The Lamb and The Lion

Alrught so I am noit going to lie to you this was a tough crazy wek but all in all it was good. First off the craziest thing in my life happened to me last week... not to scare you mom... but we were walkking in a storm to a house with a returned missionary who does divisions with us... out of no where came this crazy strom... it was super bad... but we were going to the Barbosa house (which is far away) and then lightning stuck about ten feet away from all three of us... it was so quick and so hard that all three of us fell over, Elder bitnoff on his back and I just stumbled and fell to a knee and hand. it was the longest five seconds of my life... we just remember blinding flashes and loud noises. We got up and we all felt supper weird and super grateful to be alive... we want to go on the discover channel 'i shouldnt be alive thing'. Our hair was straight up.... it didnt hurt and i was hoping it would have some crazy side affects like i could learn spanish or my knees would heal or my hair would stop falling out... but that stuff didnt happen. But yeah... I just think it was so sudden and frightning that my boidy tensed up and it was just a cool feeling. But yeah i am still normal, kinda stinks but oh well. Butwe came to later figure out the next day that that lightning that stuck the wire pull broke almost eveyones tv that was on at that moment... therew are not many tvs in Barriuo Lopez but of the ones that had it on at that moment it was really tough.... it caused a lot of problem with money in the area. which leads me tomy next story....
Carlos and Maria Bastos... the Carlos that we baptized that is absolutely golden and his wife maria that is sick withthe baby. The guy is amzing and humble and hard working and the family is just golden.... but something happened last wek, with that lightning strike the family lost their tv, and he cant leave her bed, to be without a tv is tough, then she was in the hospital, then the bathroom broke, all this stuff added up and they got into a huge fight and we walked past their house and the scooter was on and there was a bag of clothes... we stopped to see was was up. Wow we are lucky we stopped... he was leaving, going to his brothers house where he probably was going to get back into drinking because he told us he was done with the church... he said that eversince he started his wife has been in the hospital and sick and they dont have money and the tv broke.... it was hard for him to see the blessings in his life. Luckily we had a talk with him and his wife then stopped by the next day and he was okay... he apoligized and said an amazing prayer saying that he will never stray again... it was great. It was tough for us that night though because they are our golden family... but luckily they made it back on track.