Be on the look out for baptism pictures next week!
Hola mia familia!
Sounds like things are going awesome over there in the States and in Peru. I´m glad to here that everyone is safe, happy, and rocking all sorts of tests and things of the like. So we have even more animals now. Pretty sweet! I´m excited to see how many are still alive by the time I get back :) Una broma. So just for the record, all those that happen to read this email must know that I have the smartest mom in the universe! She´s so smart she´s messing up the curve at UVU after ? years of not being in school :) Good work momma! And thanks for doing a photo album, you´re the best! So to answer some questions, things are going great here. We have our first baptism this Friday and I´m super excited for that. We also have la Semana Santa coming up so that will be interesting. We´re hoping to make it more than just an interesting week by helping people not just think about Christ, but actually come unto Him. So excited! Valdepeñas is going to be the next SLC! :) Oh and really there aren´t many animals here. There are lots of stray cats everywhere. They do have deer and stuff out in the country, but they´re hard to find in the city. They also have Jabolin (boar) that they hunt with just dogs and a big knife. Pretty sweet. I´m excited to see you in about 1 and a half years too, Micah (do I really only have that much time left? Fetch, do you think they could give me a little more? I´ll write the Prophet about it ;) ) I´m so excited for Chandler to get out here, he´s going to be a fantastic missionary! And Cassidy too! And Sarah when she comes! And basically all my senior class that is coming out or is out already! I love being surrounded by missionaries. Here and with all my friends and family back home. It makes me feel like a part of a huge group of elite servants of the God of Israel (because that´s what we are). So I learned a great lesson in humility this week. Not that I was humbled (well I´m always being humbled, but this experience is a little different). We met a man in the street, and at first contact, he seemed like he could be "golden". He had a ton of knowledge and testimony about Jesus Christ and all the things that he said lined up with correct doctorine. So we went to his house last night with the intent to teach the first lesson and give him a Book of Mormon. Well things didn´t go quite as planned. The man had analized our folleto (pamphlet) and found out all the things "wrong" about it from the Bible. Oh no. So he started to bash us pretty good. Trying to catch us in our words and asking us ridiculous questions to test out our Biblical knowledge (such as,Q: How did God form Adam through dust? A: By blowing, not through his mouth, but through his nose. Claro, ¿si?) As he was doing this, I just prayed that he would be humble enough to listen to a sincere testimony, and then stopped him, told him that we didn´t know a whole lot about those specific things in the Bible, but what we do know is that the Book of Mormon is true and that it has helped us and our families. The Spirit tried to testify, but his heart was stone cold. The words of two vulnerable 19/20 year olds blew off of his hardened visige like (put an awesome simile here, I can´t think of one). Well he just didn´t listen, or even try to. Later he would not even accept a free copy of the Book of Mormon. I learned a lot from this. The man professed to do nothing but God´s will, to strive constantly to do, not what he wants, but what the Lord wants. But what he lacks, is humility. He was not humble enough to even test the Book of Mormon, to even try. If a man is truly humble, if he truly wants to do the Lord´s will, he will do all he can to find it. He will try every option until he is 100% positive that he has found the correct one. He invited us to read the Bible and pray about it. I accepted. I love the Bible, it is the word of God. We invited him to read the Book of Mormon. He refused. He loves the Bible, but his eyes are blinded by his pride, he would not accept the fact that the Lord wants to bless us even further. It was sad, but I learned a lot. I hope that I can be willing to truly do the Lord´s will always, and to not just say it. I was reminded of the Pharisees. Though they had the appearance of righteousness, in the end they were serving, not their Father, but the father of lies. They drew near with their lips, but their hearts were far from the Lord. Let us not be that way. Let us truly do the Lord´s will and truly be humble. I love you all un montón and hope everything is going great. Keep up the good work in school mom, and the rest of you, and keep up the good work in Peru dad. I´m so proud of you all and love you so much.
Con Amor,
Elder Charlie Flint
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