Well this week was gooooooood! The new area i am in, is freaking awesome! We are teaching so much! We are at like 14 lessons a week which is far more than i have really ever gotten sense i was in Brookville! It is pretty great i love it... And as you can see we had a sweet party here in the ward saturday. Well it was actually a Primary Carnival and we were in charge of all the water stuff.... I LOVED IT!! I havent been around water like that in forever! All the kids were drenching us so we went and changed in to our "normal" clothes and just messed around and had our faces painted not sure if i was supposed to do that or not... But i did it :). 

I dont know i just am in love with being back out in the normal missionary world, and i am trying to convince pres to let me stay here for the rest of my mission... I am hoping that i have talked him in to it. But we really have over all had some awesome days! They are just flying by and things just become a blur but i am in love with it all! So there was an Elder that just went home this last transfer and he was one of the most amazing missionaries that i have known out here. His name is Elder Jones and in is departing testimony he said "I have learned a lot on my mission and one of the most prevalent things i have learned is that Pennsylvania has TONS of trees! And if you sit back and think about all the places that have changed the world have been in a grove of trees. The Garden of Eden, The Garden of Gethsemane, and the Sacred Grove. These are places that have changed millions of people, and have like i said changed the world. And there is one grove of trees that have changed my life, and that is in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is my grove of trees." I can relate to him a lot on that part, Pennsylvania is my grove of trees just as it was Elder Jones. If we let the gospel in to our lives anywhere we are will end up being our grove of trees. 

Just like last year i think my body knew that it was the fair week... Man i was so trunky this week all i wanted to do was go the fair and splurge on all that fair food ;). But i am on some what of a diet... So i hope i am loosing a little bit of weight i got to do my months to sexy! I got to get sexy for when i get home i got to impress all the people when i get home ;). But i am super glad to hear that Savannah and Nic did so good with their Sheep!! I am proud of them! Well now sense Mariah is moved out i guess that means she is to cool to email me now ;). But that sounds sweet that she is going down there to live that will be sweet!! 

Well i love you all so much family!! 

Elder Dennison

Well shewt! This week has been the freaking best! I am in love with my new area! Washington is the greatest place ever. I have taught more people here in this one week then i ever did in my last area ;). Just kidding! But the are is going to be awesome i am gonna try to get Pres to leave me here for the rest of my mission. I just am done moving around ;). But i am gonna start to be sending stuff home so i can make weight for my luggage. My new companion is Elder Leavitt, he is from California, and he is going home in September. So I will be his companion when he "dies". There was so much that happened this week and i honestly can not remember anything haha but I have been taking good pics and i have been writing in my journal so no worries ;). Just more stories for when i get home ;). The place i live in now is actually a house. And i live with the walk elders here in the area. So there is four of elders in the house and we got only one bathroom.... That is sweet huh ;).  216 Caldwell Ave Washington, PA 15301, that is my new address so send me some stuff, like good food, healthy food, more good food.

Well all my friends are just getting married... DANG!! I never thought that Dallin would get married anytime soon who is it to? It sounds like everyone is doing super sweet! I am super jealous that it is fair week! I got here at the start of last week and we had a fair here... If i had known that i would have for sure 

Well what i was going to say was that if i had known that and i was here earlier, i would have gone and set a booth there so i could chill at the fair forever!!

Well this week we have had some super sweet experiences the spirit is sweet that is for sure! Fallowing the spirit is super sweet!! I think that is super cool that we have the chance to fallow the spirit and know that it is from the Lord and it is exactly what He wants!!

Oh hey i need some family history stuff like pronto :) We have 3 hours a week to work on it now days and i love it so much!! It super sweet to see all the people who have gone before us!! Man its the coolest thing ever!! I wont forget your number ;) i just havent had people take pictures of me :) I love you all so much!! I hope you know how much i love you! And appreciate all that you do! 

Elder Dennison  

an i can not even remember what has happened this last week. But i do have a story to tell ya :). So it started off a few days ago we had a district meeting on the will of God and our will. And what one we are really focusing on right now on our mission. So that came as a little rebuke to me. And oddly enough the next day during my personal studies i was reading a talk by Elder D. Todd Christofferson, it was all on the atonement, i cant remember the name of the talk right now but it was in the October 2011 Conference. And it makes a very profound statement in there, and it goes something like this, as much as we pray for grace in the repentance process we should pray for the opportunity and the time to repent. So that is when the thought of Turning my will to God came back to mind. So ever sense that i started to pray for the opportunity to repent and turn my will over to go more fully. And it seemed like nothing was changing I was still focusing all the work o the people and centering things on our Savoir Jesus Christ, nothing changed so i kept going and just kept praying for the same thing. So Monday rolled around and it was all normal just starting to get ready for the dreadful week 6. So a while ago I had asked President Johnson if i was staying for another Transfer and he had said yes, but after i was done emailing you all last week President Johnson asked if he could talk with me alone. So he took me in to his office and asked me if i was willing to do all that the Lord asks me to do, so with that kind of questions you know that something is gonna happen. So i said yes and he continued to tell me that i was needed else where in the mission for the time being..... Never before had my stomach been so twisted and flipped upside down in my life! Through all the trials and the wading through tribulation i had finally found success in this area we have 3 people set with a date all super solid as well Nick, Suzanne, and Jordan. The ward here is one of those wards that i have grown to love with all my heart. All these negative thoughts came rushing in to my head when that was all i focused on was the fact that i was being pulled from all the great things that have happened here in the area. I was honestly really hurt and just frustrated. So when i went home I just knelt down and asked our Father what was happening i was doing so good here! I finally got the balance between doing the work and office work. And all that came to mind was the fact i had prayed to have the opportunity to turn my will to God. Here it is my turn to turn my will over to God :) Our Father in Heaven will answer your prayers. I know it and i will never forget it. 

