Happy 4th of July

Mitchell is doing good. He would love to hear from everybody.

hey
happy fourth!!! sorry ya yesterday we could not email the library was closed it was dumb and to day it dont get much time ethier because its not pday!!!! but just want to tell ya all it good and thank you for the info on the chicken nuggets haha i ll have to check it out i know where both of those stores are they are in our square. but thats so funny !!!! i miss claire crawling !!! lame hahah she sounds like alot of fun already haha that tub baby girl you should send me pictures of the family i dont have any i miss my family ! ha. i did hear about colten we actually email almost every week it not much just quick notes most of time and drake too its awesome and kenric and landon have been too so its nice but i hate this timed email thing. time almost up now i hate it but i wrote you and will write again i got a card to send ! ahah happy birthday and tell g pa tom happy birthday for me too!. sorry i cant email much of whats going on but i said a couple funny stories that happened in my letter haha hopefully you will enjoy them and tell tori bout them i think she will like it ha it just shows that i a bigger hair head then her hahah. but just know all is well here its been hard to catch people this week because of the fourth and it summer and stuff but we keeping our heads held high and its good work. thank you mom for the email haha i love hearing about the family i miss and love you all sooo much tell hunter and dad i will write then soon so they better do the same. and you should defiantly send me everyones birthdays if you get time love ya mom be safe on your birthday vacation!!!!!! love you soo much !!!!
-elder houston

Doing Well in Missouri

haha hey every body!!!!

hey all is well in missouri. we just got back from Houston, 

MO on saturday it was pretty cool no new investigators 

there tho kind of a bummer,but its cool. i actually got

pretty sick this last week so we couldnt get much teaching 

in for two days it was bad i still not sure what happend ha. 

like i had a fever at first and realllly bad stomac pains me 

and elder blatter think it was this weird mexican food place 

we ate at haha it was a wanna be mexican food place haha. 

but it was pretty good but must have just been bad meat 

any way. it started getting pretty bad so my comp gave me a 

really awesome blessing and i passed out on the coutch for a 

couple hours and no joke as soon as i woke up i felt totally 

fine! its was such a testimony builder of the power of the 

savior and priesthood power it was soo awesome. and it was it 

perfect timing because yesterday we got the feeling to go to a

place called Norwood MO i think was what it was called its out

west of where i live. any way it was my first time going out 

there and elder blatters second time but neither of us knew 

what to expect but we followed in faith and faith lead us 

right where we needed to be it was so cool haha. the 

investigators name is jack elder blatter rememberd meeting him

 his first time going there back at the begining of his mish. 

oh man i dont even know where to start with him! ha. he is a 

older guy i thnink he said he was 57 he looked younger but ya. 

we spent about an hour just listening to him and all his life 

stories talk about wow he has been through sooooo much. i wont 

be able to tell ya all about him but maybe in a letter or 

something because his story really is amazing i truely admire 

him. but any way where he is out now is so perfect i mean for 

us. he was just in a terrible motorcycle accident and got hooked

on these pain killers that led to depression and nightmares 

about the war and led to a really bad divorce which he is one

of those big bad tough dudes but yet is all it to mushy love 

stuff ha. but ya he loved his wife soo much and still does i 

wish i could show you all he does for her  > but another 

time any way ha sorry. as we started listening he was just going

on and on and on and we didnt even have to say anything about 

our lesson he just kept saying all this stuff about the gospel

that just took us by suprise that he believed it oh man it was 

just ahh it too hard to explain! it was just prooves that we are 

just here on a mission to find gods elect prepared. we honestly 

just asked him if he would be baptised and he said yes. it was

so amazing too much to type sorry just know god is soo real and  

all around us everyday we just have to stop and look around. 

he is in every one and he will guide you to where he needs you

or where you need to be. its only been week two and i have 

learned and grown soo much more then i thought i could in a 

life time. it truely is mind blowing and so humbling at the 

same time. i love it so much. i wont lie it has been hard at 

times but the highs top the lows by far by soooooooooo far ha.

but ya thats all i have for this week there just has been 

toooo much going on to all say ha. well i love you all and pray

that every thing is ok at home sorry dad that i missed 

fathers day!!!!! know i love ya and i working for them 

blessings for you! and that family love ya. oh and mom im 

pretty sure you have enough "i told you mitchell" 's to last 

a life time out here haha i really wish i would have listend 

and went shopping with you for food a few times before i left 

haha because its really biteing me it the butt now haha but i 

doing ok. :)hehe ha sorry i going to talk to the pres and see

 if i can get some thing worked out because my food cost soo 

much but any way. hunter i freaking miss you so much. i dont

really know why but my mission has been reminding me of you 

and me back in the day ha. like at nights when we use to remind 

eachother to say our prayers haha. haha and how you would finish

and would ask me are you done ?? and if i didnt say anything 

you knew i wasnt haha and how we would make sure that we 

would pray for no bad dreams hahah and then would take a few 

second to always make sure you said good night to me. ha 

ill tell ya what i have had some crazy weird dreams out here 

and been missing those memories bout now ha. but any way 

i love you all soooooooo much and sorry i could not tell 

ya more ha i just love this gosple so much and i want the 

whole world to know it and its truth but untill next 

perperation day

-Love Elder Houston a mission is my game:) 

Officially in Missouri

So Mitchell is officially in Missouri. He's doing great and adjusting well.

hey everybody!,

Hey family so whats up its been like six days and no letters !!?? jk i totally forgot you guys were going to utah ya lucky ducks. But ya sorry my p day is on mondays but we didnt have time to email yesterday that long the library had something going on so we got to come today wooot woot !! so ya p day is still on monday kk. :) ha sorry about all the trouble with the emailing and the computer stuff but glad i got to come today because every one emailed me to day ha and no one did yesterday like mike did and drake and colten and YOU! ha so no worries it all worked out. thats awesome Tobin is alive and well ha and he sounds like he was an awesome missionary! im lil bumbed i wont get to see him for ever!! but its ok. ha i love ya mom thanks your amazing!!

