January 17th, 2012

Dear Family,

This past week has been a wild one. We have been tracting our guts out
and are not seeing too much success. But it all paid off because last
Sunday a famiy made the decision to be baptized by someone
holding the authority from God. So I was able to help my first
investigators into the waters of baptism for the remission of sins. It
was a great experience and I am hungry for more!
Elder Porter of the Seventy came and talked to us and I was able to
learn some very key things that have really changed my view on
missionary work. We had an in depth talk about the Atonement of Jesus
Christ. It was pretty deep stuff but this is what the spirt helped me
pull out of it and how I likened it to missionary work:
Christ's ultimate goal on the earth was to give us an opportunity to
recieve a remission for our sins. We are asked as missionaries and as
members of the church to follow the example of the Savior. So the way
that I think that I can best do that is having my investigators be
baptized for the remission of their sins. Too much I have my focus
diverted to just the 1st lesson or just the Book of Mormon. But our
main focus should be helping those who have not already recieve a
remission of their sins. (As talked about all over in the Scriptures
but mainly in 2 Nephi 31.)
Our trio was split up today. I was able to learn how to be
unified as a companionship because with three people it is a constant
struggle to do that. I cannot believe how much my mind has been
opened up to the scriptures and how much knowledge, testimony, and
charity I have gained. I would not like to be anywhere but here right
now.
I am glad that Jessa was able to pull off the "W" in her basketball game. And send justin out there with his gun after that
porcupine.
Oh I almost forgot! The weather here has went crazy! It has
been snowing and blowing on us and we come in at night frozen to
death. This morning I was almost part of a tornado and I was going to
chase it down and get pictures of it,but it passed over. The tornado
siren was going off all morning. Transfers come on the 31st and I am
pretty nervous but everything should be fine. I will send pictures of
the baptism to you next week but that is about it from Indiana.

Love,

Elder Dye