I got pictures of him making tamales last week for a member's birthday. I am also SOOOOOOO grateful for this family and for the love that they show my son. Thanks for treating him like he is yours :) <3 Hope the birthday party was the best ever!!
Enjoy :)
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| Making Tamales for Lupe's Birthday |
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| Lupe's Birthday! |
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| Eating Grilled Oysters. Mexican Style |
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| Eating Grilled Oysters. Mexican Style |
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| Low riders here. Saw this car today. Ugly painting but it's a sweet car |
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| Making Tamales for the party |
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| Eating at El Tibu |
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| Last District Meeting and Transfer |
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| Goofs |
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| HaHa! Thug! |
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| Tripanions?? hahaha. New Comps :) |
Sept. 7th
Last week of this transfer!
Wow another transfer has already passed! I can't believe how fast this one has gone by either. For every companion I get they've only stayed with me two transfers. I think that's just my mission routine, get a companion for two transfers and then gone! I think President does that so we don't go insane haha who knows but I liked Elder Quintana! We went through the good and the bad together and probably had the most fun out of all the companion ships in our zone. When we found out that we were being changed we were dropping off a baptismal report to some Elders at a baptism and President Clark was there. He pulled us both aside and spilled the beans to both of us. So yes I'm staying in Madera and Elder Quintana is going to a place called Dinuba. It's a place where missionaries have never been before, so he's opening up that area and training as well! That's awesome! My new companion will be Elder Guereca and he's from Monterrey Mexico. Same place that Elder Quintana grew up in before he moved to Chihuahua. I met Elder Guereca when I was in Hughson and we had so much fun together up there! Oh by the way the both of us are Zone Leaders and training a new missionary too!!! Wish us luck! There are 4 zone leader companion ships that are training this transfer. There wasn't enough missionaries to train the new incoming missionaries so they called zone leaders. A lot of our zone is getting moved around. It's going to be hectic and fun at the same time haha.
Our investigators are all doing so well! We actually got 5 new ones this week and they're all families too. Two of them are the Ch. family and they have two little daughters. We were teaching them The Restoration and about families and they ask the question that any missionary wants an investigator to ask, "So how do you know which one is true?" They're a solid family! After our lesson they asked when we could come back and they are really interested. You could feel the spirit working through us letting them know that what we were teaching was true... The other family is An. and A. and their daughter Ad. They're not as solid as the others but we are working with them as we go.
U. is doing great! He got his new job which allows him to work Monday through Friday instead of on the weekends. It was a great testament of how the Lord is watching over that man and wants to bless a very nascent faith. He has so many good things ahead of him, and it looks like his baptismal date for the 26th of September is on course.
H. is also set up for September 19th as well as D. for the 26th. The only obstacle that H. is trying to overcome is getting a marital licence. Bishop was with us and helping him with it but I wasn't able to understand the Spanish on that subject when we were talking to him about it. But what I did understand is that Bishop chastised him really good! Haha he hasn't been super diligent in the process of getting it done, and bishop told them that they need to be calling the office every week to get an appointment set to get their licence. I'm not sure how the process works but I suppose that you have to contact an office here everyday to see when there's an appointment, because it's super hard to get an appointment. It ALL depends on how they do this marital licence thing, because we can't force them to do anything. As for D. he just needs to simply come to church. But goodness gracious he hasn't done that for 2-3 months! We're doing everything we can to help them both.
M. came back yesterday! He's got a job working, driving trucks. We're so glad he's back though. He clicked with Elder Quintana and I and I hope that transfers doesn't change his perspective on anything. But I believe he's a lot more humble than that. He really wants to come close to God. Especially after what he's gone through. We're going to talk to him before Elder Quintana leaves and see what's up with him lately. Then I'll update you a little more about him.
So many miracles and great things are going to be happening for us this month. To be honest with you I was a little bit nervous to be training as well as being a Zone Leader. I'm not sure why. I suppose I felt apprehensive about the whole thing and how I was going to be prepared, or if I needed to do anything differently. I was just barely reading a quote by Norman Vincent Peale and it spoke peace to me. It says, "Change your thoughts and you change your world." So for now I'm just keeping a good attitude and going forward with things. I'm really excited for this new transfer!
Thanks family for all you do! I got your pictures and everything. Tell Weston to take it easy! It looks like his ankle hurts but he'll be up and running in no time. Congrats to Mar! Keep playing Varsity volleyball!
By the way my finger is fine :P it's just a little cut. I guess they worried for the white boy because normally the white boys out here in California don't work in the fields haha
Well my time is up and I gotta go! I'll send you some pictures from this week and stuff!
Love ya'll!
Elder Horrocks
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