Hey family!

Hey family!

So question. Why am I getting two letters now, and why aren´t any of the children writing? I mean I get it, your tired of having to write your lame older brother, but come on guys! I wanna hear from you! And I am getting your emails Dad, but I usually just respond to both in one letter. Not that I don´t love you all the same, but it takes a long time to write my essay length letters to you all and doing more than one would just not work. So I shall continue to write one letter and if anyone has a problem with it, they can just come up here to spain and fight me. (Good luck getting enough money to get the ticket :) ) So I need to clear something up. I want to make sure that everyone knows that I didn´t come up with that facebook metaphor, Elder Castillo did. Just so we´re clear. I´m cool, but I´m not that cool :) So you got to see the Light in the Piazza, great music. Don´t know the show too well, but I know it´s something about a girl with some kind of mental disorder (?) who falls in love in Italy or something...right? Or maybe I´m just crazy. Her mom is there too, right? I don´t know. But I didn´t know that it was an operetta! Just like Les Mis or Phantom. Very cool. SO the Seahawks are in the superbowl. I didn´t even realize that the superbowl was coming up soon! American Football is about as popular here as Cricket is in the states, so basically I never hear anything about it. But hopefully they take it this year (unless of course they are playing against the Eagles). So things are going well here in España. We had a few investigators show up out of nowhere this week. One is a guy named Obiora from Nigeria. He speaks English and just showed up in our ward last Sunday. We had a pretty good lesson with him on Thursday and hopefully he will be in church again tomorrow. Also we had an old investigator call us and ask for a triple. So we gave them one and will be meeting with them next week. They said they wanted to come to church too. Kinda of a few cool little experiences. 
So just to answer a few questions. My schedule on pdays now is a little different. Because computer access is so easy for us we usually email a little later in the day. Usually sometime between 3 and 6 is when we do email. So that´s that. But things really are going really well. I´m really happy here.
So a few thoughts for the week. I had a good talk with my comp about trials and faith. As we talked I started thinking a lot about trust. You know life is not always easy. It really isn´t. Sometimes it´s really hard. And when it is we wonder, why me? Why now? And why isn´t the Lord listening? And as I thought it really all came back to two things, really just one thing. Faith. Faith and trust (which is really part of faith). There is a story that Elder Bednar tells about a young father that was contracted with some kind of disease and as he talked to Elder Bednar, he asked him, "do you have faith enough, NOT to be healed?" And that is what real faith really is. Being able to set aside everything you have and trust in the will of God. I remember during Les Mis that Craig and I had to do a trust fall. It comes in the red and black scene when his character is kinda making fun of mine and he swoops around and I have to catch him with one arm. We practiced it so many times and got so good at it, that he could come up to me in the hall way, swing around and I would catch him with one arm. That was a lot of trust. And that really is the kind of trust we have to have in our father in heaven, but even more so. We have to trust him enough to let us fall sometimes. It´s an interesting relationship. He´s unpredictable. We never really know what is going to happen, but what we can be sure of, 100% sure of, is that no matter what happens, it is for our benefit. Even though we don´t understand it. And you know, we might not understand it here. That´s where the trust comes in again. As I´ve prayed recently, when I ask for something, instead of asking Lord please help this to happen, please make this do this or whatever. I kind of say, well Lord, you know my vote, but no matter what happens, I´ll figure it out. We can´t change his will, and we shouldn´t want to. Prayer and our relationship with him truly strengthens when we just accept whatever it is he has on the plate for us. It´s hard to do, but when we do we can live with the peace that no matter what happens, in the end, it will all work out. I love you all and hope you have an awesome week.
Love,
Elder Charlie Flint