Wicked in Common

Hey there family, so ya things are going good here as usual. Ya I didn’t get your email last week mom, so ya I just read it. That sounds fun about you and Clara going to see Wicked. I was just talking to a lady the other day about that. We actually were tracting this apartment complex and saw some people loading up a big moving trailer, so we offered to help them. Anyways, she had a Wicked poster signed by the cast and I told her about how I went and saw it and going into the show I wasn’t too excited about it, but I had three sisters that really wanted to go. So I was like ok whatever lol and then came out thinking it was way awesome so ya that was cool. It was neat to help her out too. She was definitely short handed and afterwards she took us to Applebees! Yum and we got to discuss the gospel with her and hooked her up with the missionaries in the town she was moving to, so they could help her unload everything. It was neat.

But anyways, it sounds like you guys are all staying busy! That’s good, me too. lol Elder Larmouth isn’t totally over it but he is good enough to go out and work, so that is cool.

Oh man did I tell you about my bike? lol So me and my comp decided to "murder out" our bikes, meaning black on black. lol So we took everything apart, like down to just the frame of the bike during lunch and stuff then sanded down our frame and bought some flat black spray paint. lol So ya it looks pretty sweet. lol Everything is black. I’ll have to show you a picture. Sorry dad lol I know you don’t really like flat black lol. But anyways that was fun.

Things are good with the work, we have a baptism this Sunday, and so that is cool and hopefully one shortly after that. So things are good. Well I better get going. Sorry I’m short on time today we are going to a Rockies game so that’s should be fun. But I love you all! Have a good week!

Elder Dunn

Catch-Up April Letters

April 22, 2009

Hey there, yup back in Denver. Elder Bragg is a zone leader now, I don’t know if you heard, so that’s pretty cool. But the area is pretty good; I’m still trying to figure it out. Last week was stake conference, which was really good. But I have only been to Sacrament once and the bishop wasn’t there when I went, but I met him at stake conf. But I didn’t even know he was the bishop till after talking to him lol.

My comp has been sick! It has been way lame so we have been in the house since like Saturday! I was going crazy just sitting in the house all day for that long. He is just starting to get better today. So that is good, man I’ve listened to so many talks and read so much scriptures lol but I’m definitely ready to get out of the house lol.

So ya I will get to go to the temple the first Wednesday of the month so that will be really cool, I missed that from just the 3 months I was out west.

One thing we have done to make investigators feel welcomed, was just introduced the investigator to everyone at church, just everyone that walks by grab them and say, hey have you met our investigator, Soandso this is Bro. Jenson and kinda force the ward to get to know them and then hopefully by doing that they will meet someone that shares some interests and will be a good fellowshipper, but ya that is tough.

Oh remember the Margaritas that I was teaching? Well they are getting baptized and asked me to give a talk at the baptism since I’m so close, so that is cool! I will get to go to that, they are way awesome! Did I tell you they sent me a package when I was out west with a whole bunch of Mexican candy and a really nice note thanking me for bringing them the gospel? It was really cool, they are awesome. Well I better get going things are going good, have a good week!

Elder Dunn



April 15, 2009

Well hello there family! So I totally got transferred, I’m back in Denver! k so I was in the Crestmoor ward when I was in Denver and now I’m in the Bible Park ward, which is just south of Crestmoor. We boarder the Crestmoor ward so its kinda crazy, I’m like back in the same spot and so its cool cuz I know my way around and everything. It’s kinda weird to be back here again. So and there was a family in the Crestmoor ward I think I talked a little about them, the Browns, they are way cool and so I am now living with their parents. So I live with the browns if that makes sense. So the Browns that I know came over and said hi and stuff it was cool. So but the Browns that I live with are like in there 60s or so and they are real cool and the best thing is they buy us food! We just get to eat whatever we want and there is always food in their house and free laundry! Cool huh! So ya they’re cool and my companion is Elder Larmouth he is from Snowflake Arizona and we are brothers! lol He was trained by Elder Craft too. Pretty cool lol. He is fun. We are on bikes here and he likes to bike and I do to so we are always finding cool jumps and stuff its cool.

