Letter of the week

ok well well this has been a pretty crazy week. so it starts out that the other day i think that it was tuesday night actually wednesday yup thats what it was so it was night time sper cold and my hands were freezing so we decided that we better go to walgreens to get me some cotton gloves and as we walk into the door i see this man that we had talked to a lil while ago and he has just been super busy with this medical things he is going through and basically he had or has a tumor on his spinal cord and he is going through proceedures and basically this man is preparing to be paralyzed but they have to do all these proceedures first and so we saw him and i was like MO!!!! whats up !!!!! and he was super pumped and was like hey guys!!!! come visit me!!!! tomorrow!!! so we did ah man this guy is sweet he has basically gone through his life being prepared for this every question he asked and comment he made was just like baptism hahahaha this is the main thing though.. he said alll these churches are like the lottery with all those balls with numbers and everyone is hoping that when the time comes that there ball gets picked.. he also says there is a god i believe in him i just dont know which one of all these balls is the one because theres only one ball and i dont want to be wrong... ah man my face lit up huge but he is a talkaholic so we didnt get to teach him but tomorrow we get to visit with him and he said next time we come we get to do all the talking he is going to get baptised and then a month later he is going to baptise his daughter hahaha well at least thats our plan hahah so also totally sucky thing happened i havent had broncitus for like 3 years and guess who has it .. me!!! and i will not go to the doctor because its only a cough i have some medicine so i will be ok... all the snow melted and now this whole week is going to be super nice i am pumped.. so we also have 2 new elders that live with us elder johnson and elder blair ... elder blair is a visa greeny going to cuernavaca i dont know how to spell it but anyways we pick on them a lot... hmmm other then that theres nothing really going on i am sorry i dont know my bank account but i am going to call the bank today i will mail a letter home with the information hahaha ok soooo hmmmmmmm no words on visas just that they are trickling in all my district in colorado and in idaho got there visas so yeah i dont really have to much more to update sorry this letter is short but everything is all good in the neighborhood with mr rogers wearing his cardagen love you all so much


elder houston

Letter of the Week

Hello everyone. Just recieved this email from my boy!

hello mom how are you i have a lot of things to tell you hahaha but ok so snow landed on the ground yesterday and its getting pretty could another elder got his visa and my companion said that the consolet called his mom and said that his visa is in the prosses so it should be anyday ummm i gave my first blessing is spanish and i got new shoes and i got to eat a meal called menudo... menudo is cow stomache soup hahaha and it really is cow stomache hahahaha its was pretty hard to eat and the bathroom was pretty terrible hahaha

ok so theres that and i also got a pair of new shoes hahahaha man so i got nine minutes so i am goingt o write a lot... so this past week we fasted and we are working with one of our investigators his mname is frederico avila and he is having issues... his wife is member and he is catholic... they fight a lot and the spirit of contention is always with them and we have been teaching him and finally getting this out of them... we have sat through some pretty hectic situations pretty rough and i always know what they are saying and its pretty heated.. we ended blessing there home and we and sheltering then as we call it basically visiting them oftern and stoping by to say hello... so anyways they told uis that they th ink that there might be bad spirits in there home so that why we blessed it.. they also have a lack of communication and hahah just drama and he said he wont get baptised basically until him and his wife stop fighting... but tommorrow we have a lesson with them and i plan on telling him and bearing my testimony basically telling him that he needs to be baptised this saturday and that he knows he needs to and wants to he just wont admit it i have been praying a lot for this man and i asked the lord when the day should be and it became very clear to me that it is this saturday and that in the lesson i need to open my mouth he is a really awesome guy and really wants to change the way him and his wife live and treat each other and through the gospel the lord will help us in every problem and trial that we have because of jesus christs sacrifice for us. we also might do a pray now and kneel down and pray right there with him to see if he needs to be baptised there a lot of problems but thats a summery i know that lord is watching over us and him and you i love you all sorry this one is short our ride is coming soon but i love you man and i love everyone else aswell

elder houston... ps write me a letter if you want so that i could write back i love you mom!!!!!

Visas are CLOSE!!!

