Elder Dye
"Behold the field is white....":
Monday, April 30, 2012
April 30th, 2012
Well there is not too much to report this week and I am not in the emailing mood right now so I will write you a letter to make up for my terrible email. We have been seeing the blessings of the lord in our area more then ever right now. We were listening to a talk awhile back by Jeffery R. Holland called "Do You Love Me?" Alot of things in that talk hit home to me. One of the phrases really struck a cord he says, "You tell me how obedient of a missionary you were and I will tell you how your mission went." So Elder Fry and I have put a major emphasis on obedience along with a healthy combination of hard wok and we have been seeing the blessings and the prepared come falling into our laps! I wish I could think of a single instance but I cant because there were too many. We found 13 New Investigators this last week and our average has been 4. So we have been super busy. Our Bishop is moving out at the end of this month so we are super excited for a new fired up Bishop! That is about all that I can think of to tell you this week but you can expect a letter to get to you by thursday!
Love,
Elder Dye
Monday, April 23, 2012
April 23rd, 2012
This past week was a week of high hopes, and let downs. We started of this week by painting a house with Robert Madison. His wife is a member and he is working on switching churches to come worship with his wife. So that is good. That took up all of our Monday. Then on Tuesday we went and helped our Ward Mission Leader move some stuff around then later that night we went to a member home for dinner. They had a nonmember there and she was slightly interested in our belifs. So after dinner we started sharing a short message, but the not yet member had different and better plans. She started asking questions that perfectly set us up to teach the Restoration. So we did with POWER AND AUTHORITY. I have not felt the spirit that strong in quite awhile. She accepted our invitation to come to church and she was also going to bring her 12 year old grandson. We had everything set her member friend that had us over for dinner did her job perfect. She told her to come over to her house that morning and they would ride to church together. So I thought that there was no way in Satans home that she would back out...But guess what happened. She backed out Sunday morning around 8. I was so devastated. Elder Fry and I have never been able to bring a not yet member to church.
Well now is time for the good news. Elder Fry and I are staying together for at least one more transfer. We have already been companions for 3 months already. I have never been with anyone for 3 transfers. It is a good thing that we get along great! As you can see the good news section of my letter is alot shorter than the high hopes and let down section. So I will try to milk this section out for all its worth. Elder Fry and I have gotten our area extremely organized. We divided our map into 30 sections and then in a binder we sorted into sections every former, less active, and member. We did this so it will be easy to go visit everyone. It is nice to be organized. You would be proud of me mom! Our apartment is so clean I would eat off the floor. That is about it from Midwest.
Much Love,
Elder Dye
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
April 18th, 2012
Hey,
This past week was a heck of a week! We have recieved a new expectation from President Woodbury, and we are expected to contact 20 people a day outside of tracting, and set appointments. I don't know if I have told you about it or not already. It is a promise from Elder Ballard that if every companionship will talk to 20 people a day or more. They will double their baptisms. We have been leading the zone in number of people contacted. We have had some pretty off the wall stories that have resulted from this 20 a day expectation. Here are just a few that I can remember:
We stopped this middle aged black lady and started talking to her about the Book of Mormon and started talking about the Plan of Salvation. While we were talking I couldn't help but stare at this ladies eyes, and for some reason Elder Fry was being dead quiet, and that is not how I raised my boy up to be-so I awkwardly kept teaching this lady her name was Yolonda but she told us we could call her yo-yo. She told us how we were an answer to her prayers so I was getting pretty excited. I knew there was something wrong with her, but I couldn't put my finger on it. So as we walked away Elder Fry started busting up and asked me why I wasted 40 mins of my time to teach some lady that was higher then a kite about the Plan of Salvation. haha and after he said "high" the pieces of the puzzle fell into place!
