Hey familia.
So I´m still alive, no worries. I just got a little sick, but now I´m okay. And yes I know that an urinary infection is more common in women, but it does, on occasion, occur with men too. I am not ashamed :) And no matter where the condo is, I´ve learned to walk and use buses, so if I need to I can do that. Or maybe I can work on getting money and then a cheap car. That would be awesome. Wait, what?! DeGray´s back?!?!?! AHHH!! Well of course he is, I come back in 4 months! That´s so weird. Is he doing Les Mis? He´s awesome. I miss him. Tell him hello for me and give him a hug. So, dad you are correct I have not been sending as many epistles as I was. The main reason is this, I don´t have time to think! :) It´s all work work work. You always say that you want to make sure that I am focused on the work. I´ll tell you something paps, I don´t have time to think about anything else. And that includes my life and progress at times. I need to be better with that and get a better balance on that. But since you missed my words of wisdom so much, I´ll give you some :)
In church yesterday we were talking about getting a testimony and conversion. As we talked I started thinking about a comment somebody made. They said, one of the adversary´s greatest tools is to keep us from changing. As I thought about that I reflected on a lot of people I have met in my 20 years of life. There are a lot that I´ve heard say things like, "I´m not smoking or drinking or doing awful things like that, I´m just not doing some things like going to church or mutual or things like that." The adversary doesn´t have to make us start smoking or drinking or doing terrible things, he just has to stop us from progressing. "That´s just that way I am." "I´m older now, I can´t change now." It´s a lie. It´s a lie that comes from the adversary. We can ALWAYS change. "But I´ve sinned so much, I don´t think the Lord even wants me to change now." "I´m too low, I can´t get up now" All lies. We can ALWAYS change. And we NEED to. We always need to be changing. We always need to be bettering ourselves. Even if we´re doing well, we can always do better. The adversary does not need to bring us down, he just needs us to stop moving forward. So let´s show him and move forward every day! I love you all, keep up the good work! Let´s move forward!
Con amor,
Elder Charlie Flint
Monday, June 30, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Hola Familia!
MOOOOOOMMMMMMM! You´re awesome! Good work getting into the program! I knew you would the whole time. You´re just way to smart to not get in. Really though. And The Man of La Mancha sounds like fun. I would love to be in basically every one of those shows! I´ll have to look into that when I get back. And yeah Dad, bummer city for Spain! Haha. I think it´s funny because they were all really prideful about their team. They thought they would win for sure and then they lost. Super bad. And the US is rocking it! (My comp is obsessed and asks in every lesson what the scores were). The people here are a little bummed, but right now in Alicante they are doing these things called Hogueras. It´s basically just a bunch of parties. But they build these huge (like 20 ft tall) beautiful statues out of wood and then they burn them! And then they start again for the next year. Super different. It comes from the history of this part where they would take all of their old stuf from their houses out into the streets and burn it. It´s interesting. I want to try to see them burn one, but it isn´t until like midnight tomorrow, so not too likely. But you never know, we might get permission. It´s fun. So I´m telling Logan, that he´d better be afraid. Yeah I may not have a six pack yet, but it´s in the fridge. I´ve just gotta take it out :) Things are going pretty well here. Actually this week was really weird. My comp left on Monday to go do some residency stuff in Málaga and I was with another Elder for a couple of days. On Tuesday I started feeling pretty sick. Like flu type symptoms and stuff. But I´m hard headed and tried to continue working. I kept it up the whole afternoon and the next day continued feeling sick. I still did some service but then (this part is kind of gross, just a heads up) I started urinating blood. At that point I started freaking out. With our family history that could mean any number of things. So I called the mission nurse and she got me into the hospital. They told me it was a urinary infection, gave me the meds and sent me on my way. I´m doing better now, but just thought you all would be interested in knowing that. I don´t know why, just thought you would. That was basically my week. Good, but weird and scary at moments. But I learned some good lessons from it. First off, I learned that even in the midst of trials, we can still keep a good attitude. I learned that from my first day of being sick, not the second. I saw the difference in my own happines between the two. And it taught me a lot. Life is tough sometimes, but it becomes even tougher when we look at things negatively. We always have to try to find the positive in every situation. When we can do that, we really are living with the hope the Savior proportioned for every one of us. I am so grateful that there is hope. That there is hope in every situation. I know that there is. Thank you all for being so awesome! I miss you all and I love you. Have a fantastic week!
