Taylor - June 20, 2016

Hey Family,

Haha oh mother your letter made me laugh! I knew you would hit this point ;) It is pretty crazy to think about coming home. In fact I can't really imagine myself getting home so ya. As far as specific food dishes, whatever you want to make mom is fine with me. Sounds like the Robert’s reception was pretty fun. I'm glad all went well! As well as Happy Father's Day to Dad and Grandpa!! You guys are the best!

Well this week we found Laura and Adam, a couple who are having a few struggles mainly because he has bipolar disorder and that is really hard on her and the 3 kids. They are both pretty strong 7th day adventists though but super open as well. Laura wants to really continue to find truth and is excited about reading the Book of Mormon as well as her husband Adam. The big thing will be getting them to take work off Sunday and helping them come to remember and grow closer to God every day but especially Sunday!

We found a few other potentials but they kept falling through so we need to make sure we are bold with return appointments! As well we want to really apply the training we received from the AP's especially about faith. We need to have faith that we will find those who are ready to receive us no matter the circumstances!

I went on an exchange with elder keith this week. He is a funny guy but a good missionary and just wants to do what's right. We taught Julie and she is super cool and loves the aspect of the family and how they can be together forever! This week as well we just found a lot of people who are just complacent, either with their church or the way they choose to worship God, or they are where they feel comfortable, or they feel their way is God's way. Not really open minded. It can just be sooo confusing and I'm glad that I was born in a great family and raised in the gospel. It would be so tough sometimes without that.

I do have a big testimony of being a follower. A follower of our Savior Jesus Christ. I'm planning on talking about it a little in my training this week but as we follow Jesus Christ and His example in our life, we can be great leaders to everyone! We can help them follow His example. I'm convinced that Jesus Christ was such a great leader because he was such a great follower of His Heavenly Father! I'm thankful for the many examples in my life, especially of my Savior! I love you guys, stay safe and have a great week! :)

Elder Dunn

Holli - June 20, 2016

Hello Everyone!

This week was pretty epic!

So we met this super sweet lady named Jennifer the other day. It got

up to like 100 and we were walking down this road and we look to the

side and there's Jennifer with her baby in a stroller, rocking him in

the shade. Perfect contact situation! So we started talking with

Jennifer and then we told her who we were and what we taught and asked

if she would be interested in learning more. At first she was 

hesitant, didn't really want to meet, but as we continued to talk with

her she said that she felt like we were supposed to meet. 

She told us she just really needed to talk with someone and she wanted

to raise her son to believe in God, even though she wasn't super

religious. Please pray for Jennifer as we meet with her his week!!

On Tuesday we had exchanges and man it was fun! Sister Huang (who was

my previous comp. for like a week) came here to Glendale and we

contacted up a storm! And we contacted this super interesting guy

named Mark. So kind of a funny story. We were walking down the road

and saw Mark had gotten into some kind of car accident. Sister Huang

asked him what had happened and he started unloading to us a bit. He

told us his family had been practicing witchcraft against him so we

tried to give him a few words of encouragement (as we shuffled

backwards). Sister Huang asked him if he had heard of the BofM and he

had but he only believed what the bible said. But he gave us his

number and Sister Huang invited him to pray about meeting with us

again.

So later that night we are sitting in the car getting ready to go by a

referral when Mark calls and he told us he felt like he should call

us. We were like, Sweet! But then he kind of goes on for a while about

his life and things he's done and how he was "saved" and what he does

now and it got slightly creepy. He ended up talking to us for an hour

and we finally had to hang up and plan for the night after setting up

a return appointment. Then the day of the appointment he calls us and

kind of does a repeat of the other night - we asked if he had prayed

and asked Heavenly Father if he should read the BofM and he said he

had prayed and God had told him not to read it . . . So we were like,

if you don't want to read the BofM, why do you still want to meet with

us? And he told us he wanted to make sure we weren't being fooled or

tricked. Kind of a frustrating phone call - but life goes on! So we

picked up and dropped an investigator in three days :) super fun.

