Hi,
Alright this week was good. Harlan and I have been getting less sick we had colds that have been kicking our trash! Thanks to some OJ and Vitamin C i think we are on the upswing.
Things with Harlan have been really fun so far. we are both trying our best to be super diligent and we have been seeing miracles. We have picked up a lot of investigators and taught a lot of lessens this week. We come home exhausted every night and we never feel rested but hey that's how things are supposed to be right? P-Days are fun to cause we spend a lot of time jamming and plan out songs we are going to sing for people we teach. Guitar and Ukulele... Match made in heaven. We are going to play for some native american kids we teach. They have a family home evening together that we go to. We usually give a lesson there they are mostly non members. It's neat these kids live in a dorm her in Richfield. They come off the reservation during the school year so they can go to school. They are awesome we have lots of fun with them.
We have been teaching Jordan she is a 9 year old girl and her less active family. Harlan and me showed up yesterday and there were two boxes with our names on it. We opened them up to find a tie and a CTR pin each in a custom drawn on cardboard box. Anyways it was stellar we told Jordan we were going to wear the ties to her baptism.
This week has been really good we got to speak yesterday about how a mission strengthens our Families. Harlan talked about his future family and i talked about you guys back home. Both Clarke and Alison serving missions I had lots to talk about. Hooray for great examples! Thanks Family.
Yesterday was a happy day until we ran into this Satanist guy and his girlfriend. Your in Utah how the heck do you become a Satanist!? I felt really bad for them all night. The used to be members and hopefully they come back one day. It was a interesting conversation for sure... Sheesh just when i thought running into J-Dubs was the hardest. We just bore testimony and left that was all we could do.
Missions have the highest highs and the lowest lows but it's all okay cause I KNOW it's the Lords work.
143 Family
The Church is True
Elder Ian Dyer
PS Cal's Baptism back in Loa has a date. July 19... Cross my fingers I'm here
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Zero % Milk
Hi,
Well I just shaved my head again now I just kinda like the feeling haha.
Thing have been good week. Elder Harlan and me get along good I don't think we will have any issues this transfer. I'm trying to get his accent down. It's very very southern cowboy accent. Kind of like Forest Gump without the mental disability. He doesn't agree but to everyone here I have an accent. I get made fun of when I say Mazda or Lama... pasta things like that. He served 6 months in Monroe which is about 10 minutes away and i'm pretty sure he knows that areas entire population. People always stop and talk to him in walmart. Someone was talking to Harlan and then looks at me and asks me if I'm new to the area... I lovingly corrected her nope I'm not new.
We had a couple baptisms yesterday one was for Justin he is 10 and the other was for Kortney she is 19. Justin's baptism went perfect but Kortney wasn't so lucky. First of all she got pulled over on the way but was left of with only a warning but it made her really late. Second with the actual baptism part the guy said the wrong name when he baptized her... By the time we figured this out the font was almost empty. We had to refill the whole font and re baptize her! two tries latter she was officially baptized. The whole baptism made for a really good journal entry. The next day I got to confirm her which was always scary but a good experience still. Yesterday was the first time i had been to a singles ward on my mission. It was strange and I felt way out of place. It was worth it though for Kortney she was super golden.
Well sorry this email was short but we got to get going we have lots to do today.
The Church is True
143 Family
Elder Ian Dyer
Ps I've jumped on the 0% milk band wagon... Goodbye 2%
Well I just shaved my head again now I just kinda like the feeling haha.
Thing have been good week. Elder Harlan and me get along good I don't think we will have any issues this transfer. I'm trying to get his accent down. It's very very southern cowboy accent. Kind of like Forest Gump without the mental disability. He doesn't agree but to everyone here I have an accent. I get made fun of when I say Mazda or Lama... pasta things like that. He served 6 months in Monroe which is about 10 minutes away and i'm pretty sure he knows that areas entire population. People always stop and talk to him in walmart. Someone was talking to Harlan and then looks at me and asks me if I'm new to the area... I lovingly corrected her nope I'm not new.
We had a couple baptisms yesterday one was for Justin he is 10 and the other was for Kortney she is 19. Justin's baptism went perfect but Kortney wasn't so lucky. First of all she got pulled over on the way but was left of with only a warning but it made her really late. Second with the actual baptism part the guy said the wrong name when he baptized her... By the time we figured this out the font was almost empty. We had to refill the whole font and re baptize her! two tries latter she was officially baptized. The whole baptism made for a really good journal entry. The next day I got to confirm her which was always scary but a good experience still. Yesterday was the first time i had been to a singles ward on my mission. It was strange and I felt way out of place. It was worth it though for Kortney she was super golden.
