I also love the little blip he put in about the Mexican Culture and their visions of Christ. How exciting and what a beautiful experience to have! I have been to Mexico on a couple different trips and specifically went to different ruins that depicted some of the stories in the BOM. What a huge testimony builder it was to see some of the places where you can just SEE the stories in the BOM unfolding and understand the way that they happened! The Mexican culture truly are blessed :)
Good Luck to Charlie in his new calling!!! It seems the Lord has BIG things in store for him!
Baptisms and more baptisms
Yes, baptisms and more baptisms!! We had two more this past Saturday. This week has been an awesome week. We've been super busy but we got great things out of it. So Charlie and Hunter were the ones that were baptized. What a cool experience it was for them. What's crazy is that the week before ANY one get's baptized, Satan tries to make it hectic more than anything. For Hunter it wasn't as bad. He told us that his mom was a little iffy about it, saying he was to young or that he wasn't ready, but I believe she decided to just let Hunter choose for himself. His mom is super cool she just didn't quite understand the importance of baptism. When Hunter was baptized he had to do his twice, because the first time wasn't approved. I was one of the witnesses for the baptism and I told them they had to do it again, which I kinda felt bad for saying. What's even better is that after Hunter got dunked he came up with a bloody nose hahaha poor kid! I guess the temperature of the water can cause nose bleeds sometimes, at least that's what bishop said. Good thing none of his blood got in the water. But all was well because the second time he did it, it was good and Hunter was clean!!... Charlie was confronted with all sorts of temptations and challenges. I won't go into detail of what they were but it seems like Heavenly Father had something big for Charlie, and there's more to come. After he was baptized and confirmed he said he felt this peace, like none other that he ever felt before. He then received a calling just yesterday!! He's the ward mission leader's secretary, can you believe that?? That doesn't happen often at all unless they're super prepared, which Charlie was very prepared, I guess that's what he gets for coming out on visits with us even before his baptism.
Everyone else is doing were good too! M. and T. are still being bums and won't come to church. It's only been T. that's been able to come. We saw M. yesterday with a member that was in M.s situation before, and talked to him about just coming and seeing for himself. He doesn't have to do anything, join us, be a member, or whatever just come and see! I think he wants to be stuck in the whole virgin marry thing and the old traditions. But with our members it's ten times easier to get them to come. S. and J. are doing good too. They came to Church last week but not this week unfortunately. They're both on programs for drugs which is good, at least they're not struggling. They've both been going and haven't done drugs for like a year now? That's awesome! Now the Gospel can just top it off for them. We saw Si. this week, she seems so happy every time we go by. She says to us all the time that she feels this "sensation" or some sort of feeling when we talk, teach, or anything. She wonders how the heck this is carried around by a couple of teenage kids haha. Little by little they're learning. Her husband not so much though, he drinks during our lessons which is like what the heck? Come on man! V. and I. aren't doing so well :/ they've been frustrated with their marriage like no other. They have A LOT of things to work on. The biggest thing that's holding them together is their kids. We're trying to help them realize the effect that divorce has on eternal progression and even more or just as much their kids. We're hoping and praying they can come to each others senses and just GRASP the Gospel. That's really the only thing that will keep them together. They're great people and everything and it'd be really sad to see a divorce brought about... We found a new person named M.R. She's catholic but she's not active because the congregations here aren't very nice. She's way cool and wonders the same thing as Si. Two teenage kids going around and doing this 24/7? They don't get to call or see their family very much during the year? Wow!! ;) We talked her about life and what it's really about, she looks forward to us going by again.
Well that's kind of all that's been going on for this week, not to bad at all! Something interesting I found out this week is that the members of the church in the Mexican culture have dreams and visions like no other! It's not fair!! It's so cool to hear some of the stories they have to say. Some say they saw the image of Christ, or the picture "Jesus the Christ" the one where he's plain face and has a robe on. They all said that they "know" that's how he exists because that's how they saw him. How cool and interesting is that? Just shows that God still does show visions and dreams and he always has.
Transfers were this week too. It's always a crazy Saturday on transfers and I'm always nervous about what could happen. Elder Moody and I and the two sisters in Lindsey are staying though :) which I'm really happy about. We have awesome friends here and the work is doing awesome in Lindsey. I'm excited to stick around for the holidays.
Sorry to hear about Weston. I'm sure he'll make the team, I know the coach pretty well from institute he's a good man. Weston's tough and he can make it through his one time shot of a try out. Just tell him to be careful and not break his neck. I'm still bummed about football. The championship game sounded lame!! Some teams just need to figure it out, like Judge! Because 63 to 14 is kind of uhhh... a little over the top. I'm glad Weston and the boys did good this year. That will bring a lot of good things for the team in the near future if they keep playing hard.
Marz sounds good! I got her letter today! If I don't write her today tell her I'll try and get it in next time. J.T. and Charlie sound like they're just getting bigger and bigger all the time. I miss those two little munchkins, send my love to them as always.
