We are family and we can do hard things

This week has been aweome! we picked up 4 new investigators! it was awesome and we were able to put 2 more people on date for baptism! the spirit is really taking hjold of the work! this week I have done a lot of studying on unity and working as one! 1 Corinthians 12 is by far one of my favorite chapters cause it talks about how we are all part of the body and are to work as one! Because some one cant do something that some one else can! we are to work together as family no matter who we are or what we have done! and if we work like this we can do hard things! Unity is huge in all that we do! Loving one another could make the biggest difference in life if we would just all follow the 2nd great commandment! I love you all and I hope that you have a great week!

Elder Dunn

This week was awesome! me and Elder Maucotel were able to see some awesome miracles! We were able to find 3 new investigators in 2 hours! it was awesome the lord surly provided for us! their names were chris, Kristie, and Audrey. Kristie and Audrey had alreay started reading the Book of Mormon! it was Awesome! Chris said that he didn't want us to try to convert him but he let us come in anyway. We told him that it was not us that were there to convert but it was the Work of God and the Holy Ghost to do that. We taught the restoration, and when we got to the first vision, he said that is pretty significant! it was awesome we think that he understand the importance of it it was great! We did a lot of biking and walking but it is Worth it! I was able to Interview a ten year old that the sisters had been teaching for baptism. Holy crap she knew her stuff! It blew my mind on the things that she knew about the gospel! It was a true up lifting experience to be able to have that interview with her and to be able to feel the Spirit there. I was also able to teach a 8 year old of a recent convert the Restoration while my companion was working on family history with his mom. It was sweet! he asked if he could be baptized that very instant! it was awesome! I think Two of my favorite scriptures that I have found this past little while our Hebrews 6:10-20 and Alma 38:10-12. We are to be always diligent in the ways of the Lord in all that we do and don't be Slothful or idle. We are representatives for him at all times! I know that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God! and that this is the only one and true Restored Church on this earth today! There is a why to everything that we do in the church if you don't understand something then study it out like Joseph Smith did and  Pray and ask God the Eternal Father in the Name of Christ and with a sincere heart and real intent at it will be given unto if it is God's Time I promise you! I hope you all have a great week! love you all

Elder Dunn

Miracles

So this week as a district we focused on finding with faith! and man did we see some miracles!  on Saturday me and elder maucotel decide to go out and do some door knocking. one door that we knocked on the guy was really cool we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and he asked if he had to buy it or if he could just have it we told him that he could have it and we told him that we teach people about it! he said that he would read it in 3 weeks and we could come back. so we asked him if we could come back sooner to help him understand it and he said sure so we are meeting with him next sunday. the next house that we walked up to we didn't even have to knock it. the lady was outside doing yard work and we asked if she needed help she said no but then she looked at us and said are you Mormon missionaries and we said yes and she said I have been waiting for you!!!! she said I have so many questions I from California I have lds friends and I want to learn more can you come back next Friday! it was crazy! faith really does work I cant believe it has taken me this long to figure that out! Faith can really move mountains if you want it to. but you just have to put your effort into it for it to work! I hope you all have a great week and look for the miricales in your every day lives, cause they are there you just have to look. love you all

Elder Dunn

70's Bike

 MTC District

Week #2

I hope you all are doing well the hood it doing good! we found 3 new investigators this past week! they seem pretty solid! one thing that we have found that works great in this area is talking with people about the plan of salvation! the people here are humble and they want more peace in their lives. unlike the rich areas who think they have everything these people are looking for more and are willing to accept it. I hope you all listen and watched conference I think that that was the best one I have ever seen (probably cause it was the only ones I really paid any attention)... the ward here is really awesome! the weather is starting to get colder and it is almost starting to snow! we are teaching a family their names are the martins they have been less active for a while but or now pretty active. we are working with the son caanan and the dad Jeremy to get the priesthood it is awesome! I don't think I have ever seen a 15 yr old kid so excited about the gospel! I t is truly amazing! if we could all be as excited as he is the world would be a different place! I know that this is the true church of Jesus Chirst and that it has been restored through the Prophet Joesph Smith! there is no way that all of this could be made up! we can find so much peace and happiness through this gospel! sometimes it can be hard but it is worth it! I hope you all have a great week! 

I love you all

Elder Dunn

Lansing

So this week has been really awesome! my companion is exact opposite of me but we get along great! he is a professional violinist he is super good! it is crazy our area is in south lansing which is the Ghetto i guess you could say. it is awesome! we talk to a lot of people down here and they have had super hard life but they are very humble!  the ward is great the spirit yesterday was super strong in sacrament meeting it was great!  i love serving my mission and learning the things that i have learned so far. and understand what gods whole plan for us is! i hope you all take some time to really think about and look and try to understand the plan that God has given us, and realize how amazing it truly is i hope you all have a good week! and thanks for all that you do for me!

Elder Dunn

Transfers!!

Well we got tranfer calls this week! i am headed to Lansing to right next to PResident Jacobsen haha. This week has been great we taught some great lesson and really felt the spirit! i sure am going to miss south haven! probably my favorite area so far! it is crazy how fast the mission is going. I hope that you all realize that this life is a lot shorter then we think it is! i know that we are all here for a reason and our heavenly fathers love can help us over come anything! we are all asked to do ceratin things and sometimes they are hard but as nephi said," ... thus the Lord commanded me, and i must obey." 2 Nephi 33:15 i love you all and i hope that you have a great week!

Elder Dunn

 Tyler

 The Criders

 Nick and Jen Klock and Family

 Josh Kelly clock and Family

Kate and Ralph

This week we were able to teach an awesome lesson with ralph. This week we taught him about the plan of Salvation. He really liked it and he said that it made a ton of sense to him. he truly has the desire to find God and to find the right church. at the end of the lesson he prayed. He asked God that he would have more time for him in his life and that he would have more time to read from the Book Of Mormon. it was really awesome. We invited him to be baptized on November 7 and he Accepted it was really cool.

we were also able to see kate. She is 17 and is the klocks neice. she was baptized a couple of years ago. Well since then she has kinda fallen away. Just recently we started meeting with her again and she has started to read again and her countanace has completely changed. she is alot happier and is excited about the gospel. We are working with here so that she can get here patriartical blessing and go to the temple. i dont this i have ever seen a 17 year old with as much desire to learn about hte gospel then her. We as members truly have a gift with the gospel sometimes we dont recognize it until we go with out it then come back to it. then we remember what we have. i hope you all have a good week and i know that as we read the Book of Mormon our lifes are improved in way that we can not describe.

Elder Dunn

Riley Bodman's Baptism