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 :)