I don't have much to say about this week. He kind of says it all ;) He continues to grow!! He also says they have baptism dates set :) :) Enjoy the letter...
Halloween and some rain!
This week was pretty awesome! I really enjoyed this one because of our accomplishments we were able to see. We set for 3 baptism dates for this month. Charlie is one of them and he's definitely our most solid! He's got everything figured out and knows where he needs to be. What's crazy is that it's all HIM doing his own progress, we're simply like his friends and guides along the way. He loves hanging out with us and he says that everytime he does that he learns something new. Just yesterday he went with us to our missionary counsel meeting which in a way was awkward because, in those meetings we talk about our investigators to our ward mission leader and some of the members. Well him, being an investigator, was there to listen to us talk about his progression hahaha. Actually he explained more to the ward about his progress than Elder Moody and I did haha I can honestly say that's never happened before.
Hunter is going to hopefully be baptized this weekend on Saturday as well. His dad is supposed to baptized him but he is in Utah until Friday. So pray that he gets back in time or earlier! Hunter's progression has been a huge thanks to the young men's quorum. I believe that one of his friends on the football team is in the young men's quorum too. This is a result of member/missionary work. It truly does hasten the Lord's work.
Jesse is definitely set for this weekend. His mom was baptized before but she has been inactive for the longest time due to some personal issues she had with the ward. But she became super humble and apologized to the bishop for whatever reason of the past. I was very impressed! I guess Jesse had something to apologize for as well even though he isn't a member. They're both on track for better things thanks to the missionaries!
So those are our investigators who are getting baptized and we still got plenty of other progressing investigators too. Si. is still doing good. She wasn't able to attend church but she came a ward activity for Halloween. The activity we had was trunk or treat (I thought this only existed in Utah). We had other cool things too. Elder Moody and I got to judge the chili dinner that we had and we had a maze for little kids that we built out back of the church in some old orchards. It wasn't huge or really scary but it was fun for the kids... T. came to the activity! But M. didn't danget!! Lately they've been hard to get around. T. wants to continue learning but martin probably doesn't, which is hard because in order for T. to be baptized she has to be married to M. Also they moved this Saturday and they told us their house was in an alley way but we have no idea where it's at haha, so pray for us that hopefully we can find their new house... S. is doing awesome! The ONLY thing she could use now is either a church tour or to just simply go to church! We're also teaching her husband J. He seems to be enjoying it and likes us a lot. We've taught him the restoration and told him what we're all about and he seems pretty cool with us.
You would not believe the rain that has been pouring here!! I love it!! Except when the winds come it gets really cold. Friday night was a huge storm, and then all day Saturday it rained, and some of Sunday it rained partly. But Heavenly Father sees that we're in desperate need of it.
Lastly there's a couple that could use all your prayers. Their names are V. and I. They've been married and baptized and married for 5 or 6 months now. They're active and everything in the church, but their marriage struggles. We've gone by their house to see what we could do and we gave them blessings. Now it's kind of just up to them to fix whatever issues they have. I think they're taking up on member that does family counsel in our ward, so that'll be awesome for them!
Good news at home I see?? I'm glad Weston won his game I was really hoping they'd win. And they did!! What a bunch of studs!! They go to 2nd round of playoffs before semi finals right? Tell them I continue to support and love them even though I'm not around. Marz team should do good with basketball. They're really scrappy but that's what the basin's made of right? Don't get me wrong the basin's got talent too :)
I remember the struggles that Justin has been through. I can definitely say that he's come a long ways. My mission president always says that he wants to do everything he can to make our mission a thing that will get us converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ forever. Well life is kind of like a mission, and we all have our differences with it. Justin's conversion and progression in his personal mission has been directed every step of the way by Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father. What amazes me is that some people say that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is waiting for us at the finish line when really they are with us every step of the way. And he does it through his children. So tell Justin to keep it up and that I feel very blessed to see how far he's come. I'm super happy about Allen's baptism! The gospel is a beautiful thing, I'm just so happy to see so many blessings back home :)
Well I love hearing about awesome stuff at home, but my time's up and I will hear from you next monday :) I love you all. Remember to help hasten the Lord's work, sometimes we have to keep up with his pace, because it really is going super fast
Love you
Elder Horrocks
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