Sounds like he's taking up roping!! Thanks to what I hear is an amazing teacher Elder Winterton! I can see him roping all the kids now... THIS IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING!! ;)
His investigators continue to progress! He loves them <3 Life is wonderful!!
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| Someone likes cake!! |
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| On his face ;) |
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| SIZZLER!!! |
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| My eyes were drawn to the plates in front of him... and that's only what I can see ;) hahaha |
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| Men in... White??? Bodyguards??? Secret Service??? ;) |
What's up ya'll!
Ya paso otro translado! It's crazy! That sentence means that another transfer gone by. It feels like we just started. I have learned so much and honestly so many things have happened too, good things of course, there's been rough edges but we always seem to get past them. So here we are with a new transfer and it's looking pretty good! I'm really excited to see what happens. I'll inform you about how transfers went and then go into this week and progression with investigators. Elder Quintana and I are staying! I think we'll be staying until he ends his mission, which I believe is like October 21st. Elder Nye goes home this upcoming Wednesday, now that's just nuts! We had 4 missionaries leave our zone and we have 4 coming in. I know the majority of the missionaries too. We have two new district leaders, one of them is ours and his name is Elder Mota. He's native so it'll be fun speaking with him! The thing that mind boggles me the most is that the missionaries that I came out with originally the first time are all going home now. Crazy right?
Alright so this week was pretty fun actually. We had a pioneer day activity this Saturday in Fresno. Elder Winterton, Elder Quintana, and I were at the roping booth. We were teaching the kids how to rope (more like they were teaching me, I hardly know how to rope). But I'm learning too as I go. Speaking of which I bought a rope here in Madera and E. Winterton's been teaching me during preparation days, it's really fun! So it was a great activity and I believe about 500 people were there. We had some three legged races, tug a war, and stick pull game (the game that Joseph Smith and those people would play). I really hurt my back doing it and I could tell I strained or messed something up. It's been 2 days since then and I was hurting pretty bad but today it actually feels good. I can run around and do things like play sports and what not. That's a good sign
Our investigators are doing awesome! We had about 7 investigators come to church this Sunday. M. and his family being one of them. They're a family of four with a 14 year old boy and 9 year old girl. They're from Tijuana and they're just great people! I think M.'s family is going back to Tijuana today but we're not sure. His family is really cool! We played baseball with them in the backyard and they've got some athleticism. M. wants to be baptized with his whole family but it'd be cool for him to be baptized and then later on baptize his family when they come back from Tijuana to the states. The only thing that's holding them back is their Visas. I don't know much about the Visa process but I know it takes a while. We'll see what happens throughout the week.
U. just continues reading and asking questions all the time, which is good! That means he's progressing. He comes across some weird scriptures though and so sometimes we have to remind him to be careful reading the old testament haha but he's smart so he learns fast. We had sports night with him last Friday. M. and all their family came too. It was fun! We get along really well through sports and I think that's the best way to get his fellowship.
Our other investigator that came to church was C. She was an old investigator that Elder Quintana taught in Madera before I got here and she somehow just lost the missionaries. One day Elder Quintana wanted to see if she was still here in Madera and she was. She was an investigator that wanted to be baptized but couldn't because she was living with her boyfriend before. Something happened with her BF and he's been kicked out of the house. So now she has the opportunity to be baptized. We actually asked her all the baptism interview questions and she knows everything from what the missionaries taught her in the past. She's awesome!
As far as investigators that are progressing that's all of them! The other ones have kind of came and gone. All of them are set to be baptized this August, we're just praying that that miracle can be fulfilled.
One month of summer left! I thought it was going to be really long because of the heat. It still is pretty scorching but you get used to it. The heat out here lasts until middle of September or end of October then the Fog and a little bit of rain starts to come in. Everyone says there's no rain at all but I've been blessed to see a lot during that time.
I'm excited to hear about Weston and his recruiter! Keep me updated on things that happen for him. I know you don't want to give me distractions but at least let me know what he says about him. Mar is going into highschool! What the heck!!! I want to say she's getting old! Tell her I said to stay away from those chicos! They can be trouble haha just kidding, she'll probably pick on them more than they'll pick on her. Keep tearing it up in Volleyball Mar!
I got the videos! Hahaha super funny! J.T. and Charleigh just seem to crack me up all the time.
Send me some of the pictures of the Lake! Did you all go to the lake last year too? I think you did because I remember a picture somewhere that you sent. I think it was in like September
Well you all know I got short time. I have a lot of things to say but I don't think they're as important as what I've mentioned. But I love and miss you all!!! Pray that this next transfer will be a good one! They seriously just fly by so fast!
Love ya'll!
Elder Horrocks
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