The weeks honestly just are flying by... I dont really know how i feel about it all flying by so fast! Like i honestly think others are more trunky for me then i am for myself! Every time i see my district they tell me how many days i have left and all that crazy jazz. Like this morning i called some people in my district to see what the plan was for our pday and they were all telling me that after today i only have 9 more pdays, 9 more times to email home 9 more this 9 more that! It is actually a little more annoying now than funny haha ;)! I am super stoked to come home and see all yall, but i would honestly not mind staying out and doing this just a little longer. Like my picture perfect life actually would be to be home and everyday be able to do all this but just at the end of the day be able to come home and see all yall! 

Anyways off all that trunkie talk! We had our first Baptism this weekend! Sweet!!!! This family is the most amazing family in the world! So the way that they got over here was through an agency and that agency takes the people around and introduces them to other people that the agency helped being like other people from South Africa. And so last wednesday we went and had dinner over at their house and they invited all the other people that they have met through the agency to come and hear the message that we were gonna share! There was like 20 extra people in there! And we saw a miracle! Or at least we think we did! Ha so the Matembus they dont have a lot of money right now and with the extra 20 people they didnt have enough food so they let Elder P and i go first on getting food and seein the amount of food we took a little trying to leave enough for all the other people! So we had our food and we were sitting down and the other people came out with just PILES of food on their plates! I mean even the kids that were there! They all just had tons of food! And Elder P and i looked at each other like dang!! After we were all done eating there was still just a little left over! But we honestly did not think that there was going to be enough to feed us all 20 plus the Matembu Family and us two missionaries there was alot of stinking people! But the Lord provided! It was honestly the craziest thing in the world! But anyways the Baptism was amazing! We had so much support from a lot of the members and it was just the greatest thing ever!

Well i like to think of myself as the David Archeleta of my mission now well me and my district we are singing two times this year for christmas in to different programs! Ha it should be fun but what i am most excited about is what we are doing for Thanksgiving! We have been invited to two different places and we are just gonna be chillin with the two families all day! On top of all that at 9 that morning we are having our Turkey Bowl!!! I guess its a huge deal in our ward like people are dressing up and they order 12 dozen doughnuts! And most of the time the elders go home with half of them ;) that may be the most exciting part of it all! 

Well i am super happy to hear that all is well over there all is well here just trying to stay out of the trunk and stay focused! It may or may not be getting hard as the days go by ;) I love you all so so much! And that little baby cousin looks like a stud! 

Elder Dennison 

Man okay well now i can kinda inform yall on the haps here in good ole Pittsburgh! Well I cant remember what i said last week so if i go over them again it sucks to be you guys ;) Well my new companion is Elder Pennington fresh out of the MTC well kinda its been like two weeks now and we are going strong here. We got doubled in meaning that the missionaries that were here both left and me and Elder Pennington both went in to the are not knowing a thing! Which has been a struggle but we are getting by. We have a baptism this weekend! His name is Gregory Matembo he is 17 and his family all moved here from South Africa! His whole family were baptized in south africa besides him, for his family he told them it was because he had a huge soccer game. He was playing for a team over there that was pretty much semi pro he was lie 15 and 16 playing in a huge league like that and was getting paid some pretty good money. So on the day of Baptism he had a game and that was his excuse for his family when in reality he just never had a testimony of his own. So he said that he would keep meeting with the missionaries but it was just meaning nothing to him. So he saw that his family was still super happy and he never could understand why and they were always reading from the Book of Mormon so he said that he just reading it one day and couldnt stop reading! And came to know through lots of prayer that it was all true! But that was about the time that he and his family moved here from South Africa. And he was telling us it was the hardest thing that he ever had done in his life! He saw a lot of really hard things on the journey over here. But the only thing that would get him through was his testimony of the Gospel and the hope that it gave him! So Elder Pennington and i got to the are and saw them and went over and on the first lesson like a boss Elder Pennington set him with the date of November 22nd to be baptized! One of the coolest things ever!

