November 26, 2012
haha hey family !! happy turkey left overs for a week day!!! haha we ate soooo much !!! it was awesome!!! im suppose to be trying to loose weight before i get home. the six months to sexy hahah. and i think i am just gaining from being in a car and eating all the holiday food! oh well im fat and happy:) haha.
sister crouch the lady i was telling you about that eats gluten free made this chocolate pie, oh my wow! it was so goooood! i told her she has got to leave me that recipe! haha.
so the other night we just got in and finished planing for our day tomorrow and we got a text from the assistance's that said "18". i was like huh?? super confused. one of the elders that is AP came out with me so we have been out the same time was like, "happy 18 month mark!" haha i started tripping out! i had totally forgot about it coming up!!! the 25th! i have officially been out for 18months !! if i were a sister i would be going home!!! which i am so glad im not! haha im so not ready! i still have so much to do and im just learning so much again. being a trainer is tough stuff but i totally agree with you tori i have been learning sooo much from it in my testimony in really life and with the gospel doctrine. its like when i first came out all over again! i love it!
we have been slowly building our teaching pool and elder sudbury has learned so much. he is a awesome teacher. he still has a ton to learn, but so do i, but if he keeps with it and stays humble and learning he is going to be a 10x better missionary then i was ha. and its awesome!! it builds my testimony on the age change. the youth are learning so early and so much now they are ready to be servants of the Lord! so exciting! i love the organization of the church and all the great callings there are and how the all work together to keep the system perfect. i have been reading a lot in the 84th section of the Doc and Cov lately mostly about the holy order of the priesthood and boy do i love it haha.... the priesthood has so much history. you just have to dig a little and be looking for it throughout all the scriptures. i have a new love for the aaronic priesthood and how important it is in preparing the way for the gospel. like how john the baptist prepared the way for the Lord to come to the earth and minister. he was the last prophet of the old testament and the first in the new. he was the perfect example of an Aaronic priesthood holder and the Lord loved him so much and spoke very highly of him.
in verse 109 and 110 it talks about how all works together. haha i feel like capt'n jack sparrow in the pirates movies and how he is always looking for a way to keep living and not die haha. i have been thinking of ways to not die out, in being a missionary! so that after the mission or as the mission lingo goes after i die. i can keep on living!! haha and keep living as a missionary so that it never has to end. and as i been thinking of this, i just am lead to my callings that the Lord has in store for me. im not sure what they all are. i know only one as of now and that is to become a father. i am not sure im ready for that yet ha. but i can still have other callings and im so excited to keep my self alive in the work and service of our Lord.
i pray i will always be willing to serve Him when and whatever that calling is so i can do my part in keeping His system and be edified together.
so this week was a really good one we are getting more and more busy with things to do. there is this sister that we have been teaching and it is so awesome how prepared she was for the message. she already knew it was all true she just needed to hear it and be reminded. she has had a lot of thing testing her and she feels that she knows its all true but is scared and not so sure about what will happen. the next step she has to make is all her. the Lord have done all, He can do and now needs her to exercise her faith and agency to choose what to do next. and it is such a weird feeling, but i just KNOW she is going to make the right choice. it is so weird. i think its a little sample of the way the Heavenly Father knows us and how He can know things before it is going to happen. because He really does know us so perfectly. He knows our hearts. it has been so amazing being able to teach her she is so in tune and things like this happen a lot ha, but being able to feel this feeling and seeing how some what how our Father in Heaven is with us and his awareness of us, helps me feel so much more at ease :) knowing that He loves us so much that He will not let us make a wrong choice that will lead us away from him if we are living and doing the things that we should be doing. it also helps me know that when trails come for no reason it is for our good and a way for Him to teach us and help is grow and be that we might have joy!. :)
i know that what it says in Romans 8: 37-39, that NOTHING shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. i love the Lord! and i am soooooo excited for this sister to begin her wonderful journey to baptism and all the others of our brothers and sisters that we are helping come unto the Lord and the Fold of Zion :) I LOVE THE LORD. ha
i hope all is going well at home and the busyness does not kill yall haha wedding, holidays woo man crazy, but so exciting!! its a wonderful time of year and time to stop and remember the amazing blessing that we so fortunately have and to enjoy it together as a family. how awesome is that and now the family is just getting bigger to spread more joy together !! :)
i love you all sooooo much and thank you for being the greatest family EVER! i love ever week begin able to email ya and cant wait to talk to you!!!! woooooo!!! talk to you next week !! have a great one!!!
love elder houston
ps
OH and stanley still not baptized he has a chewing habit that we didnt know about so he working on geting that over come
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