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

Another Great Email from Elder Houston!!!

Family and friends,


Here's another great email from Elder Houston! He is still in Ogden but loving every minute of it. He still types horribly and I apologize for that, but something that might help you understand why his typing is so bad, is that he types with his index finger of each hand ONLY! So frustrating! I tried to teach him, but obviously I failed ha ha! Anyway, enjoy deciphering it!!!

hey OK mom swet email hahaha listen to me right now and this is very hard for moms to do i know hahahaha but just like the scripture on my plack..... our heavenly fathers is watching over us as long as we are keeping the commandments and the whole moving out they are going out into the world again hahaha and its part of life to struggle its why we are here to fight through our struggles to learn and to become like our brother jesus hahaha so stop worring so much hahaha you need to have a dad out look hahha make a friend with a cockroach hahaha so lets see right now i dont really have any object lessons i am sorry but i have some updates for you..... we got a new investigator with a baptismal date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! october 2 whooohoooooo finally hahahahaha his name is frederico avila and his wife is a memeber and i guess that missionaries have been going over there for years and elder guthrie was on exchanges with casillas and passed by on wednesday and he said listen you guys want to come over and talk with my wife that is fine but i will not sit in on your lessons and listen to you guys so they said ok and then on saturday we had dinner with them on sunday but on saturday we call dinner a day before to confirm and elder guthrie accidently callled the wrong number and we looked around and we were right in front of there house so we knocked the ddor to confirm in person hahaha dn he said that he has been praying and i guess that he saw jesus and god in his dream and he said he has been thinking about baptism a lot lately and wants to change because he is dying he is old and then on sunday his wife was going to give a talk and he wanted to suprise he so he showed up then throughout the meeting he said he feels happy at the church and then that night we had dinner and the home teachers showed up and they were talking and before they left they asked if he had any questions and he said well yes i have a ton but a basic one i have is what do i have to do to get baptised hahaha and everyone lit up hahaha the home teachers pointed to us and said there are missionary angels tight there that will answer everythying so we gave him a date and we are teaching him tomorrow i think oh man it was great of course its all in spanish other then that i have no other crazy stories or anything hahaha yea you shoudl ask dannette to look in az i dont have anymore time to email but i am going to write mitchell a letter today i promise he needs to go on a mission just from being i here this is the singl most thing that will bless his life more then anything in the world i promise as liong as everyone keeps the commandments and does missionary work you will always be super happy i love you guys a ton!!!!! mosiah 2:41

ps the bag thing good idea

Do not support AZ in Mexico!!!

Colten Houston to me

ok yeah that was a super long one haha but thats ok quite the stories im happy dad is happy hahaha it really just makes me gald ok so you didnt answer my question about these bags from guatamala hahah so i have a ton to tell you ok so i was talking with this mexican family and i was wearing my arizona shirt and they kinda pulled me aside and this is what they said well it was translated cxause idk what they said really hahaha ok so they said.... elder DO NOT WEAR THAT SHIRT IN MEXICO!!! and when they ask where your from say you are from texas because mexico hates az cause of the law and they said that they will literally kill me haha oh man thats awesoem right hahah just because of that stupid law in az so thats crazy ok so another thing so there is this family here that is from mexico there in our branch and the husbands grandma or mom is from Tuxtla and he gave me a referal for all his family there hahaha he said there is like 30 hahaha thats sweet haha so they love to talk to me and tell me about tuxtla and yesterday we had dinner with them a few things from this night ok so they pull out this map with mexico on in and above it has the same map but its of the book of mormon and guess what hahaha tuxtla well really that whole state of chiapas down there is like the nephites and all that history tuxtla is like Zarahemla hahaha and like the valley of gideon and all those awesome things ok second thing hahaha about this night ok in nacho libre Estephen always gets corn with that white stuff and like a powder well guess what i ate that its corn with manaise and chile powder i am now commiting you to eating this go to walmart and get this powder its called el mexicano wnd the flavor is pico limon me and elder guthrie are getting some today and you just spread on the manaise and sprinkle on the powder and it is so good i can see why he likes it so much hahahaha oh man its great i cant wait to eat it again ok so another thing we got a investigator!!!!!!!!!! whoooohoooooooooooo yeah its sweet but he is weird he talks really wierd and he is cotholic and when we door contacted him before we left we asked if there was anything we could do for him and he asked for a example and we old him if he needs anything and he goes well i just moved in and i dont have a micro wave and so we found him one hahaha and now he is asking us for everything omg hahaha he asked for a tv and a dvd player hahaha whats next haha and then his first question is if we dont have cars because its against our religion hahaha well i have to go righjt now our ride is here and he is ready to go so i love you guys a ton i am also commmiting you to read rthe whole book of mormon in spanish hahaha love you guys!!!! i will send a package soon

elder houston oh yea i want you guys to get the ward involved in missionary work the missionaries need your help!!!! d&c 123:12-14 bear your testimony on it alma 31:34-35

This kid makes my week!

oh yeah one more story hahaha so theres this really buff portarican man who lives next to me hahaha he looks really mean but he is actually really nice and we asked him how he got so buff and he said welll lets say prison hahaha he is really nice haha love yeah!!!
Elder Houston

Got 2 Emails this week!!!

ok i logged back on hahaha hat is awesome so theres this lady in the ward tha sells guatamalan bags i need to know if dad or justin wants one ut let me know i need you guiys to send me a black light flashlight i didnt think of it but theres scorpians in mexico that like to go in our beds hahaha so i idk hahaha i love you all i wish i could send all my adventures to you right now but yea i am in boutiful hhaaha slash woods cross hahaha i love working a ton and stinkin elder guthrie is making me do things hahaha ike talking to members on the phone when i cant understand them hahahha calling in for dinner hahaha but its a good thing we work really hard oh yea i hav a song i want yo0u guys to listen to its like my favorite song ever hahaha these elders in my apartment play it all the time its calld the WAKAWAKA by Shakira hahahah we listen to spanish music and its actually awseom i quite enjoy it hahaha im am trying to read the book of mormon in spanish ll the way through it really helps me with the language make sure you guys ae studying spanish hahaha its important and very usefull hahah especially in texas hahaha well i  gotta get goign listen to that song and send me a black light and blacket please!!!! love you
Elder Houston

Best Email Ever!!!

so everything is good i am timed today we went to the library kinda sucks cause i have a lot to say so lets see we got bikes finally and the first day we are heading to this members house and elder guthrie decides that he can ride with no hands and we are going down this huge hill and he started to wiggle so he grabs the handle bars and all he thinks is break and he grabs the front break and goes over th front landing on his stomache and face hahaha i was behind him and watched the whole thing hahaha and i couldnt stop laughing for seriously 4 hours we finally got to this members house and we tell her the story and i am still laughing but she doesnt notcice and then she looks at me to see what i think and she loses it and cant stop laughing herself all i could get out of my mouth was esta muy chistoso hahaha that means it is really funny so i met this man named martin and right when we talked to him i could tell something was wrong he is innactive and his wife is heavey catholic and he was so sad to see us cause he knew that he needed to come to church but because of the cercumstance he couldnt which was bad but we sang to him and he offered a prayer and was crying a lil bit so lets see on more story iwe were walking and threres this small fence and elder guthrie is def in his right ear and all of a sudden thhis huge dog nearly jumps over the fence and nearly bites elder guthries head off hahaha well i got to go i love you guys!!!
elder houston