Hello Family

He's getting more and more mature with every letter!!  I love hearing his thoughts and advise.  It makes me wonder if the spirit will continue to grow at this rate!?!?  I thought I knew the definition of "spiritual giant" but it's kind of taken on a whole new meaning to me now ;)...  Also, I'm considering making this blog private.  I wanted it to be public so that anyone searching for the gospel could feel of his testimony if they happened upon it.  But a couple things have been brought to my attention on privacy and I may being making it private.  I'm obviously still thinking about it ;)  I'll let you know... Still no pictures :(  I did receive some in the mail from his mission president tho!!  I will scan them and post them ASAP!!! Enjoy:

This week was pretty awesome actually! We had 3 meetings this week in a row so it was a little bit different this week. We had trainer/trainee meeting, District meeting, and Zone conference all in one week, and they were all scheduled 3 days in a row. We were really fortunate to keep our numbers up this week cause of the meetings we had, because we worked really hard. We learned so much in our meetings such as: How to recognize the spirit, the Atonement, Professionalism, How to control our thoughts, just little simple things we can do to become a better missionary. One of my favorite things about President Gelwix is that he is so inspired and is his own person. He gives us blessings every time we have the opportunity to meet with him. This week he said to us, "Don't be a prisoner of your past." Which to me is huge. I hope we can apply this to ourselves, and investigators as well. 

My love out here continues to increase for the people. I love hearing about changes that come into peoples lives, including my own... This week we have 2 progressing investigators. We'd like to have more, but these two that we have are really solid. Martin is one of them. We had a lesson with him about Joseph Smith and the BOM. We asked him to pray about it to know if it was true with us. It was a simple little prayer, but afterwards he said he felt a feeling overcome him. We knew he felt the spirit, and we knew we needed to help him gain his own testimony of Joseph Smith and the BOM to progress. And NOW we can help him quit smoking :) we love Martin, he's awesome

Our other investigator is Joel and Rosie. And he said that he is going to try and pray to know if he wants to be baptized because he feels that baptism in the Catholic Church is the wrong authority. But he knows our purpose and he knows that we are true messengers from the Father. 

Other than that we have had many miracles placed in our path. We have miracles everyday! It's truly amazing. One thing that stook out to me was that God prompts us through the Holy Ghost even when people decide to reject us or not answer their doors. The reason being that is so that we can meet someone else ready to hear the gospel at the right place at the right time. It's amazing how the Lord works. We actually met a new investigator because of this. Her name is Colypsa and she has had problems with family sickness and surgeries in the past. She said she's willing to hear our message 

Also this week we had the wonderful opportunity to teach a primary class :) which was a little different. There's only 5 or 6 kids in primary, which isn't to bad because it felt like my branch in white rocks :) our ward is actually super small.

We also had the opportunity to meet a traveling hippy. His name is Dano and he is kind of a psycho. He's traveled all over the country for... well just because I guess. He's originally from Utah and I guess he has been to Vernal. We tried teaching him about the gospel but wouldn't fully accept us but he'd be willing to talk to us. We tried giving him a card from us and said we'd give him an English card cause we have all Spanish cards, but then he started speaking Spanish to us!!! What the heck!!

I love hearing about stories back home, everyone seems to be doing awesome! Weston's Football games, Charleigh and J.T., Marleigh's volleyball games, you and Justin. Everyone seems to be doing great :) but I'll let you know if I need anything else. Love you all!

Elder Horrocks

P.S. Isaiah 41:10, read it :)