Good Things to Come

October 31, 2016

Hi guys!

My week was rather odd. It seemed simultaneously very productive and very unproductive. We were quite busy, but we actually only taught about half as much as we bowled for. There were lots of appointments falling through. However, we still managed to meet a lot of people and really get some work done, even if it was just setting up for this week. We ought to pick up a few new investigators this week. We possibly have up to 8 solid potentials! That's really good. Hopefully it all happens!

We also had a lot of meetings that made it seem busier. On Wednesday we had a Zone Conference in Beaver that lasted forever. It was 9:00-3:00, so six hours, like most Zone Conferences, except this one just felt extra long. It was really good, and we had a Seventy there (Elder Ringwood), but it just seemed so long. It didn't help that it was in Beaver, which is an hour drive from Cedar, which made the whole day seem longer, and it also didn't help that I felt unusually tired that day.

On Saturday we had another meeting, the adult session of Stake Conference. There was a Seventy there too, Elder Schwitzer. It was a very good meeting, and then the general session of Stake Conference was Sunday morning, and it was also very good. Elder Schwitzer's messages were on teaching and learning in the home/family, and the truthfulness of The Book of Mormon. Both talks were enlightening as well as entertaining (he can be really funny).

And the cool thing is that I've seen Elder Schwitzer twice before, once at the MTC, and then again when he visited our mission right before we got iPads.

Anyway, so we did quite a bit this past week, but in terms of teaching, we only had a few actual lessons. Oh well. We tried our best, and it should be better this week.

This week is also going to be kinda crazy though. It's transfer week again. We got our call on Sunday morning. Elder Plauche is going to Cedar Spanish (called it!) and I'm going to be training! That's pretty exciting! So yeah, I'll be training for my last three months it looks like. It's weird. I'm now where my trainer, Elder Falconbury, was when he got me. Which is both kinda cool, and kinda terrifying. These last three months may echo my first three months quite a bit, except I'm the old trainer this time.

Well that's about it for today. Hopefully I'll have a lot of good developments to report next P-Day. Have a great week!

-Elder Oswald

 Here's some assorted pictures from this past week. Enjoy!

Picture 1: Myself (right), my "son" Elder Bright (middle), and my "grandson" Elder Schroeder. Taken at Zone Conference.

Picture 2: I had dinner with a former mission President (President Wilson) who lives in my area, who was president of the California Bakersfield Mission up until this past July. He was Elder Ken Fry's (a

good friend of mine from Michigan, and a lot of you who get my emails know him too) mission president, and he said he was at least a little bit acquainted with President and Sister Center, my mission president up until July. He also knows my current mission president, President Smith. Small world.

Pictures 3&4: We did some service a little ways up Cedar Canyon, and I got these pictures.