Wow! so much is happening back at home. I'm so glad to hear everything went well with Joe's exam. From what megan was saying it sounded VERY intense. I definitly want to hear more about it! Also congrats to Benjamin and Caleb for finishing up school for the year! Thats always a great feeling!:) I'm still trying to get it into my mind that Benjamin is a senior now! Thats crazy!:) (question: how tall are you now Benjamin?) Im afraid im going to be the shortest of the men in our family. I have no doubt that Caleb will pass me up, or has already passed me up! (him growing as fast as a bean stalk and all! :) I hope all is going well with the kofford's and their preparations to leave. It was great to hear the DelBiancos found a house to stay in. Even better than their last one!:) Also, its great to hear that things are moving forward with Josh and Jen. California here you come:) I may have to visit you about every other week when i return to college:) Well, this week i have some not so good news that our little girl is off date. The mom is struggling right now trying to be active so we are going to move the date of baptism until they can regularly attend church. I have great confidence that they will, they are just very busy and have many other distractions that sometimes get in their way. Praying for Nastia(daughter) and Aleona(Mother) would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and also for us so we can know what to do that will help them. Thanks a million! Other than that this week has been pretty great! We are still seeing the blessings of our efforts from our first week of intense work to meet our goals. We've had about 7 new people seemingly come to us out of no where and very willingly give us their numbers and many of them speak english. We've also had an abnormal amount of Refferals which is also a miracle. Refferals are so important but are extremely rare. We hope that some of these will turn to have great potential! Allright, I've got some pictures i'll try to upload right now for you.
This is one of the only kids in our branch and he is sooo cute! His name is Adam and he's such a funny kid.
We have to go to an area where they keep a bunch of crazy people to get to one of our recent converts who is such a great lady and suddenly out of the clear blue sky it started pouring! it was the weirdest thing... Felt good though:)
1355- This was last P-days masterpiece. Borshe!!! It was pretty good but we still have some work to do on it.
1353- These are our two new elders, Elder Marinchenko(left) and Elder Smith(right) Both great Elder's!
Well family, it was so great to hear from you and i hope you all have a great week ahead of you. You are all in my prayers and i hope you know that i love each and every one of you. Cant wait to hear from you!:)
With Love,
Elder Ostler
