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May 19, 2011
Dear Family,
Nothing too new to write about this week, still just studying hard and learning Spanish. This week Spanish started to become a lot easier. Last week Elder Waldron and I could barely teach the lesson in Spanish and then yesterday we taught a lesson in TRC with like 90% Spanish! It was pretty crazy, we've gotten better at teaching in Spanish and are still working hard. We heard from Richard G. Hinckley(Gordon B. Hinckley's son) on Tuesday night, it was a very good talk. He opened the last half of the devotional to questions and a lot of interesting questions were answered! He shared stories about his father and it was cool to hear about President Hinckley from his own son. He sounded and talked just like President Hinckley, it was a very good devotional.
Glad things have been good at home, it was cool to hear about Devin's friend who served in Argentina. I'm excited to get there! Sounds like things are still normal at home, glad I'm not buying gas for 4.50 a gallon, that's messed up, hahaha. I love receiving your letters and hearing about everything outside the MTC. Dad, thanks for the DearElder and the info on my mission President. I'm excited to meet him! I told my District about what you sent me and we were all excited to get to South America! I also enjoyed the story about the Brother who shared his testimony at Church. I'm ready to meet the people of Resistencia and invite them to come unto Christ. Keep the letters coming!
I was talking with one of the Tongan elders and I asked him if I would fit in, in Tonga, and he told me, "It doesn't matter that you are white and skinny, Tongan's don't mind, they look at the heart, and you have a big heart, you'd fit in perfectly in Tonga." It was just cool to hear that from him. Our Zone has become very good friends with them as I've explained before, so just thought I'd share that little story. I can't really think of anything crazy that happened this week, other than the devotional and Elder Waldron and my teaching experience, it's been kind of a normal week, just going to class and studying a lot. Sorry that this email is kind of short, just can't think of to much for this week! I saw Chris Drake, he is excited to be here!
Keep updating the blog, more pictures are on the way! This week has been kind of easy going so we're just doing our missionary thing and counting down days until Argentina. I'd love to here from my friends, that'd be cool! But, everything is good here still. Love you all and I'll write next week! :)
Elder Deniston
Nothing too new to write about this week, still just studying hard and learning Spanish. This week Spanish started to become a lot easier. Last week Elder Waldron and I could barely teach the lesson in Spanish and then yesterday we taught a lesson in TRC with like 90% Spanish! It was pretty crazy, we've gotten better at teaching in Spanish and are still working hard. We heard from Richard G. Hinckley(Gordon B. Hinckley's son) on Tuesday night, it was a very good talk. He opened the last half of the devotional to questions and a lot of interesting questions were answered! He shared stories about his father and it was cool to hear about President Hinckley from his own son. He sounded and talked just like President Hinckley, it was a very good devotional.
Glad things have been good at home, it was cool to hear about Devin's friend who served in Argentina. I'm excited to get there! Sounds like things are still normal at home, glad I'm not buying gas for 4.50 a gallon, that's messed up, hahaha. I love receiving your letters and hearing about everything outside the MTC. Dad, thanks for the DearElder and the info on my mission President. I'm excited to meet him! I told my District about what you sent me and we were all excited to get to South America! I also enjoyed the story about the Brother who shared his testimony at Church. I'm ready to meet the people of Resistencia and invite them to come unto Christ. Keep the letters coming!
I was talking with one of the Tongan elders and I asked him if I would fit in, in Tonga, and he told me, "It doesn't matter that you are white and skinny, Tongan's don't mind, they look at the heart, and you have a big heart, you'd fit in perfectly in Tonga." It was just cool to hear that from him. Our Zone has become very good friends with them as I've explained before, so just thought I'd share that little story. I can't really think of anything crazy that happened this week, other than the devotional and Elder Waldron and my teaching experience, it's been kind of a normal week, just going to class and studying a lot. Sorry that this email is kind of short, just can't think of to much for this week! I saw Chris Drake, he is excited to be here!
