Former Utah pitcher now with Dodgers' organization grateful for Mormon mission to Japan

Days before starting his second season in the minor leagues, a reporter asked Great Lakes Loons' pitcher Riley Ottesen about his Mormon mission to Japan.Not only did it allow him to rest his arm for two years, but he grew personally as well, according to mlive.com."It's made me a better person, more mature," Otteson told mlive.com. "It helped me a lot. You can't go to a country you've never been to, live with a companion you don't know, learn to speak a language you don't know and talk about som