Man oh man what a week!! Craziness! Well let me start off with my Elder Leavitt is home.... It was the end of his mission and he is back in Cali! Look him up on FB Kyle Leavitt.. He is great!! I got my new comp Elder Ginos! He was being trained in Erie when i was there, so we know each other really well!! Its been fun! Oh and this last night high light of my week! My last ward asked me to come back and sing with them in this I Believe in Christ choir concert, one of the most spiritual meetings i have been in in a long time!!! We had us sing lots of sweet songs! And we had the primary sing some songs all of Jesus Christ and we had tons of testimonies and they all invited their friends and the spirit was soooo strong there! Its is amazing how greatly the spirit will be invited in by singing praises to our Lord and King!! Man i will so much love to relive that night over and over again! And on top of it all i got to see all the people that i love from the 5th ward. Honestly i love that ward!! So many people that i got so close to and they will be dear friends for ever!

But anyways, the week was crazy its always crazy trying to take over an area especially when you were with the other missionary that knew that area for only one transfer.... its good ;) ha nah its actually been really fun just being out here in the area, working and being a missionary for the last little while. Oh funny story!! So Friday we went to try and find a new white board for our apartment so we could write down all the people we are visiting and such, so we went every where to look for one!! So we finally had to go to Home Depot and they were 4 by 8 they were huge!! So we had to get them cut in half one for us and one for the walk elders. So went looking for someone that would be able to cut them for us and guess what, we found a guy finally but he was a member a less active member that lived in Ohio that was pretty sweet we talked to him for awhile and that was cool... But when we were leaving we got to the car and our car was to small for the white boards.... So we sat there forever trying to figure out how we are gonna get them home so we tried calling some people and they could help but we ended up figuring out what we were gonna do. We put them on top the car and rolled down the window and just held on. HAHA the wind would take it and it was just the worst trying to hold on to them. And we would drive people and they would laugh of shout something out like hang on tight boys.... Maybe it was a little funnier being there.... but it was a good story to us hahaha. 

Well its super good to hear that everyone is doing good, I miss you all!!! I got that package! THANK YOU!!!! It was all awesome the jerky is always a hit with the elders or missionaries that i am with. Man well i dont know if i am staying cause like i have three more including this one haha so i have no idea. But i love you!! 

Elder Dennison    

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Man sending a missionary home when he is your companion is the hardest thing i think i have ever done!! Ha Elder Leavitt is like one of the coolest people that i know and its been a blast serving with him. And i think some of his trunkiness is rubbing off on all of us here in the house. But once he is out of the house everything will be back to normal ;). This week was full of goodbyes and a lot of challenges we werent able to teach as many people this week but that is okay we will pick it back up next week. I am super excited though! We were driving out in our area well pretty much in the boons which is all of our area, but we were driving out there and the leaves were starting to change colors!! AH man am i excited for all this stuff to start happening! I love this time of the year! Maybe its just cause my birthday is coming up and Halloween and all that jazz but its just the greatest time ever!

I was SO SO SO SO happy to hear that Mariah is staying up there in the north! Like that pretty much made my whole day! Like when she was going to be down in St George that made coming home not as exciting! ;) And that is pretty sweet that she got her job ha now its just she needs to get me a job there ;). Man there wasnt really anything cool that happened this week besides all the normal things knocking on doors teaching people. Man i am getting really distracted!!! HA sorry!

I am so so happy to hear all about all the fun stuff! And yes please i need to have a list of all the good movies ;) I am excited to watch all of them! So like I really havent been emailing anyone but you mariah and tayto sometimes ha that is really about it but its whatever! But i love you all! I miss you all!

Elder Dennison

This is what i do when i get distracted with all the missionaries around these parts

And those are from last week

So this week was pretty regular around here not to much is happening right now we are teaching a billion people, its no big deal... ;)

So anyways this last week we had a stake softball tournament... but i must repent for my hard heart... Well i had known about this softball tournament for like a million years and i was all excited about this and all that jazz. Well we got asked if we could go help move this person so my first response was HECK NO! But we went and did it anyways. So we thought that it would maybe take like an hour or so at the most. But it took 6 hours... 6 long hours... And i really was feeling mad cause we missed the whole thing. Like i was so so mad!! Like the rest of that day i was just the worst person ever cause we just had planned on going there and i was ah yeah it was just bad... haha but i learned a lot from all these things! Like again i learned the power of prayer and the strength that we can get from our Heavenly Father. 

Well we are teaching a lot of people right now a lot of Part Member Families!! That is where we are finding a lot of success!! And we are teaching tons of Less actives! Its been like the greatest 5 weeks of my life! We are just teaching and staying so so busy. Now we are slowly working on getting the members more involved with everything that we are doing. I really think that success comes down to the attitude that we have over all. Like with us here we are so willing to do whatever it takes to find new people to teach and sometimes that will has to be tested. And that is why we go through trials is cause he is testing to see where our loyalty is. Elder Leavitt and i have been tested a lot but we are being so so blessed with so many new investigators that we dont even have to try we just do what we have been asked and they just come. The Lord will bless us for our obedience. I know it cause i have tested him! That is what he has asked us to do.

We are teaching this one family named the Clems and they are the greatest people ever!! They have two little girls and they are the freaking best!! Their dad was a state champ wrestler, so these two girls are like 5 and 4 and they just wrestle all the time cause their dad teaches them and its great they will like take turns taking each other down and stuff its kinda the coolest thing in the world. We get to go see them tonight! :)

The stake split a while ago, and we just are making a new zone nothing to big i just might not be a zl anymore which i am totally cool with i really dont care what happens. But yeah that was cool cause that just means the work here is going on strong! 

