Una Semana Locisima

Well paradise is going crazy right now. Im just going to give it to you all straight.

Monday- We get a phone call that says there is a tsunami and we have to get to "high places" so we all get to the park and have to wait for 2 hours.

Tuesday- Big earthquake

Wedesnday- Flash flood hits us as we are walking home

Fhursday- We find and kill a scorpion behind our fridge

Friday- The bus we are in has an accident and is totaled

Saturday- Actually a pretty chilling day 

Sunday- Got to go to church in Ozatlan so we really can't complain

This week was nuts! But I gotta say we came out unscathed and wow. God is real. This world is a pretty crazy place but we have seen some real blessings recently. Really made me think of a scripture I like in Romans chapter 8:5, 38-39

35 Who shall separate us from the ^alove of Christ? shall ^btribulation, or distress, or ^cpersecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to ^aseparate us from the ^blove of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Life is rough but there is NOTHING too big to separate us from the love God has for us. I dont really know who reads these things but let me just say that whoever you are, if you believe in God or not, if youre a member of this church or not, God loves you. And that's what I've really come to find out in my time here in El Salvador.

So have a great week, know that God loves you and...

SALUUUUU

Elder Moulton

Highlights from Elder Moulton

Elder Moulton wasn't able to send an email this week but he asked me to share the following highlights: 

• William got baptized. William is a, "really awesome kid." He is 9 years old. His mom was a member of the church but when Elder Moulton and his companion found them they hadn't been to church for years. William was very excited to get baptized and now all the family is coming to church and William is excited to be an example for his 3 brothers. 

• A worm fell out of his hair. He said that actually they live and work in a jungle so it just got in his hair and then fell out. . . 
• A member of the church gave them a bag of chocolate for dinner. 
• He sat in a bunch of bananas.
• He and his companion killed a big spider. See the video. . .

• He saw some roosters fighting. 

And then he would say 

SALUUUUUD  

Elder Moulton

Si Solo Tuvo Un Disparo

Well another week in paradise and I cant lie, I'm loving life. Maybe its that we played basketball in the blazing hot jungle sun all day today, or the night that a pickup truck full of military buffs gave us a ride through the windy streets of Ozatlan, or the 3 lunches we ate this Saturday. But things are looking up. Belen was confirmed in church this week which was a miracle but what I really wanna share is a fat miracle we gotta see this week. First off want to say shout out to my main man Sam who got baptized this week back home, way to go bud, miss ya and thanks for being an example. But down here the miracle we saw was OZATLAN. Where we meet on Sundays is a nice little church building, but about 45 minutes away in bus, in the jungle is a little pueblo called Ozatlan. I've talked a lil about it before but this week was just wow. We spent very limited time there because of transportation and everything but we spent like 9 hours of the week visiting over there, and this week, in the little house where they hold their meetings, over 40 people showed up! Including Familia Cortez and Familia Guido and Familia Hernandez, 3 of my favorite families of all time. Just total studs and wow. Everyone was grinning ear to ear and crying as we saw person after person, family after family, entering the tiny home to meet together on Sunday. Its hard to explain exactly how it all went down, and how much of a miracle it really was, but where usually 20 people sit each Sunday there were 40 and families who had been struggling and apart from the church rejoined. It was just amazing.

My title is another shout out to those who know, and while it doesn't make much sense in Spanish, as the saying goes, "If you had one shot," what would you do with it? Life goes by fast, the mission goes by fast. But we gotta make it count. Its hard to sum up, just how many miracles I've seen in my (almost) 15 months here but God is real. Make it count. 

SALUUUU

Elder Moulton