The Centennial play sounded amazing!
We Houghtons are quite the actors/actresses/ and playwrights! Shelley sure is
lucky to have you! Schools already started!!! Dad you’re going to have quite
the job trying to keep the boys away!
I have so much to tell ya, because so much has happened this
past week! Here is a list of some of the new things I have been able to do
since I have been here.
- I woke up and left the MTC at 2:30 A.M.
- Took the plan to Denver a lot of people were looking at me it was kind of weird. We were supposed to have a 2 hour layover but it turned into 4!
- We got to New York and met our mission president! He is flipping amazing! He is such a great guy and he is like 6'8'' so I feel like a little child next to him.
- We Got to go to most of the church sites! The Sacred
Grove was by far my favorite! there is such a wonderful spirit there. It
is remarkable that I get serve here where it all started!
· Met my Trainer Elder Walker he is a
great elder.
· We were sent to Amherst which is
just north of Buffalo.
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| Elder Walker and Elder Houghton |
We are replacing the sister missionaries here so neither of
us knew the area or any one here. So that has been interesting.
I know the Lord is watching over the people here. The
third home we stopped by to see a less active lady, when she came out of her
home she was super distressed. The police were there and she told us
that her adult son had ran away saying he was going to commit suicide. We just
said a pray with her to help her. We came by later and they were able to find
her son and took him to the hospital--sure was a interesting experience.
Elder walker is a beast! We wake up at 6 to work out!
He is like a train that pumps iron like non other! pretty much every inch of my
body has been sore this week! haha its a nice feeling.
We get to drive a van! we called it Mahonrie Morancomer .
It's the only van in the mission! :)
We were stopped by a man in an ice cream truck to have him
quiz us on what we believe, after the quiz he gave us ice cream and
said a prayer-- I think to save our souls! haha I didn't really know what to do
but it worked out well!
I have knocked on lots of doors this
week. The sisters left us a list of potential investigators
that we followed up on and I have already seen everything from really nice
people to very colorful language.
We got to speak in the ward yesterday (5th week in a Row!)
It was awesome! I love the ward as well. It is FULL OF KIDS, like everywhere
you look you see someone holding a baby.
I am loving it here! The members feed us a lot! Just
yesterday we had dinner with a family and they invited their catholic neighbor
to come and meet with us! We shared the restoration! (First lesson I have given
in the mission! I was freaking out!) the Spirit was awesome! I hope that she
felt something!OK so that is only a sliver of some of the things I have done here! NEW YORK IS AMAZING! AND THE WORK IS MORE AMAZING!
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| Real life imitating art |
I love you all!
Sorry if I don't get to respond to
you all but I love hearing from you!HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Elder Houghton
PS. My Mission home address is
460 Kreag rd. Pittsford, New York, 14534
They don't want you to send stuff
straight to our apartment! 
