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| New Arrivals: Alex is on the 3rd/middle row. 9th one over from the right |
La Obra del Senor
So this week was a little bit better then last weeks. As far as our investigators with a baptismal date we have 4 at the moment. Their names are Axel and Abel, Miguel, and Arturo. Axel and Abel are the grandsons of our branch president out here in Hughson and they are going to be a little easier to baptize, they're 9 years old. We finished all the lessons with them and now they can be baptized! It's about time too, because we can only catch them on the weekends and we were supposed to baptize them 2 weeks ago. But because of some things or events they had to do we couldn't meet up with them before. What's funny about Axel and Abel is they have a brother named Tony and he's 11. He was there when we taught Axel and Abel the last lesson. When we finished our lesson Tony says "Wait! You gotta teach me the other lessons, so I can be baptized too!" We asked Axel and Abel if they wanted to wait for his brother and they simply said no hahaha, just shows how much they love eachother ;) but they were kidding. You could tell Tony was a little bit jealous of his younger brothers, but hey maybe we might have another baptism!
Miguel is an investigator that said he would be willing to be baptized so that he could take his wife and kids to the temple and be sealed. When we told him about how families are sealed together forever, he hopped on that and started asking questions. So we look forward to getting him to the temple too! But he has a few word of wisdom problems that we know about. We told him that if he reads the BOM and prays he will progress, because we can't always be there to help him. As for Arturo he was doing awesome for a week! He loved it when we would pray with him. We followed up with him to see if he read the BOM and to pray to know if it was true. He told us he didn't read and that he doesn't know if God would answer his prayer. We're not sure what's holding him back, but we told him the Heavenly Father WANTS us to pray to him. (Mathew 7:7-11) We told him God wants the best for us so we should pray for him, just like an dad on earth would want the best for his son. He understood that, and he knows that prayer is a commandment so we will follow up with him today to see how things are... Unfortunately we didn't get anyone baptized for the 4 weeks i was here. We were soooo close!! But we can't take away free agency. We're looking forward to 2 or 3 with Axel and Abel and maybe his brother too.
All of our other investigators are in mind of us but aren't progressing as much. There is one that goes to church with her family and she plays on the volleyball team and everything but she won't be baptized. So we question ourselves about her. We've taught her literally everything there is to know!! We're thinking that we'll teach her about sealings and temple marriage, because she can only be marries in the temple if she wants to be baptized... It's like Elder Holland said in one of his talks to the missionaries, "President why can't they see this? What else can we do? Why don't they just walk up to the font?" it's because salvation was never easy. And we should never think it's going to be easy for us, when it was never easy for our savior who suffered for us. So in all the persecution, confusion, and questions of why isn't it simply working we have to remember these exact words. We have to suffer a little bit of what he suffered, but he'll bless our area for it. So right now we're kind of watering our area till we can go out and start to harvest it. We're focusing on finding new investigators everywhere we go.
Wednesday was a good day. We had 6 qualtiy lessons instead of just 2 or 3, and we found some potentials but we'll see how that works out. This area is tough! From what I've heard from every missionary, this is the hardest area they've been in.
Good to hear that Union won their game! Sounds like Weston did pretty good. 6 touchdowns in 2 games is pretty good. Mar's gonna make the volleyball team as usual. That's crazy you got rain for 4 weeks in a row! Now we need that in Cali! We're dying over here cause it's so hot! Did I tell you we have a drought? So pray for rain! (James 5:8)... No I didn't recover from fire bum haha that never happens when you're eating mexican food 24/7. Every Sunday we have a family called the Sanchez's and they sell street tacos or drive taco truck 3 days out of the week and they have 500 people a day! Every Sunday we go over there and they feed us tacos. It's the best tacos I've ever had. But just because of that we never recover from fire bum... By the way one day Elder Hall and I, and the english elders were driving to Waterford and we had our bikes on the back of the car. But the latch broke off and we were going about 60 mph and the bikes went rolling down the road after the latch broke loose. Their bikes are busted so it stinks to be them haha, but we got a new latch the next day so my bike won't fall now.
Everyone needs to read at least one chapter a night in the BOM, and I promise you'll be on the right path. As a family or personally, but personally is good or even better. Also tell Justin that if he still has his Preach My Gospel book to read ch. 4 and go to the point where it says "Helping overcome Addiction" I think he'd like that.
The language is definitely coming! Since I've given my talk I've seen great success in my personal growth with the mexican culture and the language. I'm understanding a lot more as time goes by... That video you saw of President Clark and missionaries singing "Called to Serve", that was Sister Clark recording it. I wasn't in the video you saw but she did record us at a zone conference like 2 weeks before that we had. If you go to www.fresnomission.blogspot.com you might find more videos, maybe you might find me? I don't know.... By the way you know that corn on the cob on a stick you see on nacho libre?? Yeah i had one of those!! They're sooooo good!! It's basically parmesean cheese and chile sauce on corn. so it's definitely mexican style. But I gotta go so I'll keep you in my prayers and keep our investigators in yours! Love you all!
Elder Horrocks
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