School has finally started! Yay!! Campus is CRAZY right now! Hoorah for PCing! It is a golden time!  

So with that we were also able to teach Rachel every day this week. Then she proceeded to tell us she wanted to be baptized September 13th. She is sooo amazing it is unbelievable! :) She has already read the whole gospel principle book and every time we go to teach her something she has already studied about it, prayed about it, and already is living it. So...there goes our job! haha! Oh and she is talking to her family about it and her mom wants to meet with missionaries up in the UP... #notabigdeal

Then we met Bob. Bob is our new Chinese investigator. He goes by Bob as his new American name!  We met him walking with his bike and he told us that he had just come from China two days ago! He didn't know any English....SOOOO....back track to that morning! I am getting ready to head out the door and I look at a Chinese Book of Mormon and think yeah...I need that! And I marked one of my favorite scriptures in it! So here I am walking around on campus with a Chinese Book of Mormon and a English Book of Mormon...not a big deal! and we meet Bob and we start to talk to him annnnnddddd...empty look! Haha! So I remember my chinese Book of Mormon pull it out and he looks at it and he says "CHINESE!!!" Haha never was there such happiness! So he read it and nodded his head and we were able to tell him who we were and what we do and schedule a time to meet! He kept saying "oh good" and then when we asked him for a time to meet he said "well, let me take a think!" I had to do everything in my power not to laugh! I love Bob so much! And we had a great lesson and taught him how to pray! He said the closing prayer and I cannot describe the feeling that comes from listening to someone talking to their Father in Heaven for their first time! It is connecting someone back to their Father in Heaven once again. In that moment Heavenly Father is very much there and listening! THE JOY! indescribable. He came to church that following day! :)

Alma 26:30 And we have suffered all manner of afflictions, and all this, that perhaps we might be the means of saving some soul; and we supposed that our joy would be full if perhaps we could be the means of saving some.

So maybe my afflictions aren't as bad as Ammon's but missions are hard. I will be honest! Haha! BUT the Joy of inviting someone to come closer to their Father in Heaven brings the GREATEST of joy. 

Pure, simple, and complete JOY.

Much Michigan () Love, Sister Oswald

Side s:

1. One of the members updated us on all the news that is going on the world...I decided that I like my sheltered life.

2. welp....I have nothing else...this week was pretty boring....

 (This is the blanket she MADE for Mckenzie and Ben. 

She said she spent a half hour each night on it! We were all very impressed!)