BEST DAY EVER!!!!

Oh great story in this email..... the Lord knows when people are ready to hear the Gospel.
I sent Mitchell a package this last week. He needed his coat that we had purchased at home but he was heading to his mission in the hot of the summer in Oklahoma so i told him i would send it to him when it started cooling off. Doesn't seem it would be cooling off anywhere because we are still so hot in Arizona but i guess other parts of the country do have seasons and fall weather. so i packed up his coat and a couple long sleeve white shirts and some goodies and treats for him and his companion. He had also been asking for a tape recorder so he can use it like a journal because he can't seem to find the time to write in his journal. so i got one and decided to have all the family talk on the tape before i sent it, so he could hear us. I had Kael talk into the microphone and it was the funniest thing cause he kept putting it to his ear so he could hear mitchell talk back, but then i rewound the tape and he heard his voice and he thought that was so cool to hear himself.. fun stuff i am sure Mitch will treasure that tape forever and hopefully we will send him another one when Claire starts talking.

Elder Houston's email
October 11, 2011

hey family!! so i got the package! ahaha thanks soooo much just in time it starting to rain and get cold again haha and thank you for the tape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahah that was soosooooooo coool and made my week that much better haha kael is soooo funny i miss that lil guy ah but soo good to hear from everyone even if it felt weird it was not on my end ha loved it. oh and just so you know mike n ikes and hot tamales have modified food starch in em haha but elder treasure will love them ;) haha love you all thanks sooo much.
so this last week was so amazing!!!! main reason why is that we got this new amazing golden or diamond investigator her name is courtnie. her friend from utah refered her to us. so we went over monday and she ended up feeding us and we got to teach her ! ha and she really liked it and go way interested so we went back like the next day to teach her again and she really opened up to us and had been praying to find answers. she kept the commitments we gave her and then she ran into some bad stuff. she went online to learn more because she was really interested but ran into alot of anti!!! i very strongly dislike anti haha. we were going to meet and teach her again and she actually called us to warn us she had alot of hard questions and that she was going to bash hahah like crazy huh she is the best i love her haha so nice. any way we went over to her house and tried to answer the questions best we could. by the time we left she still wanted to learn and still had some issues and we were so nervous she was not going to want to learn any more or meet but as we were saying bye she was like so when is church ? haha we were like huh? haha we told her when and she said k ill be there. oh and by the way she is about 30 and has a 6 year old and 16 year old and an 18 year old. any way she said ya we will be there and ill bring collin the 6 and monica the 16. we so excited! but lil worried but so sunday came around and we had been praying sooo much for her and her family and even put signs up all over our apartment that said to pray for her ha and it just proved that prayer is so real and totally works ! sunday came and so did courtnie!!!!! and monica and collin!!!! and it was soo perfect the ward welcomed them all so much ah it was so perfect and she loved it they all did! it was great!! they made friends with the jones family and even had dinner at there house and they answered so many of there questions and ah it was perfect ah man Heavenly Fathers love for us is sooo strong. every thing is going so great with her she is so happy and she actually bought us groceries ! like alot of them haha she is awesome. but ya it was an awesome week just like every week. but hey sorry i got to go but oh no worries about meds i got them and should be great for a while ha i figuring this all out ha finally and im eating well and feeling great thanks so much again for the package of goods loved hearing your voices love you all sooo much stay safe and thanks again love elder houston