TRANSFER TO SOLON

This email is a good explanation of where she is now serving and what she will be doing for the next six weeks!! She has another super funny story to tell!! Funny Girl!!! gotta love her!!

Sister Houston's email
December 1, 2010

Hi my wonderful family!!!
It feels like its been forever since I've emailed you. Really its only been a week and a day but still......its been quite a forever long week and a day. Lets see where do i begin....
Well transfers were Wednesday. I am now serving in Solon with Sista Lee! Yup thats right Sista Lee! How do I describe my Sista Lee....she is from Louisiana, has big, beautiful, long curly, dark brown hair, extra long finger nails and....has a little Louisiana Sass to her. She's been out since February of last year so almost a year and was actually companions with Sister Everson in the MTC! We live in a big beautiful home with the Norton family! Brother and Sister Norton have six kids, all grown and away except their youngest Rachel. She is 17, a senior in high school, and working on going on a mission when the time arrives of course. She's amazing and quite cute too mitch heehee. Its been fun living in a members home.
Our area is about an hour away from Kirtland so we get to go in for full days at the Kirtland Sites two times a week, Mondays and Thursdays and then on Tuesday mornings we go for a training meeting with all the K-Land Sisters. There are still tours going on, not alot though. They also have the Christmas Nativity Exhibit out. The entire visitor center is full of nativities from all over the world. Monday was my first day back. Sister Lee and I only gave one tour of the Historic Sites, helped direct people through the nativities, and then made phone calls the rest of the time. Kirtland gives me anxiety family!!!! I really wonder why Heavenly Father wanted me to serve in a visitor center with all these people and be on the phones calling people????? I'll let ya know when I find out :)
Anyways, well thanksgiving didn't turn out to be a relaxing day as I hoped but it was fun. We had a yummy big breakfast with the Nortons and another set of Sisters who serve close to our area and are in the same ward as us, Sister Schwanke and Morrell. So after pumpkin pancakes with carmel, banana, nut syrup we headed to Kirtland to play games with the K-Land sisters. After we had a nice yummy big Thanksgiving lunch with all the thanksgiving deliciousness even dessert of course. Then...yes i'm not done....we headed back to our area a couple hours later to have a Thanksgiving dinner with a family in the ward all jam pack with some more thanksgiving deliciousness even dessert...MORE dessert. It was a crazy day and by the end of the night my tummy felt like it was going to explode! They definitely take good care of the missionaries out here!!!
I'm excited to be serving in Solon. Its a huge area consisting with a few cities surrounding solon. Basically we have the really rich people and then the not so rich people which has a huge population of blacks. Its a lot different then my first two areas thats for sure but Im excited to see whats ahead for me. Right now the area is pretty dead. We are working with Brenda and Lakeisha who have been investigating the church for years...there what we call "internigators." Other than that we are just trying to find!!!! My first experience tracting was pretty eventful actually! We met a reverend...a lady reverend. She invited us in, had us listen to some gospel music, sang to us and right before we left she asked if we could pray with her. lol so funny. So Me, Sister Lee, the Reverend and one of her daughters all held hands and prayed. Like those hallelujah prayers. The daughter next to me kept grunting and saying "YES YES"!! It was crazy!!!!
Well I better get going family! I love you so much!! I will keep you all updated on whats happening! Im glad to hear everyone had a good thanksgiving! I can't wait until I can talk to you all on chirstmas!

Love, Sister Houston

PS My p-days are now Wednesdays and send my mail to the Kirtland Visitor Center address: 7800 Kirtland Chardon Rd
Kirtland, OH 44094