Dear Friends and Family,
We are doing great!! We are learning and growing and continuing to have wonderful experiences.
Just when I think that "nothing new is going to happen".....(I tend to get bored!!).....Something new DOES happen. We met the nicest man yesterday! We were asked to check on a member who is in a Care Center here....the Senior Missionaries in Victoria were asked to relay this info to us by the man's aunt. We found him at the Avalon Care Center, where our good friend, Stella Malone works. His name is Richard Baker, and he is 47 years old. He was in a motorcycle accident 14 months ago. He wasn't wearing his helmet. He has serious brain damage and will be in a care center for the rest of his life. He is in a wheelchair and cannot walk by himself. His speech has been affected, but he is easy to understand. I asked him, "Have you ever asked yourself, why me?" "Oh, no," he says, "I know why this happened." "I'm not the person I used to be, the Lord wanted me to change my life."
Some days I think about being home again, but, one of the talks in General Conference talked about looking "at the whole scheme of things.....the big picture." And I'm trying to do just that. Our time on this Earth is so short "in the grand scheme of things", so we need to make every moment count.......................and there won't be another mission time for us to learn and grow and have these special experiences, so we need to enjoy every single moment.
We had a flood in our basement at home about two weeks ago when our water heater gave up!!! What wonderful children we have!!! Bekah and Bethany and Luke (with our neighbor Jason helping, too!!) got all our 'stuff' out of the basement as fast as they could, preventing even more damage. This all happened in the middle of the night, with a workday to follow the next day...they got to bed about 4am!! Bethany spent days drying out all the fabric...and they all spent days working on this 'problem'!! All is put back together now...Thanks to our wonderful children..Travis and Mark came over when it was time to put most of it back. Thank you, thank you!!
That's all for now, Sincerely, Elder and Sister Carter, Texas Houston South Mission
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You guys are awesome! I am so glad that things are going well! Before we all know if you guys will be back here in Utah! You'll have to get everyone's email address from Texas to keep in touch and you should keep a blog to update everyone of how you guys are doing here! ;) You are welcome for the work we did to help with the flood! It was really no problem and we are sorry it even happened! Love you guys!
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