Keep updating the blog, more pictures are on the way! This week has been kind of easy going so we're just doing our missionary thing and counting down days until Argentina. I'd love to here from my friends, that'd be cool! But, everything is good here still. Love you all and I'll write next week! :)
Elder Deniston
Thursday, May 19, 2011
May 12, 2011
Dear Family,
The MTC is still good! Studying hard! Elder Ray and I started using a Spanish tutor, which is helping a lot! All of the elders in my district are at different levels of Spanish, and the stuff er go over and the questions that are asked are beyond some of the other elders level, including me, so the tutor is great because we can get personal help we specifically need.
We go to the temple every P-Day! Which is a nice break from the usual hectic schedule. The Prove Temple is pretty cool! I've become really good friends with the elders from Fiji and Tonga! I seriously love them. They are the happiest people ever and they have amazing testimonies. I am excited to meet the people of Argentina. Oh, we got new elders last night. 10 of them are going to Mexico and 2 of them are going to Peru. I haven't really gotten to know them yet, but I will! When the weather is nice we study outside, the MTC has a lot of nice trees and flowers everywhere so it makes studying outside in the sun peaceful and nice. I've been getting better at soccer during our gym time! I scored a couple of goals in our games. I'm sure in South America even all the little kids are probably amazing and will make me look like a fool playing! It'll be a good time. I'm excited! Hahaha. Elder Waldron was sick yesterday so I had to study in our room, it was boring. He's better today though so that's good! Some of the other elders in our zone got their traveling plans and they are excited! It's crazy to think I'll have mine in a few short weeks! Not excited for my million hour flight though, no bueno. Can't wait to be in Argentina though. We met a sister from Resistencia here and all of us were talking to her about it, it was cool to hear a native tell us about the country, her Spanish was sooo fast! We were freaking out because we know that's how everyone talks there! We'll be fine though!
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Elder Anderson from the 12 spoke last Tuesday! Pretty exciting. 3 Apostles in 4 weeks, legit! Alright, well I love you all. I love hearing from everyone. Devin, I love your letters and hearing about the kids! Dad, I love your letters also! As well as Chelsea's! I love them all! Tell Tyler I love him and I hope all is well with him! Keep the letters and packages coming, they make everything better! Love you all and I'll write next week! Adios! :)
Elder Deniston
The MTC is still good! Studying hard! Elder Ray and I started using a Spanish tutor, which is helping a lot! All of the elders in my district are at different levels of Spanish, and the stuff er go over and the questions that are asked are beyond some of the other elders level, including me, so the tutor is great because we can get personal help we specifically need.
We go to the temple every P-Day! Which is a nice break from the usual hectic schedule. The Prove Temple is pretty cool! I've become really good friends with the elders from Fiji and Tonga! I seriously love them. They are the happiest people ever and they have amazing testimonies. I am excited to meet the people of Argentina. Oh, we got new elders last night. 10 of them are going to Mexico and 2 of them are going to Peru. I haven't really gotten to know them yet, but I will! When the weather is nice we study outside, the MTC has a lot of nice trees and flowers everywhere so it makes studying outside in the sun peaceful and nice. I've been getting better at soccer during our gym time! I scored a couple of goals in our games. I'm sure in South America even all the little kids are probably amazing and will make me look like a fool playing! It'll be a good time. I'm excited! Hahaha. Elder Waldron was sick yesterday so I had to study in our room, it was boring. He's better today though so that's good! Some of the other elders in our zone got their traveling plans and they are excited! It's crazy to think I'll have mine in a few short weeks! Not excited for my million hour flight though, no bueno. Can't wait to be in Argentina though. We met a sister from Resistencia here and all of us were talking to her about it, it was cool to hear a native tell us about the country, her Spanish was sooo fast! We were freaking out because we know that's how everyone talks there! We'll be fine though!