Con amor,
Elder Charlie Flint
MOOOOOOMMMMMMM! You´re awesome! Good work getting into the program! I knew you would the whole time. You´re just way to smart to not get in. Really though. And The Man of La Mancha sounds like fun. I would love to be in basically every one of those shows! I´ll have to look into that when I get back. And yeah Dad, bummer city for Spain! Haha. I think it´s funny because they were all really prideful about their team. They thought they would win for sure and then they lost. Super bad. And the US is rocking it! (My comp is obsessed and asks in every lesson what the scores were). The people here are a little bummed, but right now in Alicante they are doing these things called Hogueras. It´s basically just a bunch of parties. But they build these huge (like 20 ft tall) beautiful statues out of wood and then they burn them! And then they start again for the next year. Super different. It comes from the history of this part where they would take all of their old stuf from their houses out into the streets and burn it. It´s interesting. I want to try to see them burn one, but it isn´t until like midnight tomorrow, so not too likely. But you never know, we might get permission. It´s fun. So I´m telling Logan, that he´d better be afraid. Yeah I may not have a six pack yet, but it´s in the fridge. I´ve just gotta take it out :) Things are going pretty well here. Actually this week was really weird. My comp left on Monday to go do some residency stuff in Málaga and I was with another Elder for a couple of days. On Tuesday I started feeling pretty sick. Like flu type symptoms and stuff. But I´m hard headed and tried to continue working. I kept it up the whole afternoon and the next day continued feeling sick. I still did some service but then (this part is kind of gross, just a heads up) I started urinating blood. At that point I started freaking out. With our family history that could mean any number of things. So I called the mission nurse and she got me into the hospital. They told me it was a urinary infection, gave me the meds and sent me on my way. I´m doing better now, but just thought you all would be interested in knowing that. I don´t know why, just thought you would. That was basically my week. Good, but weird and scary at moments. But I learned some good lessons from it. First off, I learned that even in the midst of trials, we can still keep a good attitude. I learned that from my first day of being sick, not the second. I saw the difference in my own happines between the two. And it taught me a lot. Life is tough sometimes, but it becomes even tougher when we look at things negatively. We always have to try to find the positive in every situation. When we can do that, we really are living with the hope the Savior proportioned for every one of us. I am so grateful that there is hope. That there is hope in every situation. I know that there is. Thank you all for being so awesome! I miss you all and I love you. Have a fantastic week!
Con amor,
Elder Charlie Flint
Monday, June 16, 2014
Hello family!!!!!!
Sounds like things are fun back home! Mom, I´m sure you´ll do fine with the interview. And if not, you´ll knock em dead next time (or knock em down, a little more mom appropriate :) ) High adventure sounded like an adventure...obviously that´s the way it´s supposed to be. The new bishop sounds like he´s a fun guy, I´m excited to meet him some day. Oh hey, by the way HAPPY FATHER´S DAY! I honestly didn´t even realize it. Here in Spain they celebrate it at a different time, so I´m completely lost to the American way. Para que sepas, eres el mejor padre del mundo. Tu fe y amor hacia Padre Celestial y su Hijo, siempre me asombra. Eres un maquina, y te amo mucho. Estoy agradecido por tu ejemplo y fuerza y espero ser como tu un día. Crazy flirtatious, sounds like you had a good time cliff diving. Wasn´t that cold? Just wondering. I hope you don´t sell all my stuff in the garage sale. Well actually it doesn´t matter that much, I´ve learned to live out of a couple of suitcases, I could probably do that for a while longer. So dad, we definitely are trying to focus a lot on working with the members. It is the "better way" to do missionary work, as Pres. Hinckley said. Really success comes when members and missionaries get together to help the work of the Lord progress. When I get home I am excited to help the missionaries out in whatever way I can, even if they hardly ever (if ever) come to our sacrament meeting or our area. Missionary work is so important! I love it. This last little while we have been trying very hard to get the members working with us more. We are still working on it, but there is a lot of potential here.
This last week has been interesting. I have learned an important lesson. That is, no matter how hard you work, and really how well you work, nothing beats trusting in the Lord and following his guidance. This last week a lot of meetings failed us. We set up a lot, trying to be good, but I think, trusting a little to much in ourselves, and basically it all went down hill. I think the Lord wanted me to learn this. If you want to do the work and do it well, you have to involve HIM. I trusted to much in myself and too little in him, and that´s why things didn´t work out. Hopefully this next week we´ll be able to get things figured out a little better. I love you all, I miss you. I hope you all are doing well and that things are great this next week.
Love you!
