Hola familia!
Well how goes it? Sounds like things are pretty great. You saw In The Heights!!!! Lucky! Did you film it illegally for me? I sure hope so :) Thank you for the recipes. I do have two requests though. Zuchini bread, and red pepper dip. Hook me up, por favor! I can´t believe you basically did the whole driveway by yourselves! That´s crazy cool. And you´re getting a new car! Very sweet. You´re keeping the van and the sonata though, right? You know, if you ever want to get rid of one of the three, I know a missionary that will be coming back in a year, and would definitely not mind having a car to go to school :) Just keep him in mind. Things here are going well. This last week was a pretty normal one. Nothing too exciting. Did have a disappointing little bit though. One of our investigators that is doing well, didn´t come to church. Well that´s fairly normal, but the hard thing is that this week he is going to quit smoking and I knew that he would need the extra strength from the capilla to do it. And he chose not to, so now I´m not sure what will happen. My faith in the Lord and his work is unshakeable right now, but my faith in people is dwindling. Is that bad? Is it bad to doubt people and their decisions? I suppose in a way it is. But it´s just so hard! I mean, I´ve spent my whole life being a pretty optimistic person. Thinking that things are going to go well, hoping that people could be more than others think they can be. But after being failed so often, it´s hard to keep up that optimism. But I´m going to keep trying! The Lord knows us, and our capacity to do good. We each have so much potential, and although we don´t always reach our FULL potential, we can always do more than we believed we could at first. I truly believe that. That no matter what our difficulties, weaknesses, anything that stands in our way, we can become more than we believe we can become. And more than others believe too. But the only way to do it is the Lord´s way. He gives us the guide, we just have to do it. We have to set high goals, plan, and then reach them. Our branch president told us about something that Elder Ballard said in a conference for bishops and branch presidents in Madrid and few months ago. He said that so called "realism" is really just a lack of faith. I mean, of course we aren´t going to be ridiculous in our goals, but optimism is really just a synonym for faith. If we believe that the Lord can help us do something, than he can. He has no limit, we limit him when we don´t believe. Or better said, we close the door to the help that we need when we don´t believe. So I suppose, al final, is that I just need to keep going. We all do. The Lord is fighting the fight with us. He is on our right hand and our left and his angels are round about us bearing us up. I love you all. I´m so greatful to have you in my life. Thank you so much for your wonderful examples!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Charlie Flint


Oh and PS: I will be singing. We are basically doing our own version of the musical with the same music and basic story. My part is Jesus, but I have other singing parts too. Love ya! And tell me more about in the Heights! And maybe just a touch about what the heck is happening in the States, I´m hearing a lot of things and I´m not sure what to believe. LOVE YOU!