December 30, 2013:

Mi familia! Christmas was so good! I loved it and surprisingly wasn't homesick...maybe because it didn't feel like Christmas! It feels like Chirstmas was months ago! I LOVED talking to you, but I hope that I wont be expecting to call every couple weeks now hahah! I cried the whole time I talked to you guys and Sister Frei, after I got off the phone, said she loved dads voice...it was so calming hahaha! The Christmas caroling thing was a fail...totally fell through... but we sang in the lobby to 3 older ladies and they liked it, so I guess it was worth it hahah! The day after Christmas was really hard for some reason..don't know why! haha! But Sunday was really good! Church was just what I needed! We talked about sacrifices in Relief Society and I realized that I was willing to sacrifice everything but you guys...haha so I need to sacrifice family time...hard, but Heavenly Father helps me so much! I talked on Sunday about new beginnings and did really good! It was the BEST talk I have ever given I had a page of notes and talked for like over 15 minutes! I was super proud of myself! But I told the members at the end that leaving my family was so hard but that they had helped me so much and that I was so thankful for all that they do and they don't know how much it means...so lets just say EVERY day this week we have a dinner and everyone was asking us if we needed rides places hahahaha "working with the members" hahahahah! On the way home we were riding with the Warners and the little girl in the back told her mom "Mommy, I was sad during nursery" and her mom asked why and she said "because I missed my mommy!" I wanted to say me too...me too! And her mom said, "Well, when we get home mommy can play a game with you." ...So Mom.... can we play a game when I get home???  hahaha....also just a small deal......
KECO IS GETTING BAPTIZED IN TWO WEEKKKKKSSSS! Most amazing experience! So Sister Frei and I have tried everything and we knew that Keco knew this was true, he just didnt realzie it. So we found a scripture and just decided that we were going to go into it, read the scripture, and let the spirit guide the rest! So we did that and IT WORKED! Everything went so welll...haha so we went in there and we were SO NERVOUS! We sat down had a prayer and then we read the scripture and Keco was silent for a bit...and Sister Frei and I were totally thinking "THIS IS IT! THIS IS IT!" And he looks at us and sayyyyyyyssssss...."I don't get it." hahah Oh my....and then I looked over and saw the scripture from my farewell talk and KNEW that I had to read that to him! And right then he said I know this is good....so BAM read him that and said don't fear...sometimes you have to take a leap of faith... and so he said "Like be baptized?"  and we said yes and then he was like..."Okay..I will!"  What the heck!?!?! Yes. This is real. This happened! So Jan. 11th....I could hardly contain myself I was like giggling like a child.....And his wife sells jewlery and wants to sell us some so we have an in with his wife now! Gosh keco...LOVE HIM! But yeah this week was REALLY hard but so great with so many miracles...I love missionary work.... :)


Love,
Sister Oswald