Besides the heat being NO FUN he is LOVING every single second of it! I think he played guitar for some missionaries at a farewell this week. I was searching the internet for music like a mad woman to send to him. Hopefully I found a good version of the song. I'm kind of picky about music and there was no way for me to listen to the ones I sent. I'm hoping they turned out good! I was excited that he would get a chance to play his guitar :) I love listening to him play and I miss it a ton!
I got pictures from Lupe of him playing basketball and practicing his guitar :) She said he "played some good ball and scored a lot of points" :):) I LOVE getting pictures and videos from the people there!! Enjoy the letter :)
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| Tired after playing ball |
Trabajando en el infierno
That basically means that we are working in fire out here. Oh my lanzzz it's hot!!! It's been about 108 for the last couple days. It's taken me a while to fall asleep because it gets so hot at night. That summer time has finally come around! Everyone says it's the worst especially if you're outside. The work is fun but not the heat! I feel like a pansy because I thought I've gotten used to it. But anyhow... This week was great! A lot of good things happened.
We had the opportunity to go to the temple this last Thursday. I had two things to take to the temple: 1. Who is progressing and is ready to be baptized? (Elder Nye and I took that same question together) 2. What kind of missionary would the Lord want me to be?... When we ended our temple session I got answers to both, but Elder Nye and I walked out and talked about who we felt is progressing and should be baptized and we both felt that it was Cr.! Later that day we had a Zone Meeting that President Clark held specifically for us to see what we needed to do to help our mission reach their goals. A lot of missionaries are going home in our Zone (5 missionaries) so the focus was mainly on them to keep them motivated, not that they aren't good missionaries but just to help them work their hardest, because they really are great missionaries!... Cr. is progressing really good. She came to church again this week as well as her father M. Last week I mentioned that he's really strict towards us and that he doesn't really want a whole lot to do with us. I kind of wish that we would of had the chance to teach him about church rather than just throw him to the wolves. He didn't understand a whole lot of what was going on. He came because he's trying to make things right with Ma. (Cr.'s mom who we're also teaching). It was only the first time coming to Church, we're praying that he'll soften his heart so we can teach and help him understand what we're about. Cr. told us that she 95% sure that she wants to be baptized now. We told her that we'd work the other 5% :) she's having such a change of heart and continues to see the joy of the gospel, and she can feel it too. We taught her of Jesus Christ's love for us and eternal families and she always is touched to know of our Heavenly Father's plan for us... As for the rest of Cr.'s family they're all doing really well. We watched the Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration movie with Ma. and she enjoyed it, and before we could answer questions we ran out of time and had to leave. So when we teach and answer her questions I'll update you and let you know how that goes... We're getting close with Cr.'s brother J. He's not an investigator but we've gotten to be good friends with him and play ball with him. Now we just have to see if we can catch him at a time when we can teach him.
I'm not sure if I've mentioned an investigator's name named S. in the past? If I haven't, she's C.'s sister. She is so down to earth and one of the funniest people I've met. She invited us for dinner at her house yesterday and we went. Just another opportunity to befriend her and teach her. We've probably seen the biggest change of heart in her!! And we've taught her like once or twice but not only that there was like a space between us and her of about 3 weeks without teaching her. All of a sudden she just came to us and said "Guys I'm not drinking coffee anymore, and I'm starting to pray before I eat my food, and I'm also trying to work on my sailor mouth." Haha the Lord is working on her and it's another one of those "sit back and watch God do it" kind of thing. It's pretty cool! We asked her why she decided to change and she told us that she wants to be with her family when she dies so she doesn't go to spirit prison, she says she's scared of prison haha she's really funny. The only thing that is holding her back is her husband U. He's super cool but he's not as interested as S., though he still listens to us. Elder Nye and I think that whole family will be baptized. We don't know when but we'll see.
Thus far we have those 4 or 5 that are progressing investigators but not more than that. We haven't had much of anything crazy happen this week either. This upcoming week (or I believe it's the week after) I'm going to be playing guitar for a few missionaries that are going to sing how great thou art for the missionary farewell soon. I'm a little bit nervous because there's always a lot of people that go. Wish us luck! Other than that we could us your prayers for Cr. that she'll take the next step to be baptized, and that her family will be receptive to the Lord's message as well. They're all so prepared!... Also keep C. in your prayers! She's going up to Washington for a month for work.
Weston's being a beast!! Haha I laughed about what he did at camp that's pretty hilarious. I know that sounds mean but dang he was really snoring hahahaha. Sounds like Mar, J.T. and Char are all just getting so big, especially J.T. He's gonna be a future ladies man.
Well my time is running out so just know that I all love ya! The mission's great! Wouldn't trade coming back out for nothing!
Love
Elder Horrocks
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