He's been doing lots of fun stuff... meeting Abe Lincoln, dressing up like missionaries for Halloween hahaha (There were 8 of them. I said if they had 4 more they could have been the 12 apostles), riding on bicycles built for two! Who could ask for more right?? Lol
He loves it! They love him! I miss him! Only 7 more months left. I got his mission return papers to fill out the other day and told him and he freaked! I kind of freaked too! What is up with me?? Lol. Enjoy the letters :)
Oct. 26th
What's up this week!!
So I'm really glad to hear that Mar and Wes are doing good in sports. So does that mean Volleyball won region this year?? I never got that update from anyone. I'm pumped for Weston and the boys to play Juab, it looks like some payback is in play! Let me know how that ends up. Go tear it up this week!
I got J.T's sweet pictures of the BYU game. Looks like he had some fun! I would love to go to a college football game or baseball game on my mish, it's hard to get permission though haha. Sounds like everything is good at home! Sorry you were feeling sick this week. I feel you! Haha it's the best huh? Tell Charlie and Kevin I said hi and to hit me up. I wanna know what's going on with the Utah life. Sounds like they're doing well also. That's so cool that Kevin was with Jud's cousins!! It is a small world after all
I heard that the sandals and other packages got here but I haven't been by the mission office to pick it up yet. So when I do go by I'll be sure to grab it.
So this week was great! Transfers is always a little bit hectic but seems to end up smoothly. So here we are! Sixth transfer in Madera and things are off to a really great start. I have definitely learned a lot of things from last transfer and feel that I am going to learn a ton this transfer. I wish I was able to stay longer with E. Guereca and Ordonez but I think I've told you about E. Benites. He was President's former assistant and now he's a Zone leader with me. We've been having a blast together. Can't complain about him, we're both really happy to be together. He's a little bit shocked because he had served in the white culture for 4 transfers and now he's back to hispanic culture. He says he feels like he left home off to his mission and that he's in some foreign country haha which is so true, his last areas were the richest areas in the mission. So I don't blame him for feeling the way he does.
We have a baptism for this upcoming Saturday so pray that all will go well! Her name is R. and she's ready as can be. You know how cool it would be to baptize on Halloween! That would be sweet! We just saw her today and there's only a few more other things to go over with her before she's baptized. She did tell us that she talked with her boss and they're thinking about moving her to work from 4 to 10 instead of 2 to 10. So that's good! Church starts at 1 so that will allow her to able to come to church for sacrament and the first hour or two. It's not official yet so we don't know if that will be her work hours. They're also thinking about having her start in the morning? We're not sure about that either. But anyway, pray that something with her work hours will work out. The rest of our investigators are coming in little by little. We have a guy named H. who's seriously thinking of quitting drinking and we've just been right there to help him at this time. He's been sober for about a week and a half now and he's resisted temptation from friends and has done an awesome job! His date is for the 8th of November. The C. family are coming in. We decided to take a new start with them and just start by teaching them family prayer and how it creates unity. Those kinds of things seems to capture their attention. So now were starting over from the basics and working our way up with them.
The others have struggled to keep commitments. The only thing we can continually do is bear solemn testimony of the Savior and promise them that he will change them. That he will provide all possibilities for them to keep the commandments. It's like Alma 37:17. So strengthening faith in Christ and then keeping commitments will always bring blessings, because God has always brought them to those who kept his commandments. Commitment=Repentance=Conversion. It's pretty simple.
We've been doing lots of different things to find. A lot of times we've tried to go and see less actives but it didn't work out. Probably because there's about 300 LA's and it's not very organized of which members are and are not active. Our sisters here in Madera are the best though! They made a list of all of them and we split it for all 3 companion ships in Madera to go and visit. About 80 names for each companionship... There's lots of work to be done!! So we're going out and finding through them and rescuing the less actives. We're struggling to get a spark going but it's going to turn up, I know it will.