It was our last lesson with April this week! Heriberto and Connie helped 

us out and the lesson was focused around service. April will be baptized 

in her mother’s Ward, which is in the LA mission, on July 10th so we are really

excited for her. Please pray for Eddie and Connie! Eddie doesn't seem

like he wants to come back but they are such a wonderful family and we

know Connie felt the Spirit as we taught April.

The stake is putting on a play : Alice in Wonderland! The music was

written by a couple in our Ward and they direct the play as well. We

are so excited for it - and we were able to go help out a  bit so that

was fun! Mainly just used our hot glue gunning skills and glued

leaves together but it was a blast!

Haha, we had to teach YW again and it was on the priesthood and there 

was like 5 girls this time and two were visiting. But it went all right! We 

had the girls do a role play with their leaders and they did a great job!  

You don’t realize how hard it might be to explain something about the 

church, until you try to role play it! Invitation for the fam - try to role play 

explaining the priesthood to a nonmember - it’s kind of fun! Hint: don’t over 

complicate it!

We tried by a referral one night and I don't think it was his actual

home, so we decided to knock the neighbor's and we met Sylvia. She was

a staunch born again Christian - only believed in the bible - so we

asked if she knew anyone who had lost a loved one recently or was

going through a hard time that would appreciate a message of comfort

and peace. Turns out her husband passed away about three weeks ago and

we talked with her for quite a while.  I just want to express my gratitude for the

knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. It not only allows those who never

had a chance to hear of Christ come to know of him but it offers so

much more hope and peace and motivation to live like our Savior. I'm

so glad that we know what we are being saved for - exaltation and

eternal life with our Savior and our Heavenly Father.

We kind of got attacked by a dog this week - not too many battle

wounds but mom I was wearing that super cute Easter outfit you gave me

and the dog tore a hole right in the skirt and the cardigan. Sorry!!! I might 

be sending that back with the journal . . .

That's about it from here in Glendale! I hope you are all doing well

and hope you have a wonderful week!

Love, Sister Dunn

Lindsay - June 20, 2016

Asia's Baptism!

I cut my hair!  Bangs!!!!!

Hello Everyone!

Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing fathers out there! This week was really good, and I learned a lot! On Wednesday we had an awesome zone meeting! We talked a lot about family history, and then the zone leaders talked about leadership, and how a lot of missionaries will be going home, so all of us young missionaries will be put into leadership positions! Talk about pressure!! Haha! After the meeting we went to this really nice Chinese restaurant. Oh my

lanta the portion sizes were ginormous! Later that day we went and

taught Avery. He is 8, and is getting ready for baptism. He has been

coming to church these past couple weeks, and we are so grateful for

that! Avery hadn't been coming to church, and so we are glad that he

is coming every week! We went over a few of the baptismal interview

questions with him, and he did so well! He understands the things that

we teach him, but he struggles with remembering it:) But he is

progressing, which is really good! 

We had an amazing day on Thursday! The Spirit was definitely prompting me to go tracting! I am not fond of tracting but the Lord was persistent with me:) And so

was Sister Hunt! So we decided to contact this one less active, and

then knock on the neighbors doors to see if they knew the less active.

We knocked on this one door, and a guy named Lorenzo opened the door.

We talked to him about the Book of Mormon, and he told us that he had

a faith in Christ. We asked him if he was interested in learning more

and he (to my astonishment), said yes!!!! Ahhhhhhh! That NEVER happens!

What a miracle it was to have an experience like that! The Lord truly blessed us when we followed the Spirit.

Later that night we went to see the Miranda's. They are an awesome

family that we had dinner with a week or two ago. They are all

converts, and they all have strong testimonies. But it is hard for

them to come to church consistently. We shared the story of Elijah and

the widow of Zarephath. We talked about sacrifice and faith, and the

blessings that come from exercising our faith, and doing what God

wants us to do. 

