January 22,30, 2008

Well, there are some more problems that have happened with this baptism. She needs to be interviewed by the mission president and now she doesnt want to be interviewed again. Appearantly she didnt have a great experience in her first interview. So last night the mission president came with us to go and visit her to try and get her to be interviewed and she wasnt there. So we are going to try again this thursday or friday. But we are having a lot of other success as well. We set another baptismal date last night and we have two more people who we are going to give baptismal dates in our next appointment. We also have this really cool new investigator who says that she knows that we are representatives of God and that she needs to start coming to church and change her life around. She says that she was baptized in the Catholic church but she has always believed in the mormon church because they dont need to wear crosses or do other things but you can tell that they are true because of their contenence. Their is a light that surrounds mormons. So we are really excited to teach her more and she is coming to church this sunday.We got our transfer calls yesterday and I will be staying once again. At this rate I will only have four areas in my entire mission. But I love this area and Im really excited to be staying here.Love Elder Osterloh


So yes I did hear about president Hinckley. Monday morning the president of the mission called all the zone leaders and dispursed the information. Thats pretty sad, I really liked president Hinckley, but im sure the next prophet will be just as inspired and helpful. It does make things a little diferent when we are teaching people about following the prophet. We have a baptism planned for this Sunday, after church. That seams to be the best time to do it hear, because everybody struggles so much with transportation here. Maria Cruz is really awesome. She was already baptized in the catholic church, and we invited her to be baptized again. She agreed and I asked her why she wanted to be baptized. She told me "because this one is true". It was really really cool. I cant wait for Sunday. Her whole family wants to come. Its going to be great. So its the skyline brighton Battle huh? Or maybe it has already happened. Anyway, you should tell me how it went. Did Ryan make the game winning shot again? That would be sweet