Well This week i feel like i have run around with our heads chopped off and its getting fun ;). We havent been able to do a lot besides plan and prepare for MLC and get ready for transfers. So its been a crazy crazy week! Oh i guess i should tell ya where i am going huh? Well i am going to a zone leader again down in the washington ward here. I will only be like 30 mins away from this area here. Its all in the same stake so it will be awesome i will still see some of the same people! Well It sounds like everyone there is living life to the fullest huh ;) Well i have a lot of pictures this week and just not a lot to say besides that story there :). Its amazing when you can make some of those big ties to the gospel and your day to day life. We should all look for those and thank God for blessing us so much each and every day! I love you all! I love you all!!

Elder Dennison  

So this is me Nick and Jess

Me and the Bajorques fmaily

Me and the family again with the other misisonaires here

I have been teaching The Richard family for a while now Cameron to the Left of me with my arm around him got baptized awhile ago and Ethan on the kind of in front of me is going to be baptized here soon!!

Me and Sister Morphy

Elder Shields and Sister Doxey

All these people used to be in an old district of mine in brookville

Me and Sister Law

This has been the longest week of my life!! So Monday we had to do all that with that Elder that was going home, well we found out after all that, that we had to go pick another Elder up to take him home.... So many missionaries going home early. And we have had to solve problems with missionaries not getting along... Man by the end of Wednesday i was ready for that week to be done!! Ha it was for sure a long week...

But now we are on to a new week! We have transfer board this week, so President Johnsons first one then we have our biggest report that we do in this area due this week, and we also have MLC with trying to get logistics done... ;) Its gonna be a busy week! But it really does help with having a busy week, it makes it all seem a lot easier and faster cause this is stuff that i will actually enjoy doing ;). But yeah i went over to York PA this week and did some exchanges over there with these two Elders it was actually pretty fun! They took me to this less active guys house who was nuts! Like he was pretty much wanting to make his own break off of the church that was fun ;). Got to visit this guy with all these exotic birds i mean this was a high class exchange here ;). So i found out this last week that President Johnson is going to keep me here for another transfer to help out with stuff. So i am actually really excited about staying here for all the cool stuff that is happening in our area here. Suzanne is the lady with cancer and she kinda dropped off the face of the earth wont call us back and all this jazz, somewhat depressing. But Nick the guy that i have been working with the whole time i have been here is buying some meds that will help him quit smoking! So he is set with a date and i am so hoping and praying that this medication works!! Please keep him in your prayers as well. The more prayers that go out for this man the more Heavens help will be bestowed upon him! Plus its the weekend right before i get transferred and President Topham said that he would come out and do the baptism so it would be sweet to see him!

President Johnson is settling in nicely i think! He has taken the ball and is running with it! He is pretty amazing! And Sister Johnson has to be one of the most loving people i have ever met in my life! She is AMAZING! We always joke that she is the Mission President secretly, that she is just using President Johnson as her cover. That all came because when they werent even out here i had a dream about the new mission president and his wife, that they were trying to take over the world and he hired new aps over Elder Shields and i. And they were going around in this UFO and beaming people up.... It was a crazy dream! But i told them about that and President Johnson was all no i would never do that, but Sister Johnson she might ;). They are awesome people. Their son Andrew will get here next week and that will be exciting to have him here to meet him and hang out with him. Sister Johnson was actually talking to us about a blog the other night so i think she will be doing on no worries :). 

Really not to much happened here in good ole PA, but I do want you all to know that I love being out here! I may be so tired to the point where i dont feel like going on anymore. But the gospel is my pearl of great price. I am willing to give it my all :)! I have seen a lot of people out here that have be beaten by the world to the point where they think that there is no return, that where they are at in life is where they will have to stay because there is no way out. But with the gospel being such an amazing pearl we should be wiling to give up everything to gain all. I was reading in Mormon chapter 9 this morning and it was Moroni pretty much rebuking a lot of people, but he made the statement along the lines of we will be more happy in the presence of our Father in Heaven then we will be with our worldly happiness. Every time in my life when i have felt like i am missing something to my happiness i have always found that missing piece in the gospel :). And it has given me a way out of these feelings of there is no return. And that is what i get to tell those people that i see that feel that way. With our Father in Heaven there is a way out, and that is through His Son Jesus Christ :). If our lives are centered on Jesus Christ then we will always be on that strait and narrow path, with ladders reaching the tops and with bridges across some of the deepest ravines. 

I love you all!! :) 

Elder Dennison

 here is the picture of last MLC