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

Thanksgiving 2008

Well today is a short p-day just till 1:00, then tomorrow is a p-day, so ya its cool. In the morning me and the other 3 elders in our ward are running the Turkey Trot! It’s kinda like the Pear Blossom I think. We get a cool shirt and everything that has a little turkey on it. But it’s 4 miles! I don’t know if I can do that. We will see. It will be fun! An investigator signed us up and paid for it all for us. The whole Plus family is doing it, so they invited us to do it too. It will be fun. Then we have a dinner/lunch with an empty nester couple at 1:00, then going to another member family’s in the evening, so it should be a pretty good day. I hope the food is good. lol But I doubt it will be like home, but it should still be fun.

Oh man, so there was a Turkey Bowl last Saturday, it wasn’t on Thanksgiving, but ya and they announced it in priesthood and said, “Oh ya, and no missionaries allowed!!! Lame huh? We were way mad about it cuz I guess like 2 years ago a missionary got hurt at the Turkey Bowl, so ya I was pretty bummed. But after the Turkey Bowl they had a chili cook-off, so we went and watched them play then got a free lunch. So it was cool. There was some pretty good chili and some really, really hot chili too, it was cool. One guy just had a full habanero just sitting on the top on his chili, for looks, and his was pretty hot. Towards the end he told me to eat this raw habanero, and me being me…said uh ok. So he got everyone’s attention and was like, “Dunns gonna eat a habanero,” so ya that was fun! lol At first it wasn’t that hot then after like 45 secs it was burning! lol It was pretty intense. It was fun. Needless to say the rest of the day my stomach was mad at me! lol It was fun though.

Well I better get going we have a lesson with a member at two with these two single moms and their kids so it should be a good first lesson.

Love you all. Eat a turkey leg and tackle someone in the mud for me!

Elder Dunn

P-Day

Hey there! So ya my week was good, uhh let’s see, nothing too exciting that I can think of right now, just doing missionary work. lol Every time me and my companion, Elder Luce, finish an appointment or something and he asks what we are going to do now, I say uhh I don’t know I was thinking of doing some missionary work, then he hits me. lol It’s cool.

But lets see well today (P-Day) we played some early morning racket ball, that was cool. I think I could take you Dad! lol Then after study we went and played some ultimate Frisbee. It was cool and really really tiring. It was like seventy degrees today, it was crazy! Hey it snowed on Friday. Just a few inches but it was cool. Then we had haircut appts at this beauty school in downtown Denver that a member owns, so missionaries get free haircuts. But I guess we made reservations at the wrong place. lol So ya we went all the way downtown for nothing, so now we are getting them on Friday.

To answer your questions, I can view pics on here but not too sure if I can print them out. Some libraries I think I can and others I can’t, and yes I got the money thanks mom! Gma and Gpa wrote me and sent some pics of there new horses so that was cool and they threw in 40 bucks too!! Cool cuz lets see I have 21 dollars to last me the rest of the month. lol But I should be fine, all I need are the essentials Ramen and cereal. lol But all is well out here in Denver. Oh clothes, lets see I think I should be ok on shirts for the time being and I think you could send out that other suit, that would be cool, I guess I could use another pair of pants. I only really wear one pair right now, the ones that lady bought me my first transfer. lol But they’re 32's and way big so ya and ties are always awesome, you can never have enough ties. lol But on everything else I think I'm doing good :) Well I best get going. Love you all and hope you’re all doing well. ttyl

Elder Dunn

Dang

Dang, that’s pretty lame about the computer and stuff. Sounds like a big pain, but that’s good that you finally got it back though.

Dang that’s pretty crazy about Daisy, Ya I've heard that’s what it sounds like when a bunny gets hurt, but I've never heard it myself. That’s good that she is doing ok now.

Oh that’s cool you got to talk to Elder Craft! I really like him, he is a nice guy. We did have alot of fun times together, he is a good kid. That’s cool you got some pics from Brittney. She told me she stopped by and that Elder Craft might get you some pics.

Yesterday or uh Monday, I sent you guys a letter and I put in a whole bunch of pictures I printed off, so ya, you should get them like tomorrow or so, and ya I got your package! Thanks for everything. I really needed stamps and I already had some Ovalteen and hot choc. Really cool thanks a bunch!

Well I'm running out of time so I better rap this up, but everything is going good we are having a good time me and Elder Luce are going on team-ups with the zone leaders tomorrow, so that will be fun. Just for the day so that’s cool.

Oh man, someone stole Elder Luce's bike seat yesterday, pretty crazy huh? So we went to the bike shop and the cheapest one was 70 bucks, pretty lame! Well I've got 40 seconds left on the comp so I better go love you all!

Elder Dunn

The Right Way To Do Things

Yup pretty crazy about Obama. I have no clue about him or McCain. I'm totally in the dark on their ideas.

So ya we have a mtg with our Ward Mission Leader each week and go to the first part of PEC and give our weekly progress report so that is cool. It’s hard to get our ward missionaries to come to a lesson. Our WML is a really good guy. He is fairly new, only a few months with the calling and he is like 24. I think pretty young and he is recently married going to law school and works. So he is always really busy. But between all of that he tries to fulfill his calling, but it’s hard. So not too much advice. lol Sorry.

Ya the weather here has been beautiful, sunny and high 60's. But today it dropped and this week it might snow. Finally, so that’s cool. I'm ready for it, the only bummer is when there is snow on the ground the bikes and cars are parked, so it’s really less affective to walk around. It takes forever, especially for dinner cuz it can be out of our half of the ward, so like 50-60 blocks away. We will see how it goes and it’s really tough, unfortunately to find a ride from members.

I'm still in the same area, Crestmoor West, and I'm liking it. I would like to stay another transfer after this. And ya, Elder Pond, I love that kid! Ya we roomed together in the MTC. He is hilarious. We went to the temple this morning and him and Elder Bragg were in my session. I'm kinda jealous lol they are having a blast together. Two really cool cats. lol

But ya all is well here in Denver and I'm having fun and definitely working hard. Got to show my greenie the right way to do things. I like training a lot, even though it’s a struggle sometimes, but it makes me be the best I can and really push myself to be a good example, so its cool. I like it, I wouldn’t mind training my whole mission. lol Well I gotta go, we are going to play some bball love you all!Elder Dunn