K so ya, I saw that I missed the package when they tried to deliver it, but after I left they got it for me and they zl's that I lived with had to come down to Denver for ZLC's (zone leader conference) so I told them to bring it for me and then they gave it to my new zls and they gave it to me last night so I got it! Oh man and it was Bevans that signed not Evans he was my mtc companion. He lives in my old place now so ya. Kinda fun. So ya man thanks so much it’s so nice! It’s not the like brown stripped one I thought it was gonna be. But it fits perfect and ya lol cuz my other black one that I have had since I was like 17 is like way nasty looking and uhhh on Thursday my first night here E. Larmouth made me jump a fence and I totally caught my blue suit pants on the suit and ripped like a 6 inch hole in the knee sooo ya lol. Wow and that is way crazy about tax returns. That’s sweet. Thanks :) well I better get going but thanks for the suit all the Moose Munch is already gone too lol love you all!

Elder Dunn
6625 E. Louisiana
Denver,CO 80224


April 8 2009

Hey Grand Junction is doing good, I think it is finally spring, it has been really nice like high fifties its beautiful, lol

k so I have been in Grand Junction for two transfers now so when I got here I was with Elder Qaravanua, then he got transferred and I am with Elder Welch, now and the transfer is over now, so I just found out last night that I’m getting transferred! So I need to pack my bags and I leave Thursday morning. So ya pretty crazy stuff, we will see where I go now if I stay out west or if they send me back to metro. So ya does all that make sense now? lol

Man that’s crazy about Elder Phillips. I’m surprised he recognized you lol that’s crazy fun stuff.

So ya I got to see all the sessions, what? no fair you had the missionaries over for crepes! psh we weren’t aloud to go over to members houses to watch it. We had to go to the stake center. But ya conference was way good I enjoyed it a lot. I love listening to Elder Holland speak, I love how emotional he is, like he really means what he is saying. I really liked Elder Uchtdorfs talk in priesthood too. He is another one that is really easy to listen to, but it was all very good.

Well I’m kinda excited to get transferred. I like the area alot the ward is really awesome, but it will be fun to meet new people I kinda like that feeling of like being lost and not knowing were anything is and get to know the area and all the people. Well I’d better get going, I gotta pack! Blah by far my least favorite thing about transfers is packing. Well I’ll let you know were I end up and my new address and everything. Hope your all hanging in there and hope you know I love you all. Have a good week!

Elder Dunn


April 1, 2009


Hey there family, sorry about last week we didn’t have much time on the computer and I had alot to say in my presidents letter so ya. Well sounds like you had fun in Utah that’s cool. The weather here has been way weird too, it will randomly snow its crazy lol you never know what to expect. But ya hav

So ya my comp right now is Elder Welch. He is from Vegas lol so he drives on the same side of the road as us I think. lol jk So transfers is this next Thursday like the 6th I think, so that is crazy I’m thinking me and Elder Welch will both stay but idk we will see.

Oh ya I sent Britt a letter and wrote the whole thing with my left hand cuz I "broke" my right arm. It was pretty cool. It’s way hard to write with my left hand lol.

So is winter pretty much done over there? I think it should be wrapping up here soon, but ya no flowers are out yet here, lol and uh I’m not to sure if there are the same trees here I don’t really notice I guess but I do remember in the fall all the awesome colors which we do have in Medford so ya. Well ya things are still going good. We have a pretty decent teaching pool right now lots of re-activating in this ward. But things are going good, that’s still crazy Clara is driving that’s weird lol. Well I hope you’re all doing good and know that I love you! Have a good week!

