Another Week in Woodlake

Dear Family,
I'm writing you from my area in Woodlake. To answer a few questions - Firstly, I'm attaching a few pictures of the my contact-lens box. I really hope that I won't have to make a trip to the eye doctor's office because...well, I'm pretty sure that we don't have an optometrist in Woodlake, and secondly, it's just such a hassle. They start calling me about stuff, I have to call them back, blah blah blah, it just isn't my cup 'o tea. However, I will do whatever needs to be done should these pictures be insufficient. =T

Anyway, about the work (yeah, Missionary work). The word that comes first to my mind when talking about this area is "Hijole!". This has been crazy. I'm not sure that I've ever worked so hard in my life. Every single day. Work, work, and more work.
You see, I feel that I've been doubled into the area. When I got here, there was no work. Let me rephrase. There was no Investigatorial work. Sure, we were working, but most of what we had been doing was Recent Convert/Less Active work.
And now that Elder Escobar left the area (he had been here for 6 months), even some of them have been shutting their doors on us. Weird, eh?? I mean, who would do that? Heck, I wouldn't shut the door on me!!

Well, to make this shorter, Elder Petersen (my new companion) is amazing. President Gelwix is amazing. The mission is amazingly hard. And yet I love it.

I'm sorry that I didn't send a longer letter... I have so much more to tell you about - I was sending a letter to president.

Love you all!!

Elder Ostler