Elder Houston's email
December 17, 2012
so tons of new change. cassville was great ! i will miss it even though we were only there for 6 weeks . its so funny to think like i thought for sure that i was going to end my mission out there for sure, but nope. this is third transfer in a row that i have been shot gunned or white washed! all new stuff starting from ground zero again haha. so nevada is a pretty cool little town its got about 8000 people in it and then we found out when we got here that we also cover another area in kansas. its fort scott. so i have offically served in all four states woot woot!! we are at the very tip top of our mission like our area boarders the kansas city stake which is the other mission. oh which reminds me so i got a letter from jamie and jarom sorry if thats not his name i totally forgot alot haha sorry i still love you both ! and their baby!! thats the first time i seen him super crazy... so much has happend but any way so ya. i was wondering how far they lived from me! there are a ton of people that go to KU out here so i always ask if the know them. haha long shot i know but its fun to ask. oh ya! and also so we had dinner with a member family the claypools, last night and they invited a return missionary to there house to eat too and guess what!!! he served in the mesa mission!! he was in the stake when the changes happend!!!!! crazy huh! he was way cool he lived in mexico missouri but then his family moved to rolla missouri while he was out i cant remember his last name tho. man it is a super small world haha and speaking of that is so awesome and crazy that drake sat next to elder gunnell!! i just talked to that guy like on thursday !! he was saying he was going home. he came out with elder treasure but went home transfer early from school i think. i love that guy! to crazy he is gone and drake is home!!! life just seems to be flying by. and is getting more exciting too.! my patriartchal blessing was totally right on when it said that i would have the spirit of elihja in my so strong. i found out from this english dude in cassville he was great! he was a member and loved history and was from england and knew a lot about the history over there and in scotland and ireland, and guess what!!!! he found our clan!!! there is a houston clan! we have our own colors and everything like kilts and he found our crest ahah which is funny to me because guess what is on our crest... an sand glass hour thing ha and our motto is " in time" hahah it should be, "on time" hahahaha i need to learn more about my famliy history and maybe it will help me be more "on time" ha so cool. i love it ! haha we even have t shirts and tarten ties you can buy. im going to get one some day. they are green and gold and i think white i cant remember much of it he pulled it up when we were getting a ward list from him ha. but yep we have a town in scottland its small i have picture and our clan was adopted into a bigger clan the mcdonald clan haha mickey D's ha i cant wait to learn more and have more time to find more cool stuff and help our dead by doing their work in the temple so we may all rejoice together! because we cannot be saved with out our dead nor can the dead with out us temples rock!! i miss them. anyway sorry about the random email ha i just felt like chating the work is still going well kinda slow again just trying to find people to teach and finding the bishop of the ward. i think he is avoiding us haha. oh and we found out about skypeing so we are going to have dinner with this family and they going to let us skype after so i will call to set all up and then talk to ya so plan on around like 6 i hope but i will let you know :) cant wait!!! love you all so much and will talk to you soon !
love elder houston
