Hola mis queridos!
Bueno, this is Elder Comte’s first change as a ZL, so he’s pumped to get out there and get the zone pumped as well. Unfortunately, it’s pretty slow going still, even though we’re working our butts off. We’re living with Elder Gage, who showed up in the end of September, with Elder Shumway, and now he’s training Elder Hill. I have no clue how Elders in other parts of the world (cough the states..) work all day long! Because everyone is just out in the street and you can talk to anyone, it’s just so easy to ‘get the numbers’ here. We’re having trouble getting the amazing people we have to progress right now though.
We have a couple main investigators right now. Juliana went to church on Sunday, to Stake Conference, and she’s way awesome, but her boyfriend, the guy she lives with, is an inactive member who smokes and drinks and doesn’t want anything to do with the church, and she knows she needs to get married or break up, and she doesn’t want to get married. I can’t blame her, I wouldn’t get married to her loser boyfriend either. She is young, only 20, so we’ll see what happens. What’s awesome about that though is that we’re activating this inactive girl with her, because we got her all excited and put her with the responsibility of being the friend of Juliana and making her feel comfortable in church. Her name is Cinthia, and she’s 18. We have another lady named Liz who is cool, planning on getting married to her less active husband and get baptized, and also Marisa, who is a stud and loves the church. Her sister loves it too, but she needs to get married and is planning on it, but it’ll be a little bit farther down the road. We still need to just find newer better people to teach, because we’re running thin right now.
That’s awesome that Cole is a stud! When is his baptism going to be? Is he getting super excited? I’m touched that he keeps all of my old photos, that’s pretty cool. But yeah, I got my Halloween package, and its awesome! I’m glad you’ll be heading down to PA for Thanksgiving. How’s Grandpap Jones doing? And tell Aunt Audrey I’m excited to see her in church to hear my talk haha.
But about schools, what does LDSBC offer? I was looking at it a little bit in the brochures that Haley sent me, and it really just doesn’t seem like it has anything that I’d like to do. I’ll take a look at it again though. It’s so hard to tell you what it is that I want to do over email, because it can’t be explained well in written words. I don’t even know how to describe it to myself what I want to do, I can just feel like the tip of what it is, but the ideas are still developing. Anyways, love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
PS Does Haley write Elder Adamson? If she does, tell him that I'll be on the lookout. Haha.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Oct 19, 2009
Hola, ¿qué tal?
So I’m still kickin it here in Yvera, but I got an amazing new companion, Elder Comte. He’s a stud, he’s a way funny guy and works hard, so I’m excited. He’s from Payson, Utah, so I got someone from the ‘Factory,’ as they call it. We worked hard this week, but we’re just having trouble finding more good investigators that will progress... we have a handful, but a couple of them aren’t all that secure just yet, but on Sunday I think the main problem some people didn’t get to church was the Daylight Savings Time. Down here we lost an hour because we’re in the spring time now, and like you were guessing, it’s starting to get hot. Its also cool because Elder Gage, who lives in the house with us, went up to senior companion and is training a greenie this change, Elder Hill. So our house just has a bunch of excitement and it’s interesting to see a brand new kid and his utter culture shock that we all have to go through when we show up hahaha.
Well, what’s gonna happen with this Summer thing at BYU? Are Haley and I just gonna be stuck in the dorms? Or would we be living together somewhere? Anyways, I get to see Pres Wade tomorrow so I’ll ask him about the application thing. And is Haley planning on going to the UVU come fall? Cause you mentioned she got in there or something. Welp, I guess I’m not too worried about it, and I just have to wait til next week to find out anyways, so whatevs.
Well, keep warm during those late night soccer games, and send that cool air down here if you can. I really don’t know what else to say, things keep going pretty normal, you know, the whole mission thing. Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
So I’m still kickin it here in Yvera, but I got an amazing new companion, Elder Comte. He’s a stud, he’s a way funny guy and works hard, so I’m excited. He’s from Payson, Utah, so I got someone from the ‘Factory,’ as they call it. We worked hard this week, but we’re just having trouble finding more good investigators that will progress... we have a handful, but a couple of them aren’t all that secure just yet, but on Sunday I think the main problem some people didn’t get to church was the Daylight Savings Time. Down here we lost an hour because we’re in the spring time now, and like you were guessing, it’s starting to get hot. Its also cool because Elder Gage, who lives in the house with us, went up to senior companion and is training a greenie this change, Elder Hill. So our house just has a bunch of excitement and it’s interesting to see a brand new kid and his utter culture shock that we all have to go through when we show up hahaha.