Elder Charlie Flint
Sounds like things are fun back home! Mom, I´m sure you´ll do fine with the interview. And if not, you´ll knock em dead next time (or knock em down, a little more mom appropriate :) ) High adventure sounded like an adventure...obviously that´s the way it´s supposed to be. The new bishop sounds like he´s a fun guy, I´m excited to meet him some day. Oh hey, by the way HAPPY FATHER´S DAY! I honestly didn´t even realize it. Here in Spain they celebrate it at a different time, so I´m completely lost to the American way. Para que sepas, eres el mejor padre del mundo. Tu fe y amor hacia Padre Celestial y su Hijo, siempre me asombra. Eres un maquina, y te amo mucho. Estoy agradecido por tu ejemplo y fuerza y espero ser como tu un día. Crazy flirtatious, sounds like you had a good time cliff diving. Wasn´t that cold? Just wondering. I hope you don´t sell all my stuff in the garage sale. Well actually it doesn´t matter that much, I´ve learned to live out of a couple of suitcases, I could probably do that for a while longer. So dad, we definitely are trying to focus a lot on working with the members. It is the "better way" to do missionary work, as Pres. Hinckley said. Really success comes when members and missionaries get together to help the work of the Lord progress. When I get home I am excited to help the missionaries out in whatever way I can, even if they hardly ever (if ever) come to our sacrament meeting or our area. Missionary work is so important! I love it. This last little while we have been trying very hard to get the members working with us more. We are still working on it, but there is a lot of potential here.
This last week has been interesting. I have learned an important lesson. That is, no matter how hard you work, and really how well you work, nothing beats trusting in the Lord and following his guidance. This last week a lot of meetings failed us. We set up a lot, trying to be good, but I think, trusting a little to much in ourselves, and basically it all went down hill. I think the Lord wanted me to learn this. If you want to do the work and do it well, you have to involve HIM. I trusted to much in myself and too little in him, and that´s why things didn´t work out. Hopefully this next week we´ll be able to get things figured out a little better. I love you all, I miss you. I hope you all are doing well and that things are great this next week.
Love you!
Elder Charlie Flint
Monday, June 9, 2014
Hello familia,
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It is crazy to think that he is 22 years old! I have felt his presence with me a number of times on the mission and before. I know he loves to be with us! And it will be amazing to be with him again. We´ve just got to make sure that we live worthy of getting there.
So the goat is out. Because crazy lady wanted us to eat it...? Or not eat it? Or I don´t know. All I know is that I could really go for some goat chops right now :) Hopefully Logan can teach the dog to "Baa" then we could eat him :) Just kidding...maybe. Send me a pic of the little rat, I´d bet he´d fit in well here in Spain (lots of little dogs). Sounds like things are going well for everyone. Ammon is on seminary council! Just following right behind me. If you get called to the Spain Malaga Mission, Imma freak out. But that is awesome, you´ll love it. Say hi to Bro Hawkins and the rest for me! And Les Mis is awesome!!!!!!!!!! I really want to see it! But alas, I probably will not. Mom, you are going to rock your interview for sure! I´m pumped to hear how it goes. Skyler way to get away from those gamers! Bunch of punks. And Micah, that museum thing sounds awesome! You will have to show me it when I get home (sorry it´s on your birthday, maybe you can convince mom and dad to go out and get food with us :) But something American would probably be best. Or Mexican, yeah Mexican mmmm) Or Ammon could pay for it with all the pasta that he´s getting. 500 a month? That´s 3 times as much as I get to survive is Spain every month! Lucky duck. Use it well, lots of dates :) And dad, sounds like you had a pretty good time with your retreat/fly fishing thing. Did you catch any fish? How big? No really how big was it? :) You gotta be careful with those pork chop bones! Everything here has bones in it, so you have to always be careful. But a macademian nut? You´ve got to use some flouride toothpaste or something to strengthen those teeth. I´m already going to have to be changing your diapers, I don´t want to have to wash your dentures too :)
So by now you probably realize that I am not in the office anymore. And if you didn´t, well I´m not. I moved to a place called Alicante. It is on the far east side of the mission. So I have served now in all four extremes of the mission. As far west as you can get, about as far north as you can get, abuot as far south as you can get, and about as far east as you can get too. Pretty crazy! It was a 6 hour trip in bus. Super long! But I survivied. My comp is Elder Simon. He is from Argentina. An interesting kid. Good elder, hard worker. We have just been tearing things up. And that´s what I like. Lots of work to do. The ward (yes ward, weird right, the rest have been branches) is awesome. We are trying to get them more inolved in the work. Hopefully our efforts will pay off. I love this work! It has been great to get out and into the norm again. I remeber what it´s like now to have successes, and rejections everyday. In the office I had some, but now it is regular again. I missed it. But I also miss the office. Not really the office, but the people. I miss my comps and I miss the branch, and I especially miss the Castillos. Elder Dansie got sick right before I left, and things went crazy so I didn´t get too much of a chance to say goodbye, but we still all choked up. You meet some amazing people in the service of the Lord and the Castillos are a few that I will never forget. When you meet them, for I have decided that you all will, you´ll see how awesome they are too! And do you know who else is awesome? All of you! I love you all so much and I miss you. I feel the end moving closer and I don´t like it, but I know that there is a time and season for everything. And my time now is to give it all to the Lord. I love you all! Have a fantastic week.