Well it was a really rainy day and we only had a half hour to finish up our 20 contacts so we decided to go to the bus stop and talk to people there. So the very first guy I approach looks just like Mr. T. No Lie. I ask him about 4 or 5 questions and he just nods his head or gives me the thumbs up or down. So I am pretty scared of this guy, and I start to walk off. Elder Fry had different idea. So he kept talking to him and for some strange reason he took a liking to Elder Fry instead of me! Crazy I know! haha but we talked to him for about an hour at a bus stop in the rain. His name is Israel, and he is not a Christain. He told us that he would love to listen to us and give Christ another shot. The only problem is he doesn't live in our area, but he works in it. The missionaries that are suppose to teach him are both super sheltered. So we are going to poach him :)
This past Sunday Elder Munns of the Seventy came to our ward and he gave a talk in Priesthood about keys and who holds them. He had me read a few scriptures, and he made me repeat them becuase my accent was too thick for him to understand. I guess it is getting pretty bad, but it only comes out when I read. This past week was also prom so all of the youth wore their flashy clothes to church, and it made me think of how old I am. Well anyway that is it from the Great State of Indiana. I Just found out from President Woodbury today that I will be staying here till at least June 5th. Maybe longer.
Love,
Elder Dye
This past week was a heck of a week! We have recieved a new expectation from President Woodbury, and we are expected to contact 20 people a day outside of tracting, and set appointments. I don't know if I have told you about it or not already. It is a promise from Elder Ballard that if every companionship will talk to 20 people a day or more. They will double their baptisms. We have been leading the zone in number of people contacted. We have had some pretty off the wall stories that have resulted from this 20 a day expectation. Here are just a few that I can remember:
We stopped this middle aged black lady and started talking to her about the Book of Mormon and started talking about the Plan of Salvation. While we were talking I couldn't help but stare at this ladies eyes, and for some reason Elder Fry was being dead quiet, and that is not how I raised my boy up to be-so I awkwardly kept teaching this lady her name was Yolonda but she told us we could call her yo-yo. She told us how we were an answer to her prayers so I was getting pretty excited. I knew there was something wrong with her, but I couldn't put my finger on it. So as we walked away Elder Fry started busting up and asked me why I wasted 40 mins of my time to teach some lady that was higher then a kite about the Plan of Salvation. haha and after he said "high" the pieces of the puzzle fell into place!
Well it was a really rainy day and we only had a half hour to finish up our 20 contacts so we decided to go to the bus stop and talk to people there. So the very first guy I approach looks just like Mr. T. No Lie. I ask him about 4 or 5 questions and he just nods his head or gives me the thumbs up or down. So I am pretty scared of this guy, and I start to walk off. Elder Fry had different idea. So he kept talking to him and for some strange reason he took a liking to Elder Fry instead of me! Crazy I know! haha but we talked to him for about an hour at a bus stop in the rain. His name is Israel, and he is not a Christain. He told us that he would love to listen to us and give Christ another shot. The only problem is he doesn't live in our area, but he works in it. The missionaries that are suppose to teach him are both super sheltered. So we are going to poach him :)
This past Sunday Elder Munns of the Seventy came to our ward and he gave a talk in Priesthood about keys and who holds them. He had me read a few scriptures, and he made me repeat them becuase my accent was too thick for him to understand. I guess it is getting pretty bad, but it only comes out when I read. This past week was also prom so all of the youth wore their flashy clothes to church, and it made me think of how old I am. Well anyway that is it from the Great State of Indiana. I Just found out from President Woodbury today that I will be staying here till at least June 5th. Maybe longer.
Love,
Elder Dye
Monday, April 9, 2012
April 9th, 2012
Hello Family,
I do not have too much to report back on to you all. This past week flew by and I am not able to recollect very much of it. We have been leading the zone in Key Indicators for the third week in a row. We found an awesome Investigator at White Castle ( a terrible burger joint that is pretty big out here) We went in there and they gave us free food and then we sat and talked with them for quite awhile. We taught the whole crew the Restoration and three of them are now investigating the church. We had so many Easter parties this past week... One of our investigating families had us over on Saturday. We had a party with 40 of there family members and we were asked to give a "sermon" on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. So we gave it to 40 Catholics and then answered questions about our church. They all loved us and when the food was blessed they said that they were thankful for the new addition to their family. Elder Fry and I won the Egg toss and a few other games and we received walmart gift cards for every game we won which is good because the zone leaders lost my mission funds card so I won't get a new one for 12 more days. That is all that has happened here. I will be writing jessa and justin today so they can expect a letter in the mail by friday!
