The picture was sent to me by a member (I think she is a member anyway). Alex's introduced us to her on Mother's Day. He said that she is his Spanish teacher and she said that he is a lot of fun to be around and that he makes her laugh! Sounds like Big Al to me! Her words in her text were... "You have an awesome son, very sweet and with a big spirit" I think that explains him pretty well ;) The picture cracks me up. I forwarded it right away to my mom and sister and said "Remind you of anyone??" I got a response back right away that said "Sheldon!" and "Grandpa" lol My dad had a hat similar to it that he wore gardening/camping/sitting at the kitchen table... hahaha!! Alex obviously inherited his fine fashion sense ;)
I also got a Birthday/Mother's Day package from him :):):) It was full of pictures and an old missionary tag. It had a tiny little Boston Red Sox sticker on the inside of it to add his own special touch :) I loved the whole thing very very much!!
Enjoy the letters...
May11th
Well I know I talked to you yesterday, but I'll see if there's anything else I forgot to mention about the week thus far.
Really good Sunday yesterday! I was super excited to see our investigators which is a big family of 5 come to sacrament yesterday. It's the first time for the children but the second time for the mother. I'm not completely sure if I told you or not but the mother's name is G. Our other investigator F. came to church for the first time yesterday as well. We've actually found them both through our investigator C. who's getting baptized the 23rd of May. So all together, including C. and her two kids, we had 9 investigators come to church yesterday! We're seeing good success for the month of May. Yesterday my companion and I were talking about the zone and if we stay on track, and the zone baptizes their solids we'll end up with 10 baptisms for the month of May in the Zone. Pretty exciting! Just gotta keep working hard!
J. R. is doing a lot better. He's the boxing coach we're talking to. His family has come a lot closer he says since his Dad passed away. He's just all around a really good guy and has a wonderful family that loves him so much. To my surprise, he still wants us coming to talk with him in these times of trouble. Heavenly Father is truly blessing and helping him through his challenges. We just hope we can be an influence for his life.
Our investigator Cr. continues asking us to come and teach her when the occasions arise. By the way we were invited to go and see her graduation along with J.'s graduation from medical school. It was on the corner of a christian church. It's was good to see the both of them progress in their careers. They have a good future ahead of them! As far as us teaching Cr., it's going really good. Last time we talked with her she told us that she enjoys her church but learns more talking to us and feels a lot more at peace with her life. That's just the way to Holy Ghost works! Soon we'll teach her the way the Holy Ghost works and functions in our lives. Maybe it will help her to understand what she's feeling when we teach her.
Well there's not much else that happened that I hadn't mentioned before but I apologize if Skype was glitchy at all. It's so different to see everyone just grow! Especially J.T. and Charleigh. I can't believe it! I wish I could have heard all of J.T's questions. They were cracking me up! I'm glad to have seen Grandma and Carmen and Big Dude, Jud, Weston, Marleigh, you. It was just so great to see you all! I really do miss you. I know I've talked about having a year left but it scares me because everyone says it's the fastest one so buckle up and don't blink! Before you know I won't be Skyping or calling anymore.
Wish Weston good luck for me in St. George. Go beast mode! There's not a whole lot left for me to say but that I'll hear from you next Monday!
Love you all much!
Also. Tell everyone to shoot me an email once in a while or something! I'd love to hear from them
Elder Horrocks
May 18th
Wassup Mama
Hope you enjoyed your present! It's not much but it's the best I could think of.
Haha don't let J.T. think that everywhere you go will be Mickey Mouse Land. I know I'm mean but that's really funny what happened!
It's a bummer that baseball just got finished up. I won't lie I really miss playing. Tell Weston to give it all he's got coming up on his last year of sports, and to play with no regrets. Also tell him not to cry like a baby like a did when my last baseball season ended (though he probably will haha). I'm sure gonna be bummed not being able to watch him play his last season of sports.
We really have been blessed with some moisture up here. When it rains here that's how I know it's going to rain A LOT in Utah... Haha I remember Rube Goldberg. It's funny and makes me laugh now, but back then it really sucked when we had to make that machine!
Our week was hard but we did some good things. I'm beginning to become more accustomed to Zone Leader responsibilities and things such as that. I felt that we could have planned better though to have more time in our area but we worked with what we had. Last night Elder Nye and I talked to our investigator, C., that had a baptism date for the 23rd of May for her and her two kids, J. and S. But some situations occurred and she wanted to postpone her baptism for another day. The reason being (and this is what I understood from her, she speaks really fast spanish) has something to do with the kids. I will explain later.
We'll be talking to the bishop this week to see if we can straighten things out and have a better understanding of how we can help. We're praying really hard that there will be an understanding with her and the bishop, and whether or not the kids need baptism we're hoping that she will soften her heart and be baptized herself so that she can enter into the temple and be sealed with her family in the future.
I apologize if I needed to put what I said into a mature filter. I hope you were able to understand what I have written as well. It's been a little bit of a challenge on us because we've worked so hard with this family, and Satan is throwing his shafts and whirlwinds. I'm so grateful that we have a Savior who understands us so perfectly. I love him so much! All I would want for this family is to know his love and what he can do for them.
For bright things that are going on, we had 7 investigators come to church this Sunday! We had 9 last week but we're on fire with investigators coming to Sacrament, we couldn't have done it without these wonderful members. F. came to church and she's doing really well, we have an appointment tonight with her and her sister G. at 6. G.'s been to church twice but she didn't come yesterday. If her and her 5 kids came yesterday that would have been 13 investigators at Sacrament meeting.
Cr.'s doing good as well. She came to church too. She says she likes her Catholic church but she's been to our church twice now. We've invited her to be baptized 3 times and she's said no 3 times :) We have lot's of investigators to set dates with and we plan to do so. When we do plan either they're gone, or they're to busy. We're hoping to set dates soon so that when we go into June we'll see fruits from our labors then.
That's the jist of this week! We could really use your prayers for C., J., and S. though. It's a tough situation to deal with but we're doing all we can to make it right.
Love you all! Tell everyone I say hi
P.S. soon to come.... the Modesto Mission and the missionaries that are going from the Fresno mission to the Modest Mission. I'll keep you updated... BTW let me know how the house thing goes!
Elder Horrocks
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