On Friday, we did some weekly planning, and we taught

David who is a returning member. His friend Kolton came to the lesson,

and we talked about missionary work. At the end of the lesson, we

challenged them to give out a Book of Mormon to someone. They were

really excited about the challenge! 

On Saturday we had Asia’s baptism! She is the happiest person you will ever meet. Even when she is mad she will say with a big grin on her face, “It makes me so angry!" And then she will start laughing. She is amazing! Her testimony is strong,

and she will bless the lives of everyone around her. Sorry the letter

is so short this week! I love you all!

Sincerely,

Sister Dunn

Chelsea - June 20, 2016

Nanay Ramel and Nanay Rosette!

Remy at her baptism!

President and Sister Rahlf!

Jamaica!

Hello everyone!

I would call this week sick week take 2! On Thursday, we had to come home from work early because sister elix's fever came back. Haha I thought she was literally having a heat stroke because the day was sooo hot and I was like oh no, she’s gonna pass out and we are literally in the middle of nowhere and we have no texts or calls on our phone! Haha but she made it home and from Thursday-Saturday we were at the house. We then went to Cauayan on Saturday and she was able to go to the hospital there. On Sunday, I was the one to get sick, so ya…. definitely not a fun week.... but Sister Elix and I are both feeling better today!

On Tuesday, we were able to attend a special district conference. This would be the last time President and Sister Rahlf would teach! They talked in depth about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It was such a good conference and my perspective totally changed about the Atonement. I definitely see it as more sacred now. At the end, they also showed a video with Jeffrey R. Holland speaking. What he said really touched me. Basically he was saying why is missionary work tough? Why do we do we get rejected all the time? Why don’t our investigators get it and progress faster than we want? He said because salvation is not a cheap thing. And as we experience challenges and rejections as a missionary, we get a little taste of what Jesus Christ went through when he was on the earth and paid for our sins. We come shoulder to shoulder with Jesus Christ. I love that! It’s great right?! Definitely inspired me.

We had a cool experience on Thursday. We were planning on going to our area, San Isidro. Then our tricie broke down and we got off in our other area, Marana. I was like, well sister elix, that’s probably a sign from God that we should work here! And she was like ok let’s go! So we totally worked in Marana! and we got punted..... I was like never mind… that wasn't a sign from God! haha. But then we both felt inspired to go to this one member, Lolita. She is probably the poorest lady. She lives in this tiny bedroom. and next door is her children but they don’t even care about her. She earns her money from going house to house and collecting plastic bottles. As we shared with her, she just started to open up to us about why her life has to be so hard. She doesn’t feel loved or wanted and she never has anyone to talk to... So Sister Elix and I were able to share about God's love for her and our love for her. We shared about challenges and trials and how to become strong through them. Man, I admire these people here. My challenges are nothing compared to theirs so I am so grateful I get to see this other perspective. Anyways, a really good experience and testimony builder that God is very much a part of this work.

Haha so on saturday sister elix and I went to the mission home and we had to wait there until 1 for her appointment and so we got to study in air con and on couches! It was the best… then sister rahlf served us apples and that cream cheese dip. Ahhhh I died. Then she invited us to join them for lunch. Elder Swenson’s parents had come from America to pick him up and president and sister rahlf hosted a lunch for them. And I can proudly say that I got down a chicken salad sandwich. So grosss… yep my tastebuds are the same people! haha. But it was so funny cause Elder swenson’s mom is hilarious and it was so nice to listen to american humor again! And then oh my goodness we witnessed their little reunion. We were all just sitting at the table and then elder swenson comes in and he and his mom hug for like a minute and I felt like I was so intruding! Haha elder antenorcruz, the ap, he was like crying! We then went to sm mall and bought dunkin donuts and it was the best thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. That is all. haha.

Anyways, that’s what’s up this week! I am getting transferred on Wednesday! Prayers would be great! Love you all :)

Sister Dunn

People have to be taught how to use the toilet here...

