha its been really fun though! I love my new companion though he is a really cool kid! He is 18 but his birthday is this weekend. Well I dont really know what to say right now just cause i talked to you all last night ha so there is not much to say. But i want all of you to know that i love you all so much! And i miss you all lots! But i honestly can not picture myself anywhere else right now! Always remember that if we have true faith all things are possible! And that the Lord is always on our side. I invite all of you to catch the wave of missionary work! Never look over the chance to bare your testimony to anyone, cause you never know who it will benefit. Our Father is always preparing all of his children to hear the Restored Gospel, even if they are members we are all family and we are here to comfort those who stand in need of comfort. I love you all! 

Elder Dennison      

P.S. These are all my friends Elder West Elder Reeve and Elder Gibson

Well this week has been one of the best on the mission so far! We picked up two investigators and lots of potential investigators!! The Lord really does bless those who put forth the effort to live by the commandments and to help his work press on! Well looks like i will be staying here in the Hershey area! But not only will i be staying here but i will also be training a new Elder!!! AHHH Three months in and i am training a new elder.... Ha kind of scary but i know that this is not just so random calling that the mission pres calls me to, I know that he has been inspired and I have been called to do this by the Lord! But yeah i get to head out east to pitt. which is a four hour drive, fun fun, and pick up my new elder! I am going to be a daddy ;) Ha that is just kind of a thing they do out in the field, your trainer is your daddy and his trainer is your grandpa its kinda funny! Fun fact for ya, did you know that Pittsburgh is Gotham city in the 3rd batman?!?!?! CRAZY COOL HUH ;) 

So the work here in the area like i have said has really picked up and i am really excited to bring a new elder in to the area with all these people we will be teaching. The work really do grow on you. I always thought before my mission that the work would be hard and not really all that fun.... But you truly grow to love all of it! The Lord really does qualify his servants, I know that for a fact cause he has to do a lot of qualifying for this Elder right here ;) I really do love all that i have learned out here like, how to make monkey bread, like a million and four ways to make roman noodles, and how to shine shoes up pretty dang good if i do say so myself ;) Oh and on the spiritual aspects I have learned a lot on how i use the spirit in all things in my daily life! The Holy Ghost is key to all that we do, we can always inquire of our Heavenly Father on what we can do and how to do it. And if we aren't in tune with the spirit we wont be able to receive his promptings as easy.

So on me calling home anyone can be there ha i really dont care :) I would love to see everyone! I will only have 45 minutes though. And i have no idea on when i will be able to call home probably sometime after my church here so that will be like well after meeting and such we dont get back in to town until about 130 our time and i am two hours ahead of you so yeah haha. But i am sure i will be able to let you know somehow. And our illness i dont know what it was, it was going around the mission from what i heard. And what card? and yes i got my garments and yes that kind works so much better!! And yes Mother always remember that i am in the Lords hands, he watches over all his servants! And I will always be protected by him, plus I am a man now remember i have to shave like every day ;) I love you all so much and i can not wait to see and hear from all of you :D Always remember that with faith all things are possible! 

Elder Dennison

That is us at Hershey world :) and i have a few that i am going to forward to ya 

Well I am finally a man, I have to shave every day.... ;) well this week has been slow not to much has been going on. My companion got sick one day and the next day i woke up sick... So two days of sitting inside doing nothing was awesome...... NOT!!! Never get sick being a missionary! They pretty much are the worst days of your life! We are really working hard in trying to reactivate people and bring more investigators in to the waters of baptism. Our church house is in the nest town over, and it takes like 35 mins to get there from were we live. So we have been given a number of 35 more people coming to church and they would be able to build a church right here in town! So the missionary work here in town has had a huge push! The ward here is pretty awesome! You can tell that they really do love us missionaries and they back us up in missionary work quite a bit! Its never really dawned on me that as members we play a huge roll in missionary work. Us as missionaries we are supposed to ask all members for referrals or friends, family members, or just neighbors that the missionaries can go over and talk with them! The ward has pick that up a little sense we have had a reason to. But that shouldn't be the reason that they pick it up, they should do it cause they made a promise to always proclaim the Gospel the day they themselves stepped in to the waters of baptism. We all in a sense are missionaries, we all have that call to always bring our lost brothers and sisters to the fold. 

