March 26, 2008

We have our zone conference on saturday. So we have to fly out on friday spend the night. Then saturday afternoon we are flying back. I think it will be nice to have some down time if you know what I mean. We have been working really hard here to find some new investigators. The investigators we have arent progressing at the rate that we had hoped for. Anyways We did meet this one really cool new guy. His name is Lico. He is from Haiti but he live in the DR for the last 9 years. He got to dominica about two months ago, so he is still learning english, but he speaks spanish very well, lucky for us. He was attending some other church here and the pastor told him that he was going to get baptized!!! Anyway he didnt really know why or even what baptism meant. So he saw us on the street, and came and asked us. We have taught him a couple times. He is still pretty new, but I think he's got some potential.

March 20, 2008

Dominica is really good though. I told you a lot of stuff in the email from last week so hopefully you got it now cause i resent it. We have no problem finding people to teach. Everybody is so accepting. But none want to keep commitments. They dont really want to do anything for themselves. so it is a little hard. But the people here are so friendly and nice it amazes me. Whenever I thought of third world countries before i thought that there would be a lot of crime and that kind of stuff. But the people here are very respectful.

March 12, 2008

I made it to Dominica. Its a great place, third world country. But as missionaries we've got what we need to live. To answer questions time. There is a senior couple here, The Whites, they are from queens creek arizona and they spoil us alot. Yesterday morning they had us over for breakfast. Pancakes, eggs, fruits, it was the jam. There are the senior couple and also two missionaries in Roseau, the capitol. My comp is Elder Nichols. Hes from Idaho. Hes been out 1 year and 8 months. theres a medical school here and about 50 or so of them are members and there are a couple members from here on the Island but the church is less than two years old here. I live in an apartment and our backyard is beautiful, its like a forest. The apartment is nicer then the place we had in canovanas thats for sure. Im in the city of Portsmouth.Theres no fast food here. We've got to get it all from the grocery store. They have a subway at the university, but normally we cant afford it. We dont have a car or bikes, just the two feet that god gave us. Our chuch building is a big lime green building that the church rents out in the middle of town. Its pretty sweet its got that old fahioned sign that hangs outside of the building. Its awesome. They filmed Pirates of the Carribean 2 here. The scene where they are fighting in the wheel as it rolls down the hill. Thats here. also basically everybody here is a masta fari. That means they look and act like bob marley. He is a God here. They all speak that islander accent here its pretty sweet. We found this guy on saturday, He is golden. Came to church sunday, he quit smoking already and wants to get baptized as soon as possible. They only thing is that he is from Haiti and speaks french. He does speak a little english though. So its like speaking to a 6 year old.

March 4, 2008

So this week is transfer week. Yesterday I got a call from the assistants to the president and they are moving me. I am going to the Island of Dominica (not the Dominican Republic). I'm pretty stoked. This means that Im going to have to change my proselyting language to English. I'm really excited. I believe that there is only one pair of missionaries on the entire Island. Its going to be crazy. I don't know what to expect at all. Im pretty sure that I know who my know companion is. He was in my zone three transfers ago. My flight leaves Wednesday at 1 pm. My companion is really jeolous, because he is still learning Spanish. So he wishes that he could go to the English part of the mission. The weird thing about it is that last Tuesday we had our interviews with the mission president, and after we had finished he asked me to say the closing prayer. So I started to say the prayer, Our dear Heavenly Father, up until then I had always said my prayers in Spanish when I was with president, but I had already started in English and so I just continued to pray in English. After the prayer the president just looked at me and smiled. It was pretty weird, but now I know why it happened like that.Hope you have the greatestestest week ever.
Truly yours,
Elder Osterloh