There are sooo many prepared people in Bay City. Even if we have to door knock for hours on end we find them....

The other week (which I might have told you about already) we knocked on this ladies door and I just totally started saying ALL THE WRONG THINGS....I thought...well she excitedly excepted our invitation to learn and we set up a return appointment to much of my surprise! Well last night we taught her for the first time and she is now getting ready to be baptized on March 28th and is very excited! We told her that the way Jesus Christ was baptized and by that same authority is the exact same as when she will be baptized and she readily accepted the invitation! It was a miracle! She was truly prepared by the Lord.

Next we are teaching a guy named Jeff we get there and he has TONS of religious books laid across his table. We taught him the Plan of Salvation and he said "wow that makes so much sense" I bore testimony that every single truth that is in Jesus Christ church is in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that he didn't need to read every other single book to find it. God has prepared a way for it to all be in one place. It was a great lesson and the spirit was very present.

Things are going great with Ralphie and Robin and the girls they are just so wonderful and coming to church every Sunday! 

Patty is great! We went over to help he clean her kitchen while she was sick and she said I am just starting to love you girls more and more. She knows the church is true! We just have to help her get healthy enough to get to church! That will be the biggest thing! But she has also been sooo prepared! It is very cool to see.

Things are going well with the work in Bay City! We had Elder Nash of the Quorum of the Seventy come today and he was soo wonderful! The spirit was VERY strong. I love the feeling of the spirit it is just an encouraging feeling! Being a missionary is such a great mantel and it is so wonderful to be a part of this wonderful work. I am grateful for my savior who has felt everything that I have felt and that he knows what I need....even if sometimes I have to patiently wait for it, but I know that it will always come. He knows what we feel, he knows what he need, and he will also be our stronghold. 

Much Michigan Love, 

Sister Oswald