ok first thing is the debit card i dont know what you are talking abut hahaha i use it all the time i would just like you to tell me how much i have on it so i dont over draft hahahah because really of one thing that my shoes are like really old and i dodnt realize how much i have warn them until it raided hahaha and water came into the shoe from the bottom hahahas o i checked it out and in both shoes i have holes!!! hahaha hmmm crazy but there is a shoe place close to us today i am going to go to a chase bank to see how much i have on the promblem is there are no BofA here in utah the closest on is in pocatello and its only a atm hahahaha so thats out of the question maybe you can go to the bank and send me some paperwork and ill send it back but you have to work fast i was also wondering like if you have been watching the account and if you are able to money in it cause if you cant then i want to be more careful.. the reason i say to work fast is because that @ elders that came out with me got there visas and its because they are going to mexico city and the visa works in alfabetical order acording to the name of the mission i thinlk it will be soo i pray that it will be soo we are going to fast tomorrow for some investigators and i am going to definatekly mention my visa because i realy want to go to mexico... so the reason i didnt email last week was because we got super busy and then when we were going to go to email elder guthrie decided we were going to just write letters weel i didnt knwo what you had emailed me so i had really nothing to write about so i apologize thank you for the letters they were awesome the boys letter made me laugh hahaha but abyways lets see whats new... so a counceler in our branch did martial arts his whole life and learned how to do chiropractice and acupuncter and one day we walked into his shop and he was giving a guy a adjustment he asked if we wanted one so i said yes then the next week i felt my back slip so i asked him about it and i set a appointment to go see him totally unexpected what happened... so we go back in one of his kids room and he has a table he says ok elder tell me what happened so i told him abou the las chiropracter and about wrestling and wakeboarding how i am always just doing that stuff so he says ok we are going to do something different so what he does is has me take my shirt off and mixes up this potion of like oil and gives me a massage and finds where my problems are he he would touch different points and ask if it hurt and i told him yes and know oh also the potion is called deep blue and he said its really good for the spine and nerves anyways so then he goes to my feet and touches a lot of different points that really hurt well it was more of pushing hard and massaging my feet and then goes to the center of my foot and presses it and asked if it hurt and i said yet he says well this is your back its not supposed to hurt and then % minutes later it doesnt hurt and idk just did this crazy martial arts massage thing to me it was sweet he says that our bodies have like reset buttons that when they are touched our body basically restarts hahaha its so true and i guess this is what he found wrong with my back... i have no muscles around my lower spuine which it really confusing but hey so he gave me these special work outs i do and said to do them for a week and then come back i need to see how your back rwacts to these well i did them for a week and my muscles are startening to build to support my spine and so i went back last night he gave my more excersises and told me so many interesting things about our bodies and how they work and why chinese people are so skinny and he said its causethey drink so much tea that literally burns all the fatty foods that they eat and he is basically working with me the excersises are building my balance mucles and core he said if i continue to do these work outs through my mission i will but really ripped and cut by the time i get home he also said i should not lift wieghts for at least 2 years till i get more strength he said he is going to give me his email so that i could keep in contact with him he als said that i need to gain 30 pounds hahaha so this is kinda funny because when i left home i was 120 now i am about 140 and this is why when members feed us they give me the same amount of food as they give elder guthrie and then of course i have to eat it the problem is elder guthrie is 2 times my size!!!!!! so i used to suffer but now i can eat my plate and i also eat vegtables!!!! i still cant stand onions but other then that i am solid oh and guacamole man idk but this is also something that happened i ate tacos de lengua and thats just toungue tacos and this weekend i am eating menudo which is cow stomache soup ok sooo letssee right now i am ok with jackets i barrowwed one from an elder and i found a scarf i talked to ann so i am ok but words on visa ok so what i hear is that they are finally back up and running and that we should be good to go sson then a week later 2 elder sthat came out with me got there visas so i hope it will be soon i am sorry i just realized i already told you that hahaha ok other then that nothing is new well we have 2 new roomates hahaha there pretty cool one is really funny he has ESP he guessed my birthday!!!! super nuts but he says he is not supposed to develope this cause its satan powers i told him to turn it into spirit powers hahaha he is undecided today i am going to buy new shoes and also i am getting rid of my towels there were these towels at deseret book that are basically a giant shammy or mirofiber and they weigh less then a paperback book!!!! i also got the childerens primary songs in spanish... so lets see our investigater took a downfall and it was a good thing because we finally know his need!!!! so we can definately help him i got mad at elder guthrie though because he never lets me talk he said to interupt him but i am not rude i have a hard time interupting people like that but another thing that happened is i gave my first blessing!!!! usually i give the annointin part but this time elder guthrie made me do the blessing i did it in english cause i am still working on my spanish but next one i hope to do in spanish we also blessed a house and dedicated it it was really wierd we also casted out bad spirits from the house and to a mother and daughter but personally i dont think there was any but hey they feel a lot better.... so lets see the message of the week i would say be diligent in the lords work and have patience becase the lord is watching always and wont leave astray but you first have to show him your faith and later the blessing will come i love you all i am sorry there was no email but it was out of my power


love elder houston

ps so i have these brown slacks there that i got from DI in az i was thinking about them because i can use them as slacks and i need more pants ahahah i got a few more but if you could send those to me asap that would be great... they are the ones that when i got them they had like bleach stains on it and we got brown die and fixed them remember? they were in my room before i left so i hope you find them

To Amber From Elder Houston

hello how is everything going i am pretty pumped for you guys to go through the temple and you guys are moving out thats exciting!!!! anyways i am going good i know you guys get my emails every week i just wanted to email you real quick to say i love you guys and am rreally proud of your decisions you guys are taking life is going to be rough for a start up but it will be better i know you know that but just know you guys are in my prayers hows my boys doin haha i miss hanging out with braiden haha i love that guy i have his picture hanging up on my wall haha well i better get going i love you guys a ton!!

