Sorry i had to take a picture of the picture because it wouldn't let me download it on blogger.

ok not a lot happening this week but some importyant things.... dont chew me out either i have good reason hahaha.... so when i was in ogden i was playing i guess you could say basketball but its not basket balll and i jumped up to block another elder but when i fell i fell bad on my foot my left foot and i felt like my pinky toe and the whole bone pop and go on top of the other bone a few steps later it popped back i couldnt walk very well for about 5-6 weeks and then i found that guy that had been helping me and he fixed my foot well enough to walk but it still hurt... well now its really effecting me hahahaa and in the mornings i cant walk. and no its not because i walk all day either hahah the muscle in my left foot underneath is double the size of my right foot and it really hurts haha not very funny but every morning i massage the pain out and then go to work and the next day it hurts again the same i have tried various things to help but nothing is working right now i am going to try a few more different ideas and i am going to a guy a member knows that says that he can help me haha if that doesnt work i am going to a doctor just for information.


the problem is that if i have to have sergery i have to go home to do the sergery more then likely. and the next problem is if i need sergery i cannot return to mexico and thats not ok with me. so if all goes bad and they say i need sergery i am not going to have sergery haha i will finish my mission first and hope for the best i am only worried about it. my neighbor has this magic cream oil stuff that helped we a ton last night and she is going to try to find more of that stuff haha its only made here in mexico and its awesome haha but i will keep you posted.

other then that lets see i let my comp be senior companion for a week right now he is still senior hahaa we were having some problems but yea now there gone and we are really happy haha he told me that i was boring and to strict hahaha and that threw me for a loop and then the words of my little brother came into my mind in a letter he wrote me that if i change and come home different that he is goingt o kill me hashaha so we have been having some fun this week and things are a lot better the other day we went on an adventure that was seriosly so fun you guys are goingt o love the video haha seriously here is so sweet we have this river and people live like on the river but they are really poor theres one lady that we contacted that here child was murdered at 9 years old very very sad and she is also a alcoholic she beat her husband with something we met him the other day and he has a huge cut over his left eye brow from where we believe she hit him and has problems with he leg he was walking up these stairs and he fell and started sliding down this mountain haha i will take a picture so you can understand what i am talking about we ran over and helped him up and off the mountain and helped him walk up the stairs and to a combi.. really sad this man doesnt really know what to do . also something that is just rediculous these kids just run around naked all the time like whoa child wheres your mom put some clothes on but no one really cares haha

this next monday is transfers i dont think i am going anywhere but my companion maybe because he has been here for 3 months haaha but we will see. the twenty ninth we have a baptism of a lady and her child and the following week we have another baptism well we hope haha we were in a lesson and i asked the lady here name is teresa if she would like to have trhe spirit in here life to guide her through everything that will pass and she said yes and when i said what do you need to do she told me she needs to be baptised and then the subject changed and we didnt puit a date but this week we plan on putting a date.

today i am going to start something that i hope i am able to do hahaa but i cant say because its a suprise i hope to have it done and sent home before christmas hahaha i know at the end of the year whoa hahaha

the picture that i sent is a picture of a fruit well its not a fruit but its that things hahaha what they do is they cut it in half and take everything out and shave out the inside like a coconut. then they put it in the sun and when its all dried out its a cup that they use to drink posol which is a nasty drink but you can drink anything from it my comp has one and i drank juice from it and it tastes a lot better ahaha i dont know why but it did and maybe its only a myth or just thats its cooler then a regular cup idk but its pretty sweet.

well i believe that is all for this week keep on working and keep on keepin on remeber that your friends one day that arent members when we are in the heavens are going to remeber you and they will ask you why you didnt share with them what we know or they will give you a hug and thank you for what you gave them. its kind of like that but pres. eyring said that hahaha always remeber to give service and to help everyone you can remember the things that you know and remeber that our friends need the blessing that you have even when life is hard there is always something good in your life follow the commandments which the lord has given and we are promised never ending happiness we all have the potential to be something great and its only up to you to chose your potential or to choose the worldly things.

love you all,
elder houston

1ST BAPTISM!!

heres some good news...................BAPTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woop woop we just baptised a young lady who is chosen she is so sweet she is 15 the first time we were with her and talk about baptism she told us that she cant change religions because she always grew up knowing that if she did something bad would happen and keep happening but we talked about prayer and what god would want. we told her to pray and listen for her answer and left it at that. the next day we asked her if she had prayed and she said yes and then we asked her if she had recieved an answer and she said yes she needs to be baptised that she knows that the church is true it was really sweet so we visited her every day for a week and a half and she was baptised saturday he name is justine alejandra guevara orellana she is reallly nice elder reyes baptised her and i confirmed her as a member and all that it was something really special haha i will send a picture and were going to have another baptism the 29th with a lady hahaha she is really awesome just really depressed but she wants to change her life.


