June 11th, 2012

Hey Family, I did get transferred last week to a nice little town called New Albany Indiana. It is right across the Ohio from Louisville. I am the District Leader and I am follow up training Elder Fry's MTC companion. He is a LEGIT Cowboy from Wyoming and in this past week he has already taught me how to rope like a champ. He has won a ton of team roping events and he is a boss. So I have really made up my mind on being a cowboy. So I would like my boots and my belt, and a button up shirt so i can be as cool as he is. That is about all that I would want/need. It was real sad and real hard to leave everybody in Evansville, but i told most of them i would come back to visit and that i would bring you all with me. I know this might be a ways out but what do you think about coming to pick me up when i am done, and we could tour around the mission and maybe go hit up the rest of the church sites back east? Elder Potter and I have had some crazy things happen already. We were in the park and there are tons of ducks that sit around a big pond. We were walking around talking to everyone we saw. It started to get a little boring so I thought that i would spice things up. I walked up to this duck and it chicks and i tried to catch the mama. She didnt like that very much and started to hiss and snap at me, but you know me. I kept up my diligence and all of the sudden momma duck came after my face. I turned around and took off on a full speed sprint. I thought she would stop after I got far enogh away from her chicks, but she was right on my tail trying to bite me and slapping my backpack with her wings. I probably got chased for 50 yards before she stopped. Elder Potter sure got a kick out of that, and so did everyone else in the park. Funny story #2: We were in an area Elder Potter had never been in so we thought we should check it out a little bit. We walked down a creek and found ourselves in the deep sticks. We saw this tiny little house and elder potter recognized this thing in the backyard as a moonshine maker thing. all of the sudden this crazy mountain man comes walking out of this tiny shack and we both got pretty scared. He talked to us for a little while and then turned around and walked into the woods. We took off as fast as we could and we got soaked, and all muddy and scratched up. We had the Car Elders pick us up and we started laughing so hard that i threw up. It was kind of embarrasing. haha So i am on a bike again, and i am thinking about telling president to keep me on one so I can be on a bike for all of my mission. I met a lady in our ward that is cousins to Jill Searle. Her name is Sister Valentine. The ward is super nice here and are willing to do anything for the missonaries it is quite the change from my last ward. I will be on to email at 10:30 Louisville time. So 8:30-9:00 yout time. My address is Elder Jake Dye 401 Colonial Club Drive New Albany, Indiana 47150 Much Love, Elder Dye