Elder Houston

Oct 5, 2010
well yea everything is good except winter is almost here and i have snow clothes or warm clothes at all but we wioll see what happens i am pumped for you guys to go through the temple i just did a session today and it was really hard to stay awake but the ending is worth it. oh man i dont want to get anymore clothes cause when i get my visa i wont take them to mexico haha



Elder Houston

Thoughts on General Conference

so yes the raising kids thing amazing and exactly about that i think that was the same talk that said what if your kid is on the railroad tracks and a train was coming you told them to move and they said no im ok would you just ignore them? no you would go out there and pick them up and save them sometimes thats what wehave to do i know i am not a parent but i agree because it is what i would do with my little brothers and friends.. ok and the thing about not believing theres a few thing because we meet a lot of inactives that says they just dont believe and theres a few things wrong 1. they dont have a testimony of there own knowing it is true 2. they are not praying and reading thye scriptures... man there is only one way for people to know that this church is true and that is through praying with a sincere heart and true intention to know if it is true or not there is only one way to know it is true and its throuugh the spirit because christ will manifest all truth unto us through the spirit moroni 10:4-5 so if i were you if you get a chance you simply tell them that you respect there desicion of not believeing it is true but you cant say it isnt true if you havent found out for yourself and just as moronis promise in those scriptures they will come to know it is true just as joseph smith found out through his prayer it might now be as intense but it will be something they cant deny and i can promise you that because it happened to me in the MTC. but also whether they are under 18 or not everyone has there own right to there free agency not even god can take that away we can only influence them in a way to do good and stay close to our father in heaven because there was a talk in the prieshood session i hope dad has shared with you about a cow that wanted to go to the other side of this fence to eat this wheat but as you know cows cant eat what ever that stuff its because they dont stop and the food expands in there stomache and they die and the only thing that was holding them back was a small barb wire fence and one cow broke through and she died now the person in the story said you stupid cow dont you know that fence was there to protect you... well heavenly father has givin us a fence and sometimes it may look greener on the other side but it isnt it only follows sorry trials loneliness sadness and all of the following something that i told a friend is a lot of people think they're happy but in reality there is something missing its this gospel there happiness is fake happiness and they know it.. i know that is random and also kinda harsh but its true people who say they dont believe is because they haventtried to know and havent tried to find out for themselves they have been living off there parents words cause thats all they have ever know and now that they have even m,ore influences from there friends and from the world they dont really know what is going on and sometimes they forget they have there own choice to know to find out because its the gift of agency thtat our father has givin us so if you want to take the this part to your class and read it to them from your missionary tell them this...the prophets in this time the prophets in the old time and even jesus christ has told us if you want to know then come and see go and find ou for yourself and for me as a representative of jesus christ i invite you to do as moroni has challenged everyone to know.. after recieving these teaching to go and ask god your self through earnest prayer, sincere heart and true intention if these things are NOT true and having faith in jesus christ that he will manifest it unto you through the power of the holy ghost and you will know the truth of all things again that is moroni 10:4-5..... ok now for teaching mother... when you teach with the spirit it doesnt really matter what yo say as long as it is what the spirit is telling you to say then you cant go wrong and when you dont know what to say just open your mouth and it will be filled with the words of the lord thats also a promise many times in doctine and covenants i dont know where though dont worry mom just keep working do all you can to invite everyione to come unto christ... i dont ally have any stories this week winter is coming its starting to get colder and i have no winter cloths i hope my visa come soon!!!!!.......i love all of you i hope you are doing well i i hope that this letter finds who ever reads it well read the book of mormon as much as possible pres. eyring instructs to read untill you feel the spirit and then a little bit more i love you guys pray every night and morning !!!
elder houston
ps if you could can you send me the amount i have on my visa that would be awesome!!!