Elder Dunn

Full Sunday

Hey there! Sounds like you’re all doing good and keeping busy. Dang that is so crazy, Clara is 16, and still crazy that Syd is 14, dang is that right? Man. Time flies when you’re having fun. I hit my 8 month mark on Monday, that means I’m 1/3 of the way done. It’s so crazy, it feels like I just got here last month. It makes me realize how fast time goes and how short my time here in Colorado really is, and that I need to do my best and make every minute worth while so I can look back on my mission without any regrets.

Anyways, sounds like your way busy mom and that’s cool, it’s good to get food dropped off every once in a while for dinner. Dang I haven’t had Chinese in forever.

So me and Elder Welch are doing good, we get along great. He is super sarcastic like me, lol so its fun. Today is his b-day, he is 20, so we are celebrating by going to Chickfillet. lol Pretty fancy huh? lol


Oh, so on Sunday me and Elder Welch spoke. We were supposed to speak with this guy Travis that is going to Denmark on his mission he is really cool, I like him a lot. So it was suppose to be his farewell. He was supposed to go into the MTC today but on Friday he got a call from Salt Lake saying he doesn’t report to the MTC till May 13. So he has to wait like 9 more weeks. Isn’t that a bummer! They didn’t say why either, so now he is just chillen. So we were supposed to speak with him, but since he didn’t leave, it was just me and Elder Welch! And of course they didn’t let us know we had to fill the whole time until after PEC, with about 20 mins till sacrament. lol So that was cool, but it went really well. I enjoyed speaking. I spoke on prayer, it was cool. lol Then we had to teach the Gospel Essentials class that day too. lol So it was a fun Sunday.

Well everything is going good here in Junction. I’m staying busy of course. Hope you’re all hanging in there and have a good week!

Elder Dunn

Answer to Prayer

Hey there! Well not a lot new here in the GJ5th Ward things are still going good. I got my new comp, his name is Elder Welch. He is from Las Vegas. He has been out about five months. He is a good kid and good missionary; he is really goofy like me so we get along great, so that is good.

But let’s see, so it was really cool, on Monday Elder Welch and I were riding our bikes to go tracting and this truck was pulled over and these two Mexican guys were there and they were like telling us to stop. One guy about my age was like really excited to see us and you could tell he really wanted to just talk with us but he didn’t know English and lol I don’t know Spanish. But he told us he is Mormon and just moved here from Mexico and didn’t know where the church was around here. It was funny and he was talking to someone on the phone, in Mexico I think, and he was like here she is Mormon too, say hi. lol So we were like uh hi lol to the phone. But anyways, so I gave him the phone number to the Spanish Elders in our area and told him to call them and then we went on our way. But then the next day I talked to the Spanish Elders and asked if they got a call from him and they were like oh that was you, ya. I guess the guy from Mexico has been trying to find the church here but didn’t know where it was, so the night before he ran into us he knelt down and said a prayer, asking our Heavenly Father to lead him to the church or help him find it, and the next day he finds us. He is 20 and preparing to serve a mission. It was really awesome to be an answer to someone else’s prayer, its amazing how the Lord uses us as a tool to bless others. Well I better get going. I love you all and hope you’re all doing good!

LoveElder Dunn

First Baptismal Interview

Hey there family! Well, so we got our transfer calls last night. Elder Qaravanua is getting transferred and I am staying here, so I will get a new companion tomorrow pretty crazy stuff. I will still be the district leader, so that’s cool too, I like doing that. Last night I had the opportunity to give my first baptismal interview, so that was a cool experience. Oh man, so we will see if I get a car tomorrow or not lol. I’m kinda doubting I will get one but I don’t know we will see, if not its cool cuz the weather has been awesome the last couple of days. There is a number you can call and put in your zip code and they tell you the weather, so I always check it here to see what to expect and I always check Medford just to see how it is there, and it sounds like it’s usually about the same. It has been sunny, clear skies and like 50's so ya its perfect weather to bike and tract and all that in so that’s pretty cool.

It was fun yesterday, me and Elder Q had the chance to go out with this guy named Travis, he reports to the MTC in two weeks. He is going to Denmark, pretty cool, so he spent a few hours with us tracting and checking on potentials and stuff, it was really cool to have him there and to see him getting all excited and nervous. It was fun.

