awh man well i am sorry that i dint have the chance to write you guys yesterday we had a mission conference in tuxtla hahaha oh man do i have a story to tell to yu guys....


well just like i told you mom my little secret well. Quentin L Cook came to town!!! one of the 12 apostols. holy smokes. acompanied with he wife who is just fantastic. elder benjamin de hoyos and his wife. the whol mission got to go and my oh my. how great a blessing that we recieved. he doesnt speak spanish he brought his translator but it was great it was like conference in english it was sweet!!! ok well really he shared with us well ok the program. first we listened to sister de hoyos and she basically shared he testimony. she told us that we are strong that we are the representatives of jesus and we need to keep working hard to baptise super awesome then 10 minutes with elder benjamin de hoyos. he walked us through a few different scriptures and a story when he had a meeting with the bishops and stake president when he was mission president and well it was just great. he looked at us and started to cry. he said our savior jesus christ loves everyone of you. you guys kneel every night and ask for help and ask for forgiveness for the things you do. he paused............he said he will always forgive you and has always forgiven you you only have to go to him . i started to cry. idk i felt amazing just listening that i forgot to write a few things but i was full of the spirit and full of idk happy just super duper happy. then we got to listen to sister cook. she started talking about preach my gospel and that she loves chapter 6 atributes of christ. she has been incharge of the church music for awhile i guess and she says. the church himns you guys know them and you know what the himns the children songs has always taught you guys because they teach the doctrine and testify of it and testify of christ. she made a lot of sense. then asked well think of the atributes of christ.and how many himns can you think of that teach them. we started to name them and she was just getting super pumped hahaha it was really funny i loved it. then the finally..... ELDER QUETIN L COOK holy smokes.... he started off talking about scriptures an told us about the missionary work and who we are as missionaries that we are really guiding the church through the work we do we support ever aspect of the gospel day to day.he walked us through a few more scriptures and we read in the seccion 31 of the doctrine and covenants.. i remeber when i was in the mtc well i read this chapter to you guys through the recorder. i want you guys to read it again.as a family. including josh and amber and justin grandma. everyone i want you to read it together. i want you to first pay atention to what the lord says about his work that he has asked us to do. and he asks us to fulfil not only and misionaries but as members. then i want you to look at the promises to the family that he gives. i know the times are hard but the lord has promised if w fulfil his work. he wil provide for us,. i know that its what we nee to do and that if you guys can just do you part and work as hard as you can in your callings like it says in jacob 1:19 i know the lord will help you guys with everything. with work. with the other things that will be coming into play with the family and that i know if you gys can share the gospel with your new friends tht you are making and work t oreactivate the member you will have everything that you need and it will be sufficient i promise. through everything that elder cook told us that really is the only thing that i want to teach you guys and tell you guys. the time has come where we need to work even harder then we already are that the lord has called us everyone who is a member that w are chosen for this time to testify of jesus christ and hi love for everyoe of us and that he has once again reveled and restored his gospel here on earth for us his kids we only need to work. i promise you guys as you son and as a representative of jesus christ our savior that if you do it if you work just a little bit harder everything will be ok. i know everything wll be ok becaus i have received confermation throu the holy ghost that my family if going to be ok no matter what will happen. we are in texas for the reason the lord put us there and we only need to first complete his work and he will help us with ours i love you family and friends!!!! work hard and invite everyone to come to christ and to church!!!

it really was the most amazing thing. to look an apostol in the eyes and feel the love he has for me and feel the love he has for our father and brother.goodness. i am lke super charged like 50 redbull but way better and it doent even matter that i am sick. my comp says he thinks that i have salomonila but we wll see i am going to take soem more medicine. other then that well i forgot to tell you that i have a new name accrding to maria the mom of juan. my name is choy. she always yells choy!! and i asked her one day. who is choy. she paused and says you thats your name did i not give you this name hahaa dn i was like ok no problem but what does it mean she was kinda laughing but when i asked her that she stopped and was really confused and said. i dont know it means nothing hahaha and then she asked what my companions name is so we told her to give him a name she says ok. hey whats your name hahaa my companion says brad pitt and she says ahh nice to meet you capry hahaha really funny.

from that well we havent had water or electricity for 5 das now going on 6 its pretty awesome hahaha but i dont really know wat to do well theres nothing i can do. so we are just moving along. i love you all please read what i asked you and dad well just be your self i am looking forward to the stories of the trek and this guy with the whistle haha i would love to go i hope i have trained coop well to do the secret work that is actually hidden and no one knows about!!!!i love you!!!!!!

elder houston