Hello family!
SO glad to hear from you all!! It was amazing to hear about all of those
miracle having to do with the clothing washer. I'm sure that whole process took
lots of patience to endure also:) It is amazing just how God watches over all
of his children, even when we may have no idea why we are going through such
trials and what we had done to deserve it. The Lord truly is molding us all
to become what He wants of us. This work is God's work, and it is real. This
week, our investigator went off date due to him not showing up to church
services when he said he would this past two Sundays. He also struggles to
learn the principles that we teach. We have struggled to get a member on
lessons with him because of work schedules so we plan to make it happen this
week as a last effort before moving on. We got dogged for half of our lessons
this week but had a great Thanksgiving with the missionaries all stationed in
Donetsk with 4 turkeys provided by our senior couple the Hatchs. They are so
great and provided a great time for the missionaries to enjoy together. To end
this week, we almost got dogged by the family of a counselor in our district
presidency but luckily everything worked out and we were able to have a great
lesson with them. We focused on helping them build their Zions. Their faith was
so amazing and the mother just kept writing and writing names down, people she
had been thinking of but hadn't yet given to the missionaries. We look forward
to working with this family, they just have returned from being mission
presidents in Russia. Their family set a goal to have 6 baptisms from their
family alone within the next year. What a great goal!! Their faith alone with
help them reach that goal and even surpass it! This family, the Podvodovs, are
just like any family that you'd find at home, just trying their best, loving
each other like our Father in Heaven loves us. We hope to find even more
families of such strength and capacity in the following months as a result of
the refferals we will recieve and teach.
Thanks so much for all of the pictures! I think I got all of the emails you
sent also which were great to read!
I hope all is well at home! Keep up the good missionary work at home! Do
something nice for the missionaries for me while I'm not there!:) even the
smallest of things make the biggest of differences in the lives of
missionaries. Love you all!!
With Love,
Elder Ostler
