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