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