Well, what’s gonna happen with this Summer thing at BYU? Are Haley and I just gonna be stuck in the dorms? Or would we be living together somewhere? Anyways, I get to see Pres Wade tomorrow so I’ll ask him about the application thing. And is Haley planning on going to the UVU come fall? Cause you mentioned she got in there or something. Welp, I guess I’m not too worried about it, and I just have to wait til next week to find out anyways, so whatevs.
Well, keep warm during those late night soccer games, and send that cool air down here if you can. I really don’t know what else to say, things keep going pretty normal, you know, the whole mission thing. Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
Monday, October 12, 2009
Oct 12, 2009
Hey there family (and friends),
Tell Cole that I can’t wait to play fútbol with him when I get home, because I’m not gonna lie, I love playing soccer now. We play just about every week, and it’s a ton of fun. We gringos suck pretty bad, but I can keep up with the best of em... um... sometimes. But Hey, congrats for accomplishing the half marathon! Glad to hear that the two old folks are still keeping in shape. But yeah, I also got those pants, and they fit just fine, thanks so much for that, because I definitely needed it. I’m not gonna lie, I’m getting pretty fat... sooooo, yeah. But yeah, now I’m good for the rest of my mission. I think I might take one of my suit coats in to a fancy store and try and get some pants tailored up of the same kind of cloth, because man, those pants are wayyyy too tight. But you don’t have to worry too much about packages, you should just save up to spoil me when I get home :)
But wow. This starts my 14th transfer... I only have 3 more to go, and wow, I’m getting so old in the mission. I was thinking about that today, and I swear it still hasn’t hit me that I’m actually on my mission, but tomorrow is 20 months... WOW: I’m just bummin it in Paraguay and talking to people about Christ. And its amazing. I definitely wouldn’t call it the best two years of my life, but it is by far the best possible thing that a young man can do to prepare himself to be successful in life. I’ve changed so much, I can just walk up to a perfect stranger and talk to him about anything. And it’s in spanish. I was so shy before! By the way, I really hope you people can understand spanglish, because trying to speak straight english is literally impossible. The phone call home should be pretty interesting.
Alright, I guess I’ll answer your trunky questions though. First off, yeah, just go ahead and have me scheduled to talk that first week back to just get it out of the way, no point in procrastinating. Plus my accent might fade after a week in the states, and we can’t have that now can we? Haha As far as getting into the spring session, I’m sure Pres Wade will do whatever he needs to to help me get that all done, I’ll talk to him about it the next time I see him. I’m thinking if I need to, I can just go to UVU to get my grades up a little, because I know they were pretty low before. I bet that would be cheaper too than going to U of U, and once I get residency I can decide if I want to go there or if I want to try and transfer to BYU. I’m not gonna lie, I just want the cheapest solution to get things started off, and then once I get back to making some money and getting into the hang of things, we can see what happens.
Well, no changes information as of yet, so it looks like you’ll just have to wait til next week. Its almost certain I’ll be staying in the area and getting a new companion, but you never know. And tell Elder Wagner that being a ZL is way overrated. I just want to be a beetle. Now that’s deep doctrine right there. Who says I haven’t learn anything in two years? Hahaha. (The Savior’s Atonement, by W. Cleon Skousen). Oh, and if you can find that in English you should totally send it to me, I only have it in Spanish.
Love you all,
Elder Dennis
Tell Cole that I can’t wait to play fútbol with him when I get home, because I’m not gonna lie, I love playing soccer now. We play just about every week, and it’s a ton of fun. We gringos suck pretty bad, but I can keep up with the best of em... um... sometimes. But Hey, congrats for accomplishing the half marathon! Glad to hear that the two old folks are still keeping in shape. But yeah, I also got those pants, and they fit just fine, thanks so much for that, because I definitely needed it. I’m not gonna lie, I’m getting pretty fat... sooooo, yeah. But yeah, now I’m good for the rest of my mission. I think I might take one of my suit coats in to a fancy store and try and get some pants tailored up of the same kind of cloth, because man, those pants are wayyyy too tight. But you don’t have to worry too much about packages, you should just save up to spoil me when I get home :)
But wow. This starts my 14th transfer... I only have 3 more to go, and wow, I’m getting so old in the mission. I was thinking about that today, and I swear it still hasn’t hit me that I’m actually on my mission, but tomorrow is 20 months... WOW: I’m just bummin it in Paraguay and talking to people about Christ. And its amazing. I definitely wouldn’t call it the best two years of my life, but it is by far the best possible thing that a young man can do to prepare himself to be successful in life. I’ve changed so much, I can just walk up to a perfect stranger and talk to him about anything. And it’s in spanish. I was so shy before! By the way, I really hope you people can understand spanglish, because trying to speak straight english is literally impossible. The phone call home should be pretty interesting.
