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Hey everyone,
How's it going? Not a whole lot here except HOT HOT HOT....ridiculous! I
think the Lord sent me here to NOT be in that kind of weather because I
would do just this...complain complain complain....na I don't mind it too
much the only thing is that everyone else does and so no one walks out on
the streets during the day and it's just like a deserted place...and it
sucks too because in the area that I just got into we need to find as many
new investigators as possible because it's lacking but everything's still
going good...we have a family of 5 that's going to be baptized here in the
coming weeks so we're way stoked about that but we still need more and more
people to follow them as well this area's good though part of it's ghetto
and trashy and the other part is way nice, clean, with a bunch of nice
houses....guess what area we spend 99% of our time in....man I love it! News
wise.....nothing huge...i ate a baby duck last week at some filipino's house
ha it was nasty but worth it...I got a video that I'll have to send home by
cd then mom and dad can show you all but yea that's probably the sickest
event that's out of the ordinary.
Last week I came across this amazing talk and I just wanted to share part of
it real quick before i get off here.
The talk was given by an Elder Dunn of the seventy in the 80's and he said:

"Some time ago I watched a soccer game in which the favored team, the Lions,
was expected to beat the Pumas, a team that hadn’t done very well during the
season. The two teams had played against each other earlier in the year, and
the Pumas had been badly beaten. Everyone expected this particular game to
be the same, although fan support was about evenly divided between the two
teams. But then an incident on the field involving two players seemed to
turn the crowd against the Lions. From that point on, more than 15,000 fans
excitedly cheered the Pumas to a winning score.

A cheering section can make a difference in life. As you watch professional
sports, you can almost be assured that the home team will do well. Brazil
has a soccer team that almost never loses when it is playing at home. The
reason? Maracana Stadium in Brazil holds more than 220,000 fans who noisily
yell their support at every game.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have that kind of cheering section when you feel like
you are not winning in life? How would it feel to know that it really
matters to somebody whether you win or lose, whether you shine in victory or
retreat in defeat?

I bear you my solemn witness that each one of us has a cheering section,
both seen and unseen. There are those who want us to succeed. We may
sometimes doubt it, but it is true nevertheless. There are those we see:
parents, children, brothers, sisters, relatives, teachers, friends. But
there are also those who are unseen who care and are cheering for us:
heavenly parents, loved ones who have gone before us, those who are yet to
come. They want us to succeed.

There *are* those who continue to care, whether here or on the other side of
this earthly veil. Of that I am sure! Even when you feel all alone, there
are those who are cheering for you."

Amazing huh!? and that's kind of what I wanted all of you to know who are
reading this....because if you are reading this you are part of my own
personal cheering section and I just wanted to thank all of you for the love
and support weather it be through letters, emails, or even prayers...I know
that you are all supporting me and backing me up every step of the way and
I've felt that behind me since day one. Love you all and thank you for
everything!!! Have a good week and God Bless.

-Ry

Hey Mr. Hollywood

A few days ago we were watching a church missionary training DVD

which was filmed in Ryan's mission and we saw Elder Lawter on the video,

so that's where the "Mr. Hollywood" came from.

whatz up!

So.......I got transfered.....yea I'm hacked.....na it's pretty good where

I'm at right now but it feels like I got TOO attatched to the people over in

Chula....I got really close with some families and not too mention the

people that I was teaching and the ones who are coming up to be

baptized....dang it genna....that's alright though the important part is if

they get there which they will... I'm actually back on

bike....whoopie.....and to make it better I'm in an area called paradies

hills....HILLS.....they don't call it paradise HILLS for nothing...on the

bright side though I'm gonna have calfs bigger than a horse and a butt

firmer than schwartzeneger...so no complaints....kind of.... but the city

that I'm in is called National City and it actually boarders my old area of

Chula...so I didn't move too far but far enough. It's ghettoer here

FINALLY!!! Kind of feel back at home...still not as good as Logan but I'll

take it. The ward that I'm serving in is called the Bonita 3rd ward....which

Bonita in spanish means pretty so I think I got called to the right place

and fit right in. My comp is from Utah...kind of a dork.....so we make a

good team.....ha but we're hard at work I got a call last night from

President...he was asking about the area that I'm in right now and I told

him that everything's pretty dead that we definitely have a lot of finding

to do...and he told me well why do you think you're there and got plucked

from chula so fast....so I guess there's a reason for it all but we do have

a lot of work to get done and to build up our teaching pool because quite

honestly we have jack squat right now...so it's about to get even crazier it

looks like and as well I actually got another really cool assignment which

is working at the MCRD every Sunday morning which is the Marines Core

Recruitment Depo aka everyone who signs up for the mariens west of the

mississippi river comes here to this Depo for training and everyone east

goes to South Carolina...so we go into the LDS service find the kids who

aren't members talk to them a bit and ask if they're interested because

we're not suppose to proselyte on the base but if they say they're

interested then we can teach them and a lot get baptized so I'm way excited

for that and I'll let cha all know more on that.....man so that's the news

actually had something to talk about this time but I've gotta run I'll talk

with y'all more next week!! Love you all take care and have a great week!!!

much love,

Elder Ry Lawter

Pictures Galore!

To Family and Friends,

We want to let you all know that Ryan was unable to get an email out this week. He was able to chat with his Mom for a little bit and to let us know that

he is being transferred to a new area. He didn't know where he was being sent to, but he will let us know next week.

Ryan is doing well and is very happy. He's a little sad that he will be leaving the area he's in, but on the other hand, he's excited for new opportunities and the privilege of meeting new people.

We would like to let everyone know that we and Ryan appreciate the love and support you have given him and us while on his mission. I know we all are so looking forward to the day we will see his smiling face. And it will be here soon! We are almost at the nine month mark. Yippee!!

We Love You All!!!

Phil & Cyndi

Enjoy The Journey

Hello my fellow people,

Man it kind of seems like forever since I've been on here....this past week was fast but then again it was slow at the same time... I don't know what the deal was...I think it's because today we all pitched in in our district about 10 bucks and i went out and bought like 3 racks of ribs some corn and taters and were gonna have a bbq today so I think that I've just been looking forward to that all week ever since I bought the meat last P-day....it's gonna be bomb. I'll let cha all know how it goes next week...

but the week was pretty good we actually have a guy with a baptismal date and usually I don't go into details about everything here but I think his story is worth sharing..... so we found this guy washing his car and looks like a rough dude at first tattoos all over his body literally all over gang tats all that sort and we started talking to him he's been in a lot of gang violence drugs prostitution all that jazz and he just got out of jail about a year ago and he's been locked up for like 20 some odd years and ready to get to know God so we taught him the first lesson and the spirit was sooo strong! He had some ideas before and he literally couldn't share them with us the spirit constrained him so much that he said to us you know what forget what I said before this is the good stuff my mormon brothas and I think were on to summin! he calls us his mormon brothers haha so yea now he has a baptismal date and everything were way stoked! but the reason why I share this is because he's not the type of person that you look at and say wow he's ready to be baptized an you look at him and say wow he really needs Jesus! haha but it's true! but also too you can't judge on who will listen and who won't. we have an appointment with him tonight so I'll give y'all the update on him next week but it's time for me to run!

Love you all and hope you have a good week!!!

One love,

Elder Lawter

Hot and fresh off the press...

The family is the Breceda family...probably my closest family here in chula love them so much! The father is the one taking the picture but ill send a pic of him next week! and the older man in the wife's dad that we're trying to baptize so were getting there