Hello family,
Thanks for the birthday wishes! It really is weird to be turning twenty this week. To be honest I don´t even have the package yet :/ It´s still sitting in Málaga and probably won´t get to me until after my birthday. But that´s okay! Because things are going well. So first off, a good story. So yesterday we ended a week of miracles as  mission. We had a goal of getting 555 new investigators in one week. To put that in perspective, the most we have gotten is 230. So it was a pretty lofty goal. So we worked all week trying to get at least 7 investigators (that was the goal for every companionship). Our district had a goal of 21 and things at the beginning of the week were going great. We had gotten 3 by Thursday and were doing well. On Saturday we had 4 more news set up and things were headed in the right direction. But on Saturday all four of our meetings that we had set up fell through. So we were bummed. Really bummed. We almost gave up. On Sunday we kept going with some help from the Lord but when it was time to send in our numbers we hadn´t gotten another new and we were one short for our goal as a district. So we called in our numbers and as we were sitting down to do that a group of kids came up to play some soccer and stuff. After the phone call we started talking to the kids and eventually a group of young women came over too. They were kinda punks and started making fun of us a bit. But as we continued talking they started asking questions about the Book of Mormon and what we did. So we taught a lesson. And then we set up an appointment with one of the girls for this Wednesday. As we walked away, we realized, Hey, that was a new investigator! So we quickly called our District Leader and got it all figured out. So in the very last seconds the Lord led us to the investigator that would help us get our goal. As a mission we got 558 investigators last week, a miracle. The Lord knows how to do his work, I know that that is true.

So now on to other things, specifically Skyler. I sent him an email that I hope will help. Im going to forward it to you too. And I fasted (to be honest I almost forgot, but the Lord reminded me). I just want to say once again, that we need to let him know that if he does come home, he won´t be disgracing us or anything like that. If that door closes off, he is just going to want it more. But if he realizes that that door is open I think he will feel less like a bird in a cage, and will be able to step back and really think about what he is doing. And the consequences of it. He needs to realize the Lord´s love over everything. Right now he is miserable. That´s just the honest truth. But the only person that can change that is him. And the only way to do it is to help him realize that the Lord will always love him and loves him right now, even if he isn´t doing the best. I´m going to ask my mission president for advice, and we´ll see if we can help him. But don´t worry, he is in good hands, and no matter what happens, there is always chance to serve the Lord in whatever capacity. It´s amazing that he had the testimony enough to go. I know he says that he didn´t even think about it, but I know he did it because  he loves the Lord. And the Lord loves him and will help him, even if he does come home.

I love you all so so much and I just want to say thank you for twenty of the best years anyone could have. I´m so grateful to have you all as my family. I couldn´t ask for anyone or anything better! Love you and have a good week!
Con amor,
Elder Charlie Flint