Well my time's up and I got things to do but I will for sure talk to you next Monday and let you know how things went. Thanks again. Love you lots
Elder Horrocks
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| Elder Nye and Charlie |
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| Me, Tony (Hunter's dad), Hunter, Elder Moody, and Charlie |
Baptisms and more baptisms
Yes, baptisms and more baptisms!! We had two more this past Saturday. This week has been an awesome week. We've been super busy but we got great things out of it. So Charlie and Hunter were the ones that were baptized. What a cool experience it was for them. What's crazy is that the week before ANY one get's baptized, Satan tries to make it hectic more than anything. For Hunter it wasn't as bad. He told us that his mom was a little iffy about it, saying he was to young or that he wasn't ready, but I believe she decided to just let Hunter choose for himself. His mom is super cool she just didn't quite understand the importance of baptism. When Hunter was baptized he had to do his twice, because the first time wasn't approved. I was one of the witnesses for the baptism and I told them they had to do it again, which I kinda felt bad for saying. What's even better is that after Hunter got dunked he came up with a bloody nose hahaha poor kid! I guess the temperature of the water can cause nose bleeds sometimes, at least that's what bishop said. Good thing none of his blood got in the water. But all was well because the second time he did it, it was good and Hunter was clean!!... Charlie was confronted with all sorts of temptations and challenges. I won't go into detail of what they were but it seems like Heavenly Father had something big for Charlie, and there's more to come. After he was baptized and confirmed he said he felt this peace, like none other that he ever felt before. He then received a calling just yesterday!! He's the ward mission leader's secretary, can you believe that?? That doesn't happen often at all unless they're super prepared, which Charlie was very prepared, I guess that's what he gets for coming out on visits with us even before his baptism.
Everyone else is doing were good too! M. and T. are still being bums and won't come to church. It's only been T. that's been able to come. We saw M. yesterday with a member that was in M.s situation before, and talked to him about just coming and seeing for himself. He doesn't have to do anything, join us, be a member, or whatever just come and see! I think he wants to be stuck in the whole virgin marry thing and the old traditions. But with our members it's ten times easier to get them to come. S. and J. are doing good too. They came to Church last week but not this week unfortunately. They're both on programs for drugs which is good, at least they're not struggling. They've both been going and haven't done drugs for like a year now? That's awesome! Now the Gospel can just top it off for them. We saw Si. this week, she seems so happy every time we go by. She says to us all the time that she feels this "sensation" or some sort of feeling when we talk, teach, or anything. She wonders how the heck this is carried around by a couple of teenage kids haha. Little by little they're learning. Her husband not so much though, he drinks during our lessons which is like what the heck? Come on man! V. and I. aren't doing so well :/ they've been frustrated with their marriage like no other. They have A LOT of things to work on. The biggest thing that's holding them together is their kids. We're trying to help them realize the effect that divorce has on eternal progression and even more or just as much their kids. We're hoping and praying they can come to each others senses and just GRASP the Gospel. That's really the only thing that will keep them together. They're great people and everything and it'd be really sad to see a divorce brought about... We found a new person named M.R. She's catholic but she's not active because the congregations here aren't very nice. She's way cool and wonders the same thing as Si. Two teenage kids going around and doing this 24/7? They don't get to call or see their family very much during the year? Wow!! ;) We talked her about life and what it's really about, she looks forward to us going by again.
Well that's kind of all that's been going on for this week, not to bad at all! Something interesting I found out this week is that the members of the church in the Mexican culture have dreams and visions like no other! It's not fair!! It's so cool to hear some of the stories they have to say. Some say they saw the image of Christ, or the picture "Jesus the Christ" the one where he's plain face and has a robe on. They all said that they "know" that's how he exists because that's how they saw him. How cool and interesting is that? Just shows that God still does show visions and dreams and he always has.
Transfers were this week too. It's always a crazy Saturday on transfers and I'm always nervous about what could happen. Elder Moody and I and the two sisters in Lindsey are staying though :) which I'm really happy about. We have awesome friends here and the work is doing awesome in Lindsey. I'm excited to stick around for the holidays.
Sorry to hear about Weston. I'm sure he'll make the team, I know the coach pretty well from institute he's a good man. Weston's tough and he can make it through his one time shot of a try out. Just tell him to be careful and not break his neck. I'm still bummed about football. The championship game sounded lame!! Some teams just need to figure it out, like Judge! Because 63 to 14 is kind of uhhh... a little over the top. I'm glad Weston and the boys did good this year. That will bring a lot of good things for the team in the near future if they keep playing hard.
Marz sounds good! I got her letter today! If I don't write her today tell her I'll try and get it in next time. J.T. and Charlie sound like they're just getting bigger and bigger all the time. I miss those two little munchkins, send my love to them as always.
Well my time's up and I got things to do but I will for sure talk to you next Monday and let you know how things went. Thanks again. Love you lots
Elder Horrocks
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