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Elder Anderson from the 12 spoke last Tuesday! Pretty exciting. 3 Apostles in 4 weeks, legit! Alright, well I love you all. I love hearing from everyone. Devin, I love your letters and hearing about the kids! Dad, I love your letters also! As well as Chelsea's! I love them all! Tell Tyler I love him and I hope all is well with him! Keep the letters and packages coming, they make everything better! Love you all and I'll write next week! Adios! :)
Elder Deniston
Monday, May 9, 2011
May 5, 2011
Dear Family,
Glad all is well at home! Thank you for sending me those shoes! they will be perfect for basketball and futball! Cool to hear about the stake and the changes there, it also sounded like stake conference went well! Thanks for the DearElders, they make the days even better her at the MTC! The Spanish is coming along well, we're going over some of the more difficult concepts so it's coming slowly, Elder Waldron and I give our lessons with as much Spanish as we can and we can bear our testimonies in Spanish, so it's been good! I can see God's hand guide us and bless us as our district diligently studies the language, it's coming along well. Elder Waldron is from the ghetto of Philadelphia so he knows how to rap! and its actually really good at it! hahaha. He is always raping the new Spanish we learn and about out district and the MTC! it's pretty funny, but entertaining haha, he raps only about the gospel, funny stuff! Cool to hear about Leverson! Thats awesome he had the offered to him from BYU and even more awesome that he is still going to serve! He'll be happy he did and will love his mission and his time here at the MTC. Tell him I said Congrats! I saw Johnny yesterday! He had the biggest smile on and was so happy to be here, I also hung out a lot with Tanner before here left! I'm sure he is in Columbia by now and probably freaking out! but loving it hahaha. He'll be a great missionary. All of the missionary from Tonga are in the dorms across the hall from ours! they are hilarious! They speak very little english but still come and hangout with us at the end of the night. We taught the words like "great" and "marvelous" and "delicious" so whenever we give them some of our snacks and food they like yell with there really loud deep Tonga voices "VERY GOOD!" or "VERY GREAT!" and now we got them saying "VERY MARVELOUS!" and "SO DELICOUS!" They are always beating each other up and laughing hysterically all night, we love em! hahaha. Crazy to hear about Osama and all the tornado's, we love to hear about stuff happening outside the MTC. It made me happy to hear what Miles and Kylie said about me, I miss them and love them! I'll definitely teach Miles some Spanish when I get home. I played soccer yesterday! oh wait wait, excuse me! some futball! (I can't remember how to make the marks for all the Spanish words on the keyboard! no buennno!) but it was alot of fun, they finally opened the missionary field so it was nice to spend some time outside in the sun! the weather has been nice! Glad to hear youth conference went well Devin! thank you for the package you sent, your card was pretty funny!
Well, MTC life is still amazing! still studying the Spanish and teaching investigators and studying the gospel, and now playing some soccer! and still some basketball! I miss music like crazy, I'm probably going to try out to sing some hymns for sacrament meeting! that should be cool! I miss all of my friends as well, I keep them all in my prayers and I hope to hear from them soon!
Love you all! I'll send some handwritten letters this week! keep the mail and the packages coming! :) Hope the blog is looking well, put up all the good stuff for everyone! haha. I'm excited that I'll have that to look back on when I return home from Argentina, I'll be sending more pictures also. Alright, l love you and we'll write back soon! hope the days at home go by as fast as they do here, so far the days have felt like weeks and the weeks feel like days, before I know it I'll probably be on a bus leaving Buenos Aireas to Resistencia, crazy! alright, bye!
