Hello once again my
most fantastic family!
Happy Father's Day my
old man! This is for my old gaffer! I don't know where I would be without
you!
As always we had a
really busy and fast week full of the good stuff!
We started the week
with zone conference which is always fantastic! We had a the great opportunity
to do a training on the Book of Mormon! Our mission has set the goal to flood
1000 Book of Mormons in 3 months! And then each zone has set their own personal
goals and the total is 5000 Book of Mormon! So this past week the Book of
Mormon has been at the fore front of my mind as we have gone contacting or
working with our investigators, I have been focusing on the converting power of
the Book of Mormon! Because the Book of Mormon and the Spirit are our most
powerful tools in conversion! So with the flooding of the mission our mission
is reading through the Book of Mormon in 43 days! So we are just Embracing the
Book Of Mormon and I love it!
We were also trained
on using Pageant effectively! We are so spoiled in this mission! We have some
of the coolest things in this mission! I sometimes have to remind myself where
I am and how significant this place is and the wonderful things that have
happened here! Pageant is coming up really soon and it is a perfect lead into
the Book of Mormon! So far things have just gone so well and we have been able
to give out 7 Book of Mormons! I seriously love the Book of Mormon it holds
everything together and helps makes everything make sense! It's
Fantastic!
Also at zone
conference we won the gold plates! We had the cleanest car in the zone so we won
the gold plates! I will attach a picture! :)
We, after one of our
first exchange this week, got to do exchanges back in Palmyra, but the other
elders we were exchanging back with were late so we got to go walk in the
Sacred grove while we waited! It was awesome!
We also exchanged with
the AP's this week and that was a miracle exchange! They are in the young
single adult branch, so their area covers all of Rochester and Palmyra! We got
to go contact people in my old area in downtown Rochester! It was so fun
getting to go back to an old area! We met some really cool young adults. It was
a great experience!
Sunday we
had a sweet couple, brother and sister Wilson from Oregon, come and visit at
church. We started talking to them and they asked where I was from. I said
Shelley Idaho! They immediately lit up! They lived there 3 or 2 years ago! They
started listing some names that could relate to and they mentioned the
Cather's, who are pretty much our neighbors! Brother Wilson is sister Cather’s
brother! It was really cool seeing them. It made me feel a lot closer to home.
And then the other weird part is there was another family that was visiting and
guess where they were from!!! ---Ogden! The two visitors that came were from my
two homes! It was pretty cool!
That night we had a
musical devotional at the Palmyra stake center! We had musical numbers from
people from all over the stake from solo's, guitar solos, amazing piano
arrangements, a piano saxophone duet ( that was our ward mission leader he is
incredible) an Acapella men's choir ( I was in that one) and they had all the
missionaries in the stake sing “I am a Child of God!" It was Powerful! All in all it was a powerful devotional full
of the Spirit!
So good things are
happening here in the Pitts!
I sure love you
all!
Elder Todd
Houghton
Ps. Happy Father's Day
father! Your seriously are the most studdliest stud muffins I will ever Know! I
am so grateful for your example! But dad really you are the best dad any son
could hope for. You are the bomb.com, The number 1, the hope diamond, the whole
slice of pizza, the chosen one, my old gaffer, Mai's maravilhoso, The real
deal,The one that's got the moves, the host with the most, and much more! I
love you dad!
PPs, Also I am glad
that Amber is ok; she will definitely will be in my thoughts and prayers! She
has to feel good because they have a big move coming up! New Hampshire is a waiting!
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