So one more week in this transfer, and i could be moved to some place else, or my companion could, or i could stay here in Hershey with my companion for another six weeks.... I think you all know which one i don't want ;). No i really have been working on trying to be more Christ like and have a true love for him. Its kind of funny, I thought that i was patient before my mission, yeah i wasn't  I have learned a whole new level of patients, and i have learned to pray, A LOT! Its really funny how the Lord puts you through weird little trials, or the hardest trials of your life, and in the end you wouldn't give up those trials for the world! They really are the things that make me, me. The Lord does know what he is going, and it is through that knowledge it is truly so much more easy to become as humble and dependent on the Lord as a child is to their Earthly parents. Ha I just love this Gospel!

Well that is awesome that Casey is finally on his way! It sounds as if he will be an amazing missionary! And I am glad things are becoming more normal as the days go by. But really its only in two weeks?!?! That is crazy!! Where has the time gone! After that i will only have three more time on my mission that we will get to talk to each other, weird. So I have been out for three months and it feels like i was crying like a little baby saying my goodbyes just the other day.... But tell Nicholas that this time will fly by! I'll be home before he knows it! Its weird to think, we have just a small understanding of how small this life on Earth really is. If you think of a line drawn through all the eternities, and you wrap just a yarn around that line that is our life here on earth. Now think of how small two years is compared to that! Ha I just love everything about this Gospel! You can relate it to everything in life! Well I love all of you!! 

Elder Dennison   

Well another week down! This week has been pretty weird that is for sure but it was ended right! We ended it with a baptism! It was the most spiritual meeting of my life! So their names are Dennis and Bonnie Drobenak, and they are the 7 year investigators! So being investigating for so long they had TONS of people to that were coming to there baptism! And they knew all the right people to speak at their service and who to baptize them, and who to confirm them! It was amazing! So we had the baptism on saturday and they were confirmed on sunday. Sunday was the best part. We got to confirm them and the blessing after was beautiful. After the blessings I looked down at them and they both just had tears rolling down their faces, and yes i did to (I get that from you mom).  

I can not tell you how much I am loving this mission! It has been a true blessing to me to see how much I have grown in this gospel! I was thinking the other day wow its been three months already?! If they keep going like this ill be home before i know it! I learned something pretty cool this last week, and I am sure that everyone at some time has heard this and i am sure that i have heard this. But we have to have faith in our faith. That is a weird thought to me, you never hear people saying "oh i have faith in my faith" you just hear them say "i have faith." I think a lot to the prophets of the book of Mormon times, all these people are strong and mighty people. They have the power to bring famines to the lands and they have the power to heal the sick. But it truly comes down to those people having faith in their faith. Its an unshaken faith, they dont think they just do. When Nephi was commanded to build the ship did he sit there and think oh man this is going to be hard, i dont have the right tools, how do i even build a ship? No he plainly asks the Lord how, where, and what. He had faith in his faith that his prayers would be answered. I think its amazing and i hope that some day i can get to that point, where i dont ask myself these questions but i ask my Father in Heaven these questions, and i have the faith in my faith that he will answer the questions.

Well it sounds like you guys have some exciting times coming up in life! Uncle Eric living with you guys will be fun. I am sure that it will be a house full! But It sounds fun :) how is uncle Eric doing?! I hope he is doing well! And that is really kind of crazy to think that Ryan will be home that soon! It feels like it was just a few months ago that we dropped him off! I am mailing something off to nannah soon but it wont be there until after her birthday, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANNAH!! I love you i hope you have a good birthday! I am always happy to hear what is going on back at home :) It awesome to hear all the funny stories of back home! I love you all and i hope that you all are well :)

Elder Dennison

Well this week has been an interesting one for sure! I am not completely sure how to put it in to words... It was just weird it went by so fast but yet it dragged on for a million years! But it was a very successful one. We have our bap coming up this week on saturday and i am so excited! Like i have said before they have been investigating the church for 7 years! And yesterday in church we also had fast and testimony meeting, in the meeting this couple was in almost every ones testimony! The ward here in hershey is so strong and so loving of all those who make the choice to come unto Christ! But i am just so excited for these two! Oh and this week we we found a baby squirl! It didnt even have its eyes open! Pretty much the coolest little thing we have found yet! Dont worry we gave it to a good home ;) Also this last week we ran in to a lady who thought she was the prophet.... She had a near death experience and in it she said that God told her that she was the Prophet..... So i asked her after what kind of drugs she was on ;) No i didnt but i would have loved to ask her that. But she continued and tried telling us that we had other people on the other side who wanted to talk to us. So we kind of played along and she eventually told me that I had a relative named Susan who was telling me to listen to her?? Do i even have a relative named susan?!?! Oh and she talks for God, she said that God grabs her throat and makes her talk?? So i guess she is always in some weird chock hold? But any was she was telling us to go look up scriptures for her in the Book of Mormon. But she would tell us a page number the line number and on what side of the page it was on. She was trying to teach us from the Book of Mormon and the lines she would come up with were like and nephi died.

