Christmas is coming.

Hey guys! Hey cool, so ya our Thanksgiving went well, it wasn’t like home, but it was good. We went over to an older couple’s apartment and had turkey dinner. It was good. We had turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing and salad. It was pretty good. lol Oh and they totally had the celery with cheese wiz on it. lol So that was cool, it totally reminded me of mom:)

But ya, I finished the Turkey Trot. I ran the whole time too! It was a four mile run and I did it in about 37 minutes, so ya not too shabby for an out
of shape missionary. lol But it was fun, I got a cool shirt and other stuff that has a cool turkey on it. Over 8000 people ran it! Pretty crazy huh! It was fun.

The work is going good here. Right now we have 3 really solid investigators, Sham, the man from Kashmir. He is doing good. He is moving slowly through the gospel but has been to church like 8 times in a row, so that is awesome. We have talked with him about baptism but he doesn’t have a date yet, but he is doing good.

Then we have Margarita and her daughter Margarita. lol They are like late forties and twenty one. We started teaching them about 3 weeks ago and they have been to church the last 3 weeks. They are Mexican, they moved here from Mexico about 2 years ago now, so they speak pretty good English and I get to practice up on my Spanish so that is cool. lol They are way solid and progressing wonderfully. We have taught them the first lesson about the restoration of the church, the second lesson, the plan of salvation, and pieces of the third, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Margarita’s son is 19 and was baptized about 1 1/2 years ago. He lives a few hours from Denver, so I have never met him, but they are doing good and we just last Thursday soft set them for baptism. Basically saying once you receive an answer to your prayers that this is Jesus Christ’s church will you be baptized and they both said yes, so that is cool. They are having us over for dinner on Christmas Eve so that will be awesome. They said they are going to make us a real Mexican dinner! I’m pretty excited. Lol

So ya, we have an appointment with Sham on Friday and with the Margaritas on Thursday. So yup, oh and on Sunday this older man in the ward Bro. Berry brought his granddaughter up to us. Her name is Mya, she is 10, and said this is Mya she wants to be baptized! Pretty cool so ya we have an appointment with her on Sat. So yup, it’s all looking good and I’m staying busy. The Lord has definitely blessed me and Elder Luce by preparing people here in the Crestmoor ward for us to teach. We are very blessed.

Ok, so for Christmas, we are going over to one of our kinda investigators house, the Plusses, for breakfast and stuff so we are going to be calling from there at like 11 or 12 Denver time, so 10 or 11 for you guys. I think that’s all you need to know. I guess I’ll just call the home phone, and I think Britt is going to be going over there so I can talk to her for a bit. Pretty exciting stuff :) So ya they are making us a big breakfast , so that will be fun. They are a cool family, I don’t think there will be any eggs benedict though! Sad day. lol But I think I will manage. :) Then we have a dinner at the Green’s house. They are recent converts, I think like 2 years or so. It will be good to have nice people and good conversations, so ya it will be fun.

Well let’s see, Friday I think it was, at night it got down to minus 18!!!!! Crazy huh? It was like minus 10 when we were still out, it was wicked cold. Pretty crazy stuff, but today it finally let up, it got up to like 40 I think. But the last few days have been brutal.

Oh I saw I had some money, so of course I had to spend it as soon as possible. lol Just kidding. But I did buy a bike yesterday, so thanks a bunch for the money. It’s basically my same bike but an upgrade, so it’s a little nicer. Mine was the GT Avalanche 3.0. lol Then Elder Bragg had to one up me, so he bought the one nicer model the 2.0 and I couldn’t let that happen. lol So I bought the 1.0 lol So ya pretty funny, but it’s nice, thanks a bunch!

Well I think that’s it guys, hope you’re all doing well. Love you all. I’ll talk to ya soon!

Elder Dunn

Snow

I know pretty lame huh! Ya that is what we...well my companion has started doing now bringing his bike up in the apartment at night. Well, Elder Anderson, the elder on the other side of my ward, actually bought a bike at Wal-Mart when he first came out. Then after riding it for 2 weeks, found out it is a piece of junk and worth it to buy a nice one, so he bought a nice bike and he is letting me use wall-e, the Wal-Mart bike. lol It’s pretty bad. lol But I think I will need one pretty soon cuz it snows here but then 3 days later it’s all gone, and we have been doing some walking but its really less effective. But I have been doing a little shopping around and found some really nice ones for some pretty good deals too, so I think it would just be best to transfer some money in my account.

But about calling home, I’m not exactly sure yet. We have a couple of places we will be going on Christmas, but not to sure about calling. So we will try to find out this week and I’ll let you know next p-day.

It did snow a lot on transfer day last week and just the other night we went into dinner and it had just barley started snowing but not sticking and came out of dinner and there was like 3 inches on the ground. It was pretty crazy. The snow here is so dry and fluffy, it’s awesome. It really makes me wanna go snowboarding. lol It’s tough! But ya its cool. I like the snow, ya hopefully they get enough snow there in Oregon to get up a few times. That’s cool that Dave is going up there, that will be fun.

Tell Nicole she is too young to be getting married! That’s way weird. lol Is the guy cool at least? Well sorry, I’m like way short on time today, so I better get going. But I hope your all doing well and I wish I could be there with you going to all the fun activities, but I know this is where I’m supposed to be, and I having fun too :) It’s all going good. Happy holidays and I will talk to you later! Love you allElder Dunn

Totally Stolen!!

Ok, well let’s see where do I start? Well I guess I’ll start with my bike, IT TOTALLY GOT STOLEN!!!! I was so mad. Last Wednesday night I had it locked up behind our apartment and they just cut my lock and left it on the ground and took the bike! How lame huh? Sooooo ya, pretty crazy. So we have been walking alot this week. I guess all I want/need for Christmas is a bike. So if anyone wants to send me a Christmas present, just tell them to send me money so I can buy a bike.

Another sad thing, my companions girlfriend’s mom passed away the day after Thanksgiving, so that was pretty tough on him. So it has been a kinda rough week, but we found out both Elder Luce and I will be staying here in the Crestmoor ward, so my address will stay the same.

It has snowed here a bit, but where I am it has all melted. It was there two or three days though so it was fun, but today the high is supposed to be 34 and the low 13. Pretty crazy. So snow should be on its way again, uhh but ya I think I’m good on all the weather stuff. I’m a tough kid. lol I just need a bike. lol

But ya I’m glad I’ll be staying, we have some pretty awesome investigators that have really started progressing, so that is awesome. We have been doing alot of tracting lately. The standard of excellence has been raised here in our mission and they want us tracting 20 hours a week, but it is tough when you go tracting 4½ hours and only have like 3 or 4 quality gospel conversations. But when you find that one person who is really listening to us on the door step and wants to learn more it is way worth it! I love it!

Well, I better get going. I got to go to the temple today and saw Elder Bragg and Pond, so it was cool. But I will talk to you all soon.
Love you all!

Elder Dunn