Love from Southern California

How's it goin!?

Hope all is well with everyone back at home. Things have been pretty good

here workin up a storm. We have two guys with a date to be baptized right

now but with one I think that he got anti-ed so he's kind of ify on it right

now and then we passed by our other guy and his mom told us that we went to

jail just a few days ago. The background of this guy is he comes from a not

so good home...lots of drinking, drugs, fighting, yelling, cussing...just a

place where it's impossible for the Spirit to dwell and that's scared us a

lot lately but when we passed by yesterday his mom kind of gave us a fishy

story of how they went to church then he was just reading his Bible then the

cops came picked him up but she wasn't really sure where they went ha...and

the sad part is I don't think she really even cared. So we got on the phone

called the police department then the county jail and sure enough he got

locked in the slammer for vandalism...FOR ALL THINGS!!! VANDALISM!!! but his

court date is tomorrow so we'll find out the verdict and where to go from

here but it's amazing the work of Lucifer on somebody that it trying to

better their life and to just get closer and closer to God. It's

discouraging for me to even see it time and again and I've for sure seen it

a lot but I'm always drawn back to the Prophet Helaman and the words which

he spoke to his sons in the Book of Mormon... "And now, my sons, remember,

remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of

God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send

forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his

hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over

you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the

rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation

whereon if men build they cannot fall." How fitting of a scripture for the

time that we're entering into next month. The Holy week coming up and this

Easter season. For..."it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ,

the Son of God, that ye *must *build your foundation..." I'm not saying that

people who go through stuff like that don't have a sure foundation in

Christ but its the mighty storms winds that get thrown our way to beat us

off the path. So we're not exempt from trails, temptations, and other things

in our lives but the promise is..is that when those difficult time pass in

our lives we can find out that God has never been closer but it's that faith

and sure foundation that we need to have in Him and His Son that will

prevent us from falling. And I think that's what the Easter season is all

about...coming closer to our Savior and committing ourselves to be a better

disciple of Him. The price of discipleship isn't easy but it is worth it and

with that faith and testimony we will be lead to what is right and what is

true and then comes the promise that we will never fall.

Love ya!

Elder Ry Law