Hey ya'll!
Thanks for all the packages and letters! They really mean alot! I am
glad everything is going good! everything here is going good also! i
had the worst moment of my mission this past week though.
we were teaching a guy named Andre in his friends backyard cause he was
watering his plants for him. but we were gettin through to him and i was about to give
him a Book of Mormon and all of the sudden his friend bursts in the
backyard screamin at us. his friend is a 65 year old Baptist preacher
or something like that. he started making fun of us tellin us that
there is no way in heck that we are Elders and we need to start using
our heads and don't let them brain wash us blah blah blah... this went
on for like ten mins and he was really bashing on us hard! he grabbed
me by my backpack and started jerking me around out of his backyard
and man handling me. and you know that Dye Temper... so we get out to
the sidewalk and he still has his hands on me and my arms are folded
just trying to bottle up my rage and this old guy hugs me! i just sat
there with my arms folded just waitin to blow! and he goes to push me
one more time. So i grab his arm and i told him "if you touch me one
more time im gunna break your bones, i don't care what you say i am an
Elder and i hold the same power God does." and he says im sure you do
and rolls his eyes. "and i said im not done, me and my companion here
have more authority then anyone in your church so if i were you i
would watch your tone! then i threw his arm back at him and left.
Missionary work is not hard, the hard part is keeping your emotions in
check. You get rejected and bashed on and things thrown at you,
investigators who know its true and just wont act on it and it breaks
your heart. it is hard to be a happy missionary when all thats
happenin. But i know that God loves me because on our way home that
night we have to walk by one of the roughest corners around and stuff
always goes down: beggars and all sorts of thugs and drugs and stuff.
but while we were walking through here everyone on that corner took
turns prayin with us and askin for some uplifting words, so we happily
gave them. and while we were walkin away a normal couple from Salt
Lake drove by and stopped and said we are members! ( that doesn't
happen often) and they said jump in we will grab ya a bite to eat
(that doesn't happen often either!) so we sat down and had a great
time that just showed me who is own my side... God is, and he has got
my back! haha
The Church is true. The Book is Blue. And Jesus was a Mormon!
Love ya,
Elder Dye
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