Ubando Family

Eating chicken intestine!

Holli - June 13, 2016

Baptism of Angie and the Barragan girls!

Hello Everyone!!

First of all I want to wish the best dad in the entire world a Happy

Father's Day :) I hope you have a wonderful day dad!

At stake conference last week we sat by a member (Sister Sheffield)

and before conference had started she leaned over and asked me "So

what do you do if you invited someone to church and forgot that it was

stake conference this week?"

Haha, she had seen an elderly couple walking near our church building,

looking intently at it, and as she walked past them she encouraged

them to go to church and told them services started every Sunday

around 9am and then she sped off. It wasn't until later that she

realized it was stake conference which would be held at a different

building and a different time. We just laughed though and encouraged

her to continue to invite people to church! 

So we had a lot of cancellations this week but one night we asked a

member to come with us and we ended up trying to contact a referral

and the referral's girlfriend was home so we got to speak with her.

She was a really sweet girl and told us we could come back and share a

message so we will do that!

So Sister Walker (the one we gave a gratitude journal to) seems to be doing a little better this week. So usually our lessons kind of go like, she talks, we listen, and try to jump in occasionally to share a scripture while she breathes, and then she talks some more.  So everytime we go over now we open her gratitude journal and write five things that we’re each thankful for. She told us she would never use the journal. However, this past week I opened it up and saw Sister Walker had put three different

items in the gratitude journal! Haha, best moment ever! We told her a Book of Mormon story this time of Nephi traveling to the promised land. At the end of the story she told us she needed to start reading her

Book of Mormon again and asked us for a copy. So cool!! 

So Eivet and Sonaheh went to Iran to visit Eivet's sister and will be

there until the end of August but all is well because Eivet's mom (who

is staying here and speaks zip English) wants missionaries to come by

and teach her about the gospel. So cool!! We gave her a Book of Mormon in Farsi and a picture book to give to Sonaheh when she returns and she was so excited! She was way sweet :)

So Angie got baptized this week! It was awesome! She got

baptized with the Barragan girls (a part member family the Elders

found) so 5 baptisms in one Saturday #bestdayever. Yesterday in church Angie was confirmed with the girls so by the end of the confirmations and the sacrament, we had about ten minutes left haha. But it was

super awesome. Angie is the sweetest - we just hope she stays strong!

As a 13 year old in the gospel with hardly any other girls in the YW

program it might be hard but they have awesome leaders so crossing

fingers!

So we went to get our oil change one day and it took like two hours

because they had to rotate the tires as well so we were like sitting

there when Angela and her boyfriend came to wait for their car and we started talking with them. Angela is super awesome! She has a few relatives who are LDS and has wanted to come to a church so she enrolled in this program that takes families to different churches so they can see which one they'll like the most. She’s never been to an LDS church before so we really encouraged her to go and ended up giving them a family proclamation. Her boyfriend didn’t seem super interested but Angela asked us a few questions and was super sweet :) 

That's about it for this week! Hope you are all doing well! Thank you

so much for all of the letters and support :)

Love, Sister Dunn

Taylor - June 13, 2016

Hey como estan?? 

Sounds like a lot of fun work went on this week. I guess that’s what happens when summer comes around!  So as you probably know we had a big week of finding! We saw some cool little miracles at the end of the week. We found Olga and Velinda and we are going to visit them both tonight. Pray for them and us! 

Yes it was a little stormy this past week so we got pretty nice and wet a couple of times but it's super warm rain anyways! We have zone conferences coming up on Wednesday and I have the wonderful opportunity to play the piano so that will be fun! Luckily I only have to learn hymn #265 Arise O God and Shine so that should be fairly easy since it’s short. 

One thing that we are going to be focusing on this next week is working the "gold mine" which is less actives and part member families, as well as prospective elders and recent converts. It was called the gold mine in the specialized mission training conference that was broadcast worldwide. We’re excited to help strengthen the ward and also get to know their friends who may not know much about the church! 

