Hey Family,
Well here is my update. I have been working hard and seeing the lord
bless me. I left my planner at the apartment and I have no idea what
happened this week. That is how things have been going lately. I will
slow myself down on Monday and before I even think about it it's
Friday. Then I get all excited for Saturday tracting. Then it's
Sunday, and then Sunday night goes by real slow and I start over
again. The time is flying and it only seems to be getting faster and
faster. How does a 4 year mission sound?? hahaha Mom would die. We
have been hanging out with the Senior Missionaries lately, and every
time we go over it makes me think about Grandma and Grandpa Dye and
how cool of senior missionaries they would have been. I will be
sending you all that stuff today. and when I email next week I will
tell you about this last week. Time just seems to mesh together.
Love,
Elder Dye
Elder Dye
"Behold the field is white....":
Monday, March 26, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
March 19th, 2012
So...
This past week was a a killer. We had record breaking tempatures for
this time of year. On Tuesday, it was 82 degrees with too much
humidity. I think Elder Fry and I lost 10 lbs in sweat that day on
our bikes,especially because we had to bike through the most hilly
part of our area. But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
So Monday is P-day so not much happened then that is worth reporting. But
on Tuesday, we had a crazy day. We went tracting in the "Sticks" part
of our area, and almost every door we knocked on let us in. It was
crazy. We got in more doors this past week than I have my whole
mission! We taught 9 lesson that day in 4 hours of tracting. It was
pretty crazy. We went and helped one of our members make a mormon.org profile and that was our day.
On Wednesday things went pretty slow, but one of our investigators families invited us to attend their 16 year old daughter's high
school play. So I called President and we got permission to go. It
really helped our relationship with them grow. So we will see where
that takes us.
On Thursday, we tracted into the nicest lady I have ever met.
She invited us in and her husbad was there so we went in. She told us
how her sister had missionaries just like us knock on her door, and
she is now a Mormon, and it has been the best thing that has ever
happened to her. She told us that she could tell we were special young
men and that we are welcome over anytime. They are a pretty wealthy
family and they said that when the tornados start hitting to come over
and there is room for us in their storm shelter. They also invited us
over for Easter dinner. So I am pretty excitied about that.
I am going to skip to Sunday now. The ward now loves us, and I feel like I get mobbed at church now. So that's good. After church, we had dinner with
some familes and it made me miss our Mormon BBQ's. But we went and
visted a prospective Elder's House (Which is someone who hasn't
recieved the M. Preisthood who can) with our ward mission leader and
they were pretty rough. His parents are on their second mission in
Russia right now, and it blew my mind to see the choice that he made
to put him where he is now. When he had been taught the right way
since he could walk. But he is coming back to church this Sunday and
we are going to baptize his wife pretty soon. So that is exciting!
Things here are going better then ever. But I am busy as ever. I have
the largest teaching pool I have ever had. So if I don't write you
back. I got a good excuse, and if you got any problems, you can take
them up with my boss. I am pretty sure this will be my last transfer
here and my last with Elder Fry. I have trained him too good for them
to keep us together.
Love,
Elder Dye
This past week was a a killer. We had record breaking tempatures for
this time of year. On Tuesday, it was 82 degrees with too much
humidity. I think Elder Fry and I lost 10 lbs in sweat that day on
our bikes,especially because we had to bike through the most hilly
part of our area. But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
So Monday is P-day so not much happened then that is worth reporting. But
on Tuesday, we had a crazy day. We went tracting in the "Sticks" part
of our area, and almost every door we knocked on let us in. It was
crazy. We got in more doors this past week than I have my whole
mission! We taught 9 lesson that day in 4 hours of tracting. It was
pretty crazy. We went and helped one of our members make a mormon.org profile and that was our day.
On Wednesday things went pretty slow, but one of our investigators families invited us to attend their 16 year old daughter's high
school play. So I called President and we got permission to go. It
really helped our relationship with them grow. So we will see where
that takes us.
On Thursday, we tracted into the nicest lady I have ever met.
She invited us in and her husbad was there so we went in. She told us
how her sister had missionaries just like us knock on her door, and
she is now a Mormon, and it has been the best thing that has ever
happened to her. She told us that she could tell we were special young
men and that we are welcome over anytime. They are a pretty wealthy
family and they said that when the tornados start hitting to come over
and there is room for us in their storm shelter. They also invited us
over for Easter dinner. So I am pretty excitied about that.
I am going to skip to Sunday now. The ward now loves us, and I feel like I get mobbed at church now. So that's good. After church, we had dinner with
some familes and it made me miss our Mormon BBQ's. But we went and
visted a prospective Elder's House (Which is someone who hasn't
recieved the M. Preisthood who can) with our ward mission leader and
they were pretty rough. His parents are on their second mission in
Russia right now, and it blew my mind to see the choice that he made
to put him where he is now. When he had been taught the right way
since he could walk. But he is coming back to church this Sunday and
we are going to baptize his wife pretty soon. So that is exciting!
Things here are going better then ever. But I am busy as ever. I have
the largest teaching pool I have ever had. So if I don't write you
back. I got a good excuse, and if you got any problems, you can take
them up with my boss. I am pretty sure this will be my last transfer
here and my last with Elder Fry. I have trained him too good for them
to keep us together.