We do as well have another lady named Patti with a date of December 13th but that is a story for another day ;). But what i will tell you is this, when the clock is winding down as fast as it is right now all i can say is work harder and the Lord will bless you with the greatest of blessings! I have seen all through out my mission that the Lord blesses all his children but for being obedient and fallowing the commandments of God, He will bless you so much more! Its been super super fun i cant send pics cause i dont have an adapter to plug my sim card in... So i dont know what to do... But on that same note i dont have a working camera anymore either... :D The joy of a walk area ha! So maybe as an early Christmas gift i could get a new one?... :) other than that i really dont want anything for Christmas. I got to start thinking about what to send home anyways to make sure that i will make weight for my luggage so please spend that money on someone else :).    

 Has Linda called you again? I really hope not ha cause she keeps saying that she is but i never know! The ward here is small just the way i like it! But it is FULL of diversity! People from all different backgrounds and it brings an amazing spirit to the meeting! The area is super sketchy sometimes we have some areas that we are not allowed to go in to because of things that are going down in the area! And we have a lot of areas where we are supposed to be out of by dark. So that is always super fun ;). It has been the craziest few weeks of my life and i have loved every single second of it! TIME IS FLYING! We are talking to some of the craziest people here! and it is extremely funny! We have a lot of work to do here with the ward and i am so stinking happy that i get to spend the last little bit of my mission this way! I Love you all! And i cannot wait to see yall on christmas! Tayto said he will be there so if he is not then i will cry! ;) Love you all!! 

Elder Dennison

I dont have a lot of time today. We are on guest passes and it only gives me like 26 mins to be on here so that super sucks i need a letter for prof of residency here the address is 1209 West North Ave Apt # 302 Pittsburgh Pa 15233 so send me something this week! I am in daburgh!! Like downtown is part of my area! Me and Elder Pennington who is brand spanking new to the mission are doubled in to the area we are in the pitt 1st ward! This ward has the most amazing people for sure the ward with the most character! Tons of different races all coming together to worship our Father in Heaven! Its interesting... We are working hard Elder Pennington second day in the field committed someone to baptism i will tell the story some other time when i have time.November 22nd is the date as well we have committed some others to Dec 13 but wants it sooner and we had someone just out of the blue tell us that they want to be baptized!! Sweet huh!!! So the area is sweet! I love you all the person that called her name is Linda she is not all the way there but she loves the missionaries and she is SUPER funny! We call her Krazy Linda!! Ha She actually came up with the name and loves it my nick name is Elder Dennifart.... If you didnt catch that haha it was freaking sweet! I love this are i am learning to use buses and all that jazz its super crazy... It is also super sketchy here at night haha i love it! I love you all so so much! I will answer all the questions sometime for now all we need is food and change for laundry haha!
Elder Dennison 

Well i am getting transferred.... Kinda sad as well as super excited! I am doubling in and training for my last two transfers!! Say goodbye to 11 months of MLC! And all i know is that i will be on this side of the mission and i will be in a walk area!! Hopefully somewhere in downtown Pittsburgh!! Man i am just so excited to go train for the last two transfers! They are gonna fly by!! But i am still just super super excited!

Okay well i got some super sad news... Hannah dropped us... All we had was one lesson with her and well i guess it was actually her dad that told us not to come back. So yeah... It was one of the most depressing days even on top of all that every single lesson we had that day fell through... This is a trial of our faith or at least that is what i am hoping that it is cause that has been happening to us for the past ever! And Hannah ah man she was golden! Like i honestly thought this was like that one time on the mission that i would have found someone and they just were prepared and they were gonna be baptized in like a month but well i guess it didnt happen this time. But i have found tons and tons of comfort in lots and lots of prayer. It really was kinda a cool experience! I was just sitting there praying for what seemed like a million years! And i was just pleading with the Lord to tell me why he let this happen when me and my companion did all that we could do. And these words came to mind, "she is in my hands". Man the Lord answers prayers! It aint like some huge spiritual explosion! But it was just enough to give me the comfort that i needed at that time and having those thoughts come to mind was just awesome! 

Its just over all been a very different week for me! Lots of different things have been happening pertaining to leadership and having to take care of things that i thought that i would never have to take care of and just seeing missionaries struggle with a lot of different things! But like i said before the comfort truly does come from the gospel and its teachings! 

Sounds like everyone is having a blasty blast at home! I hope you all are having fun ;)  I am having fun!

I am feeling better! I dont need anything. Jessica Sperry I know the name but i cant picture who it is... I got my shoes and they are gooood!      

These are some pics of the district

And the guy in the pic with a red shirt is Anthony who is a boss!!