Elder Mitchell's email:
November 28, 2011
hey family!,
thanksgiving sounds like it was way fun!! good to see all the family again, im jealous! hope every one got back home safe though!
thanksgiving here was a little different, but i really enjoyed it a lot. we went to a non members house on wednesday and had a huge feast with them. so much good food!!! haha and gluten free too! i even made dessert haha it was ok haha. but ya they just moved in to the apartments across from us and we helped them move in and became there only friends and they have no family here so they invited us over ha. it was so cool though this is one of my top favorite things about being out here, just to be able to be a part in these wonderful peoples lives. its so cool to see how the hand of the Lord is always at work and how important a life is and to just be able to play somewhat of a part in their lives and to help them. after all we are all in this test together. we are all shooting for the most part, the same goal and we are all sons and daughters of our loving Heavenly Father. and every soul is great in the eyes of God. i love it! ha. they are not really investigating the church.. yet:) haha but they are such great people. and once they see the joy to know the fullness of the gospel they will come onto the fold.
but any way then we went to a members house and ate even MORE FOOD ha on thanksgiving ! it was way fun!
soooooo ok this week the thing that i really got a big eye opener and learned about other then how much i love this work and love people!! ha is how much of a emotional rollercoaster a mission is! wow its tough stuff at times. there is a young family in the ward that has kinda fell less active and we were teaching them and bringing them back and the husband started becoming really active again. oh and he is totally from mesa ha, but any way he has been living right and working really hard to keep his family well any way, we had not seen him in a while cuz him and his wife were having a hard time and she kicked him out and he has been taking the kids while she at work um big mess:( and he was trying soooo hard to work it out and to make things better. but ya we just stopped by this week and she was at the home and said her husband would be there in a little and so we just hung out. long story short i guess she is moving away and they got in huge fight while we were there luckly another family showed up to help move her stuff so we just helped them while they were yelling in the house..eh. it was really sad. he came out with the kids shook our hands trying so hard to hold back the tears and left. i was so sorry for him it just killed me to see him like that. after she came out crying and said she had to leave so she would talk to us later and then everyone left. it was really sad but what was really weird is going to our next appointment and realizing that they had no idea what just happened he was joking around and laughing. it was really hard to go from one extreme to another. any way ya that was big thing that happened this week that i could remember. but im still doing great loving every moment out here and learning sooo much.
oh we had transfer calls this last saturday and we thought for sure that elder treasure was leaving but they called and said we not leaving either of us and he is now the new district leader!! woot woot ahah he will be a way awesome leader! and he will be here now for 9 months this transfer!!! crazy huh i will prob be here for a while too. oh and i hit my six month mark too on the 25 so i get to burn a tie!! haha ill take pictures gonna be awesome! well i have talked way too much and I am out of time sorry ill write ya today hopefully if not will tomorrow sorry i have not ha. haha well love you all sooooo much !!!!! talk to ya sooon!!!
ps. my first area that i was in ,mt grove, it became a ward!!! finally no longer a branch !! and they gettting a church building now!!!
LOVE elder houston
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