TRANSFERS AND DISTRICT LEADER

Elder Houston's email:

May 22, 2012

 

hey family hows it going!

   haha crazy busy email i loved it. that stinks that anthany didnt get his call... that too weird. but no worries it will come and you will have to let me know asap ! im so pumped for him ! and hunter graduating thats so werid! i still rememeber graduating and he still seems like my little brother haha but he a man now ahaha. well congrats hunt! and i got your invintation letter. it was cool. i liked it did shalyes do it? and so crazy about colten going home in this next month!!!  to weird. and cyni and steve going to pick him up that will be fun. tell them to keep there heads up for dudes with granades haha i still cant believe that about drake and his stories mexico is pretty scary. we just have okies here... although most of them do have guns with them all the time haha and when we were tracting this week we had a dude bring his out to the door haha.

 

well all is well here so transfers went well i got my new companion. his name is elder macilroy. haha and guess where he is from!! yep arizona! haha he is from phx too but glendale area. he has big house. he is pretty well off.. lets just say ha. haha.. it was pretty funny when he first walked in to our appartment, he was really pissed because its kinda getto, but really not that bad ha. it was just funny to see his face. and it doesnt help that we get these big fatty black crickets in our house. they are big. and SPIDERS too haha.... eh i hate spiders. but he has been out for i think a couple transfers so like 4 or 5 months. he is a good missionary. he is a little over whelmed with all the stuff that has been going on here and how dead the area is, but he still works, which im all for! ha. elder hamlin came back on satuday with his mother and step father they were so nice! ha they just went through the temple for the first time and were sealed. it was so cool to hear there change of life and to see elder hamlin with his mom was so funny. he is a good guy just got too trunky and will have to learn alot about that sometimes we just have to follow the rules even if it seems stupid. 

its been really hard on our one investigator too. she really liked elder hamlin and she has been having a hard time getting use to us as her missionaries now. but i think it will work out and now her husband, who is a memeber can help her to get to baptism now. well there is alot of work ahead of us and im ready to do it and try my best to better the work here. 

i had my first meeting as a district leader and that was pretty cool i got to hang out with president which is always the best. 

oh and before i forget i spent some money on grosheries too sorry we were running low and we got to go to a walmart and they had some food i cant get here in pawhuska. oh and yes my card worked ha. 

haha so cool story that i have from some reading we did. in mosiah chapter 26. haha its about teenagers haha. its in verse 1- 4. it made me feel really bad for being a stinker haha sorry mom and dad. i am converted tho :) haha well i out of time sorry but its good stuff. you should read it maybe for family night. 

well i got to go thanks for the great email !! and letters this week love ya. keep up the great work ! i know the summer is starting up and i think that means stomp for the book of morman reading is too. it would be perfect to get anthany and hunter to reading with you and dad and to have like testimony meeting with, but just a suggestion. i know it helps us as missionaries to read each day sooo much. so i know it will bless your lifes. love ya so much hope ya all have a great week !!! cant wait to talk to ya next week !!

love you !!!

elder houston 

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!

Elder Houston's email

May 14, 2012

 

hey ya'll! ha,

     so just talked to ya yesterday and i already want to talk to ya again haha. so i kinda told you everthing that has been going on so i dont really know what to say now haha. it was an amazing week though. i ended up getting to go on my last exchange and i went with the district leader and got to talk to him about all that has been going on here and he helped me out alot and i asked him to talk to president for me if he could because he was not answering me. oh and its pretty funny so the first time i met him i was like man you remind me soo much of one of my friends from back home. i was talking about drew. and then when we went on exchange he got a package and i saw his first name and guess what his name was!.. drew! haha too weird but funny he is way cool. i really liked the elders in our district they helped me though so much and i really grew to love them guys. its so cool to have this mission be such a strong band or brothers it makes the Lords work progress so much better. im sad to see them leave but hopefully i will see them again. and it was fun saturday. we all got to get together and go out to eat dinner at chiles. that was cool to get together one last time as a district.

so i got the call that im staying in pawhuska and that im getting a new companion and his name is elder .. macklaroy. i think is how you spell it. he is pretty new. i was also called to be the new district leader because ours became the new zone learder, that was drew or elder adams. im really nervous about the call its alot of responsibility ha. i know this is the Lords work so He will make it happen. im sure of that im just nervous i will get in His way ha. hope i dont choke. oh!

speaking of, so there was this less active lady in pawhuska that choked on saturday night! and she ended up passing away! she had been battling throat cancer for so long and just started to get better. so crazy you just never know when is your time to go. just shows us that we cant procrastinate the day of our repentance (alma 34:32-34) kind of a scary way to learn and she was a sweet lady. really sad but she went out the way she would have wanted to go.  it is what her family said. you know that song "rain drops keep falling on my head." ? well that guy, i think his name is bj thomas not sure though, but he was having a show here in pawhuska and she was at that and he was playing some elvis songs and she loved it and was having a great time and it was totally raining a little in his show so rain drops really were falling on his head but ya. and when they went to the hospital they said she pass because of a heart attack not from choking. so it was quick and the way she would have wanted to go. she was a sweet little old lady though and will be missed.

 

any way sorry random but it was a great mothers day too. i got to talk in sacrament again this year ha it was on family a proclamation to the world. i really enjoyed it and was nice to get to talk about my wonderful family :) then get to talk to them in person. a great way to end our week... i loved it so much ! i love you all!! thanks for all ya said and helping me out ! LOVE YOU!!! with every once of my being. to the consuming of my flesh! haha well thats all for now untill next week im anxiously engaged in a good cause and ready to get back to work. ta ta for now.

     love,

elder houston