Hello Family!

This week has been a good one. We´ve worked hard, like always ;) and have been praying and studying hard tambien. We´ve had some pretty good times this week and some pretty bummer times, but that´s the life of a missionary I suppose. I love hearing all about the things you are doing. Ammon I´m excited to hear all about your play, that sounds awesome! And carrying on the tradition of the See How They Run boxers is a fantastic idea. So awesome! I´m glad Skyler likes Korean food, that would be a bummer if he didn´t. Skyler, you like Kimchi? Well that is very good :) The Lord knew you were supposed to go to Korea because he knew you would like the food there :) And becasue you are going to help all the Koreans there come to Jesus Christ. That´s the best part. There will be people there that you are supposed to meet. Your personalities will just mesh and you will be able to teach them in a way you can´t teach other people. Right now I have an investigator named Pedro. He´s an older guy, probably in his 70s, and he knows a ton about Jesucristo and his life. For some reason I just really really get along with him. I can be more bold with him than others because we have a relationship of trust and love that developed within the first few lessons. He has a baptismal date for the 16 de Marzo right now and I pray that he will be able to continue through with that and become a member of this church. He is an awesome guy. He has a ton of super profound questions about the resurection and stuff like that and it´s so hard not to just sit with him for hours and talk about those things. But we´re missionaries and as such we should teach simple truths in less than 45 minutes and leave the spirit in the room. But I love being a missionary. And Skyler I know you will find those that you are supposed to find there in Korea. The lord is preparing people right now for you to find and teach. And when you do, you may not realize it, but they were prepared to be taught be you specifically, in Korean :) So I was just wondering, Eric Knutson is in South Korea right now. I´m not sure what mission but it could easily be the same as Skyler´s. What if Eric trained Skyler? That would be so awesome! I hope everyone had a wonderful dia de san Valentín. Mine was very normal. We just worked the whole time. I suppose it´s a little different when you don´t even have the option of going on a date or anything like that :) But I like doing missionary work. P-days are also really nice, but working is good. It´s hard. The hardest thing I´ve ever done. But it´s all worth it in the end. I´m super excited to continue on doing the work of the Lord and striving to bring my brothers and sisters unto our Heavenly Father. I´m so excited for the future. This life is great! So full of joy and happiness and it all comes from the gospel. Good stuff :) We are teaching a handful of investigators right now. We have about 6 that are considered progressing (keeping committments and stuff) and a few more others. We had to drop one this week because he wasn´t doing anything. I think that might be the hardest part about missionary work. The Lord said the field is white and ready to harvest. But sometimes the people aren´t quite ripe yet. They aren´t quite ready to accept the responsibility of the gospel and thus we have to leave them for a while and focus on those that are ready. At first it seems like a very cold hearted thing to do, but in reality we are only here for 2 years and we need to find those that the Lord has prepared for us and realize that we are doing some of the preperation at the same time. It´s is just as important to plant the seeds as it is to harvest the crops. And right now, I kinda feel like we´re doing a lot of planting. But that´s okay because the Lord is helping us out. The other day we committed to getting 6 futures in the morning before we went in for mediodia. So we did it. It was hard but we were directed. As we would walk into the plaza I would see someone standing and feel like we needed to talk to them. They just looked ready. So we did. And they were. They allowed us to take their info to meet with them again. The Spirit directs the work. The Lord knows his flock, he knows his lambs, and he tells us where and when to find them. It´s an incredible work and I am so thankful for it. So a few questions. First for mom. We are teaching two Romanian boys. They are both 15 and one just recently got baptized and recieved the Priesthood. My question is this. What was it that kept you going in the church when you were 15 years old. For me the honest answer is you and dad. My family. But Daniel (the converso reciente) doesn´t have that family support. And neither did you really. So what was it. What can I say to help him stay strong? Because right now he could go either way. And one more question. Can you send me some recipes? I´d really like recipes for some easy cheap things to cook and for brownies and treats. The most simple ones you can find that are still delicious. And if you could ask Amaya or her mom for the recipe for churros y chocolate that would be awesome too :) Umm I think that might be all my questions. Oh yeah. Dad, what was your mission? Like what was it called? And did you ever serve in Cali? Just wondering for the members here. Well I think that´s about it. Love you all a whole bunch! Hope everything is going awesome there. Keep me posted about everything and stuff. I´m super excited about everything that´s happening. The work of the Lord is moving forward and no unhallowed hand can stop it! Love you all and miss you!

Con Amor,

Elder Flint

A few fun facts about Spain that I forgot to mention. First there is no carpet here. Like anywhere. All the floors in our piso are wood or tile. Super wierd. And secondly, cars always have to stop for pedestrians in the cross walk. So I don´t have to wait for cars to walk across the street, the have to stop for me. So I hardly even look anymore. Just go for it :) I should probably kick that habit before I get back to the US though. Oh and I ate something pretty strange the other day. We went to our Branch President´s house for dinner and ate pizza. Normal right? Wrong! This pizza consisted of a little tomato sauce, cheese, anchovies, tuna, olives, and a bit of bbq sauce. (they put bbq sauce on like all of their pizzas). Super Spanish pizza! And I also ate some weird seafood and the only name I recognized means octopus. The octopus was really really good though. The others were mediocre but I loved the octopus. Well that is all. I still need to try a paella though. We were going to this wednesday but we just got news of a surprise zone conference so we may or may not be able to go eat paella :( But we shall see. Love you all!