First Christmas Away From Home

so crazy getting to talk to you guys it was great i really loved it but its gone hahaah whish kinda stinks but its okay back to work hahaha this saturday is my comps birthday hahaha i am looking for a pocket knife for him because he goes crazy over mine hahaha and i am planning a supprise with a member that lives next to us hahaha and were going to have cake and all that hahah they have a tradition here that on your birthday they sing this song and then after you take a bite of the cake with your face and then everyone slams your face in the cake hahaha and you like fight hahaha so were are planning that for him hahah but he doesnt know hahaha i hope it stays like that haha well i hope i get that package soon ahahah i am excited to get my blanket its going to be that much mor e speacial when i get to see it nd use it hahaha ii am also getting ready to send my sd card home i am really worried about it i dont really want to send it hahaha cause i have so many good pictures on it hahaha i hope you still have all my cards hahaha were going to have like 20 by the time i get home hahaha today i am going to buy a new one i love how cheap everything is here hahaha

so idk hahaha oh duh!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whooohoooooo 45 its weird not being home for things ahahaha and instead we help our family return back to our father hahaha how crazy i love youo mom!!!!! i really hope it was something speacial hahaha

so we found this younge girl who is going through rough time which is really sad i really hate seing people go through hard things hahaha like the drunk people ahahaha they just cry when they see us.. there is a saying that the most honest people in the world are children like babies missionaries and drunks hahah or something like that because they always speak the truth but anyways this younge girl is pretty much abandoned and here mom hasnt even searched for here i guess she just left hahaha but she has asked us to come back everyday to to teach her till she knows everything and has gone to church 3 times haha were going to try and get her baptised this saturday if not the next she says yeah your church is different in the catholic church the pastor gets up and teaches the scriptures and in your church members give talks then she pauses...... whn can i talk hhahaha so funny me and elder reyes wee talking and we were like whoa calm down haha gotta be baptised first hahaha we didnt tell her that but it is what we both tought were going to help her the best we canother then that we have a lot of people with dates but they dont really understand the need to be baptised its really frustrating not having anyone come to church with us but i think that its all about to change hahaha i love you all!!!
have a wonderful new year hahaha i hope you all make a goal to share the gospel with a friend like every month hahaha its crazy to think that that is my view on life i know i am a missionary but its crazy to think how much i have changed but its good always remeber to say your prayers i love you!!!!!

elder housotn

1st Transfer!!!

whoa!!!! no email!!!!!! carzy well a lot has happened. i have been transferred i am in 5 de febrero tapachula. my new companion is elder reyes he is mexican and doesnt speak english i love him to death also i am his mom and serving as senior. which mean i am his second companion in his mission he has been out for a month hahaha and doesnt know the area super good but we are both learning hahaha i am senior comp i run the area i have the cell phone i talk to the district and zone leaders i make the calls hahahahaha pretty crazy and quit a big shocker but i have been prepared for this especially for being with the zone leaders for a month and a half. i am also half training because he has so little time he doesnt know everything but he has the erge the know and leran haha sometimes it is rediculous because i dont know what he says to me and he doesnt know aht i say to him hahaha but we are both lerning hahaha i hate this key board it sucks but anyways we are here we have 2 baptisms coming up on 1 de january and to more the following week pretty crazy to think that i have not been home for 6 monhths hahaha not that i am counting or like to think of that but it hit me the other day that it has ebeen that long. this area is very close to the border of guatamala so you can look on the map for tapachula hahaha lets see what more super excited to finally be with a mexican comp and we work well together he talks a lot but i am working on that and he know that he needs to change hahah also i dont know if you have sent them but he also wants and iron rod haha i am sorry maybe send me a bunch then i can just give them to my companions haha cause everyone is super jelous of them hahaha and also elder reyes really likes the tuxtle gutierrez tie tack tht i have even though i cant use it hahaha


christmas is this week que loco right hahaha i am going to call on the 24 around 6 i hope that is okay i can only talk for an hour i guess so i am sorry i dont get to call more this area is sweet very very pretty lots of green lots of amaizing things i love it there s lots of drunk people here that are rediculous in fact 2 nights ago we were talking to a member and these 2 smashed guys came up to us and were asking if we preach and that they know us one wanted to know why we dont drink coffee and we basically told him that he is sinning and need to repent and everything that we said he said exactly hahaha and then his buddy asked for help and we told them both to read the pamphlet word of wisdom and the one started crying and said he doesnt know how to read though he was drunk it was really tender i felt really bad for him then he fell and had no idea why he fell or what was going on really funny

i love you all so much remeber i am calling home at 6 on the 24 friday around 6

elder houston

well i just found this scripture about family hahaha D and C 132:55 yea dad told me the story k loco hahahaha mexican text thats weird hahaha when something is like weird or crazy thats what we say que loco haha well yess i would love to send my little brothers some advice idk do you want me to email them or write them hahaha i will write up some letters and send them off asap hhah because i am almost out of time hahaha ok so this week has been really crazy the president decided to not do transfers because we had elder de oyos come and talk to us he is in the 70 and then we are recieving 30 missionries or something like that and he is super streessed hahaha but on the other hanf there was a elder that went home in our zone and some body needed to go with his companion so i am in a different are now with elder velasco hahaha he is so awesome


