Well it appears that WINTER is arriving in Norwalk Ohio! I am so thankful for Bro and Sis Showalters for taking Tori shopping for a warm coat!! They were so sweet to spend there day helping a poor freezing Arizona girl to find a warm coat!! i have been looking for warmer things to send Tori these last couple of weeks so hopefully she will come home with all her toes and fingers next year!!
I am also hoping to get some fall pictures soon from her!! Enjoy her email this week she has some great stories to tell!!
Sister Houston's email
Nov 1, 2010
Hi family!
Emailing during the afternoon, a little different then usually i know but the Showalters took Sister Everson and I out shopping for a winter coat! We just got back into town. I found one!! Its a long down coat. I honestly had know idea what to look for in a coat so it was good I had them and Sister Everson to help me. It was expensive :( not really sure how much but they wouldn't let me even pay for half. I am thinking about sending them a thank you card with a gift card to go out to eat or something....not sure. I want to do something to thank them! Any ideas?????? Maybe you could call and say hello even!! I think they would love that! Bro. Showalter is the ward misson leader. He is so great! He's always coming out teaching with us and his wife Glenda, she isn't a member but i love her so much!!! She is the best baker ever too. Made us pumpkin cookies that were to die for. Yeah I definately ate 3!!! A couple months ago she was making homemade apple pies. I told her I've never had a homemade apple pie before and of course she sent one home with sister stewart and I! It was delicious!!!
Anyways then after coat shopping i went and bought a few warmer sweater shirts. I can't find any skirts any where!!! Im going to need warmer skirts. I will keep looking. She said what kept her warm was her layers under her clothing. She would get wool socks, silk socks or even wool tights and then have thermals. I hate to ask for you to send me more things since you just sent me a nice big halloween package. Thank you for it!!! I loved everything!!!! I definately needed some warmer pj's and those shirts will be perfect for layering!!!
Anyways on to my week......It was a good week, crazy as usually but good. I rolled my ankle tracting by the way. Everything always happens when we are tracting....old man in undies, getting yelled at by old ladies, dog chasing us, trip and fall in the middle of the day for all to see.....heehee. There are leaves everywhere and we were walking up to a porch to knock on someones door, no one answers so we start walking away. There were a bunch of leaves covering a step so not really paying attention i missed the step and kind of rolled my ankle in a weird way falling flat on my face. We thought it was pretty funny! Thankfully all i did was bruise it. Its been a little swollen the last couple days but its going down fine. Dang leaves!!!! Lets just say I watch my step very carfully now.
I was so excited about telling you all about Jocelyn last week that I failed to mention that Sister Everson and I got pulled over!! Funny story actually.
Well, Sister Stewart and I tracted into Donny a couple weeks before the transfer ended. He is 21 years old single guy but has two kids, Madison she is 4 and then his son Anthony who is 2. He grew up going to church with his Grandma. Fell away for a little while but found his way back to church a few years ago.
Sister Stewart and I met with him a two times before she left. The lessons went awesome! He just gets it. He understands the purpose of the Book of Mormon, a need for a prophet and that it will require him to actually act and do something if he really wants to know if this is all true!!
Well things kind of went haywire after that of course. The week that sister everson got here, so almost 3 weeks ago, he cancelled his appointment. He said that after our last lesson with him that night before he went to bed he read the book of mormon and prayed about it and then the next day everything in his life just kind of fell apart. So Last week we stopped by again, set up another appointment for the next day and then got a text the day of the appointment that he just wasn't feeling up for it because he was fighting with his kids mother. AHHHHHH!!!!
We decided we needed to do something nice for him to show that we didn't just want to teach him but that we cared!!
On our way back from an appointment, it was about 8:30pm we hurry and run into a Walgreens to pick up somethings. Start driving to Donny's to drop it off and we realize we need tape, it wont work with out tape! Ok so yeah we are suppose to be in at 9:00 but we decide its ok we'll just hurry run home grab the tape we'll just be a few minutes late home. So we drive home get the tape and start driving back to Donny's. Well we were in such a hurry that we failed to see a stop sign....oops. A cop pulls us over. Lucky us we only get a warning. We are cracking up by this point because we know we are suppose to be inside by now. Its what we get for being disobedient! heehee eventually we drop the card off at donny's and head home.
We stopped by and met with Donny yesterday. We have another appointment with him on Thursday so hopefully it goes through. It always seems to happen this way. When we start getting close to doing something that will change our life the adversary does everything he can to get us to pull away from it.
There is even a family in the ward who was baptized a little over a year ago that we are working with and helping get to the temple. They are so close SO CLOSE but everything just seems to keep going wrong from financial things to medical things!
I don't really know why this happens. We just have to endure through them having faith that everything will work out for our benefit and that Heavenly Father will bless us. My heart breaks when you see someone so close and fall away :(
Well I better go. Things are going good here in Norwalk. Just trying to find those elect!! I don't think I will have time to write letters this week I will try to though. Last week I decided to catch up on my journal writing so that is way no one got letters. sorry!! Next week I will do better.
I love you family! Miss you a ton! WRITE ME!!!!
Love,
Sister Houston
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