Dejame pensar... other than that it was just an awesome week of sharing the gospel with as many people as possible. Haha we prayed with a young woman and her mom as they were about to leave in their truck. It was kinda an awkward prayer but it was a good referral for the Estero missionaries so that was cool! Oh and we’re still running every morning so that's cool though sometimes it's super hard for us both to get motivated haha. 

Well I love you guys! Thanks for everything. Have a great week and stay safe!

Elder Dunn

Chelsea - June 13, 2016

Tatay George and fam :)

Nanay Pabiona.  Funniest lady ever!

Kumusta yung pamilya ko!!??

So first off, I had to buy luggage on Monday afternoon since the rats ruined mine. I was planning to buy two pieces of luggage for 130 bucks and guess what, the price tags were actually wrong and so I ended up buying two luggages for only 95 bucks! And it came with a free backpack! Smart shopping talaga..

This week was definitely sick week. Sister Elix got super sick on Wednesday and is still getting over it. She had like a fever, and a sore throat and like every symptom haha. So we didn’t have a lot of work this week, but we did our best with the time that we had. MJ came to church this week and so did Grandieur. MJ’s baptismal date is july 2nd so its coming up pretty soon :) she has found a lot of friends at church so she is doing really good!

We have been working with the Morales family lately. We taught Tatay George last monday and he kinda told us his whole life story. When he was growing up, he really didn’t have his parents around and when they were around, they just weren’t good examples for him. That’s when he started doing bad things and smoking a ton, because he was never taught right and wrong. Now he's in his state right now because of what he did and he regrets it so much. But he told us that he's going to make sure that he's gonna be a good father for his kids. Even though he can’t go to church, he pushes them to go to church. Sister elix and I were getting a little teary eyed. This guy has just had a hard life… but it definitely testified to me of the importance of families and how much trouble a family can save us from.

We have another potential investigator this week. Her name is Baby and she is about 55 years old. She is really great and God is preparing her so much. Ever since we first started teaching her, she accepted our message immediately. This week we taught her about prophets and Christ's church on the earth and then she asked a random question, How can I receive the fulness of the atonement of Christ in my life? and so we shared about the gospel steps. And then she brought up her concern. She was like, so if I get baptized in your church, then of course I would go to your church every sunday. The only problem is that all my family goes to the Methodist church on Sunday (which is like 2 minute walk away, mormon church is 20 min drive) and so if I joined your church, they would hate it and it would drive our family apart. I didn’t really have any idea what to say to her because that problem is super tough. But we just brought it back to the basics and told her to pray to know if our message is true, and if she knows and acts on that witness, that the Lord will provide her a way and soften the hearts of her family. What would you all say in that situation??! I am very interested to hear your advice haha.

On Saturday, we were able to go to a baptism of an 8 year old in our area. We have been teaching her all of the lessons because her parents are totally inactive and so her sibilings have been really asking us to help with preparation for her baptism. Haha it was the cutest thing. The water is like super cold in the font and so when they baptized her she came shooting straight out of the water cause she was freezing hahaha.

Anyways, that was our week! I love you all and I know this church is true!

Sister Dunn

Mother and son :)

My favorite thing here! It’s like this coconut thing wrapped up in a burnt banana leaf! So good. Sorry this is a selfie, this is the day when sister elix was sick, and I was kinda bored! 

Lindsay - June 13, 2016

Hello Everyone! 

This week was awesome!! We had an awesome experience

on preparation day. We were just walking to our car with our laundry

when a lady next to us stopped us and started having a conversation

with us. It quickly turned into a gospel discussion, and she asked the

perfect question, "So what makes you different from other churches?"

Sister Hunt and I smiled at each other and began to talk about modern

day prophets. Then we started to talk about the family and how it is

so important. We gave her a pamphlet on the Plan of Salvation, and

then we gave her a Book of Mormon!! Such an amazing experience to have

on a preparation day!! :) 

On Tuesday, we went to an assisted living center and met a sweet lady named 

Jane. She has a hard time remembering things, but she has so much faith! 

