Elder Houston's email:
October 28, 2012
haha sooooo i didnt tell you last week that it was the end of the transfer because i didnt think that anything was going to change..... wellll i was wrong again haha. we got transfer calls on saturday night. and guess what.. ya im leaving hahha!!! ahhhh!!!!
i was sooooo close to seeing a baptism again!!!! sooo close i thought for sure that i would this time, since i JUST got there and we just started teaching sooo many people, we got our teaching pool from 0 to 13 and counting new investigators!! and stanley was about to be baptized!!! he is so awesome !
aaahh man haha.... its all good though, i have gotten kinda use too it now. haha. we were joking around saying all i have to do now is just set dates like crazy and i will have to move every transfer hahaha
but any who.... so ya that has been the high light of this week and stanley has a date for november 17th. and my new area is in cassville, missouri, haha yep back to missouri i go, but its only like 45 minutes away and i we will have a car so im going to ask if i will be able to come back and see his baptism. we will see what pres thinks. oh and my companion... i dont know who it is because im having a boy!!!! haha im going to be a father! haha which is missionary for im going to be training!
we are going to shotgun cassville. we are opening the area back up starting from scratch again ha. i think the senior couple missionaries in our zone have been covering it a little and have stuff going on. so i think it is not totally from scratch so thats good. im really excited. i hope i can do good. this area was just totally prepared and the ward was super strong, so it was nice!!
this new area is a little branch that has to have members from rogers go there to keep it up so we will pray for LOTS of help haha. and have to Lord guide our EVERY move. should be awesome! its crazy to think i will prob die in this next area because i have to be with this elder for two transfers because thats how long training is and then new elders usually dont stay in there first area after their training so i will be there for another transfer after that and by then, well we will see. im not to worried just really weird to think.
OH so another awesome thing that happend this week. i wrote about it in my letter to you mom, but just have not sent it yet haah sorry... i was waiting for my letter this week but it never came?? it prob got sent back because it was too heavy huh ;) haha anyway, so there is this awesome crazy family in our ward here, the finkbiners. i think is how its spelt ha. but they are so awesome. they have a pet pig!!! haha its so funny hahah. i like to chase it around and try and pick it up and pet it but it doesnt really like that haha. it runs around and weee weee haha or what ever pigs say ha. dad would totally want to shoot it haha. when it eats it smacks its lips sooo loud hahahaha it so funny. and shoot he eats better then most people i know. all organic people food. the family is like all natural. she is some artist and has made paintings in like france and he is like this bmx-er, skater dude. OH ya ha thats what i was going to tell you. so we were talking to him and he is moving his shop to another location. he owns a skate shop out here. anyway, he was moving locations to this warehouse place and is turning it into a skate park/ shop! its sooo sweet and we got to help him build some of it. like i think we going to go down there today and build it some more. its been a sweet! OTM helper too.... we talked to three people just the other day from tracting that were like some bmxer and skater dudes. one was from cali.
man im almost out of time again ha... so much went on this week too much to tell in one email. it was a perfect last week here in rogers i love this area sooo much probably more then chesterfield which is saying alot! ha because i LOVED chesterfield. but im glad the Lord needs me else where, that i can learn and grow some more.
we had a powerful lesson with some investigators and brother waddoups this week too... i love that guy! he is super smart and way smart in the gospel. he blew away mine and my comps mind and he was not even teaching us haha. he was teaching an investigator. it was awesome.... you could feel the spirit soo strong. they are really wanting to get baptized but still having trouble with their testimonies of the book of mormon. but i know it will come just in time. scott, it the name of the investigator, he knows the church so well, he basically is a member already. like he watches conference talks and has read the book of mormon front to back its crazy! him and his wife know half the ward! ha if they were a recipe they would have all the ingredients just a matter of time cooking ha.
so much fun!! i have had a great time here with my companion, he is the elder! and the ward and the people we have been meeting with its all been so awesome!! is super sad to go and so fast but i know the Lord knows best and he is directing pres shumway.
so i will be heading out on thursday. so dont send mail to rogers this week ha i will get you my address asap. and i will take pictures and send them too haha sorry still working on that. i keep forgetting. glad everything is going well back at home
i love you all sooo much and i pray each day that all those who i have ever offended or disrespected or hurt in any way would please forgive me. i plead with every fiber of my being every bit of my heart that i may find a way to take back what i have done and show my untiring love for each person. i truly know now that what i have done onto any of our Father in Heavens children i have done it unto my Lord. i pray he may forgive me and that they may also.
i love you all soooo much and love you all with all my heart and pray the Lord may bless you abundantly!!! i love this service and work i now that all the sacrifices that each of us make for the Lord never go unnoticed." verily i say unto you, all among them who know their hearts are honest, and are broken, and their spirits are contrite, and are willing to observe their covenants by sacrifice- yea, every sacrifice which i, the Lord, shall commond- they are accepted of me". i know these things are ture and the blessing you recive will be far greater then anything you have to give up. love ya talk to you next week
love elder houston
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