its a really humbling thing knowing what i am doing out her in mexico we study the scriptures every morning and when the lord wants to tell us something he makes it very very clear hahaha i was reading in the book of mormon the day of her baptism in in mormon 6:17 it says that jesus has is arms open to us always kinda and then in 7:8 it says that we need to be baptised and repent of our sins and then we can recieve the holy ghost to guide us when we need help and of course i was thinking of justine and she has had a hard life the family in the picture are not her family only friends she left her home be cause her father in law is crazy and her mom doesnt want anything to do with her so she left to her friends house and they called us haha and she was baptised she now has the gift of the holy ghost to guide her and be with her always to give her confort and love when she needs it to give her guidance and to help her with her problems. we all have this gift from our father in heaven we all have that love in our life and it doesnt matter when our problem is the lord will help us in everything we come across and will help guide our lives so that we can return to our father in heaven with opur families council the youth in always following the love of the lord and follow the merits of christ always every day be working on attributes of jesus christ which are found in preach my gospel ask dad every week choose a different attribute to work on study the scriptures and look for ways to better your life.. to recieve guidance and revelation and to build your testimony there are thing thrings you have to do 1 pray.... pray to your father in heaven for help talk with him everyday all day 2 read the book of mormon.... read this book itr has been declared by joseph smith that it is the most correct book in the world and those who follow the teaching will better there life. it will also give you answers in ways you cant even understand 3 go to church... in the church we reniew our covenants and we have the opertunity to talk with our father in heaven more closely in his own house and the talks are given though the people dont really know that they are inspired there is always someone who benefits from the words they say and how they say it

i am not saying you guys are not doing that i am only saying that it is what helps me here in the mission and its what we teach to our investigators and members to always be keeping the commandments of the lord and all 3 things are commandments of the lord and we have the commandments to be happy not to be played with they are all for a reason i love you all haha

other things hahaha i have been sick for 5 days with diarea i know its not what you want to here hahaha but it really does suck i am scared to eat because i know what is going to pass... also i bought a hammock it is really sweet and i have slept in it for 4 nights now woop woop hahahah be good and follow the lord.

ps i love you mom i love you a lot and i really miss my family and i miss your food but i also know why i am here and to be honest this month has gone by so slow hahaha i think its because i have been having a difficult time but i love you all hahaha be good

elder houston..... ps if you could send me a wet stone that would be really nice ahhaha no one has one here and my knife is dull haha

Tapachula!

i am in tapachula hahahaha... goodness i dont know what to do about my package i am going to call the office hahaha i dont know what to do really hahaha if you can call them and tell them to not go through my crap that would be nice cause if my blanket is not in there im going to cry hahaha i will call the office today and ask if they have gotten anything i am glad that you had a good birthday hahahaha why cant dad give away my bed hahah aits just a bed haha anyways so thats ..... i judt talked to the assistents they said tell ups to send the package to you guys again so you can take out the things from china and talk to ups and ask them more information because i guess they are asking for a lot of money and the mission cant pay for it he said they are asking for a lot so yea thats what they told me for you to do call ups send the package home talk to ups maybe get your money back send it through a different people and get all the fine print so you know...... ok so this week has been pretty fun new years was pretty cool we had dinner with our neighbors like we did on christmas broke a piñata and just had a happy time then that night we couldnt sleep i havent been able to sleep for 3 days but on new years at 12 it was rediculous like fireworks are just another thing here they were going off for at least 3 minutes not stop and they were just like bang bang bang it was the big ones that go into the sky haha and then its jus so blessed hot i have been showering at night and while i shower i put my garments in the freezer hahaha and thats the only way i can get some sleep because our fan broke and the other one we have its just terrible hahaha so thats what wer have been doing also it was elder reyes birthday on the 1st kinda weird but i planned a suprise for him with our neighbor we call here mom champo haha she takes care of us better then anyone here in the mission haha well our ward she is amazing. i also found out that the mexicans here know all the bad words in english its sad to say that yes they know the F word and how much i hated hearing it it was the first time hearing that word for almost 7 months pretty rediculous and something that drives ne crazy is they love to listen to muusic in english ugh!!!!!! they cant under stand anything but i can understand it all hahaha lady gaga is popular haha so today i bought some hotwheels hahaha 4 muscle cars haha i love them and me and my comp wrestled the other night oh how much i miss wrestling it sucks because for one i cant go full out and 2 everything is tile and concrete hahaha carpet doesnt exist here hahaha. oh they have this tradition here for birthdays that is really fun hahha you get a seperate cake for the birthday person they sing this song and then say morida!!! over an dover and then what they do is they bite the cake hahaha goodness we just rediculously smashed my comps face in the cake i will send a picture hahaah i learned how to make these bread things that are just delicious hahaha with this lady who wa going to be baptised but alcohol has control over her life and she hates the president with all her heart that was the first time i heard the bad word though they dont know how to use it i knew what she wanted to say and she was crying and i felt really bad like very sad for her because she is to blind to see that its here own fault that she is not baptised we are trying to plant some new seeds i got to talk to here she said she has never had the opportunity to speak about got with me so i helped here with her work and we talked she is a really sweet lady she just has this hate in her heart that she cannot let go of. i wa thinking about this later like how much things of the world just dominate the souls of our brothers and sisters that they are literally spiritually blind to see that there god is this thing of the world that they literally lose here agency because of there obsession and that the only way to be free is thorugh jesus christ. and how does jesus christ do it? through us. missionaries. members. thats why it is so important for us to help people to show them there is something greatewr in our lifes that they can have somehthing solid in the hands and in there hearts that they can feel and know that got exists and loves them please rember this help your friends help them see the light help them n the right path its why we are here to be happy and to progress there is no other way a member in ogden wrote me and she calls us here angels. it really kinda throughs me off to hear someone actually say that i am a angel as one straight from heaven into there lives and how much impact we have on every person we come in contact there is literally at least one person that we talk to everyday who crys when we speak with them the truth is i cant see what an impact we have on people but they can and when they see it he feel it and they know but sometimes they are to stubborn to let got goodness.
i hope everything is just dandy as our good friend joe dirt would say just keep on keepin on
elder houston

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