Well the weather here is warming up and the humidity is already being felt.... I love it! The spring time around here is BEAUTIFUL! Mom you would honestly love this street that i walk down every day its Elm Ave. Haha close to Elm street ;) But Mom I will have to bring you back here in two years! They have these trees that they call dog wood and they have like the brightest pink on them and its just amazing! I guess this is one plus to being a walk Elder! How is Ryan doing?!?! Man i wish i could see him! It feels like its been a million years! And honestly i can not wait for mothers day either! My companion said that we actually get to skyp! So we will see how that all works out! 

But to answer some of the questions Next transfer is next month on the 7th i do believe (that might not come fast enough ;) ). And yes they are every 6 weeks. The first one i went through was actually only 5 though so it takes a week off of my mission. So i come home on January 28 2015. I do not need a new sd card yet. But maybe some new garments wouldnt hurt i need more cause i tend to run out real fast with only 10 now days ha and maybe make them the super thin kind..... You were right mom and dad i would regret not gettin them in the first place... ;) The apartment is awesome! Its brand new two bathrooms and everything!.... But its all down hill from here is what i have been hearing! And we are fed pretty much every night! But again that is all down hill from here also... Ha

Well I love you all! I miss you all! And its actually a good thing for me, in some ways it makes me want to work harder to forget those feelings just for the two years! You all are always in my prayers! Thank you for all of your prayers in my behalf! 

Elder Dennison   

This Church is so true! After this conference how is it that you cant know that for a fact!!! Funny story about conference though! I dont know if i have told you all this but there is two sets of Elders in our ward, the walk and the drive Elders. Me, i am one of the walk Elder obviously. But for every sunday or anything like that we have to wait for the drive Elders to come pick us up. So saturday after noon rolls around and we are getting ready to head out to conference. We were already and waiting for them to come pick us up, they were suppose to pick us up at 11:30 so we could be to the church on time for the first session. So 11:30 rolls around and they hadnt came yet, 11:40 rolls around still nothing. So we call them and they say that they have a flat tire, and they will have it all figured out in like five mins.... twenty mins pass by still nothing so we call them and they still didnt have the tire off!! So me and my companion hope on the bikes the ward gave us (by the way mine is a girl bike.... Its awesome haha). We get to their place and they had stripped the bolt!!! So we had to call a ward member to come save us. We got it all worked out and we were off on our way! We made it for the last 15 mins of the first session.... haha. The story is not over, so we have to go in between sessions to get a new tire so we drive over to the place and they tell us its going to take 2 hours.... So we had no choice but to walk back to the church which was like 3 miles away! We only had an hour to walk that... ha. Well we actually made it back to the church in like 45 mins! Yeah we are that cool ;) Ha but that is my first conference experience out in the field! 3 more conferences to go! 

I am so happy to hear about Dad!!! That has been in my prayers for what seems like a million years now. The day to day life of being out int the field is kind of stressful, but with the Lords help I have learned that the load is very very light. The Lord truly does bless those that keep ALL his commandments not just a choice few. This conference has rang true through and through! I dont think I have ever been so happy to be watching and listening to the council of our Prophet and the Apostles! They are truly inspired men!! 

I have been awesome! The mission life is great! The power of prayer is real! I have used it so much in the past three months, and it has helped in many ways! For example me and my companion get a long so much better now! I love this Gospel with all my heart! And there is nothing in this world that will take away my love for it! The time on your mission is crazy weird! it feels like it was just yesterday that i was bawling like a little baby saying goodbye to all of you! I hope that you all can feel my prayers going out to all of you. I love this chance that i have to spread the gospel and show that i do love my Father! I hope we all can catch the wave as Elder Nelson has said it! Oh and this picture is of our adventure on saturday its pretty legit :)

Elder Dennison

Happy Easter yin's  (yin's is like y'all here in PA) 

