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Milagros y la mano De Dios

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Hey Glo,

How are you?  Hope all is well.  I have had a great week at work this past week.  Everything is going well and my surgeries and deliveries are all going well.  Everyone I work with is very complimentary and I am very happy I am working at this job.  

I taught youth Sunday school today and it went well.  I showed the movie clip from Dead Poet's Society about Carpe Deum - seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.  I then spent the rest of the lesson talking about how all the youth are at a junction right now.  We talked about David the King giving up all he had for Bathsheba, and about Esau giving up his birthright for a mess of pottage.  Then we talked about how foolish Esau seems to us whenever we read the story.  And then we talked about how we can all sell our birthright for a mess of pottage, if we give up the gospel and the church for sex, or vaping, or cigarettes, or alcohol, or pornography or laziness.  I don't know if any of it meant anything to the kids, but I tried so hard to make it clear to them what they are giving up if they turn their backs on the gospel.  I also mentioned 2 Nephi 2:6-8, my favorite scripture about missionary work of all time and encouraged all of them to go on missions for all the benefits of a mission and for the sake of the people they could help.

Then today, we went to see Eden Gibson, one of mommy's young women in Fiddler on the Roof, which is kind of a spiritual musical.  It has faith, religion, love and one of the characters mentions Moses and Gideon who by their faith saw the miracles of god. I have to tell you, I have felt kind of bad about the people who attacked me at the hospital, about the people who I know in and out of the church who have not helped or expressed any concern about me.  Especially my home teachers, my bishop and some others.  I also have felt bad about how people around us have not cared about our financial situation and how we were literally on the edge of our finances when I finally started to get paid.  But, as I heard in Fiddler on the Roof about people in the Bible who saw miracles I realized, that by the absence of help from people, I cannot deny the fact that it was God himself who helped me and us.  If you ask people for help, or if they volunteer to help and they care about you and take care of your problems, you then give the credit for your salvation from whatever your problems are, to the people.  But I have to tell you Glo, in every way, it has been Heavenly Father who has saved us by miraculous methods.  I got this job in Dearborn, by miraculous means, I had no hope for this job.  We were literally running out of our last credit card credit and we got paid by Geisinger and now by Beaumont in Dearborn.  In so many ways, I have to give the credit to God, because no person could make everything that has happened work out so perfectly.  And not only could they not make it happen, they did not even try in many cases, and some of them did not even know how bad our situation was.  

I give credit to God.  I am so thankful to Him for the good that we have in our lives.  It is all because of Him.

So, while I am disappointed that in some cases, people who I would have liked to be involved in caring for and helping us, were not; I see the hand of God in our lives and literally in our salvation from these troubles and trials.  The other thing I will say, is that his way of saving us and helping us is 1000 times better and more complete than any person could have ever even done.

I love God!  I am thankful.  

Keep trying to share this beautiful gospel and the savior Jesus Christ in his fulness with as many people as possible, because he is mighty to save and his salvation is better than anyone person ever could offer.

I love you Glo!

Con Amor,

Papá

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