HE WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS

Elder Houston's email:

July 16, 2012

 

i love ev'r last one yu'ns! haha hey family hows it going !

anthony is tearing it up back there going through the temple!!!! wooo! thats so crazy it has come so fast !! ha hopefully you all been able to gett everything ready in time. im so excited for him! he will love a mission ya needs to remember stick with it. it will have loads of ups and downs but just stick with it and it will get better and better its going to be great !! i cant wait to get to email another elder or sister of the family ! ha tori and colten helped me so much and now im here for him if he ever needs anything i will do my best.

well everything sounds to be going well. the Lord is defiantly watching out for us. He truly is every time money seems to be going tight the Lord places people is our paths here that help us out. we had a member that was from utah that was visiting us gave us 20 bucks and these people wont take no. we cant except money as an answer hahah.. God bless each of them tho. it has been such a blessing to feel there love and the Saviors through each of them.

so im still trying to get use to missouri again. trying to get use to the majority of the population hating us haha at least once a day or every other day we have some one flip us off.. yell terrible things at us as they drive by or just treat us so rudely! its so funny on preparation day we have been wearing normal cloths lately and no one says anything. but as soon as we back in the proselyting clothes they go back to the yelling and cursing.. haha but its all good. the Lord always sends some random person to lift us up when we are down.

 like this week we had some random trucker honking his horn waving at us down the street ahaha.. he was funny and that one light of kindness brightens our whole week. it really shows you how one little act of kindness can create a ripple effect of so much good. the Lord did say love one anther and that is like unto the greatest of all commandments, which is to love the Lord thy God. oh it was so cool to seen another working of the the Lord and Heavenly Father it has strengthened my testimony in prayer. if you pray and ask and it is the will of the Father, He WILL answer your prayers. so on wednesday we had district meeting and it was mostly about finding and really stressed on finding even when we have people to teach. so that if or when  our area, every one you were teaching gets baptized you still have people to teach. we have like no one in our teaching pool. so we have been trying and trying to find people but not much has been happening. then the other night as i was preparing my talk for sunday i read in preach my gospel and i got the impression to pray and ask to find new people to teach. then those very next days and even today we got 5 referrals!  plus the couple we got in our package from pres three more so we now have 8 referrals to go contact! and i dont know how tori mish was but if you ask her that is A LOT haha he didnt make it set in stone that we just got new people to teach, but he left it up to us now to use our agency to go see them and find them and see if they are wanting to learn more. it was so awesome.

oh and my talk went well too i was suppose to talk for 5 to 10 mins and i couldnt stop talking and went for 20 min haha it didnt feel like it was that long. well that is all i got time for today. i love you all so much and will keep praying for work. and congrats anthony!! can wait for ya ha good luck with your talks! you will do great i know it . talk to ya next week ! love ya!! have a great week and have fun laugh and enjoy each day with love to everyone!

love elder houston