Elder Houston's email
January 14, 2013
hey family!!! wow supper sorry i have not been email these past couple weeks these past mondays we have been super busy for some reason, like this monday we had a zone outing. so we all went to joplin and had pot lock and had b ball tournament and hung out it was awesome! and i had a birthday dinner with a family, so we didnt get to do anything on monday hence we are emailing today. sorry, zone outing are fun but when you live so far away we didnt get any time to do anything on monday and i got the ok to email today cuz i told them if i didnt my mom would fly down and kick my butt haha.
but i dont have a lot of time to talk about great stuff that been going on, but i have to tell you about THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT OF ALL TIME!!!! haha. so get this so saturday morning and evening we got a major ice storm. like it went from 60 almost 70 degrees on friday to 20 on saturday haha. it was crazy. everyone is sick haha. but it started to rain when it was suppose to be snowing and what happened is the rain would fall and as soon as it hit a surface it froze it was crazy! and it was a wet cold, so really cold... anyway, sunday morning came around and both the church in nevada and our other area was canceled ! have you ever heard of that, church cancel ?? ha i think it is because all our ward is old people and the branch pres and bishop were scared people were going to slip and fall and break a hip. but it really was bad, like both our churches are kinda on hills and no one could get in the parking lot ha because it was so iced. any way so we just got stuck at home. and back in our last area that girl kathryn was getting baptized at 12pm. elder sudbury really wanted to ask pres shumway to see if we could go. i thought for sure he would say no. because merkley our last pres did. and all the ice too. but he wanted to so i said ok. so he called and he said YES! i was like what so we jumped in our car and by then it was heating up it was about 19. so the ice melted a little haha the Lord helped... he made it driveable, i know it because i thought for sure we where going to get stuck. like when we went to fill our car with gas, the flap was froze shut ha and the doors were stuck. the advisary was really trying to stop us. our tire was flat and we couldnt get the ice off the windshield too.... was craziness... anyway we finally make it on our way and holy cow, i dont think i have ever seen anything like it. as we where driving the sun was at that right angle where it shown through the trees and all the trees, each blade of grass, where like glass! they had a perfect even coating of ice cover them top to bottom. and as the sun hit them it glistened like a sea of glass and the trees... man i cant even described it. it was sooo cool. and the roads were totally fine they stayed warm and ice free. oh and i would have taken pictures but i was driving and we were too busy freaking out haha sorry :/. so we made it safe and sounds to cassville and with a very surprised branch, we got to enjoy the greatest baptism yet :) in my mission haha. kathryn was so excited! and she looked soo happy all dressed up in her awesome jump suit haha pure and white. we took pictures and got to be witnesses. the spirit was so powerful. as we all layed our hands upon her head to receive the holy ghost, i couldnt fight back the tears of joy.. she worked so hard to make it and she finally did. the spirit was in every corner,crack, and crevice of that building. you couldnt hide from it. and after, she bore her testimony so beautifully! and with perfect sincerity. she told of all the anti and hate she faced from her friends and old church members. and she said to the branch that she was going to need there help to be accountable and let her know if she ever strays from the path. she has such Strong faith and desires to serve God and Christ. she even talked about, thinking about a mission well she said she would think about it haha. i think she will, she already is one basically. man it was so awesome!! i loved every moment of it. if that was or is the only baptism i see on my mission that made it all worth it to finally see what comes from this work. the scripture really is true when it says even if you bring one soul onto me how great will be your joy.! oh my joy is great!
i love this work and my mission and this brings us to our next dilemma haha because of the age change in missionaries and the shorting of the mtc the next transfer is only going to be 5 weeks which will cut my mission down by a week.. soo i prayed and pondered about it and im going to try and stay longer out in my mission. it is up to president to what happens, but i am going to do all i can to stay out longer haha.. i love you family so much, but i really dont want to go home. let alone come home a week early. i will let you know as to what he says :)
i love you all and ill talk to you next week !! hope all is awesome! and i miss ya! and love you all!! sorry for the lack of emails i will try to get back in the zone ha oh and thank you soooo much for all the birthday gifts they were perfect and i am going to write them a letter too but please tell john and kim all them thank you sooooo much for the gift!!! love ya!!!!
-love elder houston
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