6/21/10 - Letter to the World

Hello World!!!!!

First of all, i´ve gotta give a shout-out to all the fathers out there - Especially mine! HAPPY FATHERS DAY (yesteray! :D)

This last week, President sent me in divisions to help out one of my District leaders to take full advantage of a HUGE baptismal service that they were planning. 2 Families were getting baptized, so we had to do a lot to invite all of their friends, get baptismal clothing for everybody that needed to be in white (14), refreshments, etc. It was a great experience. While i was in Benavidez, Elder Labra was here in Lopez Camelo doing everything that he needed to do to prepare for OUR baptism this last weekend. Sara Gimenez was baptized on Saturday, and confirmed Sunday!

This weekend is Stake Conference, but we have 2 baptisms - Angelita, and Nicolas. Their baptisms will be friday, at 7pm, and then after their baptisms, there is a Missionary Activity (activity for the missionary work....i don´t know - it doesn´t sound right.) after the baptism. Should be GREAT!

Last week, Elder Labra and Elder Rodriguez found a family, the Franco´s. They are AMAZING! They couldn´t come to church this week, because they had family come in from far away, but i know they will be baptized soon.

They also found a 9yr old kid named Jonny. He has been to church before, and his aunt is a member. He told us that he wants to be baptized! We met his mom yesterday, and she told us that it´s fine - he can do it if it makes him happy. She is also going to come to stake conference with him the weekend, and she said that she will think about starting to listen to what we´re teaching her son.

Ada is a 57 year old woman that we found a few days ago. She as well has been to the church before, because she has a daughter that is LDS. We taught her for the first time saturday at about 5pm, and at 7, when we had the baptism, she showed up! It was a great miracle...she also showed up at church on sunday!

There are many miracles happening here in Lopez Camelo! We have the 2 baptisms planned for this weekend, and three for next weekend!

el campo blanco está ya para la siega!

The field is White already to harvest!

I know that this is the work of God!

I Love you all!

Love,

Elder Denton

6/14/10 - Letter to the World

CONGRADULATIONS WHITNEY!!!!! PITSBURG PENNSYLVANIA
CODY - THE COUNTDOWN IS ON - I THINK WE ARE AT LESS THAN 48 HOURS! WAHOOOO!!!

What a week!

It sort of stinks to always be the last one to know - but watcha gonna do!?

This has been a sort of weird week. We started of good with everything, and then had interviews with President Argyle on Thursday. When i was in my interview, he told me that he wanted me to do divisions with another elder, so on saturday we started, and i think i´m going to be here until at least Thursday.

I don´t know too much of what´s going on in my area, since i´m here in Benavidez, but i DO know that Nicolas Leiva, who had his baptismal date for the 19th didn´t make it to church yesterday, so we are going to have to wait another week.

My companion told me that Sara Gimenez and Angelita are both progressing very well, and that he is planning the baptismal services for them for this saturday! I´ll get back to Lopez Camelo just in time for the Baptisms!

I´m so glad that i have the gospel in my life, and for the miracles that i see every day. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me, and that he is always watching out for me. I know that Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for me, and that it is thanks to him that i have the ability to repent, and become better every day. I Know that i´m doing the Lord´s work, and love teaching people that there is still hope for them - that the atonement applies to EVERYBODY - and that if they follow the principles of the gospel, and recieve the ordenances, they too can live with Heavenly Father and their families in the Celestial Kingdom after this life finishes.

I Love you all.

Love,

Elder Denton

I pressed Elder Denton a little bit to find out why President Argyle sent him to be with this other Elder for the week...I was asking if he was weak as a missionary, or if it was just a random request. This was his response:

He´s a new District leader....
also - in this area on saturday, there are 2 families that are going to be baptized - 10 people. President wanted me to help him in taking advantage of the baptism in finding new investigators by inviting all of their friends, having lessons with members, being able to set baptismal dates - basically EVERYTHING!
He´s a great missionary - he´s from Roy, Utah! There isn´t really any weak point, it was just to help teach him how to be a leader cuz it´s his first experience besides training another missionary.

I thought that was pretty cool....george.

Three Denton Missionaries all out at once!

Whitney (Elder Kyle Dentons' sister) received her call today to the Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh mission (English speaking) and will go into the Provo MTC on Sept 1, 2010!

Cody (Elder Kyle Dentons' brother) received his call on Apr 28, 2010 and is going to the Nicaragua, Managua North mission(Spanish speaking) and enters the Provo MTC next Wed., June 16th!

6/7/10 - Letter to the World

Hello World!

I´ve finally got those pictures that i promised ya´ll!

Okay - First of all - Everybody should know that my sister, Whitney, will be getting her mission call tomorrow [Wed] - after more than enough waiting! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Second of all - Cody will be giving his farewell talk in Sacrament Meeting this Sunday! Wahooooooo again!

Okay - This week has been great! We have an investigator, Heriberto, that is AMAZING! - I wrote to Pres Argyle about him, and am gonna be REALLY lazy right now, and do a quick copy and paste.....Cody - do your magic!