Well sorry this email was short but we got to get going we have lots to do today.
The Church is True
143 Family
Elder Ian Dyer
Ps I've jumped on the 0% milk band wagon... Goodbye 2%
Monday, March 14, 2011
A Buzz A Baptism And Goodbye
Hello Everyone interested in my life as a missionary,
First off we received our transfer calls yesterday. I'm going to be staying in Richfield as a ZL. My new companion is Elder Harlan From West Virginia. He was my district leader For two transfers while is was serving in Loa. I'm excited cause he is the man! He is really obedient but not so much like he is a Nazi about it. Elder Harlan still likes to have fun. Also he is a country singer but he is stellar at it. He just does his thing and you want to be like him cause he is an awesome missionary. This is going to be a great transfer. Richfield is already on fire and it's going to get even bigger. Kind of like that time I lit a grass fire on a grade 7 camp and got in lots of trouble... Yep Richfield will be like that except less trouble.
Elder Smith is spending his last transfer traveling the mission helping train other missionaries. He is serving with Elder Jensen. They came out of the MTC together and have been begging to serve together for two years! That dream finally came true he is way excited. We thought he would stay in Richfield but I guess not. We got along really good and had a blast. I'm glad he only lives three hours away. We always say how Smith will be at West Ed or all be at Peter's and we will text each other to come hang out. That will be fun we are going to go snowboarding to. We talk about going to sunshine a lot. That will happen one day.
Well that's the goodbye part now for the buzz part.
I recently got a haircut and I thought it looked weird. Smith always buzzes his head and kept telling me i should just take a number two razor and shave my head... I gave in. This is the shortest my hair has ever been but whatever I'm a missionary hair doesn't matter at all. Smith shaved my head for me and he at first gave me a mohawk. I had a mohawk for about 20 minutes. First time in my life having one and it was on my mission!
Now for the Baptism part!
We had three Baptisms on Saturday. The first one was in the morning for Candace. The week before her older brother Colton was given the Preisthood so he could Baptize her. It was a month ago to the day of his Baptism that his little sister was going to be able to be Baptized by who else other then her brother. Colton is 18 and Candace is almost 16. She works at an ice cream place and we have been there a couple time to get food. Having someone you teach who works at a ice cream place make for a really good excuse to go get milkshakes. The Baptism was amazing!!! They were both some of our favorite people to teach. Smith and me Love them a lot.
The next was for Ross 14 and Logan 13. These guys are awesome. Sometimes we play hacky sack after the lesson it's way fun. They race BMX and have a competition on saturday. We are probably gonna stop and cheer them on and lend our support. we did for a 9 year old who was baptized last week. We went to his wrestling competition on thursday. I didn't know 9 year olds could wrestle it's pretty funny to watch though. Ross and Logan are studs and the Baptism was sweet. Smith Baptized Ross and I baptized Logan it was awesome they were super nervous but they did great.
Well I have to get going we are going golfing today. I suck but it will still be fun.
143 family
The Church is true!
Elder Ian Dyer
First off we received our transfer calls yesterday. I'm going to be staying in Richfield as a ZL. My new companion is Elder Harlan From West Virginia. He was my district leader For two transfers while is was serving in Loa. I'm excited cause he is the man! He is really obedient but not so much like he is a Nazi about it. Elder Harlan still likes to have fun. Also he is a country singer but he is stellar at it. He just does his thing and you want to be like him cause he is an awesome missionary. This is going to be a great transfer. Richfield is already on fire and it's going to get even bigger. Kind of like that time I lit a grass fire on a grade 7 camp and got in lots of trouble... Yep Richfield will be like that except less trouble.
Elder Smith is spending his last transfer traveling the mission helping train other missionaries. He is serving with Elder Jensen. They came out of the MTC together and have been begging to serve together for two years! That dream finally came true he is way excited. We thought he would stay in Richfield but I guess not. We got along really good and had a blast. I'm glad he only lives three hours away. We always say how Smith will be at West Ed or all be at Peter's and we will text each other to come hang out. That will be fun we are going to go snowboarding to. We talk about going to sunshine a lot. That will happen one day.
Well that's the goodbye part now for the buzz part.
I recently got a haircut and I thought it looked weird. Smith always buzzes his head and kept telling me i should just take a number two razor and shave my head... I gave in. This is the shortest my hair has ever been but whatever I'm a missionary hair doesn't matter at all. Smith shaved my head for me and he at first gave me a mohawk. I had a mohawk for about 20 minutes. First time in my life having one and it was on my mission!
Now for the Baptism part!
