Friday, May 10, 2013

2 WEEKS TO GO!!!!!!

 
Mitchell will be home in 2 weeks...Friday May 24th at 1030am...call me if you want to be at airport and i will give you more info.. His homecoming will be on June 16th at 12:00 at our ward building on southern and horne.
 oh my goodness.......FUNNIEST picture ever!!!!!! Elder Babb and Elder Houston having some fun!!
District meeting

 
 
Elder Houston's email:
May 5, 2013
 
hey family,
  so my heart is so full with the spirit this morning ha im on cloud 9 haha. so im not sure what i will get out in my email im just kinda dazed ha but ill do my best :). im just so full of love for my mission Pres. and for the people we are teaching and the members here and for my comp. hes so crazy but i love that dude haha. i hope you get our awesome picture hahaha i could keep a straight face i just lost it as he was licking me hahahaahah! so funny. we saw that sign on our way to houston missouri for a baptism of a guy and his wife who i taught when i first came out. two years ago. we where the ones that started teaching him and when he said hey guysi know its all true but my wife has to go through the disciplinary action and i want to wait when she gets baptized for me to be baptized. that was two years ago. the Lord is so loving and so aware of us  and the blessing he has in store for us. it was not coincidence that my last area was placed in the random district of mt grove, houston, and west plains missouri, where i was trained. and that i was place as a district leader so that i could do my very first interview to a guy who i didnt think i would see again let alone see him enter the waters of baptism. it was a complete circle of my mission. proof that the Lord has a plan he made it possible that i would still be where i needed to be in lebanon MO but placed us in a funny district at my last transfer so that i could witness this wonderful miracle. i love the Lord! and i love His work! sooo much.
   this weekend was just magical ha i loved it i have been able to see how blessed i really am is ways i have never thought of before. lebanon is about to have a flood of work and elect are being prepared all around us. it is sad that i am leaving just as its getting good ! haha but that is how my mission has been and i know it is for a reason. at the beginning of this year we helped set some goals for the lebanon ward one of them was to have 4 people baptized. a few weeks or so latter i received an answer in the book of mormon and the spirit that said the vineyard of lebanon missouri can easily exceed that goal if we work hard. and i know its true now there are so many people that we have met just in this last transfer that are ready for the gospel.
   we just started teaching this wonderful family. we have taught the mother allie only three times and she made it to church for the first time this weekend. haha it was funny it was fast and testimony meeting ha im not sure why but that always seems to be an investigators first sunday ha but any way the spirit was so strong and people where coming up and getting very emotional and crying. haha allie was kinda shocked by this it was very different ha she said, people at your church are very... emotional haha they cry alot. and she is not a emotional person. but as the day went on she came to class and we taught a lesson where the spirit was very strong and she got a gospels principals manual. when she got home she read the entire thing except two chapters! that a ton. but any way we went and stoped by to see how she liked church and she telling us about how we cry alot haha. then she got to telling us about her reading the manual and she said it was great i got to a part in there where is just made my feel so good and i started crying! hahaha she said what did they do to me! haha so funny we then go to talking to her about the spirit and how it can cause those strong feelings. she said it makes sence... and i know its true i always did i just didnt know where to find it. she began to tell us of some experiences she has had and how she knows this is it and she said what do i need to do to be baptized im done smoking what is next :) i could of kissed that lady after that !! haha i was so happy!!! but i didnt haha no worries i refrained haha but man it was hard i just wanted to shout praises and do a little dance haha but i just wait till we got to the car haha. I LOVE THIS WORK!!!!!! sooo much im going to miss those experiences they have not happened alot but just that one time make the entire two years worth every second. my mission was nothing that i expected but everything i hoped for. im so blessed and have been and am so grateful for the Lord and Father in Heavens infinite love and mercy my heart feels so full as to bursting and i know it is only a small small portion of their love for us :) i love this gospel and i love you all soooo much i cant wait to talk to you next week ill call you in the morning and tell you the plan for the skype stuff love ya and have a great week!!!
love,
 elder houston 

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