A little note before you continue on with the letters...

Hey! For all those who have been waiting for me to update for...-whew! 8 weeks! long time! Sorry about that guys!-well I just added the last eight letters from David. I'm going to put the following in all-caps for those who are just kinda scanning -or not even scanning, I'm sure in some cases- this little extra from yours truly. THERE ARE TWO NEW PICTURES AT THE BOTTOM, CHECK THEM OUT. Sorry again for taking so long, I guess I've just been really horrible at being consistent with this since school began, maybe a little before then. Ok, enjoy reading!!!

-sannie

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Apostles at church

Hello Everyone,
So This is my first letter that I will be sending today. We have had the most amazing experience within the last 2 weeks. It just so happens that every sunday, some older missionary crew says something about an apostle coming. It bugs me that the can promise me that what they say is true when they know what they are saying is a bald-faced lie. Well, two weeks ago, we saw people going in between the aisles of chairs with mirror-sticks (so that they can see everything on the bottom of the chairs) as well as flashlights in the dark space above the ceiling. I thought that was weird... then I during the session, one of the MTC Presidency said, "Make sure that you remember that we do not stand for the hymns EXCEPT should one of the Brethren walk in. Then, make sure that you stand!" 10 seconds later, Elder Russell M. Nelson walked in!! It  was incredible. Then yesterday right before the devotional, they said the very same thing! My eyes widened as I looked at the Elder next to me and asked, "Do you know what that means?" He was a newer Elder... I explained to him that I had only heard that once, and that was last week. I had also seen the odd chairstick-men and flashlight-wielding-attic-searching-men. The Elder next to him was sceptical, but then what do you know, the next moment we were all rising to see Elder Richard G. Scott walking in!!!! I'm not going to go into too much detail, but I have notes in my Study Journal and will soon take it down in my personal journal. What he talked about was being guided by the Spirit. He said that he was compiling a lifetime of his own personal learning and he had given fliers of notes for the missionaries to learn from.
Neither I, nor anyone else in the room, have ever heard so many Apostolic Blessings ever. He gave special blessings to the Sister Missionaries. He also gave us all a Apostolic blessing of the Gift of Tongues. I have never taken part in such an powerful talk in my entire life. Based on this talk, the last talk, and a few other significant things, I feel that we are some of the Last Missionaries/Servants to go out and work in the Vineyard.
Prepare yourselves. I wish I had more time but I don't. Everything else that I need to say will either be via Snail-mail or in my Journal.
I love you all.
Elder David Randall Ostler

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