Crazy Drunk kids just out of high school found some light

Hey Family!

Its been a hot week! It makes a big diferense when you wear a collared shirt all day out around the hot sun. Speaking of sun, those were some really cool pictures of the people and stuff holding the sun. I'll have to try that out. I haven't been taking any pictures lately. I need to start doing it more often. My companion and I have been so busy. I feel like we never have enough time to do everything. I think, in the last week and a half we've only been in our appartment before 9pm one time. We've been having a blast!Last night we were walking by some appartments and there were a bunch of people about my age at a pool drinking and smoking having a good time, then they saw us and one of them yelled to us, "hey! want to talk religion?" I said out of instinct, "sure." Just after I said that I thought to myself, that could just be an excuse to fight because a couple of them were pretty hammered, but I went anyways. The guy was totally crazy, but we got a few potential investigators out of it. The guy that yelled to us said, "you get 15 minutes then I get 15 minutes with no interruptions." I said, "cool." No more than 30 seconds had gone by and all of the people (10) that were partying came by to listen to what I was saying and the guy I was talking with said, "man, why you all coming over here to but in and ruin our discussion!?" Then one of his friends said, "hey, we want to hear this too, man! I want to know about God and religion." So, I ended up talk to everyone about God and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Some people had their own ideas and others were super intent on hearing our message. It was pretty sweet. One of the girls had taken the lessons about 5 years earlier, but after her mom died her family had stopped. She was pretty cool and seemed very out of place with the group she was hanging out with. Another guy looked like he was ready to do anything we wanted him to. He looked as though a light had finally shown in his life to give him direction and cause. It was so cool!Anyway, How are things at home? Seatle with Roger, Hillary, and Sarah looked pretty fun. Seems like all is well with Natalie, Jeff and Micah. Thanks for the pictures! I love to see and hear from my family. Thanks for the e-mail Kyler! It was good to hear from you.

Love ya!-Elder Osness

My new companion!

Oh my Family!

-The Pictures- District picture (all those in my last district), the 4 elders one (Elder Kimball (Assistant to the President), me, Elder Pace (Zone Leader), Elder Krall (my trainer, District Leader)), and the monkey picture (we went to the musium of natural history and there was a mirror with large ape stickers, so we stood behind it as though were were really there with the apes).

How's life in the real world? Anything good? Hope so. It sounds like Roger and Hillary are having a great time. It's exciting to have a new addition to the family coming and definately good to hear all the new words and things my nieces and nephews a learning! My week has been way good! After transfers, my new companion took off and worked the way I knew missionaries worked. With my trainer, my last companion, we averaged about nine or ten lessons a week and 50-70 contacts per week. *contacts are people we talk to on the street or people we tract into. With my new companion, in only three days, we taught eight lessons and got 161 contacts! Its great to have a companion that is on the same page you are. He's a super hard worker and has a ton of faith. His hard work ethic comes from growing up on a farm, I think. He's from Delta, Utah, so not too far away. He's naturally a shy, timmid person. I can see it in his personality and he talks it, but he knows what he's supposed to do and does it, so together we've been "tearin' it up!" He's very humble. Probably the most humble person I know.Its a lot of fun working with him. His Name is Elder Skyler Roper.Last week we were talking to some people and this guy was pushing a table up some stairs in the apartment complex we were at and while I continued to talk to a guy, Elder Roper helped this other guy carry his table up to his apartment and when I finished talking to my person I went in and to where Elder Roper was and we taught Antuan and Jerolyn (the table guy and his wife) the Restoration. I was sweet! Just yesterday, I was talking to a guy from Nigeria and he wanted us to teach him, so right then and there we taught Olu. Its so fun! There is a wide variety of races here in Norman because of Oklahoma University, so I get to experience almost every culture. I'm loving it! Well, hope to hear from you soon!

Love, Elder Osness

Museum of Natural History

Dear Family,

Lately its been hard to get people to church. They always commit to come, but never seem to show up. Its really annoying actually! We've got a few really good investigators who come. We also have some that aren't busy on Sunday and even sound excited about church, but they simply just don't go! We met a really cool lady the other day! She has a solid testimony, but has a husband that is completely against the church and doesn't like her doing anything with the church, so she's having a tough time because she really wants to get baptized. Meeting her is really the only cool thing that happened this passed week. We went to the Museum of Natural History today for P-Day. It was a pretty cool place. There is a lot of dinosaur bones and Native American history stuff and art. It was fun. If my camera ever gets enough juice in the battery, I'll load some pictures up. The weather has been pretty good lately. 60-80's most of the week and this is suppose to be really stormy. Oklahoma has really cool thunder storms. Its so loud! With spring time, my allergies have gone super crazy! I never knew my eyes could hurt so bad...all the time! Actually, one of my eyes has hurt worse before, but its really sucky to have a runny, congested nose and burning red eyes every day.Wow! Ryan, or should I say Booza, has changed a lot since I last saw him! That's a sweet nickname, by the way. Micah seems to be enjoying the mexican side of himself, eating rice and beans with Natalie. I have the coolest family! I'll be calling home Sunday evening, if you want to hear me. Probably 8:30 p.m. Oklahoma time. I think Utah is an hour behind, but I can't remember. Can't wait to talk!...what else do I want in the box...? Well, maybe some letters from my nieces and nephews...and anyone else that wants to put one in there. Maybe some Sweedish Fish:) Some pictures would be cool too. I don't have any from home. You could throw my white "QUOTED" t-shirt in there. I can't think of anything really. Whatever fits in the box. Thanks!

Here's my address-

Elder Glenn Osness

1300 Crown Point Ave. #17

Norman, Ok 73072

Love you all! -Elder Osness