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Elder Houston's email

April 16, 2012

 

hey family hows it going ??

  

    so this week was a pretty interesting one. haha its defiantly the most different kind of area i have been in. so every saturday we work in this big soup kitchen in the Catholic church and thats way fun. i am learning alot about cooking and working in a kitchen.  its actually really fun and it helps out the community alot. its all donations, kinda like bishop store house.

also on friday night, pawhuska has this old cool theater thing called the Constantine. it use to be where they had all there shows back in he 1800s. pretty cool huh. anyway, they had this huge show on the titanic and we catered for it. like the little sandwiches and all haha it was cool.  i had a guy tell me that i would work well at a five start hotel or restaurant haha. it was funny. we also help people learn to read at the local library too. which is funny because i am terrible at reading ha. i cant really remember much else of what we did this week. im getting really bad at remembering things. haha but it was a good week. we worked more then before.  not really the usually missionary work. but i liked it and if it helps people out then im all for it.

 

oh about the weather, ya it was some really crazy storms, but all at night so we just slept ha or tried to sleep. i could feel the wall swaying by my bed. i thought i was going to get squished haha but i didnt:) and no alarms went off so i didnt worry so much. but the areas all around us got hammered, like hail the size of softballs !! crazyness!!.

oh so i got your package thanks for sending it. the pants fit. they a lil long. i didnt get taller, just so you know just fatttter. haha but they work great. oh and yes those are the shoes i was talking about. but they are so small  and my toe is messed up from all the walking. i am going to do what i did with my toe back at home. but this time its the left one and no worries the mission insurance will cover it.

 thanks so much for the letter too it helped out alot. oh and yes i got bishops email too. it came up as "dr" haha not sure why, but it was also so awesome! if you talk to him some time soon tell him thank you sooo much and i will email him tomorrow. eh! im sorry about work !! i need to work harder so we can get more them blessing !! i have been slacking alot lately i will keep it in my prayers !! tell hunter that i will try and get a letter to him this week. but no joke the mail man here only comes and gets our mail if we have mail, so if he can tell him to write me and i will write him too and hope it gets to him soon. for family night you all can read together or each alone read the talk, "beware of pride" by ezra taft benson. its way awesome. if you could just ask hunter for me if he is trying to do what i sugested. tell him i said it will help. i was in the same place he was some what and know that they all just want what is best for us. our savior would want us to go on a mission. how would you think of it if it where Him saying it ?  but anyway ya i will try and write to him asap and i need to write everyone anyway. sorry i been bad at it.

 well i have got to go. love you all soooo much. i love you all sooo much.  know that i am doing well and remember that a good example is the best sermon. and we cannot make others do the right things. we can only show by our example what "doing the right things" looks like. beacuse there are three ways to teach: by example, example, and example :) ha i love you all sooooo much more than i could ever put in words. stay safe and keep up the awesome work talk to ya soon .

love,

elder mitchell houston