THE BEST TWO YEARS

Elder Houston's email:

August 27, 2012

 

hey family hows it going!!!!!

   so this week was really awesome!! we got to teach so many different people!!! like the missionary lessons. not the stuff that we just come up with for a spiritual thoughts or any of that the good stuff!! so wednesday we were ask to teach an indepth lesson of the plan of salvation to the EARLY MORNING seminary class. it was soo cool to be at the other end of the desk this time and see how i was in seminary and how badly i wish i could go back! i love the youth so much!!! my p blessing was dead on about that haha. they are so fun and awesome. i can honestly say it was the best plan of salvation discusion i have ever had! i learned so much preparing for it and all i keep thinking was man i wish i knew this stuff at there age. haha im sure i was taught it, time and time again. it just went in one ear and out the other ha.

 

we also got to teach the restoration of the gospel to like two new people that we are going to start teaching now! too cool ha. one of them is this guy named joe. he is, if you remember that lady i taught forever and she finally got baptized, like couple months ago. her name was courtnie. anyway joe is her boyfriend well now her future husband. they getting married now. he had been looking into the church i guess for a while now and courtnie has been talking with him a ton and now he is wanting to join! so we started teaching him and we are going to set a date with him this next week! so awesome!!!

 

we also got to meet up with an old investigator of mine and got her back on track and she is wanting to be baptized too! i dont think i will be around for either of them, but if the missionaries that come back into chesterfield keep with them, i know it will happen. there are going to be alot of missionaries coming out this transfer so i think chesterfield is going to get there own missionaries again :/ kinda sad.... but its been fun!

 

so this sunday was this kids farewell jarom peterson is his name im pretty sure he is going to be like an apostle haha... he is a better missionary then me and he has not even left yet haha... he so awesome. but he talked this sunday and it was cool to see him and all that he has done to prepare. it brought alot of things to my memory of back at home. one of them was an expirience me and hunter had. i dont think i recognized it at the time, but when i thought about it yesterday, i know it was a huge factor in my decision to serve a mission. but this was also a spiritual time for hunter i think. so before you share this with any one ask hunter if it is ok with him.

  so it was back when me and him were staying in the same room. so it was a while ago. not sure when tho. but we were watching the movie the "the best two years", and it came to the part in the movie when the elder and his companion had got done fasting and had the phone call to meet with that guy at there apartment. he came over and they got him to sit down and they talked about the restoration. the older elder finally realized why he had come on a mission. the spirit was so strong in the movie and in our room i just remember crying along with the elders and i looked at hunter and he was as well. im sure he felt the same way as me, and that i didnt know why i was crying. i just knew i was happy and a peaceful feeling come over me. i now realize that it was the spirit baring powerful witness to me and hunter that the restoration is true. that the message that the missionaries were saying in the movie was true. that this work truely is the Lords work upon the earth and how important it is. that feeling has returned time and time again proving that to me it is true and right! it really is the Best two years and im so eternally greatful to be able to be here now and for hunter putting that movie in that night so the spirit could witness to us those truths.. i love ya brother ! treasure those expirences, as well as you my wonderful family. when times of doubt trial or confusion come into your lifes remember what the spirit has taught you, for you cannot change that for the spirit teaches what is true! (moroni 10: 3-5) such a blessing that our Father has given to us:). and if you have not had such a witness yet, pray, ask, "knock" and it shall be given you. i know these thing to be true and say them in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

 i love you all and glad all is going well ill talk to you all next tuesday!!

love elder houston