October 29th, 2012

Hey Errybody! I will talk about what has happened missionary work wise this week. So we found a really cool new investigator! Her name is Marita. She is a really sweet old widow. We taught the whole Restoration to her and set our return appointment. We also had an intense lesson with Jared and Nathaniel our 15 yr old investigators. His mom confused us with the RLDS church and scared them pretty bad so we had to answer all of these questions. It has been raining here a lot lately. It rains about 3 times a week. Have a Happy Halloween! Love, Elder Dye

October 22, 2012

Hiy, I dink tat i bean own mi mishion en cantucki tu lung. eye hab a IQ ov 12. I have finally "lost it" I am now a crazy hick... It seems like every one of my memories now is from my mission. I don't remember what it is like to be a normal person anymore. So I dont have too many stories from this past week. It was really cold this past week and people didn't really wanna talk. But I got 2 of them for ya! First story: Souza and I were walking back to our apartment to go in for the night and we were walking through the trashy white area. (Where the white thugs flow like wine.) So it was almost 9 and it is super dark and this thug goes to pass us on the sidewalk. Since I taught Souza to be a boss and to talk to everyone he was not scared at all to talk to this guy. So we start talking and Souza says, "Hey man, I know I just met you... and this is crazy... but here is a card with my number... call us... maybe?" I had heard that song while we were at Subway and so I almost started laughing. Then the guy got kinda mad at Souza but not because of what he said. Just because we were Jesus peeps. I thought that I was going to have to get in a fight because of Katy Perry.... Ridiculous.... Story Numer 2: Our Stake President took us to Wendy's, and he has a rep for being.... Intense, and naive. So there is a little handicapped kid sitting behind us and he is all dressed up as a soldier. So Pres Porter told us that we should talk to him and invite him to our trunk or treat at the church. So I was thinking real hard about how to do this and I had no idea. It was just too awkward. So while I am still thinking about how I will do this Pres Porter Booms at this kids (he talks really loud) and so we start talking to this handicapped kid, and all of the sudden the kid tells him to close his eyes. So he does and when he does this kids whips out a big huge plastic knife and stabs him in the throat! and then he ran around and stabbed all of us, and the ran out the door. It was awesome! haha Things here are going good. We have 2 15 year old boys that will be getting baptized on the 17th of Nov. thats about it. Stay away from wendy's they are a little rough. Love, Elder Dye

October 15th, 2012

Hey Errybody! So this past week the person we recently baptized got the priesthood and it made me think about his conversion, and I don't know if I have told you about it. So here it is: He came to church with his girlfriend who is a solid member in the ward and me and him had a nice friendly chat about church, sports, and life. I wasn't quite sure how forward to be with him because I didn't want to make his girlfriend mad. So this went on for 3 weeks, and right after church was over he called us and asked to learn a little more about the church. So we met with him on Elder Souza's 2nd day and while going through the "How to Begin Teaching" points we felt prompted to extend a baptismal invitation. He accepted when he knew these things were true. So we went through the Restoration and at the end we both bore our testimonies and the Holy Ghost backed us up. He told us that he knew it was true, and from that point on we taught and he accepted everything. He was just ordained a priest this last Sunday, and he is thinking about a mission. It was an awesome thing to be a part of. Elder Souza is a convert of a year and 6 months now and we have been teaching a lot of "Elder Souza's" We have been teaching two 15 year old boys. There names are Jared and Nathaniel. We ran into them this past week at a festival in downtown New Albany and they asked us for mormon.org cards so they could pass them out they ended up passing out about 150 cards! They ran up to us and told us that their friends didn't believe that they were mormon so they wanted us to prove to them that they were mormon. It was funny. Jared came to Church this past Sunday (Nathaniel would have been there, but he slept in! that bum) and he loved every second of it. He told us after that he loved feeling the spirit there, and he was going to be there every week for the rest of his life. He has given us 4 of his friends to teach, and is the most solid kid I have ever talked to. He is going to help us achieve the 30x31 and I think he is answer to a lot of our prayers the members prayers, and your prayers. Thanks :) Thanks for all that you do to support me and E. Souz. We love you!

October 1st, 2012

We have had a crazy week. I will work backwards: Sunday: Bishop called me on Saturday and asked me if I could talk in Sacrament Meeting so I gave a talk about the covenants we take at baptism and the Sacrament. Then we confirmed Corey in the same meeting. Then we were in charge of the 5th Sunday and it was on how we will go about achieving our goal of 30x31 and I had to conduct that. So after our super busy Sunday we had a meeting with our Southern Baptist Seminary student friends. We had not met with them for about a month, and they used that month to prepare a whole bunch of stuff for us to "discuss." We had the worst bash that I have ever had on my mission, but I can assure you that we came out on top! :) I am trying to think about the rest of our week and nothing comes to mind other then President called me sometime in the middle of the week and told me that I have a choice if I get transferred right now. Transfers are in a week and I am pretty sure that I am going to choose to leave. So that is weighing pretty heavy on my heart and its hard to think about the rest of my week. I have grown a lot here and I am ready to go and take the experiences I have had to another place. I think that leaving New Albany will almost be as hard as leaving home. Justin I am sorry about your knee but good luck with it! I know your a tough lil nino. Every boy in the fam now has a bum knee- haha. I got your package and I really appreciate it. Thanks for all you do! Mucho, Amor Love