November 4th, 2014

My family!!! This is my favorite time of the week too :) That does sound like a crazy week! But I am glad that you survived and that everything went well! The wedding sounds like it went good! and I can't believe that you got all of your brother and sisters there and trish in the church that's awesome!! This week has been crazy I don't even know where to start. I am feeling much better! Are you? We have transfers this week so that's why I am emailing you today instead of yesterday. So the big news.... Elder Richardson is leaving and both me and him are training new missionaries. It will be an adventure haha I am a little nervous to be getting one straight from the MTC but dad sent me a letter and told me to be tough, and I wore my "dad twin tie" all day yesterday so I would be tough enough to do what I need to do so here are the possible choices any guesses? Dobie, Nathan Alan Porter, Brayden Christian Sato, Kenzo Simmons, McKay David Staley, Tucker Owen So for Halloween we had set up to go over to 2 different members home cause we had to be in by 6. and both of the members had things come up so we couldn't come. So me and elder Richardson broke into the sisters apartment (cause they were at a members house, and we didn't want to just have to be in ours) and ate dinner and watched Mormon messages until it was time to go home. haha It probably wasn't as exciting as your Halloween but it kept us entertained :) Things here are going great! I am a little scared but I know that the Lord will help me to be able to help my new companion and that I have a great family that will help me too! I hope that you have a great week!! Glad the wedding was good!! I love you!!!! Love, Justin (Elder Dye)

December 1st, 2014

Hey my homies!! I'm glad to hear that things are going pretty good and that you had a good thanksgiving!! I'm glad that everyone at some pie for me too that was very nice of you guys! Thank you so much for the package! I haven't got the big one yet but the other one was awesome! It was so much fun to read all the Natural Helpers letters tell them thanks for me! Things here have been pretty good this week! Thanksgiving was very interesting, we ate some Turkey, Macaroni, dressin(stuffing with chunks of some kind of meat), sweet potato pie, and grape drank. In the hood with our friend jay and his family. It was quite the combination of foods haha The ward had a Turkey bowl thanksgiving morning so that was a lot of fun and than thanksgiving night we got together as a district and had a party together it was fun :) Last Monday was a lot of fun too! We went to New Orleans and went through the French market and stuff it was a lot of fun! We did the pepper palace challenge, which is tasting one of the hottest hot sauces in the world. Even just a tiny drop burns, but it was worth it for the experiences! And then we had a Turkey Bowl with our Zone and that was a lot of fun too! Things with my companion are going better. During companionship inventory this week he told me that I was too childish and I just laughed haha Growing up is overrated! I am having a lot of fun being a missionary, I am just really trying to look for the small things in life and enjoying them :) Thanks for being an awesome family!!! I am so grateful for you!!! I love you so much!!!!! Hope you have a wonderful week!!!! Love Mud :)

November 24th, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving My Family!!!!! You guys are awesome! I am glad to hear that things are going good!! Things this week have been pretty good! It warmed up a little and we had exchanges so that was nice to shake things up a little bit. I don't even know where to start about this week. So first off for some reason they film a lot of movies in Covington and guess what movie set we drove past the other day?......Joe dirt 2 it was awesome!!! I should have went and pushed the security guys over and gotten a picture with Joe Dirt but sadly I didn't. Sid is doing better this week! Thanks for all of your prayers for us, they help us make it through. Two different times this week we were going out to tract, and we were blessed with chances to go and help people rake their leaves it was awesome! The tender mercies of the lord really are all around us!! We are eating thanksgiving dinner in the middle of the ghetto this year so I am super excited to be one of the only white guys in that part of town! I hope that you guys have a great week!! Sorry so short but I am running out of time. I love you and I hope that you have a great thanksgiving!!! I'm so grateful that I get to be part of your family!! Thanks for all that you do for me!! Love Mud p.s. I am so excited to get some thanksgiving rolls your the best :) Things here are going pretty good!! We are just taking things one day at a time :) I am so excited to get some of your rolls you spoil me way to much mama! My companion seems to be doing a little bit better he has a hard time sleeping at night so he is always tired, so we are working on that but other than that he is doing pretty good! Our investigators are coming slowly but surley :) We are going to eat in the ghetto with one of our investigators named jay, I am super excited!! I will send you some pictures of it. :)

November 24th, 2014

Dad! Things are going pretty good here! Are you surviving all of your bishop stuff at home? I'm glad that mom finally let you get a snow blower, darn mom haha I bet Jessa's basketball games are worth watching we have made her into one tough little chick. You guys are for sure the number one thing on my list too! I hope that you guys have a good time in castle dale! We are eating thanksgiving dinner in the middle of the ghetto and we are going to be the only white boys there I am really excited! I will have to send you some pictures. I know that you are right, heavenly father puts us in certain places for certain reasons and I know that he will help us. Sometimes I feel like peter when he walks out on the water to go to Christ , I forget so easily that him and my family and everyone is here to help me and let myself start sinking. but I am working on getting some more faith! I wear my tie a lot too! Whenever I know that I need strength beyond my own I put my dad tie on and I can feel you help me through the day. I love ya dad! Thanks for letting me be your mud!!!! Love Mud :)

