Daniel has Email at the MTC for family!!

Hey FAMILY,

So I only have a few minutes to actually type an e-mail so please forgive any and all spelling errors. I logged on to the computer but part of my 30 minutes was taken up when I registered for an e-mail with myldsmail.net. So everything is going great, I saw brother Dean today! The language is coming along, I can sort of pray and bear my testimony in Russian. Thanks for the letters, the letters through Dear Elder.com come really quick and are quite efficient, so if you guys are running short on time i would recommend to use that.

I can hardly believe my first week will be here tomorrow. I am slowly but surely getting a hang of how things work around here. I don't' really know what to say except for that things are going great here. Oh so Sabbath was great, quite long, but nonetheless it was relaxing and i really enjoyed the fireside. Brother Heaton spoke and he talked a lot about faith and how to incorporate the Book of Mormon in every lesson and to bear witness of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon even if the lesson is really short. My companion is Elder Heaton, i would write elder in Russian but i don't' have a Russian keyboard. I heard that Russian is one of the hardest languages for English speaking missionaries because most of the Russian alphabet is similar to English but each letter makes a different sound. I am so grateful that i have had an opportunity to learn some Spanish along with Arabic/Hebrew. This is significantly helping me out with the language. The language makes sense to me, however, now i just need to actually apply all the knowledge. Sadly, this is the difficult part. Oh and in Russian they have a thing called "cases" and can i just say, "Wow!" I remember talking with an elder or sister that served Russian speaking and they mentioned cases.

Well I don't' want to bore you with what I'm learning about the language. I don't' have a whole lot more to say. I love everybody and i really enjoy the opportunity i have to be here at the MTC. at first i looked at this as 12 weeks is going to be forever long, but now i am looking at it as an opportunity to feel the spirit much stronger for 12 weeks when most elders are here for only three.

I have been reading about Grandpa Owen and his conversion story along with his testimony. I feel so close to grandpa even though I never met him. His testimony gives me strength and uplifts me.

Love,
Elder Ostler