Sister Ostler gets her visa!!

I GOT MY VISA!! I am flying to Brazil Monday morning! I am so excited but it is bitter sweet. I have really come to love California.

This week was a week of miracles, trials, disappointment, and odd stories. It was a crazy week

MIRACLE: We got 5 new investigators to agree to baptism this week!!! It was so exciting. 

DISAPPOINTMENT: None of them came to church and none are answering our phone calls. Kinda sucks that this is typical for a mission.

FUNNY STORY: One of our new investigators went toastake conference. I plead innocent because we got her from some elders and had only taught her once. Well at this conference there was an area 70. She got called on to say the prayer. She goes up and in broken broken english (this is an english ward and she speaks spanish. Lots of miscommunications) She says the prayer. then gets nervous and starts SINGING IN SPANISH DURING THE PRAYER. This was a meeting full of NEW CONVERTS TO THE CHURCH. We were not there but we got a call from our mission president that night. We have to re teach how to pray....

FUNNY STORY: We were knocking on doors and some lady opens the door and was really excited that we were missionaries. She had a question for us. She said she had the "gift of tongues" given to her when she was 13 and now randomly her, and I quote, "tongue will roll up like a taco and she will speak in a weird undiscovered language" THEN SHE GAVE US A DEMONSTRATION.  I have never seen something so terrifying yet equally so funny before!!!! hahaha we left her doorstep quickly there after.

Well thats all I got for ya this week! Next time I will be emailing in Brazil. I am so grateful for the people I have met here the things I have learned in California but I am so excited to go to Brazil. Just remember that "he lives to calm our troubled hearts" Look to him in every thought and action and he will direct thy paths. God speed my friends!! Eu amo voces muito! 

Hermana Ostler (for one more week)

.Sister Ostler