Hello Family,
Thanks for your letters this week! they were great to recieve! It is amazing to hear about all of the news back at home. I cant believe those different people are getting married! thats so great! So this week was a good week full of lessons but our investigators are 'running into walls'. AWW!! we lost a few but there is are still 2 more that have great potential but the we are having a hard time getting them fellowshipped in to the branch because of problems there in the foundation of the branch. The mission president is working miracles going about solving problems left and right but we need just about 10 more mission presidents hear and 100 more priesthood holders to keep our branch from going under. We are working on the hundred priesthood holders while the Mission president is taking the role of the 10 and we are hoping to see success. We also just had a young less active man get killed in our branch which we just met earlier this week. We recieved a call from his father early one morning on the way to a lesson we were having. He said his son was in critical condition and that he was in a hospital located near the church building. After finishing the lesson, we arrived at the hospital a found the father not doing so good, very distraught. We received the nurses permission to give the son a blessing and were given special clothing to enter that part of the clinic. We found the son and he was looking pretty bad, unconcious since he had been attacked knocked out by a beer bottle. We proceeded to give him a blessing and silently left, thanking the nurse. We left a Book of Mormon with the father and left. The next morning at church we learned that the son had passed away early that morning. After church we went with a few sisters and a counselor in the branch to visit this and offer comfort. We talked for a while and gave each of those in the family a blessing. We sang a hymn and prayed. The Lord loves his children, i know that without a doubt. It is in moments like these that i think that we feel christlike love the most. I have never felt it quite so strong as i have felt it with these deaths in both our last area and this area. It is an amazing feeling, something that you never want to leave. If i were to get nothing else out of mission, i would want to leave with that christlike charity that penetrates all darkness. I am so thankful for that wonderful oppurtunity for us to express such love. We will be attending the funeral in about an hour. We pray that the spirit will be their at that meeting so that all in attendance with take a part of that with them and let it change their lives. Thanks for all that you do for me family. Each and every day i serve, i realize just how rare it is to live in such a family as ours that loves eachother and cares for one another. I love you all with all my heart! Have a great week!!
With Love,
Elder Ostler
