Hello Again My most
Wonderful! Family!
I absolutely Love
hearing from you all! This is one of my favorite things is getting to hear from
my most favorite people in the world!
Rochester is still
Awesome! We had some exciting things happen this week! One was that our area
boundaries changed! So instead of having the smallest Elder’s area in the
mission our area pretty much doubled in size! So with that we got several of
ASL's investigators to teach. I am super
excited about all that!
Something I love about
being a missionary is being able to connect with people that I never would of
imaged becoming friends with. We get a
lot of rejection, but there is something amazing about being a missionary
and being able to meet with complete strangers just once and then by
the time we leave I feel like we have a special bond of friendship-- that
only could happen as a missionary! I love it! I believe that it is through this
gospel that this is even possible. I love being able to share it each and every
day! There truly is no better work!
We had a really cool
lesson last Saturday. We meet with a Lady (Nancy) that is from Mexico in an
awesome little coffee shop. I felt like I was in a movie, and the Hot Chocolate
there was Divine! It was really
interesting how she came to meet with us! She was raised as a Catholic but
while she was in Mexico she saw the temple there and thought it was nice. She kind of set it aside in the back of
her mind. Then later she visited Salt Lake City and had a tour of Temple Square
and she thought it was nice. Then she came here for school and as she was at
the bus stop she happened to meet two sister missionaries who shared with her
the restoration! She told us how she never even thought of actually trying to
find out for herself if another religion would be right for her. But now she
wants to know and we get to be the ones to teach her! It blows my mind
sometimes how many influences some people have before they are converted. We
never know how or who we are affecting but people are watching and we just
might be another step, for them, towards true conversion!
Ok so another crazy
thing! We have been having a several theft problems at our church building. Two
weeks ago Chantal, a resent convert to the church, had her coat stolen and
then last week one of the ladies in the ward had her Car stolen! It is crazy! Sadly
they still haven't been able to find it for them! So now last Sunday the bishop
was emphasizing a lot about reporting any suspicions acts in the church and to
keep an eye on everyone around ya! Crazy!
Also we ended up
moving 3 different people between Saturday and Sunday! So that
has been pretty fun I never realized how much missionaries help people move! That's
something they should teach in the MTC!
Well I love you a ton!
Hurrah for Israel
te Amo
Elder Houghton
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