what the no email?! hahah its ok i still have one for you.. ok so this week we have been getting a lot of miracles its really sweet. we now have like 8 investigators and we are going to teach our neighbor tony he is this really funny black guy who loves us he calls us the Bible Boys haha he is great but he has to move on thursday cause he got got selling to a under cover cop and now he wants to be straight and listen to us and all that good junk so lets soo here is a good story well you know how before i left i wanted to take ex-lax well i have been feeling really bad so i decided to get ex-lax and then the other 2 missionaries who live with me that night had 4 dinners so they were feeling sick and none of us had ever taken ex-lax so we all decided to take it at the same time which wasnt the best idea nothing happened really till the next morning hahha man that stuff is great the only problem is when ever you eat something it goesright through you so you got about 20 minutes to find a bathroom hahaha so the morning was terrible for me and elder harry and then it died down and i was doing alright besides having to stop at this nasty gas station then after that i was ok and then after diner elder guthrie just got super sick man he was freaking out cause we broke our bikes well guthrie got a flat so we have been walking and after dinner he was like man we gotta go hahha dont stop so we were headed to our other appointment and he sees these bathrooms really far away in this park and says lets go no time so i say ok and were walking in this field and we see tons of dandy lions which our favorite thing to do is to kick them hahaha oh and we found out its even funner to punch them hahaha anyways and so i take off and he keps walking and i just here him yell elder houston!!!! lets go!!!! no time for those!!! hahaha man it was really funny then we get going again and were about half way there and we he has to go again so we go to this gas station hahaha we ended up being 1 hour late to our appointment ahhaha ... well other then that the lord has been putting us into peoples houses one family tyhat we have never been able to get into the door let us in and set a appointment for saturday hahaha super awesome so i have a challenge for you guys listen to all the conference sessions hahaha man we are taking our investigators to conference i am stoked haha so anyways hows everything going i miss you guys but i am loving it out here a tone i hope you guys are really happy and always smiling get out there and serve the lord because the field is whilte and ready to harvest and the lord has asked us to waste and wear out our lives bringing others unto christ and how great your joy will be bringing only one unto to christ hahaha theres a scripture train hahha i am learning a lot and i am really enjoying my mission i meet some really interesting people everyday haha i love you guys a ton be safe


elder houston

Orad al padre siempre en vuestras familias. siempre en mi nombre, para que sean bedecidos vuestras esposas y vuestros hijos..3ne 18:21

ok man ok so mom i have gained a really big testimony about what i am about to tell you and mom you have to promise me you will do this it is very important.... mom terry and mike are our friends and her wife they are struggling and they are probably really sad right now... lets think coming from a missionary point of view what will help them more then anything or anyone in this whole planet..... yes you guessed it our savior... mom they need to hear the gospel they need to know what you know about life where we are from and why we are here and where we are going and that our families can be sealed together forever so that they can be conforted knowing that they will all be together again after we die and that we are going to be very happy and they need to feel love and yes i know you love them a lot and we all do but the one love they need is from our heavenly father because he is the one to help us it is why we are still alive in texas and why things are finally getting a lil bit better they need to know that they are children of god and that he loves them and wants to help them with there struggles just like when you always helped justin through these passed years our fathers heart aches for them because of there sadness so mom you need to tell them that they are beeing looked out for and tell them what you know the most powerful tool you have is your testimony because thats wen you may spark there light of christ in them allowing the holy ghost to touch there hearts mom you need to promise me you will do this..... ok so other then that that is really dumb that torry would do that i would freak out man hahhaa but heavenly fathers loves them so we have to aswell... ok so good story so we are working with these members and one family is from belise and we have dinner with them on saturday and they asked what we like to eat so i told them i like really spicy food and she kinda laughs and went and got this jar with all these chillies in it and mostly habenero my favorite but she points at these tiny yellow ones hahaha she said these are way hotter then those and also these other chillies called caba chiles anyways so sh gave us the jar hahaha we go home andf there is this elder that wants to try the hottest chile there is so we got them out and told them about them they are called ghost chiles and so we filmed it hahaha man me and elder guthrie handles it well it was really hott but elder harry just falls to the ground and starts yelling!!!! hahahaha rolling on the grond and then jumps up and has his mouth in the sink and he grabs the salt to try and help it so it doesnt and then opens the fridge and downs like a half a gallon of milk and its his companiions milk so he is mad hahha then gets freezer burned icecream and eats that hahahhaa man he is freaking out hahahah it was really funny i cant wait to send you the video i bought a new sd card and i am sending the other one home with pictures whooohoooo!!!! hahahaha and my cowboy shirt was left hanging up in my room thats the last time i heard its great to work for the lord everyday man how great your joy will be to bring but one soul unto christ d&C 18: 10,15,16 i love you all keep working help the missionaries!!!!!!!!!!!so we have those slurpee straws well guess what dont tell the boys but thumb tacks fit in them so we have mini dart guns hahahaha man they are fun one night i brought a ton of cherries and we always have wars with the other 2 elder in our apartment and so we start this war and well elder harry gets the cherries and is throwing them at us and there exploding on the walls and we were throwing these apples and they were exploding and then we oulled out our darts and were shooting elder harry hahahaha man what a mess then we had to clean hahahahhaha that was really fun i have pictures of the mess i love you all i hope my letter makes you happy!!!!

elder houston