We also visited Sister Wolfington as well. I don’t if I told you all about her, but 

she has many health challenges. But she comes to ALL three hours of church!

She brings her oxygen with her, and she shakes pretty badly, but she

has the strongest faith! We love her so much! Close to the end of the

day we met with Bishop Roth. Now about Bishop Roth.... Haha... He

literally looks like a mix of Tom Hanks and Bill Murray. When you

shake his hand, it literally is a fish hand shake!  Haha! He is

definitely the most interesting bishop that I have served with. But I

know that it will be a good experience. He has great ideas to

implement in the Ward, and I am so excited to be able to serve Him and

the Ward council! 

On Wednesday we saw our 93 year old investigator named Alex. He is the 

sweetest old man, and we read the Book of Mormon to him every time we go. 

Sister Trower came with us, and she was amazing! She was able to bear her 

testimony of the Book of Mormon to him, and I could tell that it touched his heart. 

He lost his wife a year ago, and so he has been pretty lonely this year. But the gospel

has blessed his life, and I know that his wife would want him to be

taught by us, so that he can be prepared to be taught in the next

life. He is pretty stubborn, and he doesn't have the desire to be

baptized ..... Yet :) But he loves the Book of Mormon and he loves the

people of the LDS faith. We are getting somewhere! 

On Friday we did a lot of planning, and then later that night, we went to the Friday

night YSA activity. Two of our investigators showed up!!!! We were so

happy! They were playing ultimate frisbee, and before they started

they made us team captains!! Haha! Wow was it hard to play ultimate

frisbee with skirts. On Saturday, we helped a less active move out of

her house. The difficulty was that she is a hoarder..... Wow it was

rough. Haha! We pretty much had the whole Ward helping, and it took 4

hours to pack everything. She had one tiny U-haul truck, and then an

even tinier U-haul trailer. Let's just say that Brother Carter (in our

Ward), was a professional packing guy! He did so well, but of course,

not everything fit. We got most of it though! It was definitely a

great uniting experience for the Ward and us! That's my week! I love

you all! Enjoy the summer weather! :)

Sincerely,

Sister Dunn

Chelsea - June 6, 2016

Working with our recent convert, Jerome, and Ricci!

Just using my awesome knife to cut some coconuts! 

I had to crop this pic because these little boys were absolutely naked! Haha they just kept shouting picture so we took a pic! When it rains, every little boy loves to just strip down, go outside, and bathe in the rain water hahaa. 

Kumusta po kayo lahat?! 

This week was kinda a busy week! On Tuesday, we finally extended baptismal dates to MJ and Gigi Dumancil! And they finally came to church yesterday! After 3 months of teaching them, it was their first time yesterday! They are progressing so much and we are setting July 2 for their baptism! The only problem is, is that Gigi isn’t married yet to her boyfriend but they have plans to get married in a month so we are crossing our fingers!

This week we had interviews with President Rahlf. It was a really good time for me to just reflect on who I’ve become as a missionary since it's been 1 year! President asked me who I was before I went on my mission and what has changed? I thought back to before and I realized I had soooo many weaknesses back then, that have now become strengths. Obviously, I still have so many weaknesses I’m still working on, but it was nice to just reavalatue myself and see how far I’ve come :)

So we are getting into the rainy season over here! Every night it rains sooo hard and the power is always out over here… it's so annoying.. haha. One night Sister Elix and I were coming home from Calimague and we were in the tricie and it started to pour so bad and we literally thought we were gonna die. It didn’t help that the whole city lost power and so we were literally driving in pouring rain without any source of light! haha. When we came home we were absolutely soaked and then we found that there were pools of water all over the house so we had to mop the whole house in the dark!! It’s been a fun week. Especially when in the middle of the night, the power goes out which means the electric fans go out and we wake up just dripping sweat. We love it! Love you all!

