Hello my wonderful family!
How are you all doing? Sounds like things this week were pretty awesome! I heard a lot of good things about your farewell talk Skyler, good work! Way to bring Lord of the Rings into it! A girl in our rama here used that same quote in a talk a few weeks ago, or at least I think it was that quote. But it sounds like you did great and that your going to be super prepared. I´m so excited and so proud of you. So things are still kinda going crazy. I guess here in a few weeks rest may or may not come :) I´m sure you all are doing great though. So dad requested that I send a litte bit about a normal day here in Valdepeñas. Oh and ps, I´m going to be here for at least a transfer and a half more, so if anyone asks for an address or anything it´s safe to give them this one. And I love Valdepeñas, a lot. I´m really happy to be staying here, so don´t worry about me. Things are going great. So the normal day here in Valdepeñas starts (during the summer) and 7:30 in the mañana, a time that would make all other missionaries green with envy :) We get up, excersise for half an hour (usually sit ups, curls, pushups, sometimes running, things like that) and then one of us eats breakfast while the other showers. The breakfast I usually eat is either cereal or a batido, which is like a smoothie. The smoothie usually consists of yogurt, ice, strawberries, a banana, and a handful of spinach. It´s really good stuff :) Then we start personal study for an hour at 9. After personal study we have comp study at 10 and at 11 we are out the door. We go to lessons, contact in the street and do anything and everything to fulfil our purpose as missionaries until 2 o clock. At two we come in and have mediodia. In Spain everything closes down and everyone goes home from about 2-5 in the afternoon. People are sleeping and eating with there families, so as missionaries we take that time to eat, do Spanish study, and work on our area book and other records. The big meal here in Spain is at this time, so we usually eat a pretty hearty meal. We eat a lot of pasta, but sometimes we make other things and sometimes people invite us over to eat. So we come in at 2, eat, work on the area book, study Spanish, and at 5 we are back out on the streets working. We work until 10:15 at night and then head back to piso. In a good day we have about 3-4 good lessons and 3-4 futures (people that say we can talk to them some day) We do a lot of talking to people in the streets and knocking doors. Elder Tiexierra, the Seventy of our area, says that talking to everyone is the price of success. So we do our best to always be looking for the elect and talking to everyone we can. At 10:15 we are back in piso and it´s time to plan for the next day. That´s when we recieve a lot of revelation and guidance from the Lord for what to do. It´s hard after an exhausting day, to sit down and rack your brain and heart for things to do the next day, but it´s always worth it. After planning we get ready for bed. We have time to eat a little dinner (like toast or something) write in our journals and just kinda get ready to sleep. Then at 11:30 lights are out and we start again the next day. It´s a fun schedule, tough, but it´s worth it. Hope that answers some of your questions. Love you all a ton and I´m so excited for all that is going on. I´m going to email you, Skyler, this next week to see how you´re doing. I can´t believe that my little brother is going to be a missionary! So amazing. Well love you all and I´ll talk to you next week!
Love,
Elder Charlie Flint

Picture 1: Awesome windmill!
Picture 2: Elder Wright and I are always looking for someone to teach :)
Picture 3: The best district ever. (ps we had to run quite a ways to get the pic)

Picture 4: Fail. I almost got there in time, but oh well. It worked out later :)
Picture 5: Me looking super mega foxy awesome hott with windmills ;)
Picture 6: My comp looking pretty dece with windmills. :)







Hello there family,
It´s great to hear from you all. It really does make my week. I´m really sad to hear about Hno Baker´s passing. That was very sudden. How is the family doing? Let them know that my heart and prayers are with them. I can´t believe that you all have so much going on! Skyler is going to Korea and graduating and most importantly going through the temple. How awesome is that?! Super awesome! I´m so proud of him. I really am. It´s great to hear from Granny too. Thanks for all the ideas for food, I´ll have to put those to work. Probably a good idea to push off the class for a couple of months, mom, it will give you a chance to breath a little :) Ammon, your showcase sounds awesome, I heard you did First Date Cantata and you were the voice in the beginning. Super funny. I hope someone recorded it so that I can see it one day. But sounds like things are going great. Here things are going really well. We had a baptism last week! It was of the son of a member, but still it was great. One of our investigators came and invited a friend, who has a cousin who is a member and is really interested in hearing more. So we are really really excited about that. She is from Uruguay and has two little kids. They´re super funny. But we are hoping to be able to get in there soon and help her know what she can do to be happy. Well just a few thoughts of mine. Basically this last week, really just right now, I´ve realized how fragile this life on the earth is. As people around me have passed on it´s made me think about my own life. If I passed away right now, would I feel like I had done all I can? I would hope so. I think I have lived a good life, I feel like I´ve lived worthily of the blessings I have recieved, but there is always more I can do. There is always more that we can do. My comp is always worrying about if he is doing his best. To the point that maybe he beats himself up a little bit, but it always makes me check myself. I´m hoping that I can become the person the Lord needs me to be. I strive every day to be better, and hope that I can accomplish that goal. One thing that gives me a lot of hope is the fact that I know that the Lord can do his work. He is preparing and leading people to us and I just need to be worthy, and always on the lookout for those precious spirits he has been preparing. I´m so grateful for this gospel and the strength and the peace it brings to our hearts and souls. The world is a tough place to grow up, but the Lord is preparing every one of us for a responsibility even greater. I love you all and I hope that your week is amazing. Good luck, Skyler with everything, and good luck to the rest of you.
Love you all,
Elder Charlie Flint

HELLO FAMILIA!
Sounds like you all have had an exciting week. Sounds like the meeting with the mission president was great. That´s crazy how many connections we have to Korea in the ward and stuff. Skyler´s going to fit right in there in Korea, well minus the fact that he´s not Korean :) Good work on making SInger´s Ammon, learning how to do work! Singer´s is the best. I miss it. Tell Justin to email me Ammon, will ya? So that´s super awesome. So guess what? Next Sunday we´ll be skyping. Or this Sunday I should say, the 12th. So we´ll do it at 12:30 your time, right after church, please be on and everything, because that would kinda stink if we couldn´t figure it out. Becuase I don´t know if I can actually call you, you would probably have to call me and it would be super expensive, but Skype is free. So the 12th and 12:30 your time, okay? Good. Just be logged into skype and I´ll just "call" you through that.
So I´m pretty sure I´ll get your package this week. It should be in the office right now and our zone leaders are going to get it today. So I should have it by thursday or friday. We´ll see. Thanks again for all of that and figuring things out with the cord, you are awesome. This week has been an exciting one. I got really sick last monday and tuesday, so that was fun. But we kept working hard and we had some great miracles. We´re still looking for new people to teach and I know the Lord is preparing them. I just need to be more dilligent in talking to everyone. I think I get too comfortable and then I miss opportunities. But this week is going to be a good one for working for sure. I´m super excited. We are going to see a lot of miracles and bring a lot of people unto our Father in Heaven. Keep praying for us, I´m always praying for you all.
Transfers come every 6 weeks. Sometimes you leave, sometimes you stay. But every 6 weeks there is a change somewhere with something. Sometimes there are mid transfer changes too. So that´s basically it, we live 6 weeks at a time and then have no idea what will happen for the next little while :) It´s a very exciting way to live.
Well I just want you all to know how much I love the Lord. He does so much for me every day and I know that this is his work. This is his church and I´m so grateful to be a part of it. I love you all so much and I´m super excited to talk to you on Sunday. Love you SO much!
Elder Flint