En la última despedida de Élderes, le presentamos (E´Roman y yo) un investigador que tendrá algunos 70 años, quien está juntado. Hace más de 30 años que él vive con su señora, y él, siendo viudo, al casarse, perdería su pensión. (o así penso). El sacó turno con un abogado para tratar la tema, y ver lo que podría ver. Un par de días antes que el iba a tener esa cita con su abogado, tuvimos una leccion con él en lo cual leimos Mosíah 18:8-10, y le hicimos la pregunta ´entonces, ¿que le impediría bautizarse?´ él nos contó nuevamente que tenía que ver con la pensión de su esposa que ya murió, pero despues dijo que no importaba - que él iba a ir para sacar turno el proximo lunes, y que Dios provería la manera. La proxima vez que lo vimos, él nos contó que habló con su abogado, y al casarse nuevamente, no perdirá su pension! Yo sé que Dios nos bendice después de la prueba de nuestra fe! Él se fue hoy para sacar turno para casarse!

At the last Elder farewell, Elder Roman and I introduced you to an investigator that’s 70 or so years old, who is “joined” (living with a woman, but not married). He’s lived with this woman for more than 30 years, and he, being a widow, by getting married, would lose his pension. He made an appointment with a lawyer to try the topic and to see what he could do. A few days before he was going to make this appointment with the lawyer, we went to teach him a lesson in which we read Mosiah 18:8-10, and we asked him, “so, what stands in the way of your baptism?”. He told us again that it had to do with his dead wife’s pension, but then he said that it didn’t matter – that the next Monday he was going to make an appointment to get married and that God would provide a way. The next time we saw him, he told us that he spoke with the lawyer who said he wouldn’t lose his pension by getting remarried. I know that God blesses us after testing our faith. Today he went to make that appointment to be married!
Besides Heriberto, his son, Guillermo, went a few weeks ago to set a date for his wedding - which will be July 22nd!

The 2 couples came to church yesterday, and the ward has been really good about helping them feel at home. Heriberto always tells us how good he feels when he gets home! Even more, they gave us a reference of a family friend named Evangelita. She is also listening to us, and has a baptismal date for the 19th.

Nicolas is also progressing well. His baptismal date is also set for the 19th. He is a good friend of Oscar (On my right in the 2 pictures) who was baptized a few weeks ago. Oscar almost always comes with us to teach nicolas, and on sunday went to his house to pick him up and take him to church.

We have another investigator, Hernan, who WAS progressing towards his baptismal date on the 19th, but his lost that date pecause he didn´t come to church on sunday. He stayed out late saturday at a party, and didn´t wake up in the morning to come to church.

It´s hard to always see the same thing happen. When we teach, we even tell the people to look out for these things that Satan does to keep us from doing what God wants us to do (late parties, hanging out with friends late, etc). SOMETHING always happens..

Anyways - that´s about all that´s new here in Lopez Camelo!

I Hope that you all have a great day, week, month, year, etc.

I Love you,

Love,

Elder Denton

Note on attached pictures -
so that you know - in the pic sitting down - Gonzalo Oriente - Elder Denton - Oscar Buttaro

in the other picture - Elder Roman (I was in divisions with him for 1.5 weeks) - Gonzalo Oriente - Elder Denton - Oscar Buttaro - Juan Lopez (Young Mens President)

6/1/10 - Letter to the World

What a great Week!!

I´ve been in exchanges all this week. I Have Been with Elder Roman all week. It´s been a great experience to learn, grow, and teach!

This last weekend we had 2 Baptisms.

Gonzalo Oriente (13 years old) and Oscar Buttaro (15 years old)!

Gonzalo´s baptism was a miracle. For the last three weeks we have been trying to talk with his mom to get her permission, but she didn´t want to give it to us. His legal guardian is his grandma, but she lives in another mission. I had been worrying about it, and on the phone with the mission offices all week long trying to coordinate that the elders in the other mission go the the grandmas house to get permision, and send it to us by fax. Up until friday night, we didn´t have permission, and i didn´t know what to do. I called the Assistants, and they said that i should call Pres. Argyle for his advice. I thought that before i did that, i would call a member who lives in the same property as gonzalo. We had asked Sister Mendieta to talk with mabel, but she hadn´t found the ´right moment´. When i called friday night at like 10pm, she told me that she had talked with gonzalo´s mom, and that she had given us permission!! I said - WAHOOOOOOO!!!!!

I was able to baptize Gonzalo, and Oscar was baptized by the Dad of one of his friends. It was a great service!

The best part is that we still have a TON of work to do in Lopez Camelo. There are so many people that are ready to listen to us!

The Gomez Family (Guillermo y Jimena) are still progressing well, and the parents, the Sanchez Family (Heliberto y Angelica) are going to go and talk to an atorney in a few days to see what they can do about getting marries. They both know that the church is true, and want to get baptized...but they have to get married first, and there are a few things standing in the way of that.

Nicolas Leiva is progressing well. We have had to push his baptismal date a bit further, for the 19th, because he wasn´t able to come to church on sunday, but we had a lesson with him last night, with Oscar Buttaro (the kid that got baptized saturday), and it was AMAZING. Nicolas asked Oscar what it was like getting baptized, and Oscar was able to share his testimony!

