Hello familia

Hello familia,
Sounds like things are a little crazy. Those rebellious UVU students! I can´t believe that. Well I can, but that´s stupid. We justify so many things! But one of the things I´ve learned on my mission is that you can´t really lie to yourself. I mean you can, but what´s the point. So why lie to anybody? You know it´s not true, so why try to fake it. Unless it´s an awesome prank. Then you just avoid the exact truth until prank works out and then you tell them the whole truth :) Just kidding...kind of :) So General Conference was basically amazing. I loved it! Super spiritually uplifting, super awesome. I took like a thousand pages of notes and I haven´t even watched the last session yet! So we´re getting a new bishop huh? Wouldn´t it just be super awesomely ironic if Dad was called :) One more thing on the plate ;) But that´s pretty exciting. And if Dad does get called, we´ll just be grateful like Pres. Uchtdorf taught.
Micah´s rocking the school, Logan´s rockin the sports, and Ammon´s rocking it with the ladies. Good work boys, good work. And Skyler is just silent! I haven´t heard anything from him, hope school is going well. And the girls are silent also. But that´s cool. No biggie. Things are good here. I´m getting more and more ready to leave the office every day, but I know that my time here is a wonderful blessing. It´s great to be able to serve the other missionaries, I just want to be able to get out and preach the gospel. I´m pretty sure I´m going to fire out of the office like a cannon. It´ll be hard to get back into the swing of things (especially the walking, I think I´m going to die!) but I´ll have so much ganas that it won´t even matter! I´m pumped.
So a thought for the week. I hope you like hearing my thoughts, if not, too bad, because you´re my family and you´re stuck with me for eternity :) And if you are just a good friend tuning in, you´re not safe either. I heard a wonderful quote that said, "Friendships, like families, are eternal." Now, they´re not nearly as binding or full of promise, but you all are going to have to put up with me for a long time :) So I hope you enjoy it, if not, I apologize for my ramblings. This week with General Conference and everything I´ve been doing a lot of self reflection. I´ve been thinking about my faults and my strengths. What I do well and what I need to work on. There are lists for both of the sides, and I don´t necessarily want to bore you with either one of those lists, but I do want to talk about something that I´ve come to realize. I´ve spent so much of my life focusing on what I´m not. I´m not cool or popular. I´m not as talented as him or her. I´m not as smart as that guy. I´m not worthy, I´m not good enough. And when I look at other people, I see that they have the same struggle. We all think that everyone else is better than us. But we tend to compare our worst with everyone else´s best. And see things through a fun room mirror. But that´s not who we really are. We are not defined by our failures in the Lord´s eyes, nor should we define ourselves by them. We are defined by our potential and what we are becoming. It is good to understand that we are not perfect. Humility is key to progression. But sitting moping about what we are not, or how bad we messed up dams our progress. I loved President Uchtdorf´s talk I think last conference about getting back up after we fall. Elder Castillo often asks, "What´s your bounce-back time?" How long does it take you to get back up when you´ve fallen? That´s the proof of our desire to change and follow the Lord. So what´s our bounce-back time? A day, two days? And hour? Or are falling and getting back up almost one smooth motion? Can we move forward and do better? Of course we can! I love you all and hope you learned as much as I did from General Conference. Have a fantastic week!
Con amor,
Elder Charlie Flint




And PS my favorite talks probably were the one´s from Priesthood session. But I really learned a lot from every single one, so it´s hard to say.
Me and Elder Dansie found Sión (Zion). I didn´t know that it was a pub :)