December 19, 26, 2007

• Hello hello and merry christmas. So I did get my early christmas present. i put it up on the ironing board. It looks very nice. My new companion is very pleased with it. He doesnt quite understand why im so stoked about displaying a large brown wrapped box. But hey, some people just never understand. ha, Just kidding i opened it. It is very flashy! Thank you mama. I also got some things from grandma lois and aunt kimi and uncle craig. I opened uncles craigs, but all of grandmas were wrapped up nice so i figured i should wait till christmas or something...well see how long that lasts. I put them under the ironing board tree. So lizabeth told me that her brother got home and that you texted her and stuff. I didnt know that you could text people? That surprised me. yes i still have my calling card. I dont really know what time I will be calling yet. I think I will call dads cell phone in case you guys arent at home. Im asuming it will be around noon here. But it all depends when the members want us to come over. The christmas party is on monday. we are having a little talent show, and my district is singing the primary song "armies of helamen" in spanish. it should be fun. We were going to do popcorn poping on the apricot tree, but the presidents wife said that it was too lighthearted for the meeting the wanted to have. I was kinda bummeb, I would rather be funny than spiritual. I guess im lucky to have leaders who keep me in line. I thought I told you this last time but my new companion is a new missionary as well. Thats right i finished training elder wells and started training elder Beatty from american fork, UT. He was the only elder who came into the mission last transfer. I am really blessed to have been given the opportunity to train two missionaries so early along in my mission. It is a really great experience. I Love you so much and am really looking forward to talking this tuesday, I hope you have alot to say and I will listen. ;)Love Elder osterloh
  
  Tell aunt denice yes that i did get her package. It was lots of fun. Christmas eve my companion and I made the gingerbread house and I got the cd, that you asked me about. So yes i did tell you about it. Yesterday was really fun. After i finished talking to you guys the families house that we were at had a white elephant, so we got to participate in that. It was really fun. Its pretty nice to have pday right after christmas too. So upon leaving the house this morning I came across a little box. It had my name on it, but it was so small i figured it was nothing important so i will probably open it when i get home...Love Elder Osterloh

November 21,28,Dec 5, 2007

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.

I heard that there were some wet turkeys after the Holy war, that makes me so happy. And thats all I need to say.Yes yes, Eloy santos is still getting baptized. His baptism is scheduled for this Saturday morning, so we have been busy preparing him for that. We are also trying to get maria to be baptized on the same day, so that they can have that in common.Lately for my spanish study I have been translating the letters that I have recieved. Its really hard, but Hopefully I will become a better translater so that If im at any more funerals I can translate to spanish for them.

Well, once again, no baptism. Maria played her disappearing act, and Eloysmom changed her mind about letting him get baptized at the last minute. It was not a very happy hour. But Eloy is still coming to church, and Maria still wants to be baptized, I just dont know when that will be. We have been finding some cool new people lately. Everybody is so nice to us. Aunt Kimi sent me a picture of the BYU UTAH game. It was hilarious. Perfect timing. Ive heard some rumors that we are supposed to be having a christmas party for the mission. But im not really sure how much of a party it will be. On the 24th we have zone conference and I heard that they are going to have a little christmas twist,like a talent show or something, and thats what the party will be. We are supposed to be getting transfer calls this Sunday, so next week I will probably know where Im going. IM pretty sure that pday will be on tuesday next week, because transfers are on wednesday. So either tuesday or thursday will be Pday. But Im leaning towards tuesday. Hopefully It wont snow very much this year, and it will all just save up for next year. Then the ski resorts will have plenty of snow for Jan 2009. So I guess Sachi is looking at about two months now. I'm so excited for her. Its still crazy to me that she is leaving the 30th, because i left the 31st.Mom, you know that i cant tell you anything that i want for christmas, that would make it far to easy on you. But if you wanted you could send me a 1)psp and a 2)portable dvd player, and 3)some movies. Ive been looking for a 4)new swim suit, but I cant find any that I like down here. The 5)new David Banner cd would be nice, talk to ryan about it. 6)coffee would be great to wake up to in the morning, and 7)a laptop would be great so I dont have to leave home to write you eveyweek.Love youI know you will do well(see list above)Elder OsterlohPs I wrote santa and told him that I had been a good boy this year, but I dont think he knows where I live. So if you could give him the heads up that would be great.

(Such a funny boy!!!)