October 27th, 2014

Hey my family!! I'm glad to hear that things are going good for you!! How's all of the wedding prep coming? Cause ready or not it is coming pretty quick haha That is awesome that Melissa got to get her endowments out! It has been getting colder here to but not Idaho cold, it has been like 70's with low humidity it is BEAUTFUL!! I guess October is the payoff for August :) Things here are going good! I was a little bit sick this week, I was congested like I have never been before in my life but I am feeling lots better now. I sweated the sickness out like my daddy taught me, just work until you feel better. And Heavenly Father was just reminding me to focus on him and have a good attitude:) Other than that it has been a pretty normal week. The work is getting lots better we are getting lots more people to teach and not just tract all the time. There is like a 20 year old girl named Mallory that we have been teaching for awhile and she is amazing she just really wants to do what's right and she came to Church yesterday (she hasn't been for awhile) and I almost jumped out of my seat I was so happy! And then after Sacrament she met with the Bishop for like an hour, and then we are teaching a 15 year old boy named Noah he is a good kid. We are teaching lots of others too but they are the most progressing! Sorry I don't through out names a lot it is just kind of sad when I tell you about someone and than they drop us or something you know? :) So we were riding by this park in the Ghetto heading to go and teach a guy named John and anyway this little black boy was playing on the toys right next to the sidewalk we were riding on in the park. So when we passed by him he stuck his little head over the bars and yelled at us, "Hey uglies!" and his mom and dad were sitting on a picnic table right next to him and the mom jumped off the table and was like "Lamone we don't talk to people like that" Anyway it was super funny we laughed for a long time :) Things with my companion are good. He really likes to try and scare me so he is always hiding behind things waiting to try and jump out and scream. He definitely keeps things interesting around here!! But we have a good time. I hope that everything goes well with the wedding and that you guys have a great week!!!!! Thanks for all the you do!! Ya'll are the best!!! Love your homie Mud

October 14th, 2014

My family!!!! I am SO glad to hear that you are doing good!!! The library was closed for Columbus day yesterday and we just got back from zone conference in the big city so sorry it took me so long to email you this week. It sounds like you guys had a busy week! Melissa will be awesome in YW with you!!! And I bet that was a scary hunting trip!!! I am doing wonderful! :) If I was doing any better it would probably be illegal haha Not cause anything crazy awesome has happened but just cause I finally feel like I am getting better at having fun while working hard. This week has been crazy but a lot of fun! I ate fried chicken gizzard and fried chicken liver the other day....it was interesting but not as bad as you would think. And this week I get to try squirrel gumbo! I am pretty excited! We went on exchanges this week and Elder Martell came down to me so I was in charge again that was kind of fun. We worked really hard, I am kind of a slave driver like my mama :) But we had a lot of fun! We met with an investigator behind the library in this gazebo and anyway after our meeting he went and got in his old truck and it wouldn't start. He needed a jump so he popped the hood and then told us that he knew that if he had faith in Jesus someone would come and help him in like 5 minutes. So I told him if you have faith I know that he will help you, so we went to the front of the library (cause he was parked in the back) and I asked a lady to go and give him a jump and she did, and then we rode back past and he was like see I told you that Jesus would take care of me :) and he just had the biggest smile on his face. So I was so happy that I got to be the "works" for his "faith"!! Thanks for all of your letters and for all of your support!! They mean a lot to me! Will you tell the moultons thanks for sending me a package, that was so nice of them! I hope you have a great week!!! Thanks for being so amazing!!!!! Love, Elder Dye :)

October 6th, 2014

Hey my family!! It's good to hear that things are going good for you! Conference was great! Would you believe me if I told you that I didn't sleep at all either? God is still a God of miracles haha That's awesome that Randy was in that choir I didn't see him but that is sweet!! I am not going to lie going to the priesthood session without dad was pretty depressing, but I only have to go to 3 more without him! And when I was watching the Priesthood Session I had an undeniable impression that dad was thinking and praying for me. It was pretty amazing! We watched all but the Sunday Morning session of conference at a members house the Ory's they are awesome!! Sunday morning we invited a bunch of people to come and watch conference with us and nobody showed up so that kind of stunk but we will just have to get them to church next week. That is one thing that I have learned about southern people they love to talk but they are not very good at following through on what they say they will do. I'm sorry that you guys had to go back to school today that is depressing! How's school treating everybody? That's awesome it is Homecoming week that is always a fun week!! Dad is a brave and tough man to go dress shopping with you two crazy girls! That is pretty funny that Jessa fell off her shoes, it's a good thing that I'm not a girl or I would do a lot more than just through out my neck walking in 4 inch heels! I bet she did great dancing she is a good little dancer! I am really proud of our aggies!! That is awesome! There are a lot of BYU fans here that were really mad it kind of made me laugh haha Everybody loves football here. Even the little old ladies know the top 25 teams and who the saints are playing next so we get a lot of football updates. By the end of the week we have analyzed the whole Saints game at least 3 times with different people haha Yes I got my package it was great!!! You guys are way to nice to me! Thank you so much!! It is crazy that everybody is leaving!! They are going to be great though!! I don't exactly know where to get a raincoat but I will try and work on it this week. :) This week has been a great one! One of the Sisters went home, Sister Seegrist, and it was really hard to say goodbye to her. She was my homie!! I thought all that saying goodbye stuff was done when I left home but it's ok. haha Paul flew back in yesterday so we get to start working with him again this week so I am really excited!! We are working with a lot of different people and I hope that we will be able to help them how we should. So the new sister came on Wednesday so we borrowed an inactive members, Brother Nolans, bunnies and we went an locked them into the sisters study room haha The new sister was straight from the MTC so she wasn't quite sure what to think about chasing bunnies around to try and put them back into their cage hahaha I will have to think about the Christmas thing... just a letter from each of you and I will be great :)! I am doing really good!! It has been a great week and I am learning a lot!! Sometimes learning is a painful experience but every day I just try a little harder to be a little better and I know that the lord will help me :) Hope y'all have a great week!!! Your the best!!! I love you!!!