More Pictures!

Sorry i had to take pictures of the pictures again! Sometimes when he puts pictures in his email they won't decode and let us print them or post them on blogger. Enjoy them anyway!

crazy week we had a good time we learned a lot about our area that it is reall actually huge there is a lil city about 30 minutes away from our house and the members let us know that it is our area and so we decided to get to know what its all about. we also found out there are some waterfalls over there and we really wanted to see them so here is a picture it was really fun actually we were walking and there was a group of people standing around this younge man and he had sprained his ankle so we offered to help him out. me and elder reyes caried him down this mountain to his aunts house well reall i helped for like 10 minutes and then elder reyes took over and put him on his back so i helped this kids mom carry there vegatables down to the house. then we sat down and talked with them a lil bit and told them that we are headed to the waterfall to see what its like and this old guy wanted to go with us with these 2 kids i swear this guy has to be like 70 and he was like running and jumping over rocks his name is fransisco hahaha he is my new friend the only problem is they live very far away but i took a lot of videos of this trip so i dont have to many pictures but i will do some cuts out of the video so you can see my friend hahahaha

later well actually earlier this week we finally go someone who wanted some help with some service. basically we went to find firewood hahahaha there are tons of trees that have dead branches so what they do is they climb the tree with there machette i think thats how you spell it hahaha therre sword and the hack away at the tree then the branch falls to the ground and the poeple on the ground have swords and they cut it up hahaha its called leña and we did that fot the whole morning oh and at the end we get rope and tie it all together and carry it on our shoulders hahaha there is culture about this whole carring thing hahaha women always carry practically everything on there head and men carry it on there shoulder. i have pictures of my comp and of the people we were helping but not of me hahahaha but it was really fun they were all making fun of me because i have never done this whole machette thing instead of a axe but hey i had a good time in little while i think that we are going to go again but down by the river i am pretty stoked hahaha

me and my companion had a weird experience with a investigator whol started off looking like a chosed investigator who is ready but really this guy is confused a lot. he is catholic which is a problem because of the things i have learned about the catholic church which is pretty crazy but anyways we were talking to him and started with the law of chastity and why it was in important but i gave him an example that if he was with his daughter and was walking and he passed a group of younge men and they started wistling at her how would he feel? and he understood very clearly why and told us he would keep this commandment. he is a good guy but then we got on this topic of the of the prophet and he has a big doubt that we have a prophet and we started to explain and i told him a few things here and there. then i told him that he doesnt have the gift of the holy ghost and he got offended and started laughing but he had changed and it wasnt our investigator he was completely different. he said houston houston houston you cant tell me i dont have the spirit shaking his head and then like licked his lips he had his eyes closed and said i will show you and idk was like meditating or something and then opened his eyes and told me never mind. elder reyes asked what he wants to show us cause we want to know and see. he told us that he was going to show us that the prophet doesnt have the spirit and is a false prophet but right now he couldnt idk it wasnt normal it was more like satan or one of his angels had takin over his body and idk his eyes and his whole atitude was just like satan would be or an angel you could see it in his eyes. after we had left i was talking to elder reyes and he said he felt bad and i said i fell the saim like idk i felt bad as if satan was there but at the same time i felt like our heavenly father was watching over us and was with us to help.

how do we apply this story to our life? well i dont know really i am putting all this together right now.. what i can say is that satan is real he is out there with all his angels to try and destroy us to try and destroy our hope our happiness and our faith that the lord is with us and that we have future with him in his presence.when the times are bad the lord waits for us to humble ourselves before him so that we may ask for help and bless us with the things that we need. what does it mean to be humble? it means that we should be ready to follow all the commandments of god. it means we are obediant. in mosiah 2:41 it says when we keep the commandments of the lord we will be blessed spiritually and temporaly and that we will live in a state of never ending happiness. in the times of trial in the times of hurt the lord is near everyone one of us just like it says in acts the scripture on my plack. he will not leave us alone in the would and as embers we have the gift of the holy ghost to guide us. the thing i would say is to apply that in our lives every day from the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep everyday. the spirit does not only guide us in the church to give talks to give lessons he guides us in all our work our family our fun remeber that.

