God has given us everything!

Hello sweet family!

Today is a good day. All of the missionaries look happy today. P day is always a good time, it´s a beautiful sunny day, and we´re going to CIENEGUILLA!!! We´re going to go eat delicious food and play outside all day. Then right back to work, preaching the good ol´ Gospel. My favorite part :)

Yesterday, we had a family home evening with a super awesome family. We shared a video about God, our Heavenly Father (you should totally watch it - https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-01-002-earthly-father-heavenly-father?lang=eng ). This family is so special. The mom and the dad have an interesting story...the mom, Alicia, left the church for a little while. While she was not going to the church, she met her husband, and they started their family. Later, when their kids were bigger, she decided that she needed church in her life. She went back, and realized that she needed to get married to her "husband" in order to follow the law of chastity and everything. The problem is that the dad, Raul, is technically still married to another woman, because they never got divorced and she absolutely refuses to sign paperwork to end the marriage. Imagine that, literally almost 30 years and that woman lives with so much hate. So they´ve never been able to get married. Raul goes to church every Sunday, and has read the Book of Mormon and the Bible multiple times. He knows the church is true, but because of this situation he can´t get baptized. It´s so frustrating, and he really beats himself up about it. The cool thing though is that they have raised their two sons in the gospel. Their oldest son has already served a mission, and their other son just sent in his mission papers yesterday, so that means that in 3ish weeks he´ll be getting his mission call! It kills me that Hermano Raul can´t get baptized, but I admire so much his faithfulness and the way he teaches his kids. SO, the family home evening. We talked about God. God the Father, OUR Father. I thought about my own father, and how much I love him (that´s you, daddy), and how much he loves me. I saw Hermano Raul as he teared up talking about how much he loves his kids, and I realized that that´s how it is with our Heavenly Father. But He loves us with a PERFECT, unfailing love. He knows us, and He listens to us. He wants us to succeed, and He wants every good thing for us. Like it says in the Book of Mormon, "in the gift of his Son hath God prepared a more excellent way; and it is by faith that is has been fulfilled." Why is God so amazing? I don´t know. But I do know that He has given us everything. I love Him so much for that.

I hope you have a wonderful week, and that you can see all that God has given us. Remember Him this week. 

I love you so much! Talk to you soon!

All my love,

Hermana Michelle Scott