December 28th, 2011

I was at the bus stop waitng for the bus to take me back to my
apartment when a lady walks up to me and is crying. She asks me when
the next bus is coming and if it will take her to Valley Station. So I
start talking to her and she gives me a big ole sob story about how
hard her life is and all that jazz. Which happens pretty often and it
is always followed with them asking for a few dollars. but she didn't.
She told me that she doesn't want to burden me with her drama and so
she walks away. I thought that she was a fake. So i went and sat back
down, but i had a prompting to go back up and talk to her. So i
grabbed a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet(can't spell) and i pulled a five
spot out of my wallet and stuck it in between the pages. I walked up
to her and she looked at me and starting crying again. She told me she
didn't believe in God and if there was a God he doesn't care about
her. So i told her that was not the case. There is a God and he loves
you very much, and that is why you ran into me today. I talked about
the Plan of Salvation, and the bus pulled up so i just walked away.
She chased me onto the bus and was sobbing and asking me why i did
what i just did. I didn't know why i did i just knew that i needed to.
She told me that i was the most christlike person she had seen in a
long long time and she asked where our church was located. I watched
her walk to the front of the bus and offer up a prayer of thanks to
the God that she again believed in. Two prayers were answered with
this experience, a young fired up missionary looking for someone to
teach, found someone to teach, and my friend i met at the bus stop who
was looking for a testimony of her Heavenly Father and found it.

Transfer--Indiana Here We Come!! December 19th, 2011

I'm getting transfered to Newburg Indiana. I will be on a bike. I will be Junior companion for one more transfer and then I will train after that. I am nervous.

I need to make a few purchases for a bike area in the winter time. I have to buy Fenders to keep the water from the streets from getting on me and a leg strap thing and some slime tubes, so I might be spendig a little money in the near future.

I had to say goodbye to all of my investigators and we have gotten pretty close in the last little while. it has been probably one of the hardest things I have had to do. I am worried that they will drop the missionaries after I leave. But Elder Freestone will still be around so thats good. I am getting set up to train and I am kinda scared but Elder Freestone told me that I am already better then he is. I don't believe him but it gave me a little bit of confidence. It is nice to know that President
thinks you are a good missionary too. Normally people don't train until their 9th or 10th transfer here and mine will be my fifth. So I
am trying to learn everything that I possibly can as
quick as I can. That is about all from here in Ky this week

Love,

Elder Dye

December 12th, 2011

Hey there Family!!!!

This past week was an exciting one! i will just go through the days
Monday: Got invited to a christmas party that was being thrown by the
campus cru ( bible study group) we ended up teaching 15 or 20 people
in this party I felt like we were some old school missionaries just
standin there and preaching. It went well and we got us some new
investigators outa that. I broke my umbrella on accident and i had to
walk about 30 blocks in the pouring rain so i got soaked.

Tuesday: Was packed full of appointments. 2 of them were first lesson
restoration lessons and the other 2 were progressing investigators. We
set another baptism date with our investigator Carlos for Dec. 31st!
Which is really exciting because this area has not baptized in a long
long time. Then we had a lesson with some baptist seminary students.
We were making alot of progress with them and then all of the sudden
it turned into a bash and the kicked the crap out of us. So we
scheduled a return appointment cause we were not going to get our
trash kicked and i was ready to tear apart the doctrine of the
Trinity. so we went in there and i had a change of heart and we had a
nice friendly talk with tons of testimonies bourne and they didn't
know how to bash with the spirit.

Sunday: Elder Walter F. Gonzales of the presidency of the seventy came
to our branch to talk to us. So one of our investigators was with us
at church and we went up and shook his hand after and he asked our
investigtor if he was a member and he tole him no and he asked if we
had invited him and we told him we did last night and he turned us
down. so then Elder Gonzales invites him to be baptized and promises
him all of these blessings and stuff it was crazy!! So now ty is
thinking really hard about baptism!

That was my week. There was a challenge in our zone to see who the
most obedient and successful companionship was and me and Elder
Freestone won!!!!! So the Zone Leaders have to take us out to eat.

I love you all!

December 5th, 2011

You're awesome! I am so thankful for all the things you have done for me to be me. It seems like I was raised to be a missionary. I have been kickin the trash outa one of the worst areas in the mission and
president told us that we have done everything he wished we would and more, from the things he told Elder Freestone about me it sounds like he has high expectations of me.
Thanks for all you have done, and thanks for teaching me to chew with my mouth closed.
I have about 4 investigators that are really close to
baptism. I am not suppose to give out names. but 2 boys and 2 girls. They are so cool and I love them!!! But about me. I am progressing
fast,I have given trainings, and Elder Freestone and I are top
dogs all because we listen for the promptings of the spirit and I have been blessed with the gift of being a people person. I have been able
to learn how to make friends with people on the street within 2 min. I am so thankful for that! My knee is feeling better! The Church is true!

Love,
Elder Dye