Glad all is well at home! Thank you for sending me those shoes! they will be perfect for basketball and futball! Cool to hear about the stake and the changes there, it also sounded like stake conference went well! Thanks for the DearElders, they make the days even better her at the MTC! The Spanish is coming along well, we're going over some of the more difficult concepts so it's coming slowly, Elder Waldron and I give our lessons with as much Spanish as we can and we can bear our testimonies in Spanish, so it's been good! I can see God's hand guide us and bless us as our district diligently studies the language, it's coming along well. Elder Waldron is from the ghetto of Philadelphia so he knows how to rap! and its actually really good at it! hahaha. He is always raping the new Spanish we learn and about out district and the MTC! it's pretty funny, but entertaining haha, he raps only about the gospel, funny stuff! Cool to hear about Leverson! Thats awesome he had the offered to him from BYU and even more awesome that he is still going to serve! He'll be happy he did and will love his mission and his time here at the MTC. Tell him I said Congrats! I saw Johnny yesterday! He had the biggest smile on and was so happy to be here, I also hung out a lot with Tanner before here left! I'm sure he is in Columbia by now and probably freaking out! but loving it hahaha. He'll be a great missionary. All of the missionary from Tonga are in the dorms across the hall from ours! they are hilarious! They speak very little english but still come and hangout with us at the end of the night. We taught the words like "great" and "marvelous" and "delicious" so whenever we give them some of our snacks and food they like yell with there really loud deep Tonga voices "VERY GOOD!" or "VERY GREAT!" and now we got them saying "VERY MARVELOUS!" and "SO DELICOUS!" They are always beating each other up and laughing hysterically all night, we love em! hahaha. Crazy to hear about Osama and all the tornado's, we love to hear about stuff happening outside the MTC. It made me happy to hear what Miles and Kylie said about me, I miss them and love them! I'll definitely teach Miles some Spanish when I get home. I played soccer yesterday! oh wait wait, excuse me! some futball! (I can't remember how to make the marks for all the Spanish words on the keyboard! no buennno!) but it was alot of fun, they finally opened the missionary field so it was nice to spend some time outside in the sun! the weather has been nice! Glad to hear youth conference went well Devin! thank you for the package you sent, your card was pretty funny!
Well, MTC life is still amazing! still studying the Spanish and teaching investigators and studying the gospel, and now playing some soccer! and still some basketball! I miss music like crazy, I'm probably going to try out to sing some hymns for sacrament meeting! that should be cool! I miss all of my friends as well, I keep them all in my prayers and I hope to hear from them soon!
Love you all! I'll send some handwritten letters this week! keep the mail and the packages coming! :) Hope the blog is looking well, put up all the good stuff for everyone! haha. I'm excited that I'll have that to look back on when I return home from Argentina, I'll be sending more pictures also. Alright, l love you and we'll write back soon! hope the days at home go by as fast as they do here, so far the days have felt like weeks and the weeks feel like days, before I know it I'll probably be on a bus leaving Buenos Aireas to Resistencia, crazy! alright, bye!
Monday, May 2, 2011
I go hang out with Tanner whenever I can! His District is pretty cool. He leaves for Columbia in a week. (Today is April 27th). Pretty crazy. He's excited though.
Elder Mellor. He's from Washington State and is a cool guy. He has seconds for every meal we have and can recite lines from pretty much every movie : )
Here I am walking on the walls at the MTC.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
April 28, 2011
Glad to hear Easter went well! It was very nice here also, I spent the day reflecting on Christ's atoning sacrafice, I believe the words of Isaiah 53 and Mosiah 14 set the mood for the day! I'd type it but I dont have time to, read them. My understanding of what Christ did has grown and what it meant has grown tremebdously since I've been here, as I read the story of the end of Christ's ministry I felt a strong peace in the scripture "Fear ye not, for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen."The same feeling I had reading this filled the day last Sunday and it was very comforting. His Spirit was present here. We heard from Dallin H. Oaks last tuesday! Two apostles in a row is rare for the MTC! Our district was asked to usher so we had the privlidge of sitting in the very front, which was a huge blessing. He have a very inspiring talk. It's so good to know we have a prophet and apostles in this dispensation! I love it. You can tell though the way these men speak that they know God lives, that they love this church and devote their lives to the progression of it, and when the bear their testimonies of it you know through they way you feel that they are speaking not of what they believe, but of what they know is true.
