Spencer - February 21, 2017

Hello all!!!!

How's it going!! I've had such an amazing week this week and I can't wait to tell y'all about it! But first wow mom and dad! Sounds like you guys had a pretty crazy week this week!! I'm glad y'all got to have fun on Valentines day together, and that's really cool about the refugee activity!!! Looks like everyone had a blast!! That's such a good service project!! That's awesome that you had a fun time with meg and emily, and ahhh that's such a bummer for the Eagle girls basketball team!! They are so good! I thought they'd win! They had a good season though!!

So can I just say how quick these weeks have flown by!! I'm leaving for Texas in 6 days!! That's so crazy!!! I cannot wait to go!! I'm also sad to leave though, but i'm excited to get out in the field with real investigators!! So like I said before, this week has been absolutely crazy and I've loved it and I love being here! I've had so many experiences I don't really know where to start! Okay well let's start with last Tuesday! M. Russell Ballard came and spoke to us in one of our devotionals!! It was so cool to watch!! He talked about setting and achieving smart goals! It was a really good talk!

Okay this next one is for you mom haha! So a normal day for me is I wake up around 5:40 and go and take a shower and get ready for the day! So then we go get breakfast around 7:15ish and then class starts at 8:30 and goes till 12:30. My MTC teachers are so awesome! I love them! They teach us everything we need to know about investigators and how to correspond the lessons with their needs and things like that. And then lunch is at 12:45 and then we have work out time from 1:30 to 2:30 and I gained three pounds but I just lost them back so I'm the same weight going in the MTC hahaha, so yayyy I'm not that fat haha!! Anyway, after we work out, we usually have a TRC (Teaching Resource Center) visit which is basically like talking with a real investigator. So that goes from 3:30 till 4:15 and then after that we study some more in our class room and then we go to dinner at 5:45 and then class starts back up again from 6:30 till around 9ish, and then we head back and get ready for bed, and we usually don't go to bed till around 11:30 because we like to talk haha, but yeah that's a normal day for me!

So back to the spiritual experiences, so we had a P.I. (Progressing Investigator) which is just like a fake investigator and stuff and she was the Catholic I was asking all y'all about! Anyway, our first lesson was really hard because she wasn't receptive to anything we were saying because she was devoted to her church. But the next visit I was missing all y'all and I was emotional, but on top of that, she had a really sad experience that made me like bawl in front of everyone and then she was sad too because of her bad experience so we just gave her comfort and shared some scriptures. But the spirit was so strong and so I think that was the main reason I was crying haha but I'm good now!

Okay so you know how I've been sick?! Well I'm still kinda sick haha. It's just about gone. All I have is a little sore throat so it's not bad now but anyway, it got so bad that I asked Elder Shin and Elder Batty for a blessing. They of course gladly gave it to me which I thought was so great because they are always there for me. So I started feeling better, and I'm really glad they were able to give me that blessing. Elder Bean and Elder Herring were able to stand in the circle as well so our District Elders all joined in which made it wayy more cool!!

Oh and I got my flight plans and my plane takes off for Denver Colorado at 6:53 in the morning so I might have to call you guys either really early in the morning or when I'm in the Denver airport so you might have to be ready for both haha because I'm not sure yet! Oh and I had to get the flu shot, so I got that last Tuesday soooo yeahhhh...

Oh and for the pictures, one is with my two companions Elder Batty is in the middle and Elder Bean is the taller one and the other pictures are just of my district!

So yeah! That's basically all that has happened this week!! Next time I write you, I'll probably be in Texas! That's so crazy to think about!! Anyway, I love you guys! I hope y'all have a good week!!

Love,

Elder Dunn