So WOW sooooooo much has been going on its nuts i feel like i have been here for ever when i write in me journal ha but it really has only been about a week. but her is a little that has been going on since i last wrote. So ya that next morning we all woke up to a CRAZY lightning and thunder storm! like i looking out my window and i was sure i was going to get sucked out in to tornado or die or something ha. but our APs were like nope that just normal storm in oklahoma.. i was like AP says what!!?? ha. but he was right like with in like 30 minutes it was gone and no one died ha, pretty crazy stuff. Any way so we packed up and got in the vans that took us out to drop us all off ha i was in the car for soooo long it felt like because we had like 5 other missionaries to drop off before me because me stop was the last one ha. it was way far like as soon as i got there i got off met my trainer elder blatter, who is way awesome by that way he is really quite and a lil awkward when we first met but i farted a few times and he eventually opened up and he is freaking funny. any way so ya once i got droped off we had to drive another like hour to our house. hahaha oh man the first thoughts in my head as we pulled up to our home was HOLY CRAP hahah. ok so think of the getto-est place and times it by 10 and thats what moutain grove is haha at the time it was not funny but not it is as i think back to it. but ya where we live is not too bad compared to the rest of the houses around us our house is like middle class of mountain grove haha any who so funny i love it. i have not took many pictures because of time but i defiantly will take a butt load for yall. but ya soorry i still have lots to tell but i have to go sorry :( ill finish in my letter to ya or i will email ya the rest on monday !!! but all is good i did good shopping for food you would be proud haha but love you all so much and will write ya soon!!!!!!!!! oh and ya got all me meds love ya!!!!

-elder houston

Update from the MTC

hey so forgot my flight plans again but i do remember most of 

it ha so leaving mtc at 3 then we flight out at 5 i beleave but

ya then we land in denver co. and will have a 45 min lay over 

sooooooo i can call you then it will be around 7 i think or 7 30

so be prepared haha and i got a calling card and i still have alot 

of cash but i not sure how i pay for my bike hopefully i can use

card or i will have to spend most of it on bike but it will work

out. any way ya we been packing up alllll day today hahaah i  

totally do NOT remember anything you and cyni showed me before

i left here ahah ops :). but ya things been great i pretty sad

to leave tho mostly because i have made sooooo many awesome 

people here!!!. all my district and all my zone and my teachers

esppecially bro peterson !. he has taught me so much these past

few weeks its insane! and he went to my dream mission scottland

/ireland mission !!! so i liked hearing those stories but ya 

have never been to a place like the mtc every one here is so 

nice and chill and everyone loves everyone like no joke! 

and the mixture of every ones testimonys and life stories

just brings the spirit every where you go it so amazing 

i love it. im defiantly going to miss ever single one of them. 

ha i trying to take alot of pictures too of everything and every

one haha i even gave my camera to one of the sisters in my 

district to take some for me ahaha shes funny. she the black one

haha. uhmmmm i dono what else really been going one well there

been alot of stuff just soooooo much i cant email it all i will

write again soon as i get to tulsa i was told that we think 

our p days are changed to thursdays there so i will leet you 

know i love you all soooooo much.. hunter you sounding great! 

make sure you give tobin a hug for me and tell him i love him 

and will see him in two years. mom tell dad i working hard and 

trying to work even harder every day love ya!! 

love ya all!!!!

Email from MTC

Hey email from Mitchell today!!! 

mooooooooooooommmmmmm hahaha hi

hey so ya today alot better still not alot of time tho!! i hate

it ha but thank you i got my package and my shoessss thanks 

and the foood ahahah anna sent me bunch of stuff too oh i rote

you today too by the way and oh ok so got my flight plans but i 

fogot em in room but i have to be at salt lake airport at like 

2 30 in morning !!!!!!!! on 15th sooooo be ready if you not 

answer it ok i will have an hour i think or longer lay over

in colorado! hahah then tooo tulsa soooo i think i can call again 

like at 7 i think sooooit going to to be early when i call so 

answer kk ill have a normal pday i think on monday if not same

 on tuesday soo just check and il let you know every thing k and 

ill write hunter bout lake i running out of time soorrry if you 

on when you get thing i still have 15 min so email me andddd i 

forgot what else ahaha oh you should come here on like the 14th

then you can come to airport to seee meee hahah on the 15th ha but

tanks for drakes thing i ll email him  uhmmmmm sorry have to type 

so fast ill write you before my next p day to tell ya more 

bout what going on kk love you sooo much

i love you mom soooooo much you taught me well you and pops and 

tell pops i love him and im sooooo glad he taught me to go on a 

mish it one of best desisions i have made

love you all write me love you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

elder houston