Con amor,
Elder Flint
First off HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is crazy to think that he is 22 years old! I have felt his presence with me a number of times on the mission and before. I know he loves to be with us! And it will be amazing to be with him again. We´ve just got to make sure that we live worthy of getting there.
So the goat is out. Because crazy lady wanted us to eat it...? Or not eat it? Or I don´t know. All I know is that I could really go for some goat chops right now :) Hopefully Logan can teach the dog to "Baa" then we could eat him :) Just kidding...maybe. Send me a pic of the little rat, I´d bet he´d fit in well here in Spain (lots of little dogs). Sounds like things are going well for everyone. Ammon is on seminary council! Just following right behind me. If you get called to the Spain Malaga Mission, Imma freak out. But that is awesome, you´ll love it. Say hi to Bro Hawkins and the rest for me! And Les Mis is awesome!!!!!!!!!! I really want to see it! But alas, I probably will not. Mom, you are going to rock your interview for sure! I´m pumped to hear how it goes. Skyler way to get away from those gamers! Bunch of punks. And Micah, that museum thing sounds awesome! You will have to show me it when I get home (sorry it´s on your birthday, maybe you can convince mom and dad to go out and get food with us :) But something American would probably be best. Or Mexican, yeah Mexican mmmm) Or Ammon could pay for it with all the pasta that he´s getting. 500 a month? That´s 3 times as much as I get to survive is Spain every month! Lucky duck. Use it well, lots of dates :) And dad, sounds like you had a pretty good time with your retreat/fly fishing thing. Did you catch any fish? How big? No really how big was it? :) You gotta be careful with those pork chop bones! Everything here has bones in it, so you have to always be careful. But a macademian nut? You´ve got to use some flouride toothpaste or something to strengthen those teeth. I´m already going to have to be changing your diapers, I don´t want to have to wash your dentures too :)
So by now you probably realize that I am not in the office anymore. And if you didn´t, well I´m not. I moved to a place called Alicante. It is on the far east side of the mission. So I have served now in all four extremes of the mission. As far west as you can get, about as far north as you can get, abuot as far south as you can get, and about as far east as you can get too. Pretty crazy! It was a 6 hour trip in bus. Super long! But I survivied. My comp is Elder Simon. He is from Argentina. An interesting kid. Good elder, hard worker. We have just been tearing things up. And that´s what I like. Lots of work to do. The ward (yes ward, weird right, the rest have been branches) is awesome. We are trying to get them more inolved in the work. Hopefully our efforts will pay off. I love this work! It has been great to get out and into the norm again. I remeber what it´s like now to have successes, and rejections everyday. In the office I had some, but now it is regular again. I missed it. But I also miss the office. Not really the office, but the people. I miss my comps and I miss the branch, and I especially miss the Castillos. Elder Dansie got sick right before I left, and things went crazy so I didn´t get too much of a chance to say goodbye, but we still all choked up. You meet some amazing people in the service of the Lord and the Castillos are a few that I will never forget. When you meet them, for I have decided that you all will, you´ll see how awesome they are too! And do you know who else is awesome? All of you! I love you all so much and I miss you. I feel the end moving closer and I don´t like it, but I know that there is a time and season for everything. And my time now is to give it all to the Lord. I love you all! Have a fantastic week.
Con amor,
Elder Flint
Monday, June 2, 2014
Alooooooooha,
I don´t know why I said aloha, but hey, it works. The Castillos are awesome! I´m glad that you got to see some of those pictures. I keep meaning to get them from them, but I always forget.
