March 26

its been a week of miracles to be honest with everything that i have just read and with the emails i have recieved.brought tears to my eyes and i am sitting in the middle of a room with computers hompe people dont laff at the griengo thats about to cry.one week down and another to go. its going to be great. sorry about the lpane tickets thats the way they told we the things were going to happen. haha to be honest its because i am pretty sure they had no idea either because when i talked to elder ballard that day and he told me he got your messgae he said. yea i havent writen them back because i dont know what to do haha but i am going to call salt lake. but i am glad that you got your pass ports its going to be great.

ok so we had no baptisms and we had no one in church that was rough. we had a beautiful lighting storm though with no rain. sure do love those its like a firework show but more real and it always goes until the clouds go away. we found lots of new investigatores this week. but they started hiding from us idk why people get so afraid hahha the problem here is they dont know how to say know hahaha they always say yes even though deep down they dont want to and the moment they are saying yes they are planning ok the day they come i am going to leave haha so that they cant find me and hope they dont come back. but its ok its just a little bit more easy to fnd the chosen people that the lord has prepared for us to find. tomorrow is my comps birthday and he doesnt want to do anything good for him that what i like to hear but he is also coming up on his year in the mission thats cool i guess but it makes me remeber how mad i was when i finished a year because my comp didnt let me burn clothes hahaha but oh well maybe we will do something fun when that day comes. also we are going to eat pizza today i am stoked to be honest. i love pizza its the best. i am sorry about your chickens. you should just ways till you come here to buy them they are so cheap hahaha there like 5 for a dollor something luike that but i am pretty sure we cant take them on the plane so i guess that would be useless. i love chickes and ducks. i have decided that when i get home i am going to be a swan those are awesome there like gaurd dogs but way better and way pretty i hope i get a white one haha.
i sure did like your faith story it reminded meof what happened to me this week. it was a nightmare..... i am going to share it with you.




ok so wednesday we go to cabeza de toro to visit and teach people. but this time we went to the beach to eat and then we headed to to cacho that means cabeza de toro. and we got there and we went to prepare luis for his interview.... and well it turns out that he didnt understand what it means to be married legally he is only married in the catholic church.and he didnt know that doesnt count and his wife was married to another man at one point and they never got divorsed so now they cant get married until she gets divorces and if they get divorced the other guy goes to jail because he hasnt paid anything for the girl that they had and luis doesntwant that but he says he is going to do everything that he needs to do to get divorsed the problem is he still cant wprk and besides work there is no money. i am so happy i am american. or at least live in the united states haha.but he is going to fight for right now he cant be baptised. but we are going to keep pumping him up. but in the lesson with his my wallet started bugging the crap out of me haha my butt was hurting so i put my wallet in my bag so i wouldnt lose it haha imagine that.. so we get going doing the normal thing we do and it was time to get going so we took off got in a taxi to take us to tonala. and we finish the day like we usually do. the next day started off great and we were getting ready to get going and i start going over my check list of my things that are necesary to preach the gospel. sciptures, book of mormon, agenda. black pen red pen, hankercheif name tag cards phone and wallet.... mmm wallet i dont have my wallet wher is my wallet i check my other pants not there i take everything out of my bag not there i destroy my desk looking fr my wallet and i cant find it. i start to panic.... in my wallet i had my bank card from the mission and my debit card i had my visa in there with 550 pesos its like 55 bucks.. jesus picture cdl license and i think thats it oh yea the most important my eagle scout card.... what would i do without my eagle scaout card lets see i wouldnt be able to do cpr. i would be able to carry my handy dandy pocket knife and do other things that we all know that only eagles can do including flying. so i start to panic and were like dude we gotta go find the taxis. they all know us and at one point we have taught them something or other missionaries and i have 6 months here so everyoone knows me hahah so we get there and i start asking my bros and they start panicing looking in there cars and checking and thinking who they have taken around to go ask them and were way worried for me haha. but there was nothing. so we start calling everyone that we visited that day and no one. so i just got way worried becauss without that stufff i will be all alone with my lonesome self hahah and no money because i ran out of my monthley balance hahaha but i start praying like a ad man. we finish the day and i kneel down to pray to ask my heavenly father to help me find my cards and my visa that i dint want anything bad to happen. so i started searching again and again and northing so in the night time i prayed again and said heavenly father it looks that i have lost my wallet with my information inside.if its your will that i can find it well so be it and if its your will that i dont find it well so be it just help me learn from this experience so that i can do better. if its your will that i find it please help my wallet fall into the hands of someone who can give it to me. and i went to bed. thurday nothing and well friday nothing at night i called and canceled my card with the mission and told elder ballard to contact you guys. and he said ok. at night we got home and we started planning and i had accepted that i have lost my wallet and my eagle scout card and well oh well and so we started planning i sent a messgae to a guy we were going to teach a person that works in the taxis and when the text entered i got a call from some chick and siad. hey who is talking i said well i am elder houston how can i help you and she is like hey i have you wallet i am in cacho i am a chritian and i want to give you your wallet when are you coming. haha i started studdering and just really confused to be honest i didnt even believe it was true hahaa but it was and we went saturday in the morning to find her and she was talking to us and told us that her dad found it in the taxi and talked to the guy that drives and he gave him our number and then contacted us and everything. long story short i got my wallet and i didnt lose a single thing.....not one i have everything. even the money. i am serious. it was something so amazing. i mean maybe its mean to say but i am mexico man and they called me to return my wallet i dont thing that just happens. i am so greatful for heavenly father that he helped me get my eagle scout card back seriously i would be dead. i know he is listening and with the stories that your guys shared with me its just another confermation that its true. dont be men of little faith the lord wants to see our efforts and he wants to see that we can try our hardest and then try a little harder so that he can just open the windows of heaven to bless us and pour down his blessing. and with all that that had happened and all the people that was hiding from us we foound a family of 3 and they look awesome to be honest i am so greatful its really hard to explain but dont thing heavenly father isnt listening because he is just fulfil with what he qwants you all to do and you will see the windos open up and see his holy hand come down and help eveything work out. trust in him. and he will ive you a reason to trust him love you all i hope you have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!! pay your tithing!!! and its only the last conference !!!!


