I hope everyone has enjoyed listening to Mitchell grow from a super young man with a little bit of faith to an AMAZING young man with the power of faith to follow his Heavenly Father to eternity.... his journey is coming to an end soon and i will miss his words of encouragement to all of us. He always seems to say the right thing each week to help me get thru the tough times.
I am a proud mama.....
Elder Houston Email:
March 18, 2013
hey mother!!! thanks sooo much for the long email... no letters for the past couple weeks takes a toll! haha i love hearing from ya! but no worries about it. i know you been running around trying to fix all that stuff with your purse getting stole :/. haha.. Trust me, i was very upset when i saw your email last week, it took all my strength to not scream in the library hahah.. but i knew because of what happened that last Monday just before i found out, that it was a trial for me, to test me and see what i would do. and so i had to change my thoughts. the Lord helped a lot :)..... it already happened and there is nothing you could do about it, but we can change our thoughts and reactions to trials. that's our agency part, that's how the Lord test us to build us and strengthen us. we should be greatful for the opportunity to grow. He knows its not easy so He promises to help. Harold B Lee said "there is only one day that we have to live for, and that's today. there is nothing we can do about yesterday, and there may be no tomorrow. the thing for us to do when we arise from our beds, as God gives us a new day, is to take what ever comes to our hands , and do it to the best of our ability." we will always have trials. in doc and cov it says, be patient in afflictions , for thou shalt have many haha.. as not cool as that sounds its true, but we have the most wonderful and glorious elder brother who payed the ultimate price for each of us so that we can be triumphant and grow and learn from all those trails. mom you must be the closest to the Lord, because the nearer a person approaches the Lord, the greater power will be manifest by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of his purpose. Heber C Kimball said that. and you are a witness of it mom :) i love you mom.
i have not gotten anything about flights. i got a paper making sure you all have not moved and i still live where i do so, they might be waiting for me to send that back to the office haha. but i just got that. all i know is i will be home on the 24 i think it should be that Friday. but ill get that thing sent in. haha.... i should just tell them i lost it so they cant send me back hahah just kidding.. kinda haha.
wow!!! this week has been another wonderful week. we lost a couple of wonderful people that we have been meeting with. they are moving, its a bummer!! its that family that just got baptized or that couple i mean. and then today one of the sisters that we have been teaching is moving to Colorado. she has been through sooo much this past two weeks, so she has to move away from it. which was sad because she has come sooo far and been growing soo much in the gospel and the Lord. we just got back from teaching her today. she ran into some anti and it just tore her apart. she was soo upset and felt so betrayed, but we went over and talked with her and the spirit was soo strong. that dumb anti doesn't stand a chance against the Holy Spirit of our Heavenly Father mmhm ha. i have seen it time and time again the very bells of hell ring as soon as a person even makes one stride in the right direction towards baptism. well i am out of time sorry ill talk to ou in a letter now kk love you !!!!
elder houston
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