We had three Baptisms on Saturday. The first one was in the morning for Candace. The week before her older brother Colton was given the Preisthood so he could Baptize her. It was a month ago to the day of his Baptism that his little sister was going to be able to be Baptized by who else other then her brother. Colton is 18 and Candace is almost 16. She works at an ice cream place and we have been there a couple time to get food. Having someone you teach who works at a ice cream place make for a really good excuse to go get milkshakes. The Baptism was amazing!!! They were both some of our favorite people to teach. Smith and me Love them a lot.
The next was for Ross 14 and Logan 13. These guys are awesome. Sometimes we play hacky sack after the lesson it's way fun. They race BMX and have a competition on saturday. We are probably gonna stop and cheer them on and lend our support. we did for a 9 year old who was baptized last week. We went to his wrestling competition on thursday. I didn't know 9 year olds could wrestle it's pretty funny to watch though. Ross and Logan are studs and the Baptism was sweet. Smith Baptized Ross and I baptized Logan it was awesome they were super nervous but they did great.
Well I have to get going we are going golfing today. I suck but it will still be fun.
143 family
The Church is true!
Elder Ian Dyer
Monday, March 7, 2011
Burn a Tie
Hows it going eh?
Today i have been a missionary for exactly 6 MONTHS!!! That means this afternoon there is going to be one crispy tie in Richfield. It's kind of weird i'm a quarter way into my mission. How the heck that happened i have absolutely no clue. Time is passing way faster than i thought.
This week i've had to deal with some disappointment and defeat. The one major defeat is my suit. I have been in denial for some time now and i couldn't fight it any longer. my pants were just not feeling so good lately. They were to tight... I've put a few pounds on around the waist and one side effect of that extra poundage is my pants are at the tailors being let out as we speak... Ugh this bites my jeans don't fit either. Hopefully my family gets a good laugh about this so laugh it up.
Aside from that life is really good. We didn't get to go down to St George last week our meeting got canceled so we are going this week on wednesday. I'm excited the mission home is huge! It looks like it belongs on the O.C. (that's a show Alison and I used to watch ask her it's about rich kids in california). Anyways that will be fun we get to stay with the AP's which is kind of cool.
I don't have a whole lot of stories this week but the highlight of the week was yesterday. We teach a family and Two sons are getting baptized Ross who is 14 and Logan who is 12. They are awesome and Ross asked Smith to baptize him and Logan asked me to baptize him. It's going to be awesome i love that family.
Another awesome neat thing that happened this week was about one of our recent converts. His name is Colton he is 18 and was recently baptized. His sister Candace his baptisim got hit really hard with the spirit and started to wanting to meet with us. These last couple weeks we have been teaching her and she is going to be baptized next week. Colton yesterday was able to receive the Priesthood and is no going to be able to baptize his sister.
Well that is about all for this week Basketball and bowling is the plan for today.
The Church is True
143 Family
Elder Ian Dyer
Ps I love it out here. The people we teach are amazing
Today i have been a missionary for exactly 6 MONTHS!!! That means this afternoon there is going to be one crispy tie in Richfield. It's kind of weird i'm a quarter way into my mission. How the heck that happened i have absolutely no clue. Time is passing way faster than i thought.
This week i've had to deal with some disappointment and defeat. The one major defeat is my suit. I have been in denial for some time now and i couldn't fight it any longer. my pants were just not feeling so good lately. They were to tight... I've put a few pounds on around the waist and one side effect of that extra poundage is my pants are at the tailors being let out as we speak... Ugh this bites my jeans don't fit either. Hopefully my family gets a good laugh about this so laugh it up.
Aside from that life is really good. We didn't get to go down to St George last week our meeting got canceled so we are going this week on wednesday. I'm excited the mission home is huge! It looks like it belongs on the O.C. (that's a show Alison and I used to watch ask her it's about rich kids in california). Anyways that will be fun we get to stay with the AP's which is kind of cool.
I don't have a whole lot of stories this week but the highlight of the week was yesterday. We teach a family and Two sons are getting baptized Ross who is 14 and Logan who is 12. They are awesome and Ross asked Smith to baptize him and Logan asked me to baptize him. It's going to be awesome i love that family.
Another awesome neat thing that happened this week was about one of our recent converts. His name is Colton he is 18 and was recently baptized. His sister Candace his baptisim got hit really hard with the spirit and started to wanting to meet with us. These last couple weeks we have been teaching her and she is going to be baptized next week. Colton yesterday was able to receive the Priesthood and is no going to be able to baptize his sister.
Well that is about all for this week Basketball and bowling is the plan for today.
The Church is True
143 Family
Elder Ian Dyer
Ps I love it out here. The people we teach are amazing
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