But it sounds like you all are having some good fun over there! ;) I miss all yall! All i need is some good stuff to munch on and all that jazz ;) 

Elder Dennison       

Ah man this week FLEW by! Its been a good week we went to MLC which was good we had exchanges and all that jazz. Its been a good week!

Man so last week for Pday we hung out with all the Tongan families and they made TONS of food!!! IT was freaking sweet! And we played Volleyball for ever and it was pretty fun! But after that we had some sweet lessons planned and they all fell through!!! All of them.... But its whatever! After that i went of exchanges with Elder Packard he is a cool Elder he is our District Leader and well yeah i guess he is cool ;) But guess what when i was with him all our lessons fell through again.... What the FREAK!?! So we had to tract a little bit and that was fun i guess ;) We did find a new lady to teach her name is April her family all does them Durbys and she is pretty cool!! Nothing was working this week but we did teach tons still! We had some SWEET lessons this last week too!! There is this one family that i have come to love a lot and that is the Pinkertons they are a sweet family. But we had a sweet lesson with them like honestly one of them lessons where you walk away from it and you have a spiritual high for the rest of forever ;). We had our stake split that was pretty sweet! It might mean that i am not a ZL anymore but hey i dont care as long as i get to stay here and work with these awesome people i dont care ;)

Well that was enough of my week who even likes hearing my week ;). That is freaking sweet to hear about all yinz going to the temple!!!! I am so jealous. We had a note that went out by the church saying if a temple is 2 hours away from you in traveling time you can go even if it is out of your mission. From the edge of our area we live 2 hours and 6 mins away... 6 MINS!!!! AHHH So close ;) looks like i will still have to wait 5 more months to go... But i guess i can wait. You all look like a super happy family right there in front of the temple. I know that someday we will be there all together sealed as a family. That will be the greatest day of my life, better then anything i could wish for or gone through yet besides our own family sealing. I want us to all be sealed together forever. 

Its nice to hear that the work is still progressing super well even not in Pennsylvania! Cause this splitting of the stake is the 2nd one i have seen sense i have been out here on my mission! The work is moving forward. Last night at the Pinkertons we asked them all why they believed in Jesus Christ. And it we had some of the most amazing answers from a less active family. They know that Jesus Christ is their Savior, they know that is to him that they must look to for a redemption of their sins. And they know that the Book of Mormon is true. With those two facts, we can lean on them and they will open a world of possibilities. Its amazing to see how these two facts do not bind us but they will free us from the chains of sin. I have been a first hand witness of these things :) I know the power of the Atonement it is the most powerful thing in the world! Its an unseen power that we will be able to feel through the Holy Ghost. I love this Gospel and i love the fact that i for myself have found the truth and have embraced it :). I want this for all of you! 

So we have some sweet stuff here! Like Buffalo Wild Wings, any fast food stuff, uh i live in the city, well close to it ;) So anything. One thing that i do want is a Sams Club pass... Do you have like a guest pass that i could use? And you have no idea how excited i am about Dads jerky!! Ah man i am excited! 

I love you all so so much! 

Elder Dennison

Oh man!!! We are on fire here!! And i am loving being back in the field! So this week we had a sweet time at non other then the Pirates Baseball game!!! They were playing the Cardinals it was a sweet game! Well it was a little slow! But i was so in love for that day! I never thought i would ever get to go to a any kind of game like that! Man.... Like that was just the high light of my week! But guess what, even with missing pretty much a whole day Elder Leavitt and i still had more lessons then we did last week! Really we are being so blessed this last little while, and i have no idea why. All i can say is that we are just working hard and smart! And giving it all to the Lord! Man i have not felt this good on my mission in a long long time :).

Well this week we just had tons of fun. Ha i think we were on such a high and yesterday everything just kinda fell through haha we had a pretty rough day. We were trying everyone we did get in with some people but all our set appointments fell through. And on top of all that it was fast Sunday, so i might have been a little testy ;). So we were getting rejected left and right and all these things were happening it was just bad. So it came time to break our fast and that was like a heaven sent time ;), so we were booking it home and we were out in the middle of no where! We were like 35 mins away from home and we just wanted to get home! So Elder Leavitt was driving and he was driving a little faster than we should have and we coming around the corner and all of the sudden there was a HUGE pot hole! And we hit it head on! We hit so hard that it dented the rim!!! Ha all i could do was laugh in that moment! Man it was crazy funny so in our shirts and ties we changed our tire! It was awesome ;). All i cna say is that i was humbled! 

I do want to let you all know again that Fasting and Praying works! So i have been thinking of where to go for school and i have always wanted to go to Utah State, but for some reason that was never settling right with me. So i have been thinking a lot and the other school that came to mind was BYU-I... Ha i have always made fun of that school so i instently blew that thought off and kept going about everything. But for the next couple of days EVERY one that i talked to went to BYU-I... Its like it was all just jumping in to my face. So one night i prayed about it, and the answer came very clearly that it was supposed to be BYU-I. But me being the man i am i still didnt want to listen... So i blew it off again... But for some reason after that i just could not feel the spirit and everything was off! So yesterday i fasted and prayed for the answer again.... Ha man i am testing Him. But the answer came very loud and clear this time. I am meant to go to BYU-I. And i will not deny it this time. There were feeling that i cannot describe but i know that is where i am supposed to go. I know that God will answer your prayers. He has done it time and time again! And because we are His children and He loves us so dearly he will answer us! All we have to do is have a sincere desire and have the faith to pray :). 

I got grandmas package! THAT WAS SWEET!!! And all i can ask for is to send food :) that is it. I love you all!

Elder Dennison