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Hola familia mia,
Quiero empezar un poquito en español para mi papi. Primero, para que sepas, te amo mucho y estoy muy agradecido que estas alli para mi. Segundo, lo que dijiste del discurso del Elder Holland, pensé lo mismo. Cuando lo escuché sentí el Espíritu testificar de la veracidad de sus palabras y la aplicación a nuestro situación. Y tercero, sé que estas pasando por tiempos difíciles. Para mi también son difíciles. Pero quiero que sepas que sé que el Señor esta en nuestro lado. Él sabe lo que necesitamos mas que nosotros. El otro día oré mucho para que serías bien. Al final no tenía una respuesta de si o no, pero mas un sentimiento de que estamos en sus manos y que tenemos que confiar. Entonces vamos a luchar. Vamos a darlo nuestro todo. Vosotros allí en casa tenéis que orar ardientemente y leer las escrituras cada día. Vivir el evangelio como nunca jamas habéis vivido antes. Ahora es el tiempo para luchar en contra de este enfermedad con todo lo que tenemos, tanto espiritualmente como físicamente. Ahora voy a traducir un poquito. I said that I know that times are tough. For me they are tough too. This is a rough situation that I wouldn´t wish upon any other person. But what can we do? Well first we can trust the Lord. Completely and fully. We can submit to his will whatever it may be. He knows what´s best for us much better than we do and as scared as we are, as scared as I am (and I am very scared) I know that they Lord will help us through it all. Second, we can fight. We will fight this sickness from all angles. First off physically. Like you are already doing we will go through all the steps we can. All the options we have from the doctors. Secondly we will fight spiritually. This is the time to live the gospel more than we have ever lived it before in our lives. It is time to pray with all our strength, read the scriptures every day and apply what we learn, and help all those we come in contact with feel the love of our Heavenly Father. I want you all to commit to me to do that. I am going to give my all 110% out here in the field so that we can recieve the help we need (keep in mind that the help we need is not necesarily a cure. What we are fighting for is the way to move forward, be that what it may). So I want you all to take this very seriously. Please let me know how things are going with the goal. I´ll be letting you know how things are going here. I promise you all that if we do this, we will be able to make it through this trial with all the help we need from our Father in Heaven. He truly loves us, and I truly love every single on of you. I miss you all so much, and am super excited to talk to you here in a month. I testify that Jesus is the Christ, that miracles have not ceased. I see them daily, and I know that they happen not when we want them, but when the Lord sees fit. Keep that in mind throughout this whole journey, we are on the Lord´s time and will, but it IS best for us. Also remember the promise we do have. The Lord promised our family in his holy house that we would be together for time and all eternity. And we will be, as long as we live worthily of that convenant. So live worthy, pray often, STUDY the scriptures, and join with me in giving your all to the Lord. He will protect us and guide us through whatever trial we may face.
So my week has been okay. We had a slow one and got a lot of flack from our zone leaders for it, but we are trying. We really are. Sometimes that darn agency thing just gets in the way :) But it´s all good. You want to hear a funny story? So yesterday we went to eat in the house of a member. We had an awesome barbeque and everything was good. But afterwards we went to the chapel so I could get numbers from the rest of the district and my comp realized that he had lost the keys. So we called the family that fed us and they couldn´t find them. But we had an activity we had to do, so we decided that the Lord would provide the way as long as we kept looking. So Elder Pomazón looked through the capilla and we had our activity. We had another appointment scheduled for 7:30 so we had to run to that and just kept going, hoping that the Lord will help us out. After the cita we went to go fix a few things in a members house and that´s when it really hit me that we didn´t know where we were going to sleep. So we came up with a few ideas and called President Deere. He didn´t pick up for a while and we were flippin out. The owner of our piso (whom we had called before) wasn´t answering either and me and Elder Pomazón were just planning on sleepin on the sofas in the church. Eventually we got things figured out, but in the process my suit coat got burnt on a stove :( So it was a super crazy day. We didn´t actually find the keys until this morning, but the owner called us back super late and gave us some spares. But that´s my crazy story for the week. It was kinda funny, but not so much during it :) The worst part is my suit coat. Luckily I have two, but I need to get my other one cleaned because it´s kinda dirty. But I suppose we are just living like the missionaries of old. D&C 84:81 "Therefore, take ye no athought for the morrow, for what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed." :) Well I love you all so much and am praying for you all everyday. Sorry to hear about Floribertos, how super lame! But I suppose 6 o clock breakfast burrito runs are pretty good too. Looks like Halloween was pretty awesome. Loved the costumes of Sophie and Micah. And you have snow!?! Lucky ducks. Here it doesn´t snow, but such is life. I can´t believe that Leah´s getting baptized!!!!! That´s so awesome!  Send me pictures, okay? And send them my congratulations and love. And Skyler and Logan seemed to have had the same week :) But it sounded like a good one. Enjoy thanksgiving, I´m going to see if I can´t get my hands on some turkey :) Love you all a ton and have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Flint