October 22, Nov 6,13, 2007

Mission update...Canovanas is treating me well. We have a few investigators. Our best investigator at the moment is Epi. She reads a lot in the Book of Mormon. She has a lot of catholic background, and since she is like 80 years old it is hard for her to change her old habits. She loves learning and meeting with us. Theres always some histarical moment that happens when we are there. Like this one time there was a little kitten trying to crawl in through her fence and she has dogs. So she got super scared the dogs were going to eat it, and she was trying to push the cat back through but the cat held on and started hissing and swinging claws. It was great. She knows that she needs to make some changes in here life, but it takes a lot of encouragement from us to make her realize she can actually do it. Love Elder Osterloh

Ma mama ma--maYes yes i got both boxes of sugar highs. Loved every minute of it. I dont know if you should give me credit for their 4.o Its not like i can transfer my brain power to them, they just go to an easier school.I didnt even know that another hurricane passed by. It did rain for three days straight, but thats basically normal to me now. Well Well Well, look who is the big 2...0. My companion was really nice and baked me a cake. Then that night he took me out to chilis. What a nice kid. I have recently been flooded with candy. I dont know what to do with it all. The ants that invade our apartment really liked it. So I through it all in the fridge so that they couldnt get to it. Score 1-0 me. Its a constant battle to keep the apartment clean so that the ants dont scurry in after some food. Those things are vicious. They will tear your flesh off. In the mission life, we have a baptismal date. Her name is Maria Diaz. Awesome lady. She is supposed to be baptized the 17 of november, but we just found out she is not married to her boyfriend that supposedly lives with her, but we have never even seen. So I might be having another wedding as well. Those things stress me out, and im not even the one getting married. We are also working with some really cool less active members. One Is named Evalyn Santos. Basically what happened with her was that the missionaries left, she got sad, and so she stopped coming. She has two kids who we are now working with and hoping to get baptized. They live really close to some way active, really cool members, so we are going to get them a ride to Mutual, and church, and I believe that will be a really good start back to their activity in the church.Im loving the missionThank you so much for all of your supportand the great example that you give meLove Elder Osterloh
There is a baptism planned for this sunday. I have never met her boyfriend, and their is a reason, because they dont live together. which is great, because she is committed to living the Law of Chastity and so she doesnt have to be married before her baptism. We are however still trying to get her married, because that is what she wants, even though her boyfriend of 15 years doesnt want to get married. Interesting how that works. We also have a baptism schechuled for DEc. 1 Eloy is the 12 year old son of a less active member we are trying to get back to church, she was sick this sunday, but eloy still came and loved church. They live right by some really active members from samoa. well the mom is samoan the dad is puertoriquenen. He is an awesome kid though, we are trying to get his 19 year old brother to come to, he accidently slept in on sunday. thats basically what we are working with right now. THings are going really well. Elder wells got some kind of virus last week. Headaches and dizzines, so we stayed inside for the most part of three days. he bought monopoly to help pass the time. Im already sick of that game. its no fun when theres only two people. we started the cold stone cup. Its a seven game series. we are tied at 3-3. the winner gets a free cold stone. We just barely found a cold stone on the border of our area and so we have really been wanting to go out there.

October 8, 2007

Ya, conference was great. we watched every session in english. The lady we were expecting to come had to watch a 1 and 1/2 year old, so she wouldnt travel out there. actually, i did profitize that it would be henry b eyring. He looks the smartest to me, so that was my guess. Before conference we went to a walgreens and picked up some goodies, so i was snaking well all thoughout the meetings.my streak is over. I got rained on for the first time this week. It wasnt so bad though. The back of my shirt got a little muddy from the bike though. Any hints on cleaning that would be helpful. We scrubbed them with water and then put some stain stuff on them. If you get to talk to alonso before he goes tell him that i think he is great. Hes going to be an awesome missionary. My comp is still struggling a little with spanish, but i dont blame him, spanish is hard. He had no spanish before the mission and was really not excited to have to learn it. He really just wanted to go to an english speaking mission. Complete opposite of what I wanted to do.I dont know how you can drink diet coke anyways, it tastes nasty. Regular coke is by far the way to go.I really still dont know many of the members. Most of the active members live in the area of rio grande. But there are a couple who are really nice to us. The owner of our apartment randomly gives us food almost everyother day. So thats nice to come home to. Its usually some variation of rice and beans. We kinda have a rule like Kory's, but less strict. We can only eat the same members house once a month. because there were areas that would have a dinner appointment every night of the week.