So ya with the apartment, its like I try to get it clean and like I will do all the dishes in the sink that is like way over flowing and then unload the dishwasher and tell the elders to “load as you go” lol but of course they don’t! lol So it just piles up again, but ya it kinda gets to the point of why even try. lol But since it is transfers this week we got it all looking good, so we will see how long it lasts. lol

But anyways things are going good here, excited to meet my new comp. But I better get going, Elder Q has lots to pack. I love you all very much. Hope you’re all doing good!

Elder Dunn

Great Learning Experience

Hey, so nope, no sign of a car yet, but transfers are this next Thursday so I will know then. So ya this transfer went by way fast! It’s crazy! So this is the end of my 5th transfer pretty crazy. There are 17 transfers in the two years. Craziness. But I’m really enjoying being on a mission. It’s fun and hard work, but a great learning experience and a wonderful opportunity to further my own personal knowledge of the gospel. So ya district meetings are fun, well a recent thing we have been talking alot about and trying to focus more on is L. Tom Perry gave a training to mission presidents and said every companionship should be having 20 sit down lessons a week so that is a goal we are trying to hit, whether it’s with members, less actives or investigators. So we discuss different ways to make that happen. That’s about three formal lessons a day, it’s pretty tough. This last week we had 15 and that felt like a lot, but its going really well.

So ya I basically just email you guys and Britt each week so that’s all :) I know sorry I haven’t sent pictures yet, I bought a new sd card so I will be sending your pics this week for sure!

But I don’t think I have gained any weight yet. I go between 135 and 140 and lol I don’t know if I have grown lol. Let’s see my favorite meal I cook, well its normally cereal or instant oatmeal for breakfast and pb&j or top roman. I bought some hot pockets last week so that was a treat lol. Oh man and I got mom’s package on Valentine day that was awesome thanks so much. Oh man I can’t believe you remembered about that dip stuff and wheat thins, that is so good! Dang! lol Thanks.

That’s crazy about Bear Creek, the main job here is in the oil field, like that’s what keeps this town going and there have been alot of people getting laid off. It’s hitting this town pretty hard.

Oh soooo, a new mission rule… we are a suit mission now, so suits all the time, lessons, church, tracting, everything sooo lol I think I need that other suit. Do you still have that one brown one? I have the blue one I wear all the time and the black one but I think I have only worn the black one like twice but that would be cool if you could send that. Well I better get going. Sounds like you’re all doing good. Love you all.

Elder Dunn

Work still Progressing

Hey there! Sounds like you’re all doing good and staying busy! That’s way cool mom about the sprint triathlon, that would be way intense, that sounds hard. So ya transfers are coming up on the like Feb 26, I think and president said we would be getting a car here in this area, so we will see if that prophecy comes true. lol and if I’m still here. So that will be way weird to have a car. lol

And no it doesn’t bother me if you call me coop lol its fine. That’s cool about the landscape design class, that sounds fun. Dang I can’t believe you guys haven’t gone skiing yet, man I sure would love to go lol. Oh hey, I had a few questions about Medford that people keep asking me and I don’t really know the answers lol. So how big is Medford, what’s the population, and how much rain does it get a year? Like inches and stuff lol cuz everyone that asks about Medford those are the two things they ask. lol So usually I just make up some numbers.

But everything is going good here in Grand Junction. The weather has been kinda weird the last couple of days its been sunny and low 50’s but the last two days there has been like 15 minutes of crazy wind and snow it’s weird, and not very fun to bike in.

But anyways the work is still progressing here we have a couple people that are progressing and I think are almost ready for baptism so that is good. The ward here is good, I like it, and it’s crazy its only 2 weeks till transfers again. It went really fast and I have been out 7 months now way crazy! Well I better get going, at 3:30 I guess we are going to play rugby with the Mesa State(local college) team so that should be interesting. lol I love you all.

Elder Dunn