I forgot to bring my SD Card converter, so ya´ll will have to wait until next week to see the pictures. Sorry Everybody - i dropped the ball a little!

I hope that you all have a GREAT week!

Love

Elder Denton

5/24/10 - Letter to the World

HELLO WORLD!

Well...(me parece que no me estoy portando bien) - sorry---i don´t know how to say that in inglish. - i guess i´m not behaving well?? i think that´s right...anyways -At the beginning of this transfer i was with Elder Labra...then came elder Parra, and now i´m with a Peruvian - Elder Roman.

Haha...no - i´m behaving well, but Elder Labra and I were talking, and we realized that it would be important to do divisions with another pair of elders in our Zone, so, when Elder Labra talked with President to finish the first transfer, with elder Smith and Elder Parra, he talked about doing transfers with the others - and President also thought that it would be a good idea.
We were going to finish transfers this morning, but President wants us to continues for another week...

This week has been great!

Mon until Wed morning, i was with elder Parra, and then the 3 companionships met up at a central church building, and did the other switch!

Elder Roman has about 3 months less that me in the Mission. We are working hard, and the work will be paying off this weekend!

Gonzalo Oriente - He´s progressing VERY well!! We only have to teach him about tithing and fasting. He will have his baptismal interview on Wednesday - Baptism on the 29th!

Oscar Buttaro - Also - progressing verry well! Oscar is the kid that, after the 2nd lesson with us, said - At first i was coming to church for one of the girls that goes there - but i felt something different at church, and i want to be baptized.
A few days latter, he said that he wanted to wait a little bit longer to be baptized with another kid his age who is listening to us. I left him with a part of the book of mormon to read, and told him that after, he should pray, and ask Heavenly Father if he should be baptized on May 29th. The next time we went to visit him, i asked him how it went and he said - ´i did what you told me to, and i felt something different´ i said - will you prepare to be baptized on the 29th? and he said yes!!!! - His interview is on Thursday!

Guillermo y Jimena (he men uh) - SACARON FECHA PARA CASARSE!!!!! They are going to be married July 22nd, and baptized the next day! It´s about 2 months away, but that´s what we have to deal with with the way they do weddings here...

I don´t have too much else to say - the other investigators are progressing well, and hopefully we´ll see baptisms more regularly!

I Love you all, and hope that everybody is doing well!

Love,

Elder Denton

5/17/10 - Letter to the World

WHAT A GREAT WEEK!

Everything started out VERY well on monday! After p-day, elder Labra and I found 4 new investigators!

Tuesday, at noon, Elder Labra and i met up with Elder Smith, one of our district leaders, and his companion, elder parra. (elder parra has only 3 weeks in the mission!) We changed companions, and elder parra and i went to the district meeting of my other district leader, and then came back here to lopez camelo. We got back to lopez camelo with only a few hours, and we found 5 more investigators!!! A family of 8.

Wednesday, we had a very long day. A lot of our plans fell through, but we found a family of 11, and 3 new investigators!

On thursday, we had a lot of lessons planned, and taught a lot. We´re focusing a lot in teaching ¨Keep the sabbath day holy¨

Friday, we also had a lot to do, and out assistent mission leader came with us for about 2hrs.

Saturday, to meet our goal, we needed to have 5 lessons with a member present. One of the youth in the ward agreed to accompany us for a little while. After about 3 hrs i said - we have some other appts, but they are a bit further away - you can go home if you want. He said that he didn´t have anything to do, and we ended up having 5 lessons that day with a member present!!!

Sunday was great! We had 7 investigators in the church. Guillermo Gomez (his girlfriend was sick, and didn´t come), his mom, and his step dad, Graciela, Guillermo and Jessica Biotti (Guillermo is the older brother of Gustavo Romano, who was baptized a few months ago) with their 4 girls, and Oscar - one of the kids that came last week, and who was in the lesson that we had 2 weeks ago after mutual with a bunch of the non-members that showed up!

After church, we went and had lunch, and then went to contact a reference. A member told us that the parents are less active, but that there are kids there that haven´t been baptized. We found Jimena - she´s 18 years old, and goes to the evangelic church - but she commited to read the book of mormon and pray. We taught her to pray, but she was embarresed to do it, but when we left, she asked us if we would right down the steps to pray so that she could pray after reading the book of mormon!!!!

Gonzalo Oriento was going to be baptized this saturday, but he ended up going to his grandma´s house this weekend, and didn´t come to church.
Nicolas Leiva, another one of the kids that was in the lesson with 6 after mutual didn´t come either, so he los his baptismal date of the 29th.

Gonzalo can still be baptized the 29th, and oscar, the kid that came to church yesterday, also has a baptismal date for the 29th!

I hope that everything is going well at home for everybody!!

Love ya´ll,

Elder Denton

(PS...i still don´t know when elder labra will be back. We were talking, and even if he does come back, we are going to have to do another exchange this week to help a companionship that is worrying us....so i don´t know how much time we´ll be together.)