The MTC live is still alive and busy and well! I was doing well with Spanish but have been struggling the past few days, I know that it will come. This mission was my call to serve, and who the Lord calls, He qualifies. So I know I'm qualified to learn the language and that I can, I just need to be faithful and diligent. Our schedules got changed around this week, the MTC is starting all of these new programs and classes and changed all of our schedules! (P-days are now Thursdays, thats why I'm e-mailing now! hope you didn't get to scared!) We have teaching evaluation classes where we teach professional acting investigators the lessons, we have learned so much from them and they give use a real feel of how it will be in the field. We've been teaching is English and are slowly begginning to teach in the Spanish. We've gotten new missionaries but none to our zone, hopefully nexy week we will! I want Johnny to get here! he's going to love it and I'm excited for him to show up. Thanks for all the packages!I recieved a couple from you guys, one from Devin and Nathan, and one from Chelsea and Ricky, so I have an overload of candy! My district loves it though! they all say thanks!
I'm glad you guys had a good Easter and that everything is good back home! I'm missing California and my guitar! I make up for it by singing in our hall and the shower and stuff! it's a good time hahaha. Keep the letters coming! I love them and they help me out so much! Oh I forgot the mention, we had a late snowfall in Utah, Snowing! at the end of April! no bueno! it cleared up quickly though and has been really nice since! Go ahead and throw this up on the blog! pictures are one there way! I'll be writing friends all day today so I'm excited for that! Love you all and I'll e-mail next week! :)
"The truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, until it hass penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, until the purpose of God shall be acomplished and the Great Jehovah shall say, the work is done." Hell has great reason to fear.
Adios!
Elder Deniston. :)
The MTC live is still alive and busy and well! I was doing well with Spanish but have been struggling the past few days, I know that it will come. This mission was my call to serve, and who the Lord calls, He qualifies. So I know I'm qualified to learn the language and that I can, I just need to be faithful and diligent. Our schedules got changed around this week, the MTC is starting all of these new programs and classes and changed all of our schedules! (P-days are now Thursdays, thats why I'm e-mailing now! hope you didn't get to scared!) We have teaching evaluation classes where we teach professional acting investigators the lessons, we have learned so much from them and they give use a real feel of how it will be in the field. We've been teaching is English and are slowly begginning to teach in the Spanish. We've gotten new missionaries but none to our zone, hopefully nexy week we will! I want Johnny to get here! he's going to love it and I'm excited for him to show up. Thanks for all the packages!I recieved a couple from you guys, one from Devin and Nathan, and one from Chelsea and Ricky, so I have an overload of candy! My district loves it though! they all say thanks!
I'm glad you guys had a good Easter and that everything is good back home! I'm missing California and my guitar! I make up for it by singing in our hall and the shower and stuff! it's a good time hahaha. Keep the letters coming! I love them and they help me out so much! Oh I forgot the mention, we had a late snowfall in Utah, Snowing! at the end of April! no bueno! it cleared up quickly though and has been really nice since! Go ahead and throw this up on the blog! pictures are one there way! I'll be writing friends all day today so I'm excited for that! Love you all and I'll e-mail next week! :)
"The truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, until it hass penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, until the purpose of God shall be acomplished and the Great Jehovah shall say, the work is done." Hell has great reason to fear.
Adios!
Elder Deniston. :)
Thursday, April 28, 2011
MTC Pictures
My RoomElders? We can't refer to each other as anything besides "Elders" so technically "room mates" is incorrect. Elder Moore (far left) is from San Diego and is really cool. We get along well and always talk about how amazing SoCal is. His Companion Elder Lybbert is next to him. He's one of those guys who loves all classical music, reads his scriptures out loud like he's in a Shakespeare play, and probably never got out of his little town in Canada. He's a nice guy though & will be a great missionary! Then Elder Waldron who, I think, can't take a picture with a normal face or smile! hahaha. Then Me!! This was on our P-day!
Elder Waldron and I on our Temple walk. We both have really goofy faces on and we decided it was a bad picture, but I thought I would still send it.
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