Hello Family,
This week we had the oppurtunity to go into Donetsk to have interviews with our new mission president, President Compero. He is a very nice man, trying so hard to help us become a better mission. He is a few inches shorter than my last president President Fry. We look forward to a training we have later this next week we will be able to attend to really get to know him a little better because our time was so rushed during our interviews. I'll make sure to keep you all informed. We had a few times to meet with our investigators this week and it was great because we have some very close to baptism, but its also difficult because it is THEIR choice to put forth the effort to find the truth and not ours to force:) This week we took our second counsellor sign boarding with us and it seemed to go really well, give him a better taste of what we go through and missionary life in general. It was really neat to see how the next sunday, everything in the branch seemed to run so much more smoothly. I had the oppurtunity to speak on the liahona article The Lord Needs Missionaries from President Monson. We then had Gospel principles on the importance of Sabbath day worship which was also great for our investigators since that is usually what they struggle with as far as commitments go. We have two investigators at church, and one is doing great, moving through his problems to find more happiness and wisdom through baptism. We then had priesthood two which we had 2 investigators, talking about member missionary work. It was really great!! Many of the brethern bore witness to the purpose of our callings and the purpose of thier callings as member missionaries. It was really great and i feel like we are slowly getting turned back in the right direction to where we can find true success. We also had a chance to meet with our secretary afterwards and show him some new tools found on LDS.org as far as calendar making and map making goes. He had no idea it was there and we all think this will also greatly help the branch be more organized and ready to accept new members of the church. I showed him ours at home and he was amazed at how much we had going on on our calendar and how cool it was that everyone was mapped out already with all of their information. Do you know if this is new technology that just hasnt been taught in training yet? We were not quite sure why no one knew about this and im thinking it will also be a great help to other branchs too in our mission. Well, my times up. I hope you all have a great week and i look forward to hearing from you!
With Love,
Elder Ostler
i got the ring! thanks mom! it only fits on my pinky but it works just fine! i guess my fingers must have gained some weight... :)