Love,
Elder Dye
Monday, March 12, 2012
March 12th, 2012
Hey Family,
This past week has been a good one. I am no longer in a threesome but transfers are tomorrow and Elder Fry and I are sticking together. My best two buddies are leaving though and I am pretty bummed about that. Elder Morrison is going to be the Zone Leader in Lexington and he will be working on UK during March! I am kinda jealous and we don't know where Elder Garrity is going.
Me and Elder Fry had a really good week though. We are teaching a
family of 4 and they are super cool. Things are looking real good for
them. We are also teaching another family and we have been teaching
them ever since I got here, and they are starting to progress.
The ward has finally warmed up to us, and we have a dinner appoinment
every weekday this week. We will have more this week than I have had
my whole time here! So that is exciting!
For the crazy story catagory:
We were eating at McDonald's and this guy walks up to me and elder fry
and tries to start Bible bashing. So I slid over and told him to sit
down by me.
Elder Fry and I started being real friendly to him and just talked
for 4 min about nothing to him and then we started to teach him. We
cleared up all of his concerns and we are meeting him at the church on
Wednesday. He tried to show off his Bible knowledge by reciting Hebrews
1:1-3. So then Elder Fry and I both recited some scriptures from the
Bible and he decided he was done bashing. It was funny.
Then we had a lesson with Tom again. We went in and he had scribbled
all over the Book of Mormon and said that it was not the word of God.
So we sat there while he yelled at us and told us we were wrong. So I
pulled out 2 Nephi 29:7-9 and that calmed him down a little. Then
Elder Fry bore solid testimony and we read 3 Nephi 11. He then told us
that he didn't give the Book of Mormon a chance. So he told us he
would really read and pray about it. That is about it from Evansville.
We are suppose to have 50 more tornados hit in the next little while.
Love
Elder Dye
This past week has been a good one. I am no longer in a threesome but transfers are tomorrow and Elder Fry and I are sticking together. My best two buddies are leaving though and I am pretty bummed about that. Elder Morrison is going to be the Zone Leader in Lexington and he will be working on UK during March! I am kinda jealous and we don't know where Elder Garrity is going.
Me and Elder Fry had a really good week though. We are teaching a
family of 4 and they are super cool. Things are looking real good for
them. We are also teaching another family and we have been teaching
them ever since I got here, and they are starting to progress.
The ward has finally warmed up to us, and we have a dinner appoinment
every weekday this week. We will have more this week than I have had
my whole time here! So that is exciting!
For the crazy story catagory:
We were eating at McDonald's and this guy walks up to me and elder fry
and tries to start Bible bashing. So I slid over and told him to sit
down by me.
Elder Fry and I started being real friendly to him and just talked
for 4 min about nothing to him and then we started to teach him. We
cleared up all of his concerns and we are meeting him at the church on
Wednesday. He tried to show off his Bible knowledge by reciting Hebrews
1:1-3. So then Elder Fry and I both recited some scriptures from the
Bible and he decided he was done bashing. It was funny.
Then we had a lesson with Tom again. We went in and he had scribbled
all over the Book of Mormon and said that it was not the word of God.
So we sat there while he yelled at us and told us we were wrong. So I
pulled out 2 Nephi 29:7-9 and that calmed him down a little. Then
Elder Fry bore solid testimony and we read 3 Nephi 11. He then told us
that he didn't give the Book of Mormon a chance. So he told us he
would really read and pray about it. That is about it from Evansville.
We are suppose to have 50 more tornados hit in the next little while.
Love
Elder Dye
Monday, March 5, 2012
March 5th, 2012
Howdy Family,
Like all of you know we had some pretty nasty storms around here
but I am perfectly fine. We went to play basketball at 5:45 that
morning just like normal, and we ended up driving through the storm. I
did what dad wanted... I got a video of the storm and the sideways
rain but since it is dark outside you can't see the clouds, but I
tried. When I send my sd card home next week you can check it out.
This week not much work got done because of the storms so not too much
happened. You all had a pretty eventful week.
I got another companion. His companion got emergency transferred so he is working with us until the end of the transfer. So we are working in a threesome. I got to have interviews with president and he talked to me forever. He was really happy with how well Elder Fry is doing. That's about it from here. The Church is true. Sorry I don't have much time this week.
Love,
Elder Dye
There is a video on you tube called Tornado passing by Evansville, Indiana March 2nd, 2012. It is about 1 min and 40 secs. This is the storm that Elder Dye had hit him last Friday. You should watch it.
Like all of you know we had some pretty nasty storms around here
but I am perfectly fine. We went to play basketball at 5:45 that
morning just like normal, and we ended up driving through the storm. I
did what dad wanted... I got a video of the storm and the sideways
rain but since it is dark outside you can't see the clouds, but I
tried. When I send my sd card home next week you can check it out.
This week not much work got done because of the storms so not too much
happened. You all had a pretty eventful week.
I got another companion. His companion got emergency transferred so he is working with us until the end of the transfer. So we are working in a threesome. I got to have interviews with president and he talked to me forever. He was really happy with how well Elder Fry is doing. That's about it from here. The Church is true. Sorry I don't have much time this week.
Love,
Elder Dye
There is a video on you tube called Tornado passing by Evansville, Indiana March 2nd, 2012. It is about 1 min and 40 secs. This is the storm that Elder Dye had hit him last Friday. You should watch it.
Monday, February 27, 2012
February 27th, 2012
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
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
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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