Some awesome events have happened this week!! We went and did a service project for a reenactment of the civil war. Coolest just serve project ever! I got to meet Abe Lincoln and took a picture with him! I was stoked. I'll send you some pictures of it, but there were lots of things we did. There was about 3,000 kids who attended the reenactment and 5,000 who went to the battles this past Saturday. Wish we could have gone to watch them but we were to busy.
Hey so my time is running out but I hope you all have a great week! I never feel like I have enough time to tell all the things that happened during the week so I apologize if I missed something important. I'll send the pictures. Love ya!!
Love Elder Horrocks
Nov. 2nd
What a crazy week it's been! I've never been so tired in a long time and we still continue to go 100 mph it's fun! But wow sooooo tiring. I have about 30 minutes to write this letter so I'm going to be as quick and efficient as I can, it may be a little bit short. It sounds like everyone back home had a crazy week too. I'm bummed to hear about the football game it's a tough way to end. I remember playing against Stansbury my last game and I remember the picture of Wes and I when we played together. I can't believe that was 3 years ago! Now Weston has come to an end for his senior year. Basketball's right around the corner. So go show them what's up Wes! And Mar too! You got 3 years to have some fun so take advantage of it, it flies! I got your pics and stuff. They're awesome! What's fun is seeing those Neola boys all grown up. I remember seeing them when they were little babies haha that's nuts! I sure miss you all, and it sounds like everything turned out good this week.
You already got returning missionary information?? That's so not cool!!! How is that even possible? I still got 7 months or so left. I think they send those things a little too early.
So our week was very successful actually! R.'s baptism did go through! She did such an awesome job and she bared her testimony at the end too and it's always the best to see those moments in a person's life. To summarize her testimony she expressed how much she knew that this step was going to bless her children and herself. It was like another replica of U.'s baptism, great baptism! I forgot my camera to take pictures at her baptism. I don't know what it is about me forgetting pictures for important things but I always seem to do that! So I'm going to get them from my companion and pass them to you all.
My companion and I are doing great! We just make everything a blast. I can never really complain about my companions. We've been working hard and doing new things. Like I mentioned last week there's like 2 wards worth of less actives here in Madera! And we finally found if not all there information and it's been very revelatory of what needs to be done here in Madera. We've seen some big part time families that missionaries would die for! Lots and lots of baptisms. So there's work to be done and thus far we've seen some good things come of it. I'll keep you updated on how that all goes.
Our investigators don't have baptism dates yet but there's H., G. and her family, and a few others who could easily be baptized. I don't know if you all remember G. clear back from June and July but we found her again and she's ready to come back! She's awesome. H. has been sober from alcohol and so he's very prepared. We've had some awesome experiences with him. So there's so many people you can tell who are so prepared. Something that I want to share with you all is Elder Benites and I were just thinking about the people we're teaching and we just started talking and it's obvious that a lot of them just don't keep commitments. And that's the only way anyone is going to come closer to Jesus Christ. If you all read Alma 32 it talks about how we should plant a seed in our hearts and continue to nurture it, whether that seed be the Book of Mormon, prayer, etc. Well a lot of the mexican culture work in the fields cultivating and working to make fruit and all those things. And so lately we've been sharing this scripture with lots of people and it sticks out to them like a sore thumb. It's cool to see what you could do when you teach people to their needs and apply it to themselves! And so far investigators and members have been keeping more commitments! Great things are happening because of that.
Sorry this letter is so short. I'm going to try and be better at writing the next one next week. I'll think about what I need to share the night before or something. I feel bad because I feel there is so much more I could have shared. Have a great week family! Love ya!
Love
Elder Horrocks
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| Double Seated bike! |
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| Elder Feltner. We both had the same trainer Elder Tesimale |
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| Last day with Elder Guereca and Ordonez |
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| Last day with Elder Winterton |
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| Elder Benites and I making the line of buckets of pens and notebooks for the kids |
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| Mansion near the battlefield |
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| Abe Lincoln! He's been doing this all over california and some other states for about 20