elder houston

March 19

thanks mom!!!
ok so we had tranfers and.......... welp i am staying in tonalá!!!!!! so stoked i am serious i did not want to get changed but it will be my last transfer as a leader because the last one they always take you out of leadership so i will have another are thats crazy. way excited to i am staying with elder gamez. we are pumped.

ok sorry the message last week was short and all i really said was dont talk to me about home so i hope it didnt sound mean i wasnt looking to make you feel guilty it was something that was on my mind and i just really want to stay focused and its no that you guys talk about home that much its just that i dont want to hear about finishing the mission because i am terrified thats all and also to help me stay focused a hundred percent. i have 3 months left and i have 3 months of hard work to be honest we have had some really hard trials so the last thing i want to think about is home. thats all haha i love you guys and i do want to come home but at the same time i dont because the mission is the best thing i have ever dreamed about doing. and now that its winding down i gotta take advantage if the opportunity i have to learn the most i can from my father in heaven so i can come home strng and serve in the church wherever the lord calls me to serve. but those are the reasons ok so dont feel bad.

ok so last saturday was rediculous. on wednesday we had a conference and out president made us a promise that we were going to have more trials and harder ones too and well is promise has been fulfilling everyday. but especially saturday. we had an investigator that well yuo can see in the picture his name is joaquin hes a strange guy to be honest but he is like mega shy and does not like to do things and he has been strugling with the whole baptism thing because ad idk why he hadnt been baptised in 2 weeks because he was scared and i didnt really understand. but on friday he had a interview and finishing the interview the elders took off because it was way late so we asked joaquin if he was going to be baptised and he said idk ask the elder that talked to me.. so we sprinted afte him. elder tingey told me. he can be baptised whenever he wants i signed the paper the problem is he doesnt want to be baptised. so we decided in the mornig we were going to go to his house to encourage him to be baptised at 7 and we stood out in the sun for like an hour just waiting for this kid to tell us ok at seven but he decided... no come back at 3 and i will tell you yes or no so we left and went to the church to fill up the baptismal font because we wanted to be ready because he was going to be baptised at least thats what i kept repeatig in my head to stay pacient and happy haha so as we are walking to the church some guy that sells tortilla says e is looking for our members to give them there tortillas so i call them and help him out then we get to the church and we realize that we dont have keys to close the empty valve.... that was terrible but we said ok we can just put our own plug so that we can fill it until we get keys to close the valve. so then we go to turn the water on and the door where the knobs are is locked..... o my goodness so mad that door has never been locked in any church i have been in and here in tonala it has never been locked. so were like crap what do we do i go to call the leaders and talking to one he is in charge of everything he and all the people with keys are in the activity that i just helped have the tortillas and as i am talking i run out of minutes!!!! so were like lets go eat and we will deal with this mess. we went to eat got keys to the valve from the other elders and we come back but the dont have keys to the door!!! so were like ok lets fill it up with a hose... the hoses dont have ends on them to connect them with the spiket so i was just like crap now lets think. theres always a way you just gotta think and i saw a rubber glove haha thats the other picture i sent. good think i had my handy dandy pocket knife!!!!!!!!!!!! loove that thing. i cut off the middle finger of the glove and them cut some strings off the mops haha and tied it all up!!!! yup your sons still got it i rigged up ready to go.... so it was time to go to joaquin. we said a prayer to heavenly father telling him that we have everything set up and we have worked to have the baptism and we needed his help to finish it. so we left and headed to joaquins house... right before we get there we get a text saying come by at 7 to get me but we were close to his house so we decided to go anyways.... we got there and hes like yea i want to be baptised. we got way excited he took like half an hour to pick who he wanted to baptise him.... then we wen to the church and told everyone we could to go and at night we went to his house and got hhim got to the church and there are no memebers... no members means no baptism!!!!!!!!!! but at the end a few showed up and w baptised him but it was a mess but it shows that the profesies of the president are just fulfilling hahaha this saterday the same thing happened but the guy didnt get baptised this satuerday for sure!!!!!!!!!!

its been fun here in tonala i love it. every investigator we have when we show up satan attacks haaha but we will keep fighting. elder gamez is going to be 25 on the 28th of march and i am going to be 21 in april!!!! i can gambel and byu beer... nice.... well i will never be able to use those privledges haha but its ok its better not to.... oh yeah we found some ladys from san cristobal they speak tsotsil the dialect were going to start teaching them!!!!!!!! its going to be way fun.

ok well i know that heavenly father is listeneing to our prayers trust in him and he will help its been a real eye opener these few days. and i know that and if you dont know that i invite you to try it out ad you will see that its true. our father loves us and wants us to be happy it desnt matter what has gone through life or what we have done he loves us and is always ready to listen to our prayers. remeber that and look for oportunities to serve so that the father can trust yuo to!!!.i jut realized i dont remamber if i sent a happy birthday to stevie or not but i am so sorry if i didnt i love you buddy FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS NOS VEMOS PRONTO ESPERO QUE ESTE FELIZ!!!!!!!

ok i gotta go love you guys a lot if you could say happy birthday to jake for me i know his bday was like 2 weeks ago but i would apriciate it today i think i am going to buy new shoes to celebrate haha cause mine are destroyed again!!! hahaa love you!!!

elder houston