Sister Dunn

Rain!!!!

Lindsay - June 6, 2016

Hello Everyone!! 

This week was amazing!!! On Tuesday, we saw a less

active in the Ward named Sister Piles. She has a calling, she reads

the Book of Mormon everyday, she reads other church literature, but

she doesn't come to church. She has some health problems that prevent

her from going. But she looks fine on the outside! We were persistent

with her, and asked her to come to church. She said she would try, if

her health permits. We told her that we wanted to at least see her one

Sunday. It made us cringe to be really persistent with her, but I know

that she can! If she can go shopping during the week, she can go to

church! 

Later that day, we went to dinner with the Trower's. They are

amazing people! We went to this place that kind of reminds me of Texas

Roadhouse. There were TV screens at every table! What the heck????

Soon the table will be the TV! That is crazy!!! 

On Wednesday, Hermana Adams came on exchanges with me! It was 

amazing! A little background on our area, Sister Hunt and I are the ONLY 

sisters in New Mexico. Everyone else in the zone are elders. So we never see sister

missionaries unless we go to zone conferences, or go on exchanges.

When we met up to exchange, I literally ran to Hermana Anderson and

said, "Another female!!" And hugged her. Haha! :) So Hermana Adams and

I went on exchanges, and we literally contacted people all day!! The

only lesson we had was our dinner appointment, but I felt so good at

the end of the day!! 

In the morning, we were trying to find this one family, and so we decided 

to knock on this one guy’s door. He was CREEPY. He looked like a zoned 

out hippie. He did help us though, which was good!! We asked him if he had 

a faith in Christ, and he said yes. But then he told us, “I don't go to church, 

cause it is a long walk." Haha! At dinner, we met with the

Miranda Family! They are the sweetest people you will ever meet. One

of the older sons told us that he is a movie fanatic, and that he

knows EVERY movie. So I said, "Ok, Field of Dreams." Then he began to

say, "Oh that is a tear jerker! Kevin Costner, baseball movie. Then he

began to explain the whole plot! Oh my goodness! He literally told the

whole movie!! Haha! Then after that I asked, "Ok here is another

movie, "What's Up Doc". He was totally stumped!!!  He told me

that he didn't know the movie. So I encouraged him to watch it:) 

On Thursday we had zone conference in Safford, Arizona! It was so great

to see the Gila Valley missionaries again!!! The meeting was amazing,

and we talked a lot about family history. Mother, I have to find a

family name for our temple trip in September. I hope that I can find a

name! I don't know if I should look for some names on Dad's side or on

yours. I know Grandma Clark has done a lot on your side:) I think I

will just ask some family historian in the Ward to help me. But if you

have any suggestions on where I could look for a name, let me know!

For lunch we had waffles with homemade syrup, and a ton of fruit!! It

was good! 

On Friday we went to the Peter's for dinner. They showed us

their cute bunny, and chickens that they have. Then as we were walking

back to the house, a car comes up and the window rolls down and a

girl shouts, "Snake!!" We walked down there, and a bull snake was on

the side of the road!!! So scary!!! It started to coil up, and it

looked like it was going to attack. Then the Peter's dog tried to

attack it, but Brother Peters pushed the dog away. I didn't get near

that snake!!! Yikes!! But I have heard that it kills rattlesnakes! So

that is good! 

On Sunday, we had an amazing Fast Sunday! The Spirit

pushed me to bear my testimony in both wards. Ugghhhh!!!! :) The Lord

pushes me so much, and it's great! :) We had 3 lessons in a row after

lunch, and a YSA member Brittany attended the lessons! What a

wonderful experience it was to have her there! She definitely brought

a sweet spirit into the lessons, and we were so thankful to have her!

During the 3rd lesson, there was a HUGE storm that came in. It was

pouring rain so hard, that I thought that hail came down! We had to

drive through it to get to our dinner appointment, and we were

literally driving in a lake of water! It was insane!

