Pictures are just a few random ones that i put on so you could see Elder Houston.
I believe most of them are from when he was in springfield last year. Enjoy that cute face!!!!
Elder Houston's email:
August 20, 2012
hey family hows it going !!
so this was a pretty fun week!!! we got to do a ton of service and had an awesome zone meeting and interviews!!!! i love pres shumway. its so awesome to get two way cool mission pres. both are totally different but both called of God.
so we had a couple big service opporrtunities this week. one was we helped this new family move into the ward and holy cow they had a ton of stuff haha. but they are such a cool family and we got to know them a little bit and their family. the other thing we get to do was some tough work too. its been a while since i have got to do some real hard labor haha. it was kind of nice to get down in the dirt ha or this case the cement. we helped this member lay some concrete down to make a path and a ramp so that this guy could get into his house, he is in a wheel chair. and i dont mean to toot my own horn but we did a pretty good job haha. oh man and i totally got to cruise around on riding lawn mower again this week haha so fun! we went over to one of our investigators houses. he is really sick. he has alot of health problems especially with his lungs. he is on oxygen and we go over and teach him and mow his lawn its fun. so alot on service this week. we also got to serve people through the preisthood too. we got to give two really powerful blessings it was so cool.
one was to a little boy. he has no arms and scolioces and a bunch more health difficulties. he was going in to have sergury this week and the mother and father are friends to some memebers in our ward. oh and they are not members. so the family that is in our ward asked if they would like a blessing. they agreed to it and we all met at there house. we got to talk to them about the preisthood and how blessings work. they were really nice and had such strong faith. we gave the boy a blessing and you could defiantly feel the power of the spirit in the room. afterwards they had more questions and we got to talk to them a little bit more. this sunday we talked to the members and they said that they were soo curious now and are wanting to know more! they have not commited to lessons but i think they will soon we are going to stop by again this week.
the other blessing we gave was last night and man it was such a awesome day ! so we cover two wards now so we have church at 830 then go till 1130 then go to lunch and go back at 230 until 530 haha its a lot of church but it so awesome they are both really strong wards and this sunday the spirit was especially strong and the lessons were so awesome!! and not to mention we had a less active guy finally come and and investigator too it was sweet.
but anyway, so we are still getting use to having a car and how it needs GAS haha.... so saturday we forgot to fill up cuz we got in late and we were on E. we thought eh we will be ok we just have to go to church. well that didnt go as planned haha we ended up having a big lunch that we drove too and i got chocolate milk all over my suit so had to drive back and change suits haha and then back to church. then we had a dinner to drive too. it was at the edge of our area haha and in the hills so climbing UP haha.. oh man we thought for sure we were going to run out. then just before dinner we got a call that some one from another ward needed a blessing. that she was not a member, but he was a less active guy. the hospital was clear on the other side of town. but we knew we had to go. so we said a silent pray in our hearts the whole way and some how we made it. we had no idea until now, but she was soo badly hurt. she had fallen from the deck of her house 20 feet and on too rocks. it hurt me just to see her and how broken she was. with our stregthend faith, with our prayers answered knowing now why Heavenly Father made it possible for us to make it there, we gave her the blessing. even though i dont know what is going to happen. by the comfort and peace i felt there, i know she will be alright.
it was such a testimony builder to me to see that if the Lord needs something done He WILL make it possible. we could have stopped and got gas but i know that this experience would have not been the same. it was a reafferming to my testimony that our Father in Heaven does hear and knows each of us and loves us more then we could possible imagine . its also a testimony that the priesthood is real! and that with and through it we do His will and bless lives. i love you all soooo much
love elder houston
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