Alright, I guess I’ll answer your trunky questions though. First off, yeah, just go ahead and have me scheduled to talk that first week back to just get it out of the way, no point in procrastinating. Plus my accent might fade after a week in the states, and we can’t have that now can we? Haha As far as getting into the spring session, I’m sure Pres Wade will do whatever he needs to to help me get that all done, I’ll talk to him about it the next time I see him. I’m thinking if I need to, I can just go to UVU to get my grades up a little, because I know they were pretty low before. I bet that would be cheaper too than going to U of U, and once I get residency I can decide if I want to go there or if I want to try and transfer to BYU. I’m not gonna lie, I just want the cheapest solution to get things started off, and then once I get back to making some money and getting into the hang of things, we can see what happens.
Well, no changes information as of yet, so it looks like you’ll just have to wait til next week. Its almost certain I’ll be staying in the area and getting a new companion, but you never know. And tell Elder Wagner that being a ZL is way overrated. I just want to be a beetle. Now that’s deep doctrine right there. Who says I haven’t learn anything in two years? Hahaha. (The Savior’s Atonement, by W. Cleon Skousen). Oh, and if you can find that in English you should totally send it to me, I only have it in Spanish.
Love you all,
Elder Dennis
Monday, October 5, 2009
Oct 5, 2009
Alright folks, how’s it going?
I’m excited right now, because we had a great week of work last week, and General Conference was awesome, getting to hear the powerful testimonies of some of the most amazing leaders of the Church. I got jipped during the Priesthood session though, because I showed up late and missed the first talk, and it wasn’t in English, so I had to listen to it in Spanish. Now there’s nothing wrong with that, because I understand just fine, but man, it just does not have the same feeling as getting to hear it come straight from the mouth of the person speaking, its just some translator who is trying to keep up and get the grammar right, and it just looses all spiritual power. I heard the first talk was amazing though, about a father and son, and I’m really sad I missed it. I don’t have my notes with me right now, but there was one talk that I just loved that talked about teaching… it was by an unknown-to-me Seventy, and I forget his name at the moment. Well, they were all gold, if you know what I mean.
Okay, pancakes with that syrup mix that you sent me is AMAZING! We ate pancakes on Saturday and Sunday, and then today at a ZL Council with President Wade, Sister Wade cooked us all up pancakes as well… but I gotta admit it, her sauce just wasn’t as good as mine. If you throw some bananas in there, mmmmm! So this week we’re planning on cooking up some more French toast or something… I like this actually cooking thing, I’ve been doing a lot more of it lately.
Well, that one kid’s name is actually Manuel… we were kind of confused about that until we did up the Baptismal Register and asked him about it… so that was kind of embarrassing. But yeah, he’s still doing well. Enrique is a total stud, we’re gonna get him to bless the Sacrament this coming week. And Eddy is getting ready, he already has his papers that he’s filling out for the mission, and come January, he’ll be able to take off on a brand new journey. Everyone I talk to out there just mentions how awesome he is, so I’m excited. I haven’t gotten to talk to him in awhile, but I might try to get a hold of him here pretty soon.
Well, yesterday marked eight months as a zone leader… and next week I hit twenty months in the mission. Some would say I’m getting old, but I swear my receding hair line begs to differ… er… oh man, I guess I AM getting old! Not Cool! But yeah, there’s almost guaranteed a ton of changes this coming transfer, because there’s like twenty new kids who are going to be showing up, and the mission is going to have to open up like ten new areas. So everything is just gonna get all flipped around. But hey, you guys mentioned some kid who’ll be getting down here to Paraguay in November… what’s his name? We already have the papers with the names of all the newbies who will be showing up. Oh, and guess what my grandkid’s name is... Sorensen… Yup, that’s right. I still haven’t met him yet though.
