"I LOVE MY LIFE"

Elder Houston's email:

October 1, 2012

 

wow so what a week !!

 

     so i love rogers arkansas!!! i love my comp!!! i love the members!!!!

so much awesome stuff happen this week!!!. at first we were really worried about what we were going to do. the ward lost so much trust in the elders that were here before us. not much was going on here before so we just started from nothing. so we had a lot of work ahead of us. little did we know the Lord had prepared this area to explode. just needed some one to work it his stead.

   so elder garner and me just started meeting with the members to get to know them as fast as possible. we share messages with them and also showed our Lord that we were willing to work by tracting, which im not the biggest fan of haha, but ! i learned fast that it might not be the most effective way of work here in the oklahoma tulsa mission. but, it showed the Savior that we are willing to work and do what is necessary to be OUT and he would put the elect in our path. and He did just that.

   the morning that we tracted those days where the most amazing days. we got 7 referrals this week and 5! of them became new investigators!!! :) two of them the couldnt have been any more prepared or they would be members!! haha this one lady nina had been through sooo much.  she is going through so much with her family and it was so crazy, because everything she was looking to find was somthing we wanted to share with her that the gospel can offer her!! and i later found out talking to my comp that he himself was going through the same thing! only through that will there be a special bond that will really help her and he knows how the gospel can help her. it was so divine HE know all along.

   another, was this man that had just been offended by his church, and again all he was looking for is what we talked about and that the spirit teaches!! the Lord is one eternal round he knows all things thru out the Father. it is like he see in 3D ha and all we see is 2D. like if we drew ourselfs on a board and drew a box around us to us it looks like there is now way out. we see one side. but our Father sees all the sides he see 3 dimensional and sees that there is only a line infront of us. he sees that all we need to do is walk around it.

 i was looking to strengthen my faith and He did more then just answer my prayer. i love the Lord. i love My wonderful Father in Heaven. i love you all!

   sounds like you all had a blast camping. i am excited to be able to join in on that fun tradition. but i can wait ahaha i love it here. i have learned so much. i wish i could remember it all. but thats a joy that i get to feel time and time again, to remember what i already know so much to be true. Heavenly Father has so much to teach me and i pray that i can always continue to learn and get better. and i love being blessed so much to be able to play a part in His wonderful work and glory, to bring to pass the blessing of the gospel.

 

well i have talked enough ha i say the same thing every week, i feel. but its so great here!! and i love you all but i dont want to come to the end of my mission. but i know that the work is never over until the He says the work is done. so thats awesome ha. my calling just changes.

   elder Bednar is a former stake pres here and he said the work of the Lord is like putting up a tent, you have to put the stakes on the out side firm, in the ground as the work progress, we lift the middle up to put the tent up.

got to go... love you all so much... talk to you next week !!

love elder houston