SKYPE....HERE WE COME....

Elder Houston's Email

December 3, 2012

hey!!!!!! guess what!!!! so we just got an email from out pres about the holidays! lots of changes!! ok so first we totally got permission to listen to christmas music! woo hooo not just mo tab haha pres shumways family loves christmas soooo much. we also got permission to watch g rated disney movies for christmas day and eve!! haha awesomenesss!!!!... now i just need to find out where to get some haha and what is g rated now a days. oh and ok here is the big news and best news. we get to skype now!!!!!! WOOOOOOO I GET TO SEEE YOU !!!  WOOO HOOO hahah so fun i cant wait. ok thats all the news i had for today haha.

    so this week was the bomb!!!! i loved it so much. we had a ton of new people we met to go teach. most of them less active, but some part member families. we are getting REALLY busy. its good though, i really like it alot. just stressfull with training and all that went on this week.

   so tuesday we had our first exchanges. elder sudbury was pretty nervous ha. but he loved it! then on wednesday, we had our first normal zone conference with the shumways. it was the greatest zone conference in a long.... time. i loved it so much!!! it was all about christmas spirit and we got a told a bunch of stories and learned sooo much. it was super social with pres and sis shumway. it was different then the nomal zone conference, but oh man it was awesome! i love the shumways to death, even more now then ever! haha he read us a story from like a book like we were all is family and ha kinda like we were little kids ha it was awesome. i forgot what it was called but it was a tradition of his families. haha and pres is a big baby like houstons haha... he crys at the same part every year no matter how many times he has read it haha. he is also afraid of heights like me and pops too ha. i love that man and it made me miss my dearest family so much.

    i cant wait to skype! ha.

    so ya zone conference was the bomb. then after we went on another exchange. i got to hang out with elder garner for a little!!! it was fun. i was with the zone leaders, but they were with them too.

   oh man i am out of time!!! ahh sorry i will have to cut it short this time. sorry i blabbing on again.

    but i am so excited for this wonderful season to rejoice in remembrance of our Lords birth.

    oh how i love Him and pray that the spirit of His life will always be with us all, especially this time of year :)

   i love Christmas!!! i hope to bring out the spanish meaning of that word and have " more of Christ"  in my life! :)

love yall!!! talk to you next week !  i will figure out the skype stuff and let you know when we will be calling k! love you all!!!

love elder houston

oh!! so crazy about drake coming home!!!! wow so weird! and tori bridal shower!! man oh man !!

ps..oh so i was wanting to tell you not to give me anything for christmas but then i got rebuked by pres uctdorf ha... so instead to keep the spirit of giving for christmas, could you send me all my ties i have there. im going trade some and get new ties that way. and i would love all the letters from the family like last year that was awesome! i love you all cant wait to talk to you all!!!