Kalamaoo

Baptism!!

Hey Everyone! i hope that you are all having a great week! This week has been really good things have been super busy! this week we were able to have a baptism for aly perry! she is super solid and was prepared by the Lord. We have been working as a misson to promise blessing in the name of Jesus Christ because we know that it can bring more power and authority then anything else can! In one of our lessons this week Aly promised our investigator blessing in the name of Jesus Christ and the spirit just came with full force! you knew that she had changed and was converted! We also got to go to another baptism in Bay City for Nathan Williamson, who we were teaching about 3 months ago! He texted and asked me to baptize him! it was a really neat experience to be able to be a part of because he had come such a long way! This week i have been reflecting a lot on my Real Intent that i have in all of the actions that i do and make! i felt like there was more that i could be giving! Sacrament meeting was probably one of the most spiritual sacrament meetings i have had on my mission! Not because there was anything huge that stuck out to me but because the spirit was there and i could feel it more because i was focusing on my real intent! i can promise you all that as you focus on having real intent in all that you do then God will bless you with a Power that you can not find anywhere else! i love you and i hope that you all have a great week! 

Love Elder Dunn

"No one said it would be easy but that it would be worth it!"

Great Week!

This week was a great week! a lot of things have been happening for us! we have been able to find new investigators and contact some old ones! We also got to go the temple on Saturday with the branch and the sister and had a great time! The Best part of this week was teaching Aly. Aly is a sweet girl that we met about 2 weeks ago. When we first started talking to her she had told us that she was a member of our church but didnt really agree with the doctrine. we still asked if we could meet with her and she said sure. We met with her at the first of last week and kinda just got to know her. She was super funny and cool. We asked what made her want to sit down with us, since she had passed up a bunch of missionaries before and she said that she just felt something different. God truly prepares people!!!!!! we had a great lesson with her just getting to know her thinking it was a less active lesson and at the end she said. ya know there is just something different about you guys. and she asked are you really FLDS......? We were like no way! And she said o my gosh you dont know how big of a relief that is! she said my mom is flds and i thought thats what you guys were and i was feeling like this was true and i thought o no im going to have to become FLDS haha we had a good laugh about it and set up another lesson. We taught the restoration a couple days latter and had a great lesson. She accepted everything! the next time we saw her we just talked she told us about how her and her fiance called it off because of some things that happened one of the big reasons that she called it off was because she would support her meeting with us! She asked about baptism and committed her to pray about it and she brought up that she needed to come to church to know if this was true! she brought it up herself! it was crazy! she came to church on sunday and absolutley loved it! she made a great friend with one of the members! She had already read the intro of the Book of Mormon and up til chapter 9 in First Nephi! it was awesome! She called us after church asking about how the Atonement works and how she can repent! then Later that night she called the member friend and they talk for 2 hours about the church! we met with her today and had a great lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Atonement! she is Super Solid! God really does prepare people for us missionaries and members to find and help teach! she has set a date for august 6th! please prayer for her! she knows that it is true but she is having to give up a lot of friends and family to make things work out! pray for her strength!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you all and i hope that you can have amazing weeks! and be grateful for the Gospel that we have in our lifes! love ya 

Elder Dunn

 Birthday Temple Trip!

                      This is at the Temple with the Branch and Sisters and at Texas Roadhouse!

This is what the sisters gave me for my birthday because im trying to look good for when i get home! and because there is a crazy member that calls me the king when we go to there house for dinner.

                        This is me and my comp with Elder Banham who was getting transfered. 

Happy 4th of July

 these pictures are from the sister baptism on saturday i had the chance to baptize bryan bradshaw!

Then we all went to breakfast to cracker barrel on the 4th for the 4th and Elder Turleys Birthday!

June 27th

Hey how are things going for you all?! hope things are going well this week things went pretty good I was able to go on two trade offs and one of them was a new missionary from cedar! his name is wes baker! i didnt know him but we know a lot of the same people! we had a great trade off had some fun times! we pretty much just talked about cedar the whole time! We had some great lessons this week! we have one investigator whose name is Allison and she is the bomb! She rode her bike for 1 hour to get to FHE and then on sunday she rode 1 1/2 hours to get to church! talk about commitment! She is on date for the 30th of July so we will she how things go! We also taught a guy named Ahmad and his girlfriend Daynita. He is muslim but we had a great lesson with him we talked a lot about praying! At the end of the lesson the today us that they had just got evicted and have no where to live. they are both trying to find jobs but are searching for them. We asked if we could so the pray and pray for them. so we did! The spirit was very very strong and you could deffinantly feel the faith that they had! about 2 hours later we saw them! he came running up to us and told us that one of their prayers has been answered! and that he felt something! we know that what he felt was the Holy Ghost! It was a great experience! 

I have been thinkin a lot this week about the law of consecration and sacrifice There are a lot of people who give up a lot of things just do to what i do and to have what i have everyday. And a lot of the times i just think that the things that i have everyone has. As i have gone through this week i have realized that that is not true one bit! I know that everything i have been given is from the Lord i deffinantly dont deserve it but for some reason he gives it to me! I know that as i give all i have to the lord he will bless me in countless ways! Like in the parable of the talents the Lord says " Because you have taken care of a few things, that i will make you a ruler over many!" As we live our lives in a way that what we do, who we are, and what we say all points to our Lord and Heavenly Father we will be able to find the most joy and peace and happiness that we could never find anywhere else! I sure have a long way to go but i know that as we help one another that this is possible i love you all and i can promise these things in the name of Jesus Christ! Amen

Hope you have a great week!

Love Elder Dunn

#1 call ins all sunday long!!!!!!!!!. 

#2 Super nice truck haha

Happy Father's Day!

So until my mission it never dawned on me how much our Earthly Fathers reflect our Heavenly Father. They Provide for us, they watch out for us, they warn us, and the teach us skills that no one else can teach us! I very very grateful for my dad and the things that he has taught me i deffinantly would not be where i am at if it wasnt for him! I hope that we can all remember the importance of our fathers and our families! One of my favorite scriptures is 

Alma 43:47

47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion. 

Which teaches us the importance of familes and what they can do for us! with out families earthly and eternally none of this would be possible i hope as we all go thought out this week and our lifes we can always put our family first in all that we do! Exspecially of Heavenly Father!

Love you all i hope that you have great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Racoon

Hey everybody this week has been great! so we had transfer calls but i stayed here in Kalamazoo and Elder Johnson left he went up to lansing! But my new companion is Elder Turley and man it is just like me and palmer or me and bragger being companions! we are just a like and it is a great time! This week we found 4 new investigators. Sarah, miriam, carter, and Emily. They are all pretty solid and truly want to learn! our main focus right now for them is helping them to read and to meet with us again soon! Keana is doing pretty good she is slowly progress but wasnt able to come to church because she was babysitting here nephew. We are working right now with all of our investigators to just understand that as we put God first in all that we do that everything else will fall into place! I was reading in Jacob 2 where jacob is telling the nephites the importance of seeking the kingdom of God first! He then gives a promise that as we do that then we will abtain the riches and what not that we are looking for. I truly know that as we put God first in everything that We will be able to have the stuff that we need in order to live and succeed! Seeing how the gospel can bless us is defiantly something that i cant even put into words! I hope that we can all strive to do better then we did the day before, so that we may have more hope and happiness in the days to come! i love you all and i hope that you have a great week!

We also had a fun time picking up a dead racoon and putting on the sisters porch and playing a little joke on them haha!