Letters from 9/23 and 9/24 and 10/7

Daniel letter: 9/23/08

Last Sunday we heard a talk on the Savior by Elder Jensen and it was the best one that I’ve ever heard. Here are a few of the excerpts:

-God chose Jesus to come to the earth. Satan was not chosen and became angry. Satan leaves and takes many with him.
-Jesus tells of His purpose
-Man will reject Jesus even after all that He would do for us.
-Jesus suffered for us so that man might come unto Him.
-We are not condemned for our sins if we will but repent
-If we have faith in Christ, we can do all things!

This list has helped me to understand and strengthen my relationship with Christ!

9/24/08

Sorry about your injuries Daddio, thanks for the toll house pie and other goodies.
I could use another sports update…

(He included some kanji symbols that I can’t duplicate…one was for strength)

Our lives that we live as members of the church must be a symbol to the world.

We must stand as a witness of Christ in all things and in all places.

10/7/08

Thanks for the camera! I’m sending you a memory card with a bunch of pictures on it (they will also be here on the blog). There’s also a video on it (he told us to ask Becca and Jamey how to put it on the blog site….we’ll ask and see…

No, I did not sing in the MTC choir at the Priesthood session of conference….I know that it wasn’t like me to miss out on such an opportunity…

General conference was AWESOME. Every talk you could tell was inspired and the Spirit was great…it was so so good and I got so much out of it! (I took 19 pages of notes!)





My two favorite were the talk on Christian Courage by Elder Hales, and on Hope by Pres. Uchtdorf. It seemed like every talk was centered on missionary work. Loved the talk by Sis . Allred where she told everyone to write to missionaries.

We had heard the Pres. Monson story about the missionary who kept complaining about
Spanish being too hard to learn until he was forced to go to a Japanese class instead…then he thought that Spanish wasn’t so hard after all.

We do get a certain amount of respect here in the MTC for learning Japanese, which is kind of nice.

Last week my companion and I gave our first discussion in ‘ni hongo’ (Japanese). I won’t say that it was a bomb, but it wasn’t great either…somewhere in between. The hardest part was trying to answer their questions. We could understand them for the most part, but it was hard to answer them because our language was so limited.

The new Japanese missionaries are coming tomorrow…Our teachers told us that we couldn’t speak English to them for the next couple of days. I feel kind of bad for them because they are going to be pretty intimidated by the language. But hopefully it will challenge them and help them to work harder.

It’s awesome to hang out some with the Hansens. And it’s nice to be able to joke around and laugh (some of my other newer friends here don’t laugh very much).

Please get my Ryan Wong and Jarom Patterson’s addresses. I want to write to them because I’ve been thinking about them and wondering how they’re doing.

Thanks for the support and the letters.

(weird characters meaning something)

Elder Lawler