Los Ángeles Toman, Arriba en Cuenta

Well let me just start off with the news I think you all wanna hear,paradise is still paradise and even the Corona virus can't change that.On the real, everything is going good down here. The country is takinga bunch of precautions and we are all like super duper safe. But wekeep the prayers up for the victims of Corona virus and even though Iam a little disconnected here and don't know exactly what's going on, Ipray everyone is safe and ok.

But I really really really would like to share a story with you all this week.
Hermana Erlinda is probably one of my best friends. She is about 68years old, has lost one eye and a few toes and is basically one of thesickest people I know. She has just about every kind of sickness youcan imagine. Diabetes, Gastritis, Blood Pressure, you name it and shehas it. The missionaries had been teaching this sweet lady (the sameone we built a house for a while back) for over a year and she neverreally wanted to progress in the gospel. But as I think I have sharedrecently, she has really started moving forward. Even tho she cannotwalk and we have to use a walker, a wheelchair, a string of taxis, alot of prayers, and alarm clocks very early in the morning everySunday to go to church with her, she is firm, and hardly ever misses aSunday. But she never never wanted to get baptized. Even after tellingus one time that she did, she changed her mind and decided no. Butfast forward to this Sunday. My comp and I get up early, put on ourmatching suits (I bought mine first) and head to her house. And she isjust sick. This is normal for her, she is always sick, but this timeits different. Long story short she can't come to church but in theafternoon we get a call from a neighbor, she needs to go to thehospital immediatly. We were outside of our area and had urgentmeetings and things to take care of so we call a taxi friend and shegoes to the hospital. Turns out she has terminal kidney failure. Sothe next day, Monday, I go back with one of my ex-compaions whohappens to be in the area. And she is just a mess. She can barely talkand is not doing good at all. We talk for about an hour and she justopened up. Explained her desire to be healed and to be baptized. Butshe doesn't have the strength. So we rush to a nearby health clinic,she goes through a quick treatment, and then off to the baptismalfont, where after having to haul water by hand in buckets for an hourand almost falling in the well, Erlinda was baptized. By far the mostspiritual experience of my life.

But why am I sharing this story? Truth is while we were in the
baptismal service many people shared that they saw and heard angels
there with us. I am not big into supernatural things or anything like
that but I know without a doubt that God was sending his support and
that there were angels working that day. Which brings me to my point.
God plays an active role in our lives, and he sends his angels and his
love to us. I saw that this week with Erlinda-who is now ingressed in
the hospital on her last stages of life. I have seen and felt this
love and support from on high my whole life, I think we all have. But
sometimes we just don't recognize it.

God is aware of you. Of what you are doing. And God takes part. He
lives and he loves everyone of us. Which is something I didn't
understand before but something that I now testify of. So with all
this news and everything going on, first off be careful, but just know
that angels are real and God knows where to send them. Pray for
Erlinda and I hope everyone is doing aight.

SALUUUUUU
Elder Moulton

Solado Caído

Well another week in paradise, you already know that we have been out here grinding. This week was full of meetings and trainings too but its been fun. Honestly, I feel like we have learned a bunch. Got to work with a bunch of cool missionaries this week which was fun. Its been a ride recently. We also finally finished filling the rat hole in our house so we will soon be able to take showers without fear of getting our toes bitten off. And we have finally mastered the art of
making banana smoothies, so hit us up if you'd like to place an order.

This week has really taught me something tho. It has really been kind of a ride recently, like I said before, and this week was even more crazy. 3 of the people we are teaching had severe medical problems and 2 were hospitalized and a couple more had some serious problems with work and family things. That, to be honest, is one of the harder things about the mission. You get to be so close to people changing their lives and receiving blessings, but you also see the people you love going through hard times. Its hard to see the people I have come to know and care for so much struggle and fall. But this week as we were walking down the street after being rejected by the
nice lady who makes tortillas by the bus stop (its a shoutout and not a callout, she's actually a very nice lady) we said, we may have lost the battle but we won't lose the war. And like my title says, a lot of times we got a man down. We lose the battle. We fail or we fall or we
experience something that knocks us back a bit. But what I love about being here, serving in God's army for lack of a better phrase, is that I know we won't lose the war. I think we never really understand just how much good we can do, or how much good we are doing in the moment.
Nothing good dies in vain. Evevry little bit counts. So as your weekly Elder Moulton ranting sesion comes to a close this week, let me just say one thing, don't sweat it if you fell down, messed up, got hit, or took an L. Because the war goes on, and we already know the outcome. . .Its a dub.

Keep on keeping on, tune in next week

SALUUUU
Elder Moulton