That is my week everybody! I am so grateful to be a missionary, and to

serve the Lord! I love you all, and I love my Savior Jesus Christ.

Sincerely,

Sister Dunn

Holli - June 6, 2016

Working at the Salvation Army

Hello Everyone!

We had a pretty bomb week this week :)

We had the most hilarious experience the other night. So we were at a

member's house eating dinner and she has four daughters who will be

baptized this Saturday and they're super cool. They have the cutest

dog named Caca and Caca is actually pregnant and was close to

delivering. Well, while we were there, she actually started delivering

the puppies and everyone was freaking out because the only daughter

who had ever helped deliver baby puppies before was at work. So Olga

(the mom) was freaking out, trying to figure out what to do and the

other three girls were too grossed out to help. So Sister Colson and I

tried to step in the best we could. It was quite the learning

experience! She had two puppies but they were both premature so they

ended up passing which was kind of sad. But thank goodness for the

Plan of Salvation, I guess (we're pretty sure it includes dogs too).

We had a great couple of lessons with Eivet and Sonaheh this week. We

stopped by to do a quick daily contact lesson and had planned on

staying for only 10 minutes but they invited us in and we got to meet

Eivet's brother Roger and Eivet's mother who only speaks Farsi. But it

was a really cool on the spot lesson because they had lots of

questions for us. The Spirit was really strong. We got to teach

Eivet's mother about the Restoration and Gregory asked about what

happens after we die so it was cool to talk about the Spirit world as

well. They are a really wonderful family.

We had this funny experience with a less active the other night.

Her name is Sister Walker and she grew up in the church but when she

had children she started working on Sundays and eventually just fell

away. She has had lots of bad things happen in her life and is pretty

bitter about it. A few weeks ago she had promised to show us a picture

of her and her sister together, but she couldn’t ever find it when we

would come to visit. She could find it when we weren’t there, but it

would kind of disappear when we were. You know me.  If I lose things I pray. 

We asked if we could say a prayer so she could find it. She said we were 

welcome to but she didn't think it would work. After we said a prayer she 

searched without any success and kept telling us it was never going to work 

and she would never find it (she can be fairly negative). Anyways, a thought 

popped into my head to suggest looking on Facebook so I suggested it and 

she looked there and in under five minutes she had found the right picture. 

Prayers are answered!!

We teach this less active named Juan every week. He is so amazing.

Most all of his kids are less active but he has such a strong

testimony of the gospel. He had a son get in a bad motorcycle accident

and pass away not too long ago and it was a really hard experience for

him. We had a member come with us to this lesson and she was like the

perfect fit for Juan because she had also lost a child and as she

related that experience to Juan they both started to cry and the

Spirit was so strong. It was a really neat experience to hear that and

learn from it.

We saw another less active last night (Gloria) and had another very

powerful experience. It was late at night but she invited us in. She

is super talkative and sweet and was telling us all about her dog who

had just gotten out of surgery. We shared with her a thought about

being grateful and how gratitude (according to Pres. Monson) is one of

the "noblest of virtues" and she really opened up to us. Two of her

kids have distanced themselves from her and don't believe in God and

the other two stay pretty active but she's just been really struggling

lately. She then talked about one of her friends who had come to her

with questions about God etc. and she said she prayed and then had

been able to answer everything and this friend told her she had given

her more knowledge than the bishop of her church had. That was pretty

awesome. The church is true!

We contacted this one guy named Bidal on the street the other night.

He told us he didn't speak English, only Spanish so we did our best to

give him the restoration lesson in Spanish. It was kind of odd too

because we would start to say something in Spanish and then he would stop

because it sounded weird and then he would like correct us. Turns out

he was actually pretty fluent in English. He ended up giving us his number 

and we got to pass him off to the Spanish sisters. He said we were really 

cool though because we actually tried to speak his language so he got a 

good laugh out of the experience which is great.

That was about it for the week! Hope you all are doing well and have a

wonderful week!

Love, Sister Dunn