September 29, 2014
Hey Y'all!
How you doin?
So this week had been a really great one! I swear the weeks have just been going faster and faster!
So today we had a zone activity and it was awesome! We went to this river and did a little devo thing and it totally made me think about when Christ taught on the earth. Just like today I am sure there were bugs and it was hot but it didn't matter tp the people and it didn't matter to us. I am amazed how people came from all over to hear Christ speak and how it was a lot harder for them. Sometimes we complain that we don't have enough miles or it's going to be hot or add in whatever else but when you think about the eariler days none of that mattered to them. They came and that is what mattered.
As most of you know there was a womens conference on saturday and that was amazing! I loved all the talks, how people aren't happy when they listen to those things i'll never be able to understand. But i just loved how they talked about how we are enough and where to give the credit.
So i don't have a whole lot of time but a few fun things we did this week. I made homemade Popcorn the kinda that Uncle stu makes and not going to lie it was a little bit of a hot mess but I have it down to an art now. Also while contacting at a lake i got to feed ducks and THEY ATE RIGHT OUT OF MY HAND!!! It made me really happy!
I love y'all and hope you have a great week and a great general conference weekend!
September 22, 2014
" Now I know how Noah and Nephi felt when they were asked to build a boat.." What Sister Hathenbruck said after we talked about the area and about the people that are ready to be baptized!
Hey y'all! So as many of you are wondering where in the world is our favorite missionary Sister Denning- I am in Scottsboro which is back up by Huntsville so I am about an hour away from Fayetteville and that makes me really happy since I might be able to go see the people I used to work with there! I am with Sister Hathenbruck and she's a beast! She's amazing and I love her. She actually came out with me so I don't really know what it means for this area after this transfer whether they will be keeping sisters in the area or if they are going to be taking sister out. Who knows. So a little background about her she's from New Mexico and she is one of 9, she is the third oldest and she has siblings from different parts of the world- so that is pretty cool if you ask me.
Scottsboro is totally awesome as soon as I drove in I fell in love and I knew this is where I needed to be so that is a blessing. I've only been here for a few days but I have already have had so many Emmaus experiences and awesome. Here is one for y'all so we are teaching a women named Kayla and we asked here to come to church but she didn't end up coming BUT we had a fireside last night and we stopped by her house before the fireside and SHE CAME! Not going to lie I didn't think she was coming but while she was there I just got a feeling that I needed to watch her daughter Akai and make sure she's distracted so Kayla could pay attention so i did that and the branch President looked at me totally weird that I was playing with this little 4 year old and he was shocked that i was able to distract her for the hour and a half. It pays off having nieces and nephews you know how to work with your investigators kids! :) But everything that the speaker talked about was exactly what kayla needed to hear and tonight we are going over to give her a baptism date! So amazing.
Also Sister H and I decided we are going to be reading the Book Of Mormon before the transfer is over and i never really realized how many answers there are to unspoken prayers.
I hope y'all have a great week!
Love y'all
Love Sister Denning :)
September 15, 2014
Hey y'all!
This week has been a really good one. Not going to lie I don't remember most of it haha but I remember Elder Zwick and that was awesome! I loved how he talked about how we are the finest missionaries that the world has ever seen! That is some major motivation if you ask me! I also loved everything that Sister Zwick said about prayers. I think we sometimes forget how important prayer truly is. I think we just get in the motions and say the same things but I've noticed lately that while I pray for different things and approach prayer a different way things become so much clearer. And since we aren't saying the same things all day everyday we get answers that we didn't get before or we see things in a different way! LOOOVE IT!
Also I am leaving Prattville and going someplace new I guess. We will see what the Lord has in store for me!
It's so crazy to think that it's my last 6 weeks. I keep wondering where the time has gone and if i've done everything that i could have. But since i only have a certain amount of time left it just means i need to go that much harder and testify that much more!
So the kids that i talked about in my last email are doing pretty good- we lost one of them but gained another and we are now teaching the mom of one of the girls so we might be able to get a family. Well they might since I am heading out haha
Sorry this one is short since I don't remember a lot I can't really tell y'all a lot haha
Love y'all
Love sister Denning
September 8, 2014
" Sister Denning I wish I could kiss you" (What a little four year old said to me after church yesterday I just thought it was so funny that I had to share! )
This week has been great! It was such a blessing to be able to go to the temple with April ( pictures on the bottom of the email.) So I'll tel l y'all about that a little more. So on Tuesday after email I went to hoover and I was able to see some of my favorite people! It was so fun to see people who I worked with at the beginning of my mission and see how they are doing a year later.. Totally crazy to think it's been a year! Then Wednesday we went to the temple and that place is a place of peace and a place of Joy. I can't tell you how much I just love being able to be in the temple and feel of the Savior's love there! So great! But April was so happy and she kept saying how she feels such peace and safety while she was there, She's gone back a few times last week and she'll be going back later this week!
We weren't in our area a whole lot this week between going to the temple and going back to Birmingham later that week for a baptism that Sister Neufville wanted to go to. And that was crazy I'll tell you more about that later in this email
But while we were in our area we were able to see the teenagers that we started to teach a little bit ago. They are the coolest kids while we were talking about the Book Of Mormon one of them started talking about the 3 Nephites crazy right? And he said he knew that after Christ visited people in Jerusalem He came to the Americas and taught people there. This kid has never met with missionaries before he didn't even know about the church until we started talking to him. But this week we were able to talk about the restoration and he knew about Joseph smith.. He knew that an Angel led him to the golden plates and what age he was when he first got told about the Golden plates it was totally crazy and we hadn't talked about Joseph smith at all with him but he knew a lot about him. And the even crazier part he doesn't really go to church so it's not like he's been anti-ed and knows all about it that way he just knows it some how. The gospel is awesome.
So back to the baptism that was such a s great experience. It was kinda weird being back in the building because that building was the first place I was able to see someone be baptized on my mission but the Spirit was so strong and was so great! But while we were going home we ran into some struggles. So a member was driving us home and their car wouldn't cut on so we jumped it and it still wouldn't really work so we ended up having to sleep over With the sisters in the ward. We went to their sacrament meeting since the member had to be there so we ended up being late to our meeting but at least we were able to take the Sacrament so that's good!
Well that was my week! I hope y'all had a great week!
Love y'all
Love Sister Denning
Hello family!
So this week has been pretty great! Funny story and then I will tell the good stuff so #1. I got to cut Tiwi out of our car! Which means the little black box that yells at us while we speed just a little bit. But this week I got to cut it out of our car- oh did it make me so happy that is the pic that is attached! And then the other story while doing the dishes the other night I was minding my own business and our water spitter outter thingy the actual word is not in my mind right now. But it blew off and got me sopping wet from head to toe.. Thanks sink.
So this week has been great we had Zone conference and that was totally awesome we talked about a lot of different things. But the thing that I thought was the coolest was President got up and said that he had some bad news somethings that were going to be very hard for us as missionaries he goes on to tell us that one of the Apostles has denied the truth and has gone public with it. While he was telling us this I was thinking 1. I'm going to fip this table and 2. It doesn't matter. I know the truth and I wont deny that. Then he said it was Peter. SO he pulled a fast one on us but it made us realize where our testimonies were and what they relied upon. Super cool!
I don't have a whole lot of time today to write because we are heading to B-ham today April is going through the temple tomorrow and I am going through with her I am super excited!!
But I love y'all and hope y'all have a blessed week!
Love Sister Denning
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