So kenz....you are getting married this week! But I sent you a letter with everything that I could say! I really didn't know how to put it into words...haha so good luck reading it! Just know that I love you and even when you are married I will still claim you mine...sorry Ben...

Monday we had ward FHE...it was so fun! Rachel was able to come and she loved it!

This week was kind of crazy! We had trade-offs Monday night to Wednesday morning! Sister Jordan is an amazing missionary! I am so lucky to be able to go on trade-offs with the sisters in this zone and be able to talk with them and gain so much from how they are doing in missionary work! While we were on trade-offs my mind was completely somewhere else...I swear I lost it that day! Just to show an example of how bad it was we walked out the door and to the car and I realized...I don't have the keys....and the door is locked....awesome. So here we were are locked out...but luckily we had the phone and we were able to call the Zone Leaders for our extra key! So I am talking to Elder Tuttle and he tells me well you can just use you credit card and explains over the phone how to break into our apartment! And he says keep trying while we are heading over haha! So I am sticking a credit card in between our door and our neighbor walks out and I look...well...like I am breaking into our apartment haha! So I awkwardly say "oh...um...this is our apartment" ...haha so awkward! Well for about 5 minutes I try to break into our apartment with Sister Jordan who has only been out for a month...what a great example right? So I put my card back into my wallet and say "Welp might as well go knock on some doors!" and the 2nd door we knocked on we were talking about eternal families and she told us that just that day her mom passed away! Well Heavenly Father had to lock us out of our apartment to get us where we needed to be! So we are going back Tuesday! Super Solid. And then the Elders came and I learned how to break into someones house with a credit card...I am learning REAL life skills on my mission.

Then we had Zone Conference! The AP's were teaching and then invited the Sister Training Leaders to come up and practice teach...at that moment I wish that I could have just said..."oh well, I quit...sorry." Practice teaching in front of the whole zone is my worst fear...well family...I want you to know I did it! Congrats to me, right?

Then there was less active that the Elders go to dinner at every Friday night and he finally invited us!! Haha! Brother Bassat is so great! and some how it ended up being Sister Anderton, Elder Stevenson, and Elder Louis talking and trying to teach his NOT AT ALL interested girlfriend and Elder Tuttle and I teaching Brother Bassat! Haha! Weird teaching with an elder but we had a REALLY awesome lesson with him! One of the BEST lessons that I have ever taught! We read Alma 7:11-13 and I talked about how Jesus Christ know exactly him and what he feels and how to help him and He said wow...I just have this lump in my throat and I want to cry...and Elder Tuttle said "Well, Brother Bassat, that is the spirit." and yesterday he came to the church for the first time in 10 years. He stopped smoking and threw out all of his alcohol. It is moments like these that I wish I could pause and soak it in. The joy exceeds every moment of pain and in that moment you are whole.

Saturday we went over to Rachel's and planned her baptism! She is so excited! I love it! The members just love her! She practically comes to every dinner with us and we see her everyday! I love Rachel! She told me that when I come back she can take me to all the cool things in the UP! She is from the UP! She is also going to PT school! She is trying convincing me to do PT school! haha! #upintheairmaybe I realized that you have never seen a picture of Rachel...coming soon! Don't worry!

Well mi familia....This weekend will be really hard...haha well for me! You all will be very happy! So that is awkward! Just keep me in your prayers. It is a good thing that I know that this church is true! With all my heart! I know that Heavenly Father loves each one of us perfectly. I know that Jesus Christ knows and has felt the pains that I have felt and all the pains that the people in Michigan that mean so much to me feel. He was able to over come and conquer just so that in that moment when we are feeling weak, when we are feeling down he knows exactly what Iwe need. That is enough for me. I love my Father in Heaven, I love my Savior Jesus Christ, and I love those sweet moments when the Holy Ghost testifies of truth. Have a great week! Hope everything goes well with the wedding and know that I love you all and pray for you!

Much Michigan love, Sister Oswald

I am going to try and summarize some crazy things that happened this week:

1. Also while I was on trade-offs, I got this nice little package in the mail thinking someone was kind enough to send me a cute package form an unknown address! Well I get inside and open it and there is a few CD's and some books! Sweet! Someone sent me CD's and books! I am looking through and one of the CD's was titled 10 Latter-Days saints encounter with Jesus Christ and how it changed their life. COOL! So excited! Next CD there was three missionaries on the cover with the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil things going on... well that is weird...one of the books was a new version of the Bible and lastly I pick up one book that says 7 Reasons why we left the Mormon Church...I dropped it on the table and just looked at it! Let me tell you I had the worst feeling in the world. I was literally scared. It is not everyday that you receive anti-Mormon material in the mail from an unknown sender. I was on trade-offs so I just stacked it all up and set it aside...but that nasty feeling would not leave me and I had a huge head-ache from the time I had gotten it until Wednesday night! I honestly did not know what to do! But at zone conference President Jacobsen got up and said there are three things that are specifically hard about our mission 1. The freezing cold 2. How large our mission is and 3. That Michigan is the Anti-Mormon material capitol of the world. Elders and Sisters I know there is a lot of anti material you have to deal with on a daily basis but we can overcome anti-material. I had gotten home and was sick of my head-ache so I went to the table and broke the CD's in half and ripped up the books...I am pretty sure Sister Anderton thought I had gone mad! but there are NOT seven reason to leave the Mormon church. You better be sure of that, and if you aren't ask God and he will let you know. The Church is True. It is God's Kingdom on the earth. I know that.

2. Elder Louis is from Hawaii and a member in the ward is from Hawaii also! So they got together and made Hawaiian food for all of us and played the Ukelele! Made me think of you.

3. We played horse shoes at a young single adult activity...and I am very bad at it...let's just say I almost severely injured a few people.

Anyways....bye.