so i would again say that i am just like my father hahaha today actually we are walking i had to go to the house and get my money so i could by some food to survive in this are and we have to go do things so we get off the buss and we are walking hahaha and of course we start walking past all these stores hahah and i see just all these cool thing i i want like all of it hahaha and of course i have like 1000 pesos on me hahaha i bought this best hahaha that i cant even use it was only 75 pesos thats like 7 bucks!!! hahaha so sweet idk what to do with it then i bought this little wooded chiapan head statue to hold my pen hahahaha so awesome but i didnt need it hahaha i am gettoing ready to by this hammock when i can find it because elder velasco has one and it really is the best thing ever hahaha i love it there is a whole different way to lay in hammocks hahaha lets seee que mas oh hahahha so i dont know if you guys remember pogs hahaha but guess what they are popular here hsahaha they come in bags of chips i got a collection!!!!! hahaha so sweet

really nothing to crazy other then i am not going to be in my are for a few days and then we have transfers coming up on monday i am pretty sure i dont know i love it here still best place ever hahaha i am excited to take you and dad around but don worry i am focusd we were in a slump for awgile but we finally got some dates for the 1st on janurary and we have a baptism this saturday i am excited that i get to go haha!!!!

i am sorry this letter is a lot shorter i am about out of time i love you all hahahah if you would like another scripue that i love its d and c 123:12-14 haha i love this one hahaha oooor 2nefi 28:30 hahaha ok well i love you all be safe please tell coop iam proud of him and thats what i would do hahaha tell the boys that i am going to send them a letter i love you all be good be safe please dont shoot guns in the house because one you get holes in the walls and 2 well thats just not to great hahaha but i am glad that the ministering angels were around about to help innocent childeren like boe i am glad that no one is hurt and safe be safe!!!!!!

Elder Houston

yup all that info is just amazing because i only got to tallk to jake for about 2 minutes at the airport but he told me he was doing good i didnt know that about colton that really makes me very happy to see my brothers getting together and doing what they are supposed to do that is so sweet that mitchell is about there haahaha man good stuff i did know about johnny though cause actually riley emailed me he is also is pocatello and he told me that his last comp hated him to death well hated johnny hahaha but hey johnny is a different person you got to know how to use his talents its very good to here all that to be honest because i have been keepinmg them in my prayers and wondering hwats going on with thyem.. drake is going ro torrillon i believe thats where my teacher went on his mission he is going to have a really good time hahaha i saw some pictures and then i pictured drake eing there hahaha he is going to have some really good stories i am stoked for him... the truth is i am stoked for everyyone and a cool thing is that a lot of people are being called spanish speaking hahaha that will be interesting after all this is over


i asked president for mission extention and he told me i need to talk to the new president that we are getting in june i beleive because he cant do anything so i have to wait whish is a lil unfortunate because i really just want to know haha i hate that my time is so short but its ok so today i am going to try and send you a video of us cleaning our clothes hahaha you will be impressed i think if i cant then i will send some other pictures that i sent
this week has been really slow we have changed our ways a lot on how to go about teaching because everytime someone excepts a date to be baptised they hide from us and are scared i think we have figured it out the truth is i know that i have figured it out because yesterday i basically got told straight up by the spirit in what were doing wrong and how to better our teachings. i love my comp to death this is our last week together i believe because the truth is that its only a one transfer thing and i will be moved to a different part of mexico but i dont know for sure whats going to happen we will see by next week hahaha woop woop transfer day!!

so lets see the truth is i dont think i need anything hahaha im doing quite well oh when you do send the iron rods send them with something in a box because elder crane got robbed a lil bit hahaha they stole his 10 dollars his bishop sent for his bday hahaha and make sure to put jesus stickers on the box hahahaha

i love the people here so much they are a very interesting people and for some reason we attract the drunk people everytime hahaha this one guy was very lost in his thoughts as he tried to talk to us about jesus and why he has 3 names but he cant figure it out we always take there adresses and tell them to go home go to sleep nd then we will help them cause they all say they want to be closer to god haha in fact there is this one that hangs out close to our house he has been drunk for seriously like 3 months hahaha i have made him cry everytime that we talk to him just by looking at him he says that i have a very stong heart and can feel my spirit hahaha but we are trying to help him i gave him a tie cause e asked for one and we gave him a book of mormon and he read some of it he says he drinks because it calms his nerves and we said the book will calm his nerves to and he said for every letter he read he was in a different world haha idk this guy is crazy but we are trying to help him the thing is that he remembers everything that we talk about and remembers all things that we promise and he promises he just doesnt follow throiugh

i dont know im lovin the life i am make sure you guys are doing missionary work its not only through the missionaries that people find christ more then anything is the members because we are the examples through being membershmmm i am not really sure what more to say at this point i love you all have a wonderful week!!!!!!

Elder Houston