What's Happening??

Here is last Monday's letter.  I feel just like he does...  It seems like we haven't gotten to talk in a long time!  He of course sounds like he's loving it all.  He's also right... Kenny Chesney made me cry for hours!  But in my defense I was 9 months pregnant with Charleigh!!  I'm super excited to hear from him tomorrow AND we get to Skype next Sunday!!!  CAN I GET A WHOOP WHOOP!!!! I can hardly stand it!!

Enjoy the letter :)...


What's happening??

I feel like I haven't talked to you all in forever! We didn't go to the zoo today but we've had a good preparation day thus far. We just didn't have enough time and we got lots of errands to run.

Our week wasn't so bad! Being a Zone leader there are a lot of meetings and errands to run. Things like Leadership trainings, stake correlations, District meetings, exchanges, and many other things I have yet to tell you about. That's kind of the majority of what happened this week. We went on some exchanges on Tuesday with some elders from Kerman. Normally when we do exchanges we go with the District Leaders. I went on an exchange with Elder Smith, and he is witty and energetic as ever! Great Elder!  He talked, and talked, and talked, and talked my ear off the whole day :) sooooo that's that! This past Friday we had what's called MLC meeting (Mission Leadership Council). It's a meeting where President and Sister Clark, the Assistants, and all the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders get together and have this council on the mission and have trainings and things. We were so spiritually uplifted and edified. We've struggled these last months of 2015 to keep up on our baptism goal, but we've seen results here and there of why things aren't turning out the way we'd like them to. We've received great revelation and other things that would help us show our outermost performance, but even then we felt that something is missing. So there are a lot of things that have been inputted into our mission (and I wish I could tell you all of them) but at our MLC meeting it came down to our Exact Obedience

Apparently there have been a few issues of Integrity/Obedience in the mission and the best things that we could use from you guys at home is prayers. Prayers that we might fulfill our missionary purpose and our goal by being Exactly Obedient! Obedience is what has helped us be the most successful and has set us apart from other missions. We're working hard to gain it back as a "tradition" I guess you could call it, in our mission. We know that's exactly what we need too (D&C 82:10). So your thoughts and prayers sent our way would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't updated you all in a while on how our investigators are doing so far. They're actually doing really good! We'd like to have more people to teach, and we've been working hard to find. But those that are solid and have been solid are staying solid! We've had a few new ones come in as well. The new ones include N. and S. and her family. N. is a friend of a recent convert named J. and we found N. through her. She is super spiritual and so ready to hear the gospel. We had our first lesson with her in J.'s house and she has had a rough life. Her family has been in gang members and that's the majority of what she's been through. So we were actually getting ready to teach her the first time and we offered the first prayer and she started crying! That rarely happens at all! We taught her about God being our loving Heavenly Father and The Gospel blesses families. To me it seemed very touching for her. We haven't been able to catch her for a few days because she's been sick, but we will eventually... S. is J.'s sister and came to church for the 1st or 2nd time. The first time was forever ago though so I'm not really sure if it counts but she's been talking to us lately and it has been awesome getting to know her and her family. She's just really down to earth and is hilarious.... C.'s boyfriend hasn't come back from Los Angeles so I'm assuming he's gone for good. Which allows her to be baptized. She has a date for the 23rd of May. Speaking of which our Zone has 9 solid dates for baptisms in May so that's awesome! We also have an Investigator named J. R. He's diagnosed with some kind of cancer (I can't remember the name of it) but he's a carpenter and owns a gym and trains boxers. He was a professional back wayyyy back! It'd be sweet to get him into the church! His wife and kids are members so he currently has a part member family. He invited us to a BBQ this past Saturday at his boxing gym and we got to go and fellowship with him a little bit more, it was pretty sweet!

That's all folks! That's basically a summary of what happened this week. I always look forward to hearing from family at home :) you all sound like you're doing great. I'm sorry to hear about Weston's games, though I laughed a little bit about Coach Labrum's remarks to the ump hahaha and Coach DeCol's too. Just go out and get park city now! I saw Mar's video of her in V-ball and her sick hit! She's grown a lot too.

J.T. is getting to be a stud, though he always has been. Charleigh keeps growing and gets cuter all the time. Where'd the time go!

Anakin Guy?? Haha pfff remember that one time you played don't blink by Kenny Chesney? I'm glad to hear ya miss me :) I miss you too

By the way that surprise picture you got. Elder Winterton is the one on the left of me if you were wondering.

My time is up! I love you and miss you all! This next week should be a good one!

Love Elder Horrocks

P.s. I'm pretty sure we can skype on mother's day?? Everyone I've asked has told me yes :) I'm not sure how long though

P.s.s. did you ever send that pull up bar? I know it's been a while... I got your recorder too by the way. I'll start sending recordings soon.

Elder Horrocks