Lindsay - June 27, 2016

Hello Everyone!!


I hope your week was fantastic! We had a good week!

On Tuesday, we visited Sister Tena who is an amazing lady. She has so

much faith, and doesn't attend our Ward a lot, mainly because church

starts at 9. It is hard for her (health wise), to make it to church

that early. But she has a strong testimony. She was also a stake

missionary in the past, so she shares the gospel as much as she can!


On Wednesday, we had our last district meeting! So my district leader,

is actually in the Miller's Ward!! Isn't that cool?? He talked about

companionship unity, and it was a really good topic because I was kind

of struggling with that! I definitely learned that when you establish

a common ground with your companion, and strive to follow the Spirit,

that you will be successful as a companionship. On Wednesday we also

taught Avery (He is 8 years old). He is an awesome kid! He does have a

hard time focusing, but when you ask him questions, he truly thinks

about what we are asking him. We talked about enduring to the end, and

related that topic to Lehi's dream. He got so excited when we showed

him the picture of Lehi's Dream. We asked him if he remembered the

story, and he did a pretty good job! He is doing well, and now he has

gone to church 3 times in a row!! We are so happy about that!


On Thursday, we got a call out from some missionaries in the zone. So

what happens with call outs is that one companionship will start the

call out, saying that they found a new investigator, or that they

handed out a Book of Mormon, and then they would pass along a

challenge to another companionship. So some elders from the zone

called us out, and challenged us to get a new investigator, and have a

member present lesson. So we had a blitz the next day, where we had

the missionaries from our district tract in our area. Sister Hunt and

I found a new investigator the first door we knocked on!! Haha! It was

awesome! Then we knocked around some other doors, and had a great

conversation with a Jehovah's Witness! She was so nice! By the end of

the day, we completed half of the challenge, but then the new

investigator that we found that morning dropped us over text. (We made

the mistake of giving him our number! Shoot!) All is well though! We

had a great day of contacting!


On Friday we had a great lesson with Sabrina our investigator. She is

an amazing person! At this point, she feels that the Book of Mormon is

true, and that the church is true, but she wants to be completely confident

about it before she moves towards baptism. Her family isn’t necessarily

supportive, and so that makes it really hard on her. But I remember in the

middle of the lesson telling her to trust in the Lord. I told her to not be scared

to stand up for what she knows to be true with her family. At the end of

the lesson, she told us that we helped her a lot. :)


On Saturday, we did a lot of service. We helped a family unload boxes

into storage, and we did some yard work for an older lady:) We also

visited a lady in the Ward who has been suffering from depression. It

sure is hard to teach someone who is struggling with that illness. Also,

she doesn’t want to accept priesthood blessings either. She is at a point in her

life where she doesn't want to accept any help. So it has been tough

for us to help her. All we can do is provide a little beam of light

and encouragement in her life!


On Sunday, we attended wonderful meetings! We went to Sacrament meeting

in 3rd Ward, and then went to the YSA branch for the rest of the block. Kenny

came to sacrament meeting again, so we were glad to see him there! Also,

some other less actives showed up and stayed a lot of the time, so we were really

happy about that!


Well.... to end my letter, I will give you some transfer news!!!! I am training again!!!

Wow! The Lord and President Passey really trust me to train again! 15 new

missionaries are coming in, and 10 of them are sisters! So it is really exciting to be

training at the same time with a lot of sisters that I know! It brings

me a lot of comfort:) That’s all for this week!


Taylor, I love you, and I hope you adjust to the real world quickly! I am also excited

that you get to keep Spence company:) I love you all! Have a wonderful week, and

4th of July!!

Sincerely,

Sister Lindsay Dunn

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