Well my Easter here was pretty good! Ha its my first real holiday being away from home and it was a little weird. But honestly i felt right at home. I did get to go to a members home and have a very good dinner. We stayed after and painted some eggs! The ward out here is pretty awesome, they love us elders and its awesome to see them back us up with the work. Well we had another Bap this week, and another one coming up on the 20th of this month! And we are teaching plenty of other people! The work here is truly amazing! The people may be stuck in their ways here but the Lord will always open doors for us if we are exactly obedient and putting our full trust in the Lord. Its something that i have been working on, putting my trust in the Lord. Its really not as easy as it sounds. Putting your trust in the Lord and knowing that he will take care of the things that need taking care of, for some reason was never easy for me. But out on the mission that is what you truly have to rely on. In Matthew ( i dont know if i have already shared this) the Savior teaches us that we are supposed to become as children. And why like children? Because children are fully relent on their parents or on all other adults. We must become totally relent on our Heavenly Father. We are to walk with Faith not by sight. 

Well conference is coming up and i honestly have never been more happy for a conference in my life haha! To hear what our prophets and apostles have to counsel us in has taken on a whole new light in my life! The things that they have to say are the things out Father in heaven wants us to hear, why not give your whole attention to that? And its kind of funny, taking the time to actually study talks more and listen to them you start to notice that these things are nothing new to us. We know them but it takes the prophet talking to us to bring that to our attention. But i guess what i am trying to say is take head to what the leaders of the church have to say! Always strive to walk down this strait and narrow path! I love the analogy of the straight and strait! Its awesome! 

Well this week has been kind of a slow one... Its been good just slow, not a lot got done this week. And it makes me sad to see it go like that. I am always feeling like we should be in peoples houses and teaching 24/7. But this week it has not been like that... But that just means we have to make up for it this week. This last week on Wednesday we had the chance to help these two guys push their car up a hill. Its crazy how receptive people can be when you show to them kindness first. These two guys have never heard of our church at all! Weird huh?! We had a good talk with them, they ended up taking a Book of Mormon! It was awesome! They didnt live in our area but hopefully we planted a seed in their hearts! :)

I did get my license, i took care of my card. Please let grandma know that. And i did get the package! Thank you so much! Please know that you are all in my prayers and i love you all so much! Nic get feeling better! I love you little man :) I hope all is well with all of you :)        

Well the home life sounds as if it is being blessed immensely! I know that the people here are being blessed as well! The work never seems to stop, and in every which way you look you see the Lords hand in it all! Well on Saturday we had our first bap. It was a lady that my companion taught before I got out in to the field. The service was beautiful! The spirit was sooo strong in that room! The ward here is awesome and back us Elders up 100% and its amazing! The turn out from the ward at the bap was crazy, I sent some pictures of me and the other Elders that are in our area.

Its crazy how much the mission truly changes you as a person, I have learned that this is not a mortal state with a few spiritual experiences, this is a spiritual state with mortal experiences. We all are the same people here in this life as we were in the premortal life. We all know of the truths we all know the joys of this great and ever lasting gospel, its just we cant fully remember. And that is what we have to do in this life, help others understand and remember those things which we have forgotten. The guidance of the Holy Ghost is not a foreign thing to anybody, we all no matter what have had some kind of guidance from the spirit. We have to help the realize that and understand that, if we can do that the Lord will take care of the rest. And I have seen that in my work this week. Its truly amazing to see that through me giving my Heavenly Father my time and all my energy he blesses the work and me. We have 2 baptisms coming up next month and we have reactivated 3 people in the last week. Its truly amazing!

I have gotten a bike from the ward, we are not allowed to buy our own bikes. But we are allowed to use our own personal money to fix up the bikes we have.... Ha its cool I love the mission :) Here the weather is kinda been bad we have had a lot of snow lately. Its even snowing right now as i type ha. We are supposed to get 11in today so walking around in this weather is supper fun ;) And that is so crazy that Zach got his call to Paris!! Should have seen that one coming! And i think its is truly amazing that all these young men are taking heed to the call of a prophet and devoting and ever early part of their life's to the Lord! We are seeing it here in the mission already, this morning we got 24 new missionaries next transfer we are getting like 34! The work is truly hastening! I LOVE THIS WORK! I dont think I can say that enough, I love teaching these people the gospel and bringing the true joy that i feel every day to them and letting them get to that point! Well everyone is continually in my prayers! I love you all!

Elder Dennison

Well trust me Mondays are my favorite day of the week too!! Ha well today it has been officially a month sense i have stepped foot in this wonderful land of PA! Here is a list of things i have come to know in this month.