But I’m glad the family is still working hard in the mission work, is Mark the one who was in the Navy? If not, I don’t know who it is… I have been out of the house for a year and 7 and a half months now, that’s quite a long time. But the fact that the Jessee’s are home is soooo trunky. I was with them in the MTC! That’s so not cool. Tell them I say hi and that I’m still working hard… most of the time. Nah, just kidding, I’m so flippin tired but the last 5 minutes of the game are the most important. Plus I’m a captain, and I gotta get out there and go crazy right now to fire up the team.
But some trunky talk… maybe you should start the papers for BYU as well… because I’ve been thinking a lot lately, and its so cheap, has great programs and reputation, but I don’t think I’ll get in right away, but just to see. UVU is looking to be the little community school back up if I can’t get into BYU or the U. I was thinking a lot about Arizona, but I feel like I should go to Utah all-in-all. I don’t know, I’m still so confused, but the Lord is helping me decide line upon line, precept upon precept.
Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
PS How are my teams doing?
I’m excited right now, because we had a great week of work last week, and General Conference was awesome, getting to hear the powerful testimonies of some of the most amazing leaders of the Church. I got jipped during the Priesthood session though, because I showed up late and missed the first talk, and it wasn’t in English, so I had to listen to it in Spanish. Now there’s nothing wrong with that, because I understand just fine, but man, it just does not have the same feeling as getting to hear it come straight from the mouth of the person speaking, its just some translator who is trying to keep up and get the grammar right, and it just looses all spiritual power. I heard the first talk was amazing though, about a father and son, and I’m really sad I missed it. I don’t have my notes with me right now, but there was one talk that I just loved that talked about teaching… it was by an unknown-to-me Seventy, and I forget his name at the moment. Well, they were all gold, if you know what I mean.
Okay, pancakes with that syrup mix that you sent me is AMAZING! We ate pancakes on Saturday and Sunday, and then today at a ZL Council with President Wade, Sister Wade cooked us all up pancakes as well… but I gotta admit it, her sauce just wasn’t as good as mine. If you throw some bananas in there, mmmmm! So this week we’re planning on cooking up some more French toast or something… I like this actually cooking thing, I’ve been doing a lot more of it lately.
Well, that one kid’s name is actually Manuel… we were kind of confused about that until we did up the Baptismal Register and asked him about it… so that was kind of embarrassing. But yeah, he’s still doing well. Enrique is a total stud, we’re gonna get him to bless the Sacrament this coming week. And Eddy is getting ready, he already has his papers that he’s filling out for the mission, and come January, he’ll be able to take off on a brand new journey. Everyone I talk to out there just mentions how awesome he is, so I’m excited. I haven’t gotten to talk to him in awhile, but I might try to get a hold of him here pretty soon.
Well, yesterday marked eight months as a zone leader… and next week I hit twenty months in the mission. Some would say I’m getting old, but I swear my receding hair line begs to differ… er… oh man, I guess I AM getting old! Not Cool! But yeah, there’s almost guaranteed a ton of changes this coming transfer, because there’s like twenty new kids who are going to be showing up, and the mission is going to have to open up like ten new areas. So everything is just gonna get all flipped around. But hey, you guys mentioned some kid who’ll be getting down here to Paraguay in November… what’s his name? We already have the papers with the names of all the newbies who will be showing up. Oh, and guess what my grandkid’s name is... Sorensen… Yup, that’s right. I still haven’t met him yet though.
But I’m glad the family is still working hard in the mission work, is Mark the one who was in the Navy? If not, I don’t know who it is… I have been out of the house for a year and 7 and a half months now, that’s quite a long time. But the fact that the Jessee’s are home is soooo trunky. I was with them in the MTC! That’s so not cool. Tell them I say hi and that I’m still working hard… most of the time. Nah, just kidding, I’m so flippin tired but the last 5 minutes of the game are the most important. Plus I’m a captain, and I gotta get out there and go crazy right now to fire up the team.
But some trunky talk… maybe you should start the papers for BYU as well… because I’ve been thinking a lot lately, and its so cheap, has great programs and reputation, but I don’t think I’ll get in right away, but just to see. UVU is looking to be the little community school back up if I can’t get into BYU or the U. I was thinking a lot about Arizona, but I feel like I should go to Utah all-in-all. I don’t know, I’m still so confused, but the Lord is helping me decide line upon line, precept upon precept.
Love ya lots,
Elder Dennis
PS How are my teams doing?
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