Saturday, April 6, 2013

OH BABYLON!!!!

Elder Houston's email:
April 1, 2013
 
afternoon family,
  so wow this week started out a ton different then it ended haha..... so poor lebanon in going crazy.. but! before i talk about that HAPPY EASTER/ APRIL FOOLS DAY! haha. haha
wow she called quick haha... sister talbat is the old lebanons bishops wife. haha she just showed up for easter and they were originally from mesa and moved to lebanon, then lost job so had to go back to mesa like a month before i got to lebanon. but she was like hey! i want you number... im going to call your mom haha i was like sweet! she was funny.
 
glad everything went well yesterday! we had some awesome weather here too. such a blessing. lets just say its tornado season and our weather has not been the best ha. hahaha no drownin tho. darn ha we need to sick em missionaries on papa and georgia ! get em baptized. by the way it was georgias and houstons b day. if i dont get a card out too them or a letter at least tell them happy b day !for me .
   soo ya this week started out really awesome! we had some awesome lessons and were able to meet with some people that really needed to talk. like larry that guy couple weeks ago that stabed himself. we met with him and got his spirits way up. he was literally jumping and skippin around... like picture how funny it is to see a 60 year old man trying to jump skip around trying heel clicking haha. safe to say he couldnt so he just danced haha funny guy. he is very bad alcholic and had depression meds that he should NOT be taking with alcohol and well he is.. so about mid week we found out he skiped out on work and no one had heard from him in few days so we text him and he said back he was going back to heavenly father. so safe to say we broke in to his house and found him up stairs talking to himself. he finally came too and ask if we would take him to hospital. i could smell the alcohol on him. we took him too the hospital and told them everything. the doctor was very rude to us and all this mess happened later that night. we got a message from him saying dont ever come over again :(. after all that we did for him and gave him true friends not the people he hangs out with and he is angry with us very sad.
   wednesday, we had a wonderful district meeting and then thrusday we had an exchange come with us to see the family that had the dad go a-wall. he has major stuff with his mind because of the military. he also last week tryed to kill himself and got sent to a hospital. something just set him off cause that old stuff them demons to come out. its so sad because he is soo awesome!! such a humble sweet dude. wouldnt hurt a fly, but had lots of probs from all that army stuff and a head injury. he is doing really well tho, he back to his good ol self. mostly. but anyway we went and saw his family with a member of the ward that is a old war dude too, with some PTSD as well and he could really help and relate. such an awesome guy. i about broke into tears when the youngest girls one 10 and 8 i think, came in crying. its so sad how much this family has been through. the 8 year old just barely got over leukemia ! just getting over all that stuff and feeling better really sad.
 
 as a missionary, we get to already feel so much of Heavenly Fathers love for all his children and to see and realize all the thing that these poor children have to go through in this world today,,, just tears me apart. "suffer the little children to come unto me for such IS the kingdom of God". it makes me sooo grateful for the loving family that i grew up in and how strong we were raised in the gospel. that is something this family has strayed from, that i so wish they would come back too. makes me wish, like when i was little that i was a super hero so i could help all these people ! i might not  be able to do big things, but i can do a little," by small and simple things", right haha.
 
the Lord has a mission for each of us to do. thats why we are here, because if we finished all we needed to do, we would be taken back to that God, who gave us life. some of us are too live till we are 100, some not so long. but all we can do is live the best we can and do great small things all our life and serve the Lord, "he that loses his life for the Lord shall find it."
  
 my eyes were opened to a loud awakening, to the reality of this world and the battle going on between good and not so good ha. it really showed me how small i am and how big and omnipotent our Heavenly Father is.
 
 He loves us!! He is watching over us and weaps when we fall and rejoces when we do good. He wants to help us with His streched forth hand. thats why he sent us :) His saints and all his sons and daughters.
 
 i was defintely brought to a new level of humility this week, and i hope i will always remember it and be stured up in rememberance for the rest of my life, of the goodness and mercy of our wonderful loving Father  and Savior. we knew this life would be hard and would get really bad BUT.... we knew it would be worth it. if we just lived our lifes right and did all WE ,each of us as a whole and individual, can to choose the right and love one another. isnt that why he died for us. wow i love our Savior ha.
  
we went over to a members house last night and she was very upset and was telling us all that is going on with the world and with our country. wow its getting very sad out there things are defianly changing in babylon and for the best im not so sure. we have seen it first hand that the Lord truley is hastening the work and not only with all the new missionaries and the age change. the members were saying thats why they think the age change happend because the Lord is prepareing the world/ quickening the work to find the ones prepare for the message of the gospel. i felt some thing big was going to happen at this last conference address to the world by the Lords apostiles and prophet. maybe this is why im super excited to hear the next or new council from the Lord. every one prepare this week pray for answers and inspiration!! 
haha... so i know i was kinda freaked out a lil, with all that they were telling us. so sorry if i talked to much about it. but it is always time to be prepared and keep familys close and keep the Lord in our families. small and simple things will bring Great things to pass.
   i love you!!!!! so excited to talk too you in a month ha and then see ya that next week haha kinda silly but hey :) ha pray to find what it is each of us can do to better the world and bring out lost sheep brothers and sisters to the wonderful and happness of the gospel :) feed the sheep! haha
  love ya so much stay safe and talk to you next week
love elder houston
 
ps didnt get you package yet when you send it ? i will look for it today thanks :) love ya mama tell hunter i working on his letter sorry taking lil while love ya

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