Hey Family,
Things in Evansville have been great this past week. Elder Fry and I
have hit about our halfway mark of tracting our area. We have gotten
some cool people to teach these past couple weeks. My favorite one (is
it ok to have favorites? idk?) is a guy named Tom. He is 45, divorced
and is one of the most Christlike people I have ever met. The fun
thing about teaching him is that he is smart.
I have grown to love the Bible and I have studied it a little too much. I can probably quote 30-40 scriptures word for word and probably 30 other references. So wehave some great talks about how the Book of Mormon cannot go hand in hand with the bible. We had a great lesson with him this past Saturday and he had probably put 30 hours worth of study into why the Book of Mormon can't be the word of God. These conversations in no way are
heated.
But we went in there and bore testimony to him and he is now
really trying to have the spirit tell him what is true. It was a
pretty cool experience and it is one that is hard to explain.
I don't have much time. I am going to a monistary today for our p-day
and it is only 1 of 9 in the world! It is where the monks study and
stuff like that. So I am stoked. I will send my sd card home next week
so you can see all the pics.
Love you,
Elder Dye
Elder Dye
"Behold the field is white....":
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
February 21st, 2012
Dear Family,
Things here are going good! We have had a pretty good week. We
started last week off with 1 Investigator and we ended the week with
10. So me and my companions' nonstop tracting paid off this past week!
So as you can see this week was a good one. I was able to give the
Preisthood to the guy I baptized this past Sunday and that was pretty
sick. We have also got the ward a little more receptive to the
missionaries. I have been here for 2 months and only ate at 3 members
homes, but this next week we have a dinner every night but 2 so I
don't know what we did, but we did something.
Oh i have not yet wrecked on my bike, but I had a super
close call the other day. I was biking down a street comapable to 17th
street in I.F. and we were stopped at a stoplight and some members
waved to us right when the light turned green so I was starting out
in 3-7 the highest gear on my bike and I was starting from a dead
stop. So I waved right as I was pumping it out and I lost my handle
bars and I went about 3/4 of the way into the lane to my left in heavy
traffic, and I barley didn't get hit. Elder Fry was pretty scared for
me cause as you know those things don't seem to scare me how they
should :)
I am glad everything at home is going great and that the truck is
back to its beasty self. I hope that things continue to go well. So my letters might be a little dry and just about missionary "Yitz" ( that is our districts substitute word for anything and everything) Thanks for all the help with losing my wallet. I really appreciate it:)
Well,
Love Elder Dye
Things here are going good! We have had a pretty good week. We
started last week off with 1 Investigator and we ended the week with
10. So me and my companions' nonstop tracting paid off this past week!
So as you can see this week was a good one. I was able to give the
Preisthood to the guy I baptized this past Sunday and that was pretty
sick. We have also got the ward a little more receptive to the
missionaries. I have been here for 2 months and only ate at 3 members
homes, but this next week we have a dinner every night but 2 so I
don't know what we did, but we did something.
Oh i have not yet wrecked on my bike, but I had a super
close call the other day. I was biking down a street comapable to 17th
street in I.F. and we were stopped at a stoplight and some members
waved to us right when the light turned green so I was starting out
in 3-7 the highest gear on my bike and I was starting from a dead
stop. So I waved right as I was pumping it out and I lost my handle
bars and I went about 3/4 of the way into the lane to my left in heavy
traffic, and I barley didn't get hit. Elder Fry was pretty scared for
me cause as you know those things don't seem to scare me how they
should :)
I am glad everything at home is going great and that the truck is
back to its beasty self. I hope that things continue to go well. So my letters might be a little dry and just about missionary "Yitz" ( that is our districts substitute word for anything and everything) Thanks for all the help with losing my wallet. I really appreciate it:)
Well,
Love Elder Dye
Monday, February 6, 2012
February 6th, 2012
I am glad to hear that the Patriots didn't pull off the "W." This week
has been an interesting one. I have officially made the jump to senior
companion and trainer. My companion's name is Elder Fry and he is from Salt Lake.
Our area has been quite challenging this past week, but.... we trucked through it. We have no one to teach at the moment and all we have to do is tract, and that has been going on the not so hot side. No one has given us 3 min. at a door in a week of straight tracting. So I am trying to learn the
lesson that I need to from this.
On the plus side, we are biking close to 20-25
miles a day. I am trying to hit all of the areas that other
missionaries were too lazy to hit. I got my package and thank you!
There was some good candy in there! Thats all that's new here. Love ya!
Elder Dye
has been an interesting one. I have officially made the jump to senior
companion and trainer. My companion's name is Elder Fry and he is from Salt Lake.
Our area has been quite challenging this past week, but.... we trucked through it. We have no one to teach at the moment and all we have to do is tract, and that has been going on the not so hot side. No one has given us 3 min. at a door in a week of straight tracting. So I am trying to learn the
lesson that I need to from this.
On the plus side, we are biking close to 20-25
miles a day. I am trying to hit all of the areas that other
missionaries were too lazy to hit. I got my package and thank you!
There was some good candy in there! Thats all that's new here. Love ya!
Elder Dye
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