1. There are no s here... The ones they say are, are like foot hills.

2. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, might, mind and strength. Cause with out you truly are nothing out here in the field. 

3. Love your companion even if he is a dink that you might want to punch in the face just a little... 

4. Missionaries are weird.... 

5. Bleach on the G's don't work.... 

I am sure that there are many many more things that i have come to know, but off the top of my head those are just a few. 

So this week has been an amazing one! Remember those 7 year investigators i was telling you about? Yeah well this stud of a missionary and the Lord....... and i guess my companion ;) we set them with a baptism date! :D The 20th of next month! We also have had no other appointments with any one until this week. It seems as if things just pop out of no where and come before us! I know that it has been through mine and my companions faith and diligence in the work that the Lord has put these people in front of us! It actually has helped me and my companion come closer through seeing the fruits of our labor! As you have said Mom the Lord is aware of the things which we need most! Something I have come to know with all the surety in the world is when we ask for things our Heavenly Father never says no, he gives us three answers, yes, not yet, or I have something better in mind. Other than that we have our free agency to listen to all of that. I remember distinctly the night Devin passed away (sorry I keep bringing it up but looking back that is the time in my life i grew the most and i could see the Lords hand in my life) going outside to pray. In this prayer I pleaded with my Heavenly Father to please give me my best friend back. And the thing i distinctly remember is the Lord saying to me, is i have something better in mind. I do have a very strong testimony in prayer and that it is a tool given to us to talk with our Heavenly Father. It along with all the other tools or gifts given to us is something that will never wear out. Use it to the fullest! Remember to have family scripture study, always say personal prayers, and always remember your baptismal covenants! We must remember that we are Children of God and in being so we always must show our love for him! As in Matthew 18, the apostles ask Christ how it is we can gain eternal glory. And he calls a child over and says we must become like children. I thought to myself for a long while about that one, why a child? Why not just grow up and know all that we can? It is because we must humble ourselves enough to put all of our trust in the Lord. Become dependent on him and his Gospel, as a child is dependent on a parent. Its amazing the things you can find in the scriptures! I love them all! 

Well if you are curious as to when i am coming home, I head home on January 26th 2015. Only 97 more Sundays left! ;) ha I love this work, I love this Gospel, I love the joy i feel in knowing that i am a son of God. Please strive to find people to share this great and amazing message with. It is what we are here to do, being blessed to know the great and eternal truths. Bring that joy we feel to everyone! We are enlisted until the conflict is ore! I love all of you! I pray for everyone back home, I hope through that you may be able to feel of my love! 

Oh i put some pictures on, one is me and my companion being missionaries. The other is the results of leaving a pen in the pocket of your church shirt and put it in with some of your garments..... Its fun.

Elder Dennison   

HAHA thanks for letting me know that i am not forgotten! It means the world to me that you have said that ;) 

Well the fruits of our labors are coming forth! We had a few less actives come to church yesterday, i'll tell you that story in a min, but we also had these investigator of 7 years come to church! 7 YEARS!! I was so excited! Like i dont know how to put in to words how excited i truly was! After Church was over I was sitting next to Dennis one of our investigators, he looked over at me with the biggest smile on his face. He just kinda sat there for a second and said "3 hours thats it?!? I could go for 4 or 5 ours of this!" How awesome is that?!?! I mean I have a hard time with 3 hours some days and he was sitting there asking for more! I am in love with the work I am able to do!

Okay so back to the less active members. In Hershey they have a main street that is called Chocolate Ave. cool huh ;) But anyways all our plans fell through and we had an hour and a half left until we could really go back home. So we decided to go street contact. It seemed like a good idea, but as we walked up and down the street we had a lot of people yell some pretty degrading things at us. So to give you an idea, the whole time I have been here i have only had 4 people do things like that to me and my companion. That night in less than an hour we had 10 people yell at us and even had someone try to spit on us.... Needless to say I was discouraged. There were somethings that were said to us that were real nice like a lady congratulated us on being Mormons, saying that she wished she could be like us but just didnt want to take the effort to try. So now i bet you are thinking hey what about those less actives, well the awesome thing is that through us walking up and down that street they saw us walking. And they were touched by the spirit and came back to church the next day! Amazing, that's all i can say!

