Denning, Jonathon

Hey yall i hope you all had a great week this week.  Sorry that this email is a bit late but we have been pretty busy. This past week was kinda slow, but also very fast.  And if I'm being honest I don't really remember what happened up until about Sunday.  But from Sunday till todaa was full of fun things. Sunday was of course church, and we had a great time there.  There is this one family in Wagner, who idk if I've mentioned them before, but their name is the Chessmores.  They are literally the best family ever.  Yes they're a bit chaotic but it makes the mission life funner.  Anyways, their oldest daughter Mary was able to bring two of her friends to church, one of which has talked with missionaries in the past and the other it wad his first time coming.  But Mary told me that they are going to be regulars at church, which is so baller. Anyways, after church the Chessmores invited us over to have a lesson with these two friends and to have lunc...

Hey yall hope your week was good! This week was pretty good.  On Tuesday we had some awesome lessons planned out for some part-member family who have recently started come back to church, but sadly they canceled.  This family has been kinda going through it because the mom had a heart attack a couple weeks ago and has been kinda stressin so please keep Suzie in your prayers. In Wednesday we went over to Winner because the Bartletts were feeding us but sadly we weren't able to help them with anything on the farm this time cause they had just barely gotten home when we rolled up.  But, while we were in Winner we had set up a lesson with Ty and when we showed up sadly he wasn't there, but the good news is that his girlfriend Jackie was down to hear a message this time.  So, we talked about the book of mormon with her and so hopefully we will be able to meet with them together and help them towards baptism. On Thursday we had interviews with President Calaway and those a...

Hey yall hope you had a great week! This week was pretty boring but wasn't too bad.  We were able to hit most of our goals this week which was sick.  And if I'm being honest, it wasn't until I got here that this place had hit any of their goals but I don't want to be prideful. Anyways on Wednesday we had some really good lessons.  We were able to find our friend Shawn who was interested but we just haven't been able to catch him, and he isn't super great at responding to texts.  But we had a good lesson about priesthood and Joseph Smith.  Then we invited him to church.  Sadly he didn't come, but there is always the next Sunday.  We found and awesome guy named Lucas and at first he wasn't super into it, then in our second lesson we were talking more about the restoration and I asked him how he feels God's love.  He went on and talked about his family and how he had recently had a passing and so we hopped right into the plan of salvation and that re...

Hey yall hope you had a good week!! This week was pretty good and kinda crazy at the same time.  So on Thursday we had exchanges with the Elders in Mitchell South Dakota.  That was pretty fun.  I got to go with Elder Cannon who had been out on his mission for 2 transfers.  He is a pretty cool guy and we had a great time together.  At the end of our exchanges, I got to go to the one and only Corn Palace which was super sick.  It's pretty much a big community center thingy where they play basketball games for their collage, but they had a picture of Jesus made out of corn on the front of the building and other murals made of corn all over the whole thing. The next day on Friday, we went on exchanges again with the zone leaders, and we did them in our area this time instead of us going to Sioux Falls.  I thought that this time I would go with the Elder that I have never been on exchanges with, but when they got here they were like "who do you think is goi...

Merry Christmas y'all and Happy New Year!  I'm going to be totally honest I almost forgot about my email but at this point I don't want to break my streak of sending one every week.  This last week was pretty chill.  Monday was miracle Monday, where it's just a normal work day but it was fun cause we had our branch Christmas party.  It was super fun.  They had us make a balloon arch and try to set it up but it was super floppy.  It took us like an hour just to get it set up. Wednesday of course was Christmas and that was pretty chill nothing really to crazy happened.  We had dinner with the loveless family, they are super cool. The rest of the week was pretty chill we went on exchanges with Elders up in Madison and that was super fun.  Nothing crazy just doing my duties as a DL. On New Year's Eve we didn't have a pday but it was a pretty chill day.  The Chessmore family, which are literally the best, had a New Year's party and we went to that...