More yucky ducky

At La Jolla

Ry got really excited about these seals

"Cheers to the duckies!" 

This is round 2 of eating aborted ducks...gross. 

He said he'll eat one with me when we go back to visit in August. 

I said, "Umm..NO SHANKS!"

Das nasty

Hey everyone!

How's it going!? Things have been really good here! Elder Linnemeyer and I have been working our bums gettin people to do things to progress. Sometimes it's so difficult to have someone that you're teaching and you do sooo much on your part but they do nothing on their part but we've got some investigators that are really searching and really wanting to know! It's amazing to see the power that the Spirit has in the conversion of people. It really isn't us missionaries that do the converting it's the Spirit, it's just a tender mercy from the Lord that we are able to be a mouthpiece and to witness true conversion take place.

We had a baptism that we went to and I spoke in the intermediate about the similar topic of how we as children of our Loving Heavenly Father witness tender mercies from Him each and every day. They really are all around us. Our bodies and health, nature, our family, having work, waking up out of a bed each morning, our families, the opportunity to love and to be loved....whatever it may be we are all witnesses of the work of God, meaning we are all witnesses of Him each and every day and it's those tender mercies that keep us going. For anyone who is struggling, for anyone who is lost or in despair just stop.......listen.....watch.....smell.....touch......taste...... this life is to be enjoyed...not endured. In the beginning we knew it would not be easy. We knew we were going into a hostile environment where we would be tempted, where we would be tried, a place where heartache would be present but we had faith to come here and that's the faith we need to make it through. Just take a second out of the day and look around it's amazing how present God really is and how much He really does love us! It makes sense that a Father would want His children to succeed and so He's given us all the tools necessary for our journey back home. Today we are soooo blessed to have the same church that Jesus Christ Himself established on the earth restored and re-established in it's fullness. We are soooo blessed to have that same Priesthood authority that He gave to His apostles, the same authority that all the Prophets have had. And we are soooo blessed to have a living-day prophet leading and guiding us today. It just doesn't make sense to me that God would call Prophets and Apostles in the times before, during, and a little after Christ and not call Prophets and Apostles when we needed them the most. The world is the worst it's ever seen and oh how we need men called of God to be mouthpieces for Him and to direct us and gives us the safety and security that we need. The Heavens really are opened and God really is still there. A man came up to me a few days ago and asked me "how can you possibly believe in miracles?" and I told him "how can you possibly not? just look around and tell me you don't see any miracles"......

"Be still, and know that I am God." - Psalms 46:10

If we just take a few and be still we will truly know the reality of God and all the tender mercies that we have in our lives....

As you all being my tender mercies I am grateful to have your love and your support! I love you all and pray for the best to ya! Have a good week!!!

Much love,

Elder Ryan Lawter