Well its embarrassing to say, but i am having a rough time with getting along with my companion.... And you know me, i usually can get along with anyone and everyone. But we are just totally on different pages. My thought process does not match up with his. And the way he goes about things just doesnt make sense! I try not to get discouraged, but it is hard. Like today he has seen me wearing my Devin bracelet the whole time I have been here and i have told him what it is all about. And today before our companion study he sat there and was telling me to take it off, i nicely said that this is the thing that keeps me going so no i will not take it off. He looked at me and said you will no longer have the spirit with you. Haha you know hard it was for me to refrain from just taking him out... Its embarrassing to say that is how i felt.. And there have been many times where he will turn down my ideas when i know for a fact that i have received a prompting from the spirit. I guess what i am trying to say is that i sure hope that there is something i am meant to learn from thing from this Elder..

Well to answer you questions yes i got my camera! Its a nice cute shade of pink.... The box said it was supposed to be black... HAHA and yes will you buy another memory card so we can send them back and forth to each other? The kind i got is a Sandisk and its a 8gb. So if you buy one and send it to me i can send you the one i have right now and you can see the pictures and videos i have and put them on the computer. Well I love you all! I miss you like crazy! You are all in my prayers every single day! 

Elder Dennison

YOU honestly have no idea how happy i am right now hearing that news!!! I have had this reoccurring dream of me waking up in my old room but i was still on my mission.... I dont even know what that means but thats crazy that i have been having this dream and you are moving back!! Like AHHHH the Church is true!! :D Will you be there until after my mission?!?! I sure hope so cause that is home! I have this burning desire right now that, that choice you have made is huge and that it is the most right thing you can be doing right now!! WOW i am pretty much speechless!! I am just truly happy right now that is the best way to describe my feelings...

So any ways answering your questions I am doing pretty great! A LOT to adjust to but as Gordon B HIncklys father told him "forget yourself and go to work" I have taken that to heart! The first night that i got here was rough.... I was the most homesick i have ever been! But the next day i prayed all day and honestly i can say that i am doing AMAZING!! The weather here is kinda crazy, we get days where it can be nice like in the 50's and others that are like 30's and below. Here in Hershey from the sound of it they dont get to much snow here, plus we are on the down side of winter so no i have not gotten my boots yet. My companion is Elder Rasmussen, no relation to coach rass, but he is related to some people from tremonton. His family is from Orem. He has lived there his whole life! We live in a brand new app. its is so nice! We do not live with any members. The ward boundaries here are like the ones in O'fallon HUGE!!! The ward here is amazing!! Here in Hershey they have the Hershey med center. So full of Dr. and there familys. We get fed pretty well ;) 

This week has been super slow.... Here in Hershey there is a lot of people that just aren't open to hearing the message we have to give to them. It makes it hard honestly. Hershey is an old old town so there is a lot of people just stuck in there ways and are happy. Which is fine, I just wish that i could help them a little more with the message we have. Cause if they are happy now, think of how happy they could be with the restored Gospel. I know that the Gospel brings only the best of feelings to anyone who is willing to just hear us out, and take in to their hearts this message. We did how ever get to talk with some people around our place and made some good friends, like Mr Willy he is an old retired truck driver, who has a talking bird.... Its the coolest thing in the world!! Oh and i cant forget Shirley! Shirley is a convert of a little over a year which means she can go to the temple! She is the coolest person on the planet. She is so loving and kind to any and everyone! I love her! She gets to go to the temple this weekend and will be sealed to her husband who passed away about 17 years ago. Now you see Shirley is gettin up there in age, her health is going down and its the saddest thing ever. She keeps saying to us that she has only held on this long to sealed to her husband and than she can let go. And that honestly makes me so sad... I dont want her to let go. She is my favorite person in the world! Well I love you all! Talk to you later!      

Hey i am hanging in there pretty well...... So i know that you are all dying to know where the Lord has sent me to labor for the next two transfers.. Well I hope you all are... ;) But for the next 3 months or the rest of my training I will be in Hershey PA!! Yes the home of the beloved Hershey Chocolate. Its so crazy being here! my real address is actually 134 Rosedale Hershey PA 17033 ( Mariah put that one on my FB please :) ) Well the work here is great, kinda. Hershey is one of the harder areas in all of the Pittsburgh mission. The numbers here are not very high, people are just stuck in there ways here. But with my faith in the lord and it being my second week, I know that things will start to fall in to place. The ones who are ready to hear the Gospel will fall in to my path. But it will all be according to the Lords will. I learned a lot this past little while, its not on my time table for the next two years its on His. Its no longer two years of my time its two years of his. And I can honestly say that two years of my time will not be enough.

