August 5, 2008

Yep, its zone conference week. I just finished a trade-off with my district leader in Roseau, the capitol of Dominica. It was great. Lots of new experiences. Roseau is much bigger than portsmouth, and it seams that people might actually have money there. Thank you so much for sending a box. It doesnt really matter to me whats in the box, its more of the excitement of getting a box, and then rubbing it in your companions face. I try not to do that though. I try to be a good boy.
Our zone leaders are in St. Kitts. Its only a few of the islands. There a four zones in Puerto Rico and three in the islands.
We have stopped working with Island so much, we still pass on the occasion, but they just arent determined to fix their problem. And they are stuck were there at until they do. But we do have some new faces. We go through a lot of people to see who will keep commitments that we leave, and thereby prepare to keep covenents they will make with the lord. One guy is named Wendel. He is a groundskeeper at Ross University. He reads the things we leave, and also other things on the internet that we dont leave. So lately we have been doing a lot of doubt solving from the anti mormon literature he has been reading. Stuff like plural marriage, Some kind of Blood atonement thing. Mostly just people misquoting prophets and taking things out of context. He seems to accept the answers we give him. We also exlplained that God can answer his questions that he has and that he shouldn't rely on the precepts of men. He knows that is what he should do, and we are praying that he can recieve the answers that he needs. We have many other news faces to the crowd, always shifting through them, separating the wheat from the tares (sp?).
My comp finishes his mission in two weeks. I'm sending him home, or as they say in the mission, I'm "killing him."

Love Elder Osterloh

Michael was still at the email place so he answered a few questions for me. These are his answers. I think he went to St Kitts for zone conf, because thats where the zone leaders are.

We go to zone conference Mon-tues. on tuesday we get a layover of 7 hours in antigua. Its a half hour flight to antigua and a half hour flight to Dominica. But 7 hours in the airport. Wahoo. My comp is from Utah