"LIFE IS ABOUT PROGRESSION"

Elder Houston's email:

April 23, 2012

hey family!!!,

   so this week was a pretty fun week!!! we did alot of stuff! and i got some pictures, but then my camera died. but first off I TOTALLY forget about chases b day !!  i will try and write him. i am too broke to get him a card. but i will write. haha man he is an old fart ha. hahah thats awesome you got to see the wedding video again. i bet that was funny to see. haha it kinda scares me tho how much everyone will change in two years. i been seeing pictures of like kenric and drake and they look different too !! haha its funny i love it.

but oh ya, so the dance festival. i had one too. it was huge and at the mesa high foot ball field. i was young i just remember that and the dance was like hip hop. it was weird but i didnt like it either haha. so its ok if he didnt. we all have to do dorky stuff like that sometimes, even if we dont want too. it gets us out of our shell. oh hey before i forget too. i have the receipt for the last time i got my meds i will send asap sorry forgot to do that last time.

   So this week was pretty fun! we did the usual stuff like tuesday and thursday we tutored and then wednesday we had district meeting and went on an exchange with the elders in bartelsville. that place is awesome! its a little big town if that makes sense. its really nice. its the headquarters of Phillips and conoco petroleum. so its very rich and lots of history too.. and cowboy history haha its awesome. but ya the exchange was way nice. we got to go teach alot of people and i got to get back in the missionary feel again. i went with this elder named elder Phelps. haha and his first name is michael haha. but no he doesnt swim. but ya he is way funny and a great missionary, even for only being out for 5 months. then saturday.... oh man.... that was a way fun day. so we did the usual. we went and helped cook at the soup kitchen. then afterwards this guy ed, took us out to this hidden treasures of oklahoma. he says it was can woolaroc?? i think its basically a zoo and western museum put in one. there where these brothers frank and phil phillip and they settled there and made a deal with indians to get the oil in the town..... well long story short they became super rich and he had all this awesome stuff and made the land into this wild life reserve and his house into a museum because of all the stuff he had. i took pictures but my camera died in the middle, so i missed alot of cool stuff. i will have to go back sometime. maybe if you all come get me.

 but oh my...... he has the largest collection of colt guns in the world... i saw the SICKEST cowboy guns ever!!! like gold and silver with engravings on them..... oh goodness..... i was like a kid in a candy shop! haha im sure you could see me... ha. but ya way cool.... that was the high light of my week haha.

sunday was great as always. i was renewd by the spirit and put back in my place. i got too prepare the sacrament and it was so wonderful being able to do it as a missionary. it was like i was doing it for the first time ever and with different eyes on..... as i tore the bread, i could almost see and feel the savior as his body was ripped and torn for us. it was such an over whelming feeling. i had to fight to hold back tears. the sacrament truly is such a wonderful blessing and the absolute honor it is to the young men to have the right and power to bless and prepare that blessing for an entire congregation of people, a binding covenant, for all of them and to renew there covenants with our Lord. it was a life changing experience! if i could have only seen it when i was a priest ha. but yes a very good week and will only get better with attitude.

well i have to go. i will leave ya with an awesome quote i found. that has really found a place in my heart. " I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: to reach the port of Heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and some times against it- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."(Oliver Wendell Holmes). this life is about progression, we need to keep pressing forward and to take the example of our Savior and help lift others on there way as well." never discourage anyone...who continually make progress, no matter how slow." and watch for satan. keep your guard up. he as well works line upon line. dont wait until it is to late to recognise this. 

 sorry that my little message for today i love you all so much thanks for the letter and card. love ya !!

    love ya so much. talk to ya tomorrow, prob arould lunch time byeeeee

love Elder Houston