I have really been blessed recently. I have a great companion who wants to be obedient (hallelujah!), we have a bishop that is missionary minded, and solid investigators continue to flock to us! When Elder Fullmer came, he told me I was being too serious. It made me take a step back and look at myself. Back home, I loved playing around and having fun. I feel like its been getting covered through my difficult transfers. Elder Fullmer is helping me be myself again, when, in a way, I forgot completely what that looked like. He also
likes doing work, so its also causing me to delegate things (which has always been hard for me to do). I am very excited for this time to be companions.

This week we’ve seen some great miracles!!

To start, we went on post (Ft. Hood) and did service at a thrift store. A worker was sorting piles of random donations in the shed out back, and as he sorted out the trash, we’d take loads over to the dumpster. Its cool to have people ask questions about our service. In the process, I found some sweet leather shoes and some ties! They gave me a bag and told me to take them home! I have way too many shoes now…

Elder and Sister Boynton invited one of our returning members to dinner this week and it was nice that they have great fellowship!

The next day, Elder and Sister Boynton invited us over for dinner and a lesson with their neighbor. It was awesome! They were asking great questions and we are starting to teach them now!

We went on a double exchange for Elder Fullmers first day. We promised a priest that he could come on exchange with us Thursday. We had a lesson planned with 2 new investigators Nikki and Gabriel, and Brother
and Sister Hakes wanted to come with us to them, so I sent Elder Fullmer to a different lesson, and I went with the Hakes. It was awesome! Gabriel and Nikki want to be baptized!

Rufus said he will continue to go to church and read and everything, but he decided not to be baptized at this time…He is being too hard on himself.

We had a Mission Conference with Elder Christofferson! It was really cool to shake an Apostle’s hand. He is a funny guy – im pretty sure its a prerequisite for apostleship! He opened it up for questions and one sister asked, “As a Special Witness of Jesus Christ, what does He look like?” The room went dead silent and everyone wide-eyed. Elder Christofferson scratched his head, said, “Nothing like his paintings…” And dodged the question further by talking about what a special witness is. It blew us away! But there were good questions,
dont worry.

We had a 3 hour journey to the conference and back after. We watched a documentary on Pres Hinkley and listened to The Prince of Egypt Soundtrack. Stayed with the office Elders over night.

Last night we showed up at Titos and Tanias and Tito was sitting outside with head in hands said it wasnt a good time. The words of Elder Holland rang through my head, “isn’t this a time for missionaries? As should ANY time be a time for missionaries!” And so we kept trying. He eventually agreed to us staying and he let us
inside. Turns out he just had a fight with Tania and was down. We read with him from the Book of Mormon and cheered him up. After a half hour there was a knock at his door! Brother and Sister Hirsch showed up randomly!! They joined us and Brother Hirsch asked to leave a blessing on his home and it brought the spirit and peace! They said us coming was a God-send!

I know that the Book of Mormon brings peace. I love the experiences I get to experience out here. It is so cool to watch people change. I want people everywhere to feel these things.

I love all of you!

Elder Householder

PS. I forgot to mention I got to see my trainer Elder Austin this week! He visited the mission! It was really nice. I got a call and he said President allowed him to come see me. I was very grateful! It made me miss all the experiences we had together. Its almost been 2 years…the Mission has changed so much.