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