The people here are crazy awesome! The way you feel love for them the second you meet them is truly, Christ love for them! Its amazing to be able to see his love through my own eyes. For example today we were walking here to the library, oh yeah I am in a walk area, so everywhere I go will be on foot!! Fun huh ;) ha. But anyways we were walking here and we have to OYM, open your mouth, so we seen a lady walking down the road so I OYM'd I started by just saying hi, she looked at me and my companion lowered her eyes to our name tags. I continued by asking her if I could ask her a question, she just looked at us and said I only believe in one God and walked away... At first I was so mad! I was so mad cause she didnt even just take the time to hear us out. But as she walked away I got this over whelming feeling of sorrow... And I know that was the Lord allowing me to see her as he does. That feeling of sadness that someone would turn down this happy message that would make her just as happy as I.

This mission is great, all missions are great! I am in love with this work. I just want to stand and have every one feel of my love and of His love. Thats the only hard part about it, is you see all these people that just dont know what they are missing. Oh yeah so my companion His name is Elder Rasmussen, he is related to Peter Newman for those of you who know him. He has only been out for 3 months, he is fresh out of training himself. He is very in touch with the spirit. I love him already, lets just hope it stays that way for the next 3 months! Ha I hope to hear from you all real soon!! I love you all! 

Elder Dennison  

Hey family,

So two weeks, its been nothing short of great! I love this work that is going on! Its so crazy to see how many missionaries come in now days! There are SO MANY!! And you know what that means..... long lunch lines.... AHHH! I hate lines. So I am being shipped out this coming Monday, the 18th at 3 in the morning!! Ha but its totally whatevs. Not a lot has been going on this last week. I just have been so lost in the work. I met Elder Skinner here the one from Ramona.... At least I think so, he is going to Norway right?... Oh and bt the way dont be afraid to share these emalis with the family. I dont know how it will be out in the feild but here I dont get a lot of time for writing letters, meaning it will be hard to write every one updates. So if you feel so inclined feel free to forward these emails! Its feels weird to think that I will be out in the feild soon, these other Elders and Sisters are like my other brothers and sisters. I love these guys so much! Us pitts boys we fly out a day before the Canada Sisters and Elders. So we all have to say our goodbyes a day early. It almost feels like I am leaving home again! I dont know if its me being a district leader or what? But my love for these people is so crazy, I truly feel Christ love for each and every one of them. So my compaion, Elder Hill, he is amazing. He shouldnt be here because he was born def, he could not hear at all..... The Dr said that he wouldnt go anywhere in life, but thanks to tech. he is here! He teaches me so much! A very vry cool thing happened last week in the temple... I had been feeling like Devin wanst in my life anymore... dont ask me why cause I know that he is always here with me. But anyways, Before the temple I said a little prayer in my heart asking God to let me feel Devin in my life again.... So I went through and after I was sitting in the Celestial room, I started to pray, and in the middle of that prayer I felt a hand on my shoulder... I opened my eyes and saw no one, everyone was over sitting or talking to each other. Thats when I knew that it was Devins hand on my shoulder. I could just feel him there sitting with me. The most powerful moment of my life. I know that my prayers are answered. And yours are too. I love all of you!

Elder Dennison

Hey mom and dad,

So today is our P-Day, and it has been the best da yet. No not really ha its just been a good day to relax. So here in the MTC we have like over a 100 teaching experiences and we have whats called TRC. In TRC we get to teach real people, like people that are real investigators or real less active people, my companion and i, Elder Hill, we have a guy by the name of Carlos. He is catholic but had his problems with that church so he was refered to us by his friend. We have taught him twice Elder Hill and I and we have him commited to baptism this month on the 27!!! And our other investigator is Kent, he fell away from the church a while ago. He just had his problems with the church plus his dad and brother both we extrem alcholics but still went to church but both evetually passed away. So his questions was how can God do this to his children and does he not love us. So we have taught him once but already have him commited to come back to Church and read the Book of Mormon! 

Its so crazy to see that the Lord really does lead us to teach what he wants us to teach his children. I mean me, I have always felt as if i didnt know as much as I needed to know for my mission, and that really scared me. I felt like I could have done a lot more to help myself know what I needed to know. But its so crazy how we open our mouths and his words come out. I got to go. I love you so much!

Elder Dennison