Called to know the RICHNESS of His blessings!

We were singing called to serve the other day in relief society and that bottom line stuck out to me so much! As missionaries, we really are called to know the richness of his blessings! It is amazing! I love my mission!

Alright...this week was my favorite week on my mission!!! ( I have a lot of those)

Okay so KYLE! Can I just tell you Kyle make me sooo happy! Like beyond happy! Like my heart is soo full when we are teaching him! Okay okay okay! So we have a set of visa waiters in the mission and they are going to Taiwan! So they came down to campus to practice teaching in chinese to our investigators! So we set to the elders hey maybe you could put him on date for Dec 13th! So they came in in the middle of our lesson and we introduced them and we said Kyle do you want us to stay and he just looked at us and shook his head yes haha...chinese elders are scary I guess...but then they just spoke in Chinese and then Kyle turned to us and said I want to be baptized Dec 6th to show God my faith! I wanted to cry...the spirit in that room was amazing! I asked Kyle how do you feel right now and he said "really happy!" I was so happy! My heart=full! Then we all said a kneeling prayer and he said "I am excited to be baptized Dec 6th!" Oh I love Kyle so much! :)

And Valerie this week...she is amazing!! She text us and asked us for a few baptismal dates to begin praying about! And she decided Dec 6th also! :) but she wants to talk to her family first....sooo hopefully that goes well! Please please pray for it to go well! She is so amazing! She set up her own appointment with the bishop because she wanted to get to know him better! and then she text us after just so happy and she said "he is soo inpired!" I do love our bishop! He is from hawaii and always say "aloha!" whenever he gets up to speak! He is soo great! I love Valerie so much! She is so prepared and willing to follow what God would have her do! Even if it means making sacrifices! She is so wonderful....someday I want to grow up to be just like Valerie!

We also taught Meg this week! She leave back to Brazil in two weeks...I want to cry! I will miss her so much! She is truly the best person I have ever met! So kind hearted! I will miss her but we are going to keep in touch! :) We taught her about the importance of baptism and asked her to pray about Dec 6th but I don't want to rush her into anything. So we will get her into contact with missionaries down there so she can continue the lessons!

and then we also met with Audrey! I will get a picture with her this week so you can see how beautiful she is! She is so amazing and so prepared! Cool story! So a member in our ward served where Audrey is from in Bordeaux, France so she can get in contact with missionaries down there! But realizing that she is leaving in two weeks...made me want to cry in the middle of the lesson! But of course we switched e-mails and we will keep in contact! I love Audrey so so much!

we went on two last trade-offs for the transfer and it was so fun! I got to go to Mason and it is the CUTEST little town I have ever seen! I loved loved loved it!

This week is transfer calls the day after Thanksgiving! I am nervous!! President Jacobsen has a way of surprising people in the least expected way! I want to stay sooooo bad at MSU! SOOO BAD! I love this area so much! I would be okay with spending the rest of my mission here!! Everything is wonderful!

Well everyone should serve a mission. We went and visited this old lady on trade-offs in a nursing home and she was asking about our families and if we were going home for Thanksgiving so we explained well we don't really go home....and she was so surprised and telling us what a sacrifice we make! In my head I just realized so strongly that this is no sacrifice. There is no sacrifice here! I always thought wow we are making such a big sacrifice! I am going to at least give back a little bit for what the Savior did for me...but now I am even more in debt! I have gained ten times more, in the last year of my life, than anything I could ever sacrifice.The church is true with all of its doctrine and teachings and Jesus Christ at the head of it!  I love my mission. I love my Savior. I love my Heavenly Father and I have truly been called to know the richness of his blessings.

Much Michigan Love <3

Sister Oswald

We went ice skating for p-day!