for stevie happy birthday buddy i know that its early but i wanted to tell you because i cant tell you untill the next monday. right now i am searching for something sweet here in these little shops to send to you and coop but stevie i love you buddy i havent heard from you boys for awhile i hope that everything is good and i hope you are behaving and helping out. i hope that you guys are happy in school and that you are being good. remember what you told me on christmas that you would be good i hope to here from you to here how you are doing i miss you buddy i love you guys and really i think about you guys everyday. i carry around our picture of our family and i show everyone and tell them look this is my family they are the best thing i have in this entire world and wouldnt trade them for nothing i hope that your birthday is a good one and that your happy if there is any advise i would give you is well you have another year now and you get to start off this year new. make some goals change your life in a new way but in the way that you should and in the way that will prepare you for your future i love you stevie happy birthday that really goes with all of you cooper jace amber justin mom dad josh and everyone else who gets my emails make goeals in your life change things that arent good we have our agency in everything that we do including if we want to be successful it wont be easy but its not impossible change when things are bad take a step back analyse and look at the situation. see what could be better see what needs to be taken away see what needs to change in every aspect and then do it because its for the better. i love you family i hope that everything is good and i hope that your all happy have a gooid week and i will talk to you monday

elder houston

HI Family and Friends

Elder Houstons email is brief, but funny! Evidentally we were emailing at the same time and we finished at the same time also, so he didnt get my email! Dang! This email will give you a good laugh, especially when you see the pictures! In two of the pics Stevie says he looks like he's glowing. I told him he had the Holy Ghost with him! Ha ha!

ok so this week was actually pretty fun i went on divisions with our district leader haha he is awesome he is from utah haha but we had some fun. we were contacting and then taught this lady a short lesson and afterwards he had to pee so there was this river and we decided to check it out. well then we got talking about meditating and that it would be super sweet to meditate on the rocks and idk so we took some pictures he is really funny hahaha he is also a avatart fan ninja fan dragon ball z fan pokemon fan just awesome and like the whole day we were talking about deadliest warrior and avatar assasins creed and how awesome it would be to live on a dojo to learn tia chi and be a monk. here are some photos hahaha there really sweet.
other then that i have a few more problems hahaha i don t know what the deal is but i am always sick my neighbor says she thinks that i have a parasite hahaha which is super sweet right? no not at all i hate it more then anything because when i am hungry its not good because it hurts more then anything ever haha i feel like something is biting my stomache then on top of that everyone is asking me why my face is super red hahaha well i was just talking to a member and she says hey what do you have your face is red and have bumps basically and i said idk i haven been like this for 2 weeks and she tell me that i have something and i should talk to the doctor. like i broke out on my right arm chest and face i figured is was just achne but she says no plus this lil pimple things dont pop haha i know nasty but they just bleed they dont have nothing in then idk i am going to check it out.
this week we had 3 investigators show up to church we will probably baptise one this saturday haha he is 14 and has a good heart he dropped out of school and works all day just sitting in front of this placeliterally doing nothing he gets like 300 pesos every week idk sad but hey he also didnt have shoes so i have him mine there big on him but he doesnt caree he likes them. he has come to church 2 times with us and likes to talk with us he is trying to learn english as well..well all the people are trying to learn english here everyone asks if we can teach them english and i say yes they ask how much and i say free they dont belive me so i dont teach them hahaha but hey it is what it is the key board i am using is the worst i want to throw it out the door!!!! thats all that has really happened this week we are trying to find new investigator but it is hard sometimes because they dont want nothing but hey what can i do but keep on keepin on i love you all be good keep the commandments
elder houston