Dec. 2 Con't

Well another week has gone by, the are going by a lot faster now! i cant believe it! this week was amazing!! Saturday night was a big one! We have been teaching a guy named Hayashi for about a week or so, taught him lesson one and two, and things have been going really well! we set some goals for him and it has been a miracle to see
how through our faith our goals are turning into a reality. so we gave him the commitement and he willingly excepted to be baptized by me on the 12 of december!!!! we know he has problems with a almost everything in the word of wisdom, and who knows what else, but he has a really srong desire and testimony at this point so i am confident that we can overcome those obstacles, and prepare him for baptizm. we found some really awesome other people this week, our teaching pool is really picking up. our numbers this last week crushed everyone elses in the district, we have been working really hard, we taught 9 lessons last week and contacted over sixty five people. a huge improvement on what we had done previous.

I went to my first zone conference this week, absoulutly amazing!! wow it was powerful stuff, i dont think i realized how amazing my mission president is! he took us on what he calls `deep dives` where we pick a gospel topic and go way deep into it. i learned a lot, we did the atonement and the book of mormon. powerful stuff. i dont think i realized how big of a bussiness person he was either.. when he said invited to be the main speaker at the annual CEO`s meeting, in Hong Kong, for over two thousand CEO'S, i realized he is a pretty big gunner. but he is way down to earth, loves sports, after zone we played in door softball with a nerf ball, in the church, and we said we had to go he said stay and play another game. he is really cool. he was mad at me i played tennis and did not invite him to play. won't make the mistake twice.

That is great to hear juan and cristina and leo are doing so good!! really happy for them as a side note, i finished the book of mormon this week that i started reading at the mtc, and i came across chapter 8 of moroni, at the appropriate time i would highly recommend that they read that you share that chapter with them.. i would like to know if my website has been updated?? if so could you print of the page and send it to me?? i would love to see what it looks like.

.. tonight we are teaching 3 lessons so Im really excited about that! things are continuing to progress.. the language is still extremely difficult, but i am slowly picking things up. i am starting to be able to teach more, and make better contacts. love you very much, excited to hear everything is going good!! miracles are real! i see them everyday! we only hold our selfs back from see the powers of heaven with our lack of knowledge and unbelief. i have been feasting on the gospel, there is so much i want to study. i would strongly encourage to learn more about the gospel, make sure as President Eyring said to refreshen our testimonies. there is so much to learn. recently i have been particularly interested in the church history, when we did our book of mormon deep dive, i learned a lot about the 3 witnesses, there is still a lot there to learn. have you heard of the chiasmus? the book of mormon is full of them! very interesting stuff. always read, pray, and study with a purpose, and you will be amazed at what you will learn! The Lord cannot hold back the mysteries of the world, we have the power to learn all things! when reading about the brother of jared, in either, i really got motivated!! i would really suggest to read that. the last conference in which Pres. Bruce McConkie spoke, he bore one of the most powerful testimonies, i would suggest reading it if you have not.
Love, Elder Lawler