Love Elder Dye
I do not have too much to report back on to you all. This past week flew by and I am not able to recollect very much of it. We have been leading the zone in Key Indicators for the third week in a row. We found an awesome Investigator at White Castle ( a terrible burger joint that is pretty big out here) We went in there and they gave us free food and then we sat and talked with them for quite awhile. We taught the whole crew the Restoration and three of them are now investigating the church. We had so many Easter parties this past week... One of our investigating families had us over on Saturday. We had a party with 40 of there family members and we were asked to give a "sermon" on the Atonement of Jesus Christ. So we gave it to 40 Catholics and then answered questions about our church. They all loved us and when the food was blessed they said that they were thankful for the new addition to their family. Elder Fry and I won the Egg toss and a few other games and we received walmart gift cards for every game we won which is good because the zone leaders lost my mission funds card so I won't get a new one for 12 more days. That is all that has happened here. I will be writing jessa and justin today so they can expect a letter in the mail by friday!
Love Elder Dye
Monday, April 2, 2012
April 2nd, 2012
This past week was an amazing one! We recieved a challenge from our
Mission President to street contact 20 people a day outside of
tracting and visting members. He promised that if we do this
consistently we will have more investigators then we can
keep track of. So Elder Fry and I have tried our hardest to accomplish
these new expectations that President has now set.
We have started talking to everybody within the sound of our voice. We have street contacted some of the craziest people I have talked to and we have started talking to the pretty girls that we were scared of before.
This has resulted in us getting hit on alot. I have gotten more
comments about how pretty my eyes are this past week then I have my
entire life!
On Saturday night we were on our way home and we decided
that we would get a limeade from Sonic because it is in the 90's here now.
Across the street from Sonic was a Red Box, and there was a family trying to pick out a good movie to watch.So Elder Fry and I approached them with a
Finding Faith in Christ DvD, and told them they should watch that.
They told us how much they hated their church they go to now and have
been looking for another! It was sweet! So of course we invited them to
our church and they should be coming next week.
So on Tuesday we were walking through a neighboorhood and Elder Fry and I talked to this Dad and his son playing ball in the driveway. The dad invited us in the backyard and we sat down and started to teach him. He started to argue with us so I bore him my testimony and left him a Book of Mormon. That is about it from Evansville Indiana! If you got any questions you know how to get a hold of me :)
Love,
Elder Dye
Mission President to street contact 20 people a day outside of
tracting and visting members. He promised that if we do this
consistently we will have more investigators then we can
keep track of. So Elder Fry and I have tried our hardest to accomplish
these new expectations that President has now set.
We have started talking to everybody within the sound of our voice. We have street contacted some of the craziest people I have talked to and we have started talking to the pretty girls that we were scared of before.
This has resulted in us getting hit on alot. I have gotten more
comments about how pretty my eyes are this past week then I have my
entire life!
On Saturday night we were on our way home and we decided
that we would get a limeade from Sonic because it is in the 90's here now.
Across the street from Sonic was a Red Box, and there was a family trying to pick out a good movie to watch.So Elder Fry and I approached them with a
Finding Faith in Christ DvD, and told them they should watch that.
They told us how much they hated their church they go to now and have
been looking for another! It was sweet! So of course we invited them to
our church and they should be coming next week.
So on Tuesday we were walking through a neighboorhood and Elder Fry and I talked to this Dad and his son playing ball in the driveway. The dad invited us in the backyard and we sat down and started to teach him. He started to argue with us so I bore him my testimony and left him a Book of Mormon. That is about it from Evansville Indiana! If you got any questions you know how to get a hold of me :)
Love,
Elder Dye
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