Yo Adrian!

Dearest Family,

I don't have any new pictures of me for this last week, but the clouds here are still cool!Last week was a little sketchy with getting sittuated in a member's home (the Bray's), but its really nice and has been pretty enjoyable to be in the comforts their basement. Next week we'll probably be moving into a new appartment, which will be a sad change. We've been living pretty comfortably for the last week.So, the new happening events in the work...well, we found a great person to teach! Her name is Adrian. The way she explained her name was by refering to Rocky. "Yo Adrian!" haha! She came to the door and was, surprisingly, happy to see us. We talked to her for a few minutes at her doorstep and gave her a Book of Mormon, left her a commitment to read and pray about it and she looked at it and said "Okay, I could probably have it read in a couple weeks." WOW! We asked if we could come by and see how the reading was going and teach her some more of our message and scheduled an appointment. She was pretty cool. Besides that we had a few dropped appointments from other investigators, but rescheduled for this week, so its really good out here.My greenie companion had his first bash with a guy last night, which went nowhere. I could barely get a word in, he was so into proving this guys questions. It was kind of difficult, but he won't be bashing anymore. I'm really enjoying my mission!So, I hear Spencer is off to basic training. That will be cool to hear how things are going with him! What else is new in the lives of our family. I haven't heard from very many of you lately...except for Roger's diligent e-mails. I can just picture Sarah standing there with her arms out waiting to help. I love my family!

Thanks for all your love and support. Love you all!

The good and the bad...oppostion in all things

Family,

Well it sounds like most everyone is doing well. A few stresses here and there, but I hope everything turns out good. (Natalie's surgery and Heather's family). The Mormon Anniversary stuff in San Fran seemed pretty cool. We know that with every good moment there is bad somewhere and with all the bad, the goodness of God will be around. Something I learned in the MTC is to cherish the hard times because those are the times that make the good times all the better. And its really true. We really don't know how good it is until there is something worse that confronts us. Lucky for me, the times have been pretty good this past week. The weather took a turn. Its been cloudy ever since the new missionaries arrived. Yesterday, there was a light mist...all day. It was awesome! The last few days have been between 70-95 degrees. Other than the weather and the overall enjoyment of being a missionary...nothing has happened. We've only taught a few lessons and no progressing investigators. We haven't been able to make contact with Andres (Baptism Date) since we set the date and our other great families we're teaching...still haven't come to church, but they will. There is good in everything. Its up to us to find it.So, speaking about the new missionaries...I'm training one of them. His name is Elder Kleinman and Music Theater is his life, if that can give you a picture of his personality. He's pretty cool...your typical drama student, but he loves athletics too. It hasn't been bad training. I think the only stress of it comes from the title "trainer," the actual work isn't different. Things are pretty good out here and hopefully more and more people accept the gospel.The pictures are of me and my greenie out enjoying the great proselyting weather in Edmond.

Love you all!

-Elder Glenn Onsess

Waterfall feature!

Well Family,

there was an exciting turn of events this past weekend. The week was pretty good, we taught a couple great lessons and tried a new way of teaching...well, not a new way, but instead of talking a little about our message when tracting we decided we were going to start teaching at the door of peoples homes. It works great and should continue to be better and better as we work out the bumps of trying a new thing. We managed to pull off two lessons with commitments to read and pray about the book of mormon and we got to pray with them, but didn't get any return appts.. We'll be working on how we can manage to do that...then we'll move on to a soft baptismal commitment at the door. (Soft baptismal commitment-when you come to know these things are true, would you be baptized?)So, back to my first statement. Training a new missionary isn't so bad, but walking into an appartment with water pouring out of the roof, through vents, and light fixtures a week and a half into the mission has got to be weird! On Saturday evening at 9:00 p.m. we opened our appartment door to a waterfall sound and flipped on the light to find...a waterfall in our appartment! We quickley grabbed our suitcases and filled them with our belongings and made a few calls to get things situated...only we couldn't find any maintenance or manager numbers anywhere and the people that lived near us weren't home, so we were in limbo. Finally, at about 10:45 p.m. we got a call from the appartment manager, who was furious with us because we didn't call him. Well, the story goes, a bathroom pipe had broken in the appartment above us and while we were out and about through the day, our appartment received all the water, which then ran to the neighboring appartment and into the parking lot, leaving us to sleep, or should I say, attempt to sleep on the floor of another set of missionaries appartment with no bed, blanket, or pillow. I now know what its like to feel homeless. Lucky for us we only had to stay in that appartment and live in our car for two nights. We are now staying at a member's home who have a full basement (kitchen, bathroom, own entrance). Good news of the weekend...we got an investigator to church, who is planning on bringing is family next week! I guess its not too bad, but the work did kind of hit a stand still for a little bit.(the pictures are of our appt. the next day)Well, I hope things are great at home!

Love you!-Elder Osness

Not a cloud in sight

My Family,

Well, Another week come and gone. This week went by way fast! I can't even remember anything from it. We're still just teaching the same people and other people are still just satisfied with life and don't want to talk to us, but that's the way life goes as a missionary. The sun really wears you out pretty quick. It was 107 the other day. yuk! Ithink I spoke too soon last week...now August is here and Its really hot...with hot wind...like home. Tracting tracting tracting, oh, all the time in the heat. Yep, that's me! Ough! Next transfer we should be getting some baptisms though...I hope. With one investigator with a date and an awesome family of five we've been teaching, there's some promise. The family we've been teaching has a problem with the nececity of baptism, but they said they understand where it comes from and are sure God will answere their prayers. We've been teaching at a member's home and our last lesson started off a little wacky. We told the members we were going to teach Lesson 3 (The Gospel of Jesus Christ), so they looked at it and read it and new how to help, but one of them just got a little over anxious and started talking about the temple and being sealed and just going way over their heads. It was annoying, but her husband helped us out and got it back to the lesson...oof! Besides that, everything is great and the family is still openminded and wanting to learn more...just with more questions about things we want to cover at a later time.We also went out to the far ends of our area...Coyle. There's nothin'! Just a bunch of people who hate life, but some of them were friendly, but the dogs sure weren't. We were biking and a dog starts barking and growling...then jolting full speed after us...yup, so we biked faster...Ha! dumb dog! The picture is me looking at the map in Coyle. There were a few good things about it...clouds, but still 100+ degrees.Well Love ya'll. Hope to hear from you soon!Oh, so is there a package headed my way? You know, the one that was going to get sent after the Family Reunion. Oh, and I'm training a new missionary. I find out all about him tomorrow.

Take care:)-Elder Osness