Well, things are going really well here. Well pretty well. I feel weird because I´m in limbo and know absolutely nothing about where I´m going or what I´m doing. So for now, I´m still in the office. But hopefully I will find out soon where it will be that I am going. I assume I will be leaving within the next week, but I honestly have no idea. I´ll let you know as soon as I know! (And have a pday so I can actually tell you :) ) So what is everybody doing that makes them so busy?! I mean it´s not like you guys are cool or popular or anything ;) Just kidding, you´re all studs. But seriously, doesn´t your brother, you´re own flesh and blood, take prevalence over you´re friends or some girls? Oh wait, what am I talking about? It is allowed for you guys to let friends and girls to take prevalence over you´re big brother for now, but when we are all old men I´ll have none of that! But really though, no worries, just keep having fun!
Hey, Amms, you planning on doing PTC this year? Aren´t they doing something super lame and not cool? Like, some little off Broadway show called like...Les something...oh yeah, Les Miserables? Just something like that. You in? I´ll tell you what, I would be in in a second. But that is just my opinion. So that condo sounds awesome. Basically anywhere I can sleep and shower and cook food, whether that be in a tent off campus using a butane stove and the gym showers, or a mansion in the mountains, I feel like I could pretty much learn how to live anywhere. And if I don´t have to pay for it, well that´s better :) But whatever you all think is best, I will take what I can get. Beggars can´t be choosers. I hope you get a nice teacher Soph, and I like the goat´s new name. What does Ammon think?
So I just want to share a short testimony with you all. Just about change. If I have learned one lesson on my mission it is this. That our Father in Heaven and his son Jesus Christ love us. They love us so much that they gave everything they have and everything they are to us. And they really don´t ask too much in return. All they ask is that we change. That we become the best people we can be. And while we are working on it, they help us along. All we really need to do to change, is give up what we want for what they want. And that is not the easiest thing in the world, in fact some days it is really hard. But it is possible. I know that any person on this earth can change. Every single one of us has a potential for good. The mission is really just a chance to let people know that it is possible and show them how to do it. So go out and change! And show people how to change. Through teachings and through your examples. I´ll be here in Spain doing the same. I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week.
Con amor,
Elder Flint
I don´t know why I said aloha, but hey, it works. The Castillos are awesome! I´m glad that you got to see some of those pictures. I keep meaning to get them from them, but I always forget.
Well, things are going really well here. Well pretty well. I feel weird because I´m in limbo and know absolutely nothing about where I´m going or what I´m doing. So for now, I´m still in the office. But hopefully I will find out soon where it will be that I am going. I assume I will be leaving within the next week, but I honestly have no idea. I´ll let you know as soon as I know! (And have a pday so I can actually tell you :) ) So what is everybody doing that makes them so busy?! I mean it´s not like you guys are cool or popular or anything ;) Just kidding, you´re all studs. But seriously, doesn´t your brother, you´re own flesh and blood, take prevalence over you´re friends or some girls? Oh wait, what am I talking about? It is allowed for you guys to let friends and girls to take prevalence over you´re big brother for now, but when we are all old men I´ll have none of that! But really though, no worries, just keep having fun!
Hey, Amms, you planning on doing PTC this year? Aren´t they doing something super lame and not cool? Like, some little off Broadway show called like...Les something...oh yeah, Les Miserables? Just something like that. You in? I´ll tell you what, I would be in in a second. But that is just my opinion. So that condo sounds awesome. Basically anywhere I can sleep and shower and cook food, whether that be in a tent off campus using a butane stove and the gym showers, or a mansion in the mountains, I feel like I could pretty much learn how to live anywhere. And if I don´t have to pay for it, well that´s better :) But whatever you all think is best, I will take what I can get. Beggars can´t be choosers. I hope you get a nice teacher Soph, and I like the goat´s new name. What does Ammon think?
So I just want to share a short testimony with you all. Just about change. If I have learned one lesson on my mission it is this. That our Father in Heaven and his son Jesus Christ love us. They love us so much that they gave everything they have and everything they are to us. And they really don´t ask too much in return. All they ask is that we change. That we become the best people we can be. And while we are working on it, they help us along. All we really need to do to change, is give up what we want for what they want. And that is not the easiest thing in the world, in fact some days it is really hard. But it is possible. I know that any person on this earth can change. Every single one of us has a potential for good. The mission is really just a chance to let people know that it is possible and show them how to do it. So go out and change! And show people how to change. Through teachings and through your examples. I´ll be here in Spain doing the same. I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week.
Con amor,
Elder Flint
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