He's back!!!

Hey all!
So cheesem crow poop dang trash… Last week was frustrating email wise. So if you were wondering where my email was last week…you can blame it on 10 year old turds…kids I mean. But yeah the stupid library security man (didn’t even know a library needed one of those… I guess that goes to show you how ghetto it is down here haha) kicked us off so the school kids could come in and just play solitaire or something dumb like that but eh…what cha gonna do I guess…the library security man met business. So other than that how has everyone’s week been!? I hear it’s cold and snowy in Missouri…I’m sorry haha here I’ll tell you a joke to warm you up (get it? Haha) ok so some Mexican told me this joke a few days ago since I’m from Missouri it was pretty funny actually so let me see if I can remember it…. Ok so a city slicker came upon two country folk balancing a long piece of lumber vertically on the ground, while a third fellow with a measuring tape climbed up on the lumber. “What are you doing?”, asked the urbanite. “We are trying to measure this piece of wood,” replied the country cousin. “Why not lay it down and measure it?,” asked the city fellow. Nope,” replied the country boy. “That won’t do it! We want the height, not the length!” haha pretty funny huh? So I told him a Mexican joke but he didn’t think that my joke was to funny though haha I told him I was Mexican too but he didn’t believe me haha.
So just a little update let’s see last week was transfers and oh how I needed that to come around… let’s just say last transfer was really hard, frustrating, difficult, akl;sghdfjhasdl;fjksdfhfjkghk;ajsdkl;ghj…. Yeah that’s how bad it was but I got a new companion, his name is Elder Hernandez… this is his 2nd transfer so I’m follow-up training him um he’s from Canada too which is neat. So he’s a really good guy all around, kind of a big goof but he’s my goof for at least 6 weeks so I love him. He’s good though, I think that we’ll do just fine this transfer. We made a commitment I guess you could say to each other and the commitment is he’s gonna teach me Spanish and I’m gonna teach him how to be a missionary so we’ve got a lot of learning to do from each other but it’s gonna be really good in the end. I’m just ready to get Spanish down… it’s still kickin increasingly large rear but I can definitely see a difference so at least it’s progressing… hopefully I’ll get it before July 2011. Keep me in your prayers!
So time is short so I think I’ll do my spiritual thought and get a move on and I want to kind of focus it on the Scriptures particularly the Book of Mormon. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Book of Mormon it is a volume of scripture that was written here in the Americas by Prophets of God, just like the Bible was written in the Holy Land by Prophets of God and it speaks of the dealings of the people here in the Americas and the Lord’s church here in America. It’s a book that is another witness that Jesus is the Christ our Lord and Redeemer and it contains the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ along with the Bible. It is a companion to the Bible, not a replacement and it is another witness for the truths taught in the Bible. It also restores "plain and precious" truths that have been lost from the Bible through errors in translation or "taken away" in attempts to "pervert the right ways of the Lord." It’s been something that has been a comfort in my life and a guide as well and that’s what it all comes down to. The Book of Mormon was written for us in these last days because the Lord knew what times we would go through and what struggles we would face. Everywhere you look in the world it’s just horrible; violence, drugs, sex, natural disasters, it’s just a terrible world to live in and I personally think that’s why the Book of Mormon was written and was preserved for us in these Latter Days… To give us light in a dark world and comfort in our difficult lives. I have an unchangeable testimony in the Book of Mormon that it’s true. I’ve seen it time and again change people’s lives by bringing them closer to Christ as it has done the same to mine. Concerning the Book of Mormon the Prophet Joseph Smith said: “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” That’s the promise that Those who gain this divine witness from the Holy Spirit that the Book of Mormon is true “will also come to know by the same power that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith is his revelator and prophet in these last days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord’s kingdom once again established on the earth, preparatory to the second coming of the Messiah.” I would not be here on my mission if I didn’t know for a fact that it was true and I want everyone to know that. That’s why I’m here, to show others the comfort and guiding light of the Book of Mormon and the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.” And I want my testimony to stand by that. The Book of Mormon as well as I invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and divinity by the power of the Holy Ghost. I know that it’s true and I’m so happy to have such an anchor in my life through the stormy world that we live in and I want all to have that same joy and happiness.
I love all of you so very much and I pray for you ALWAYS and hope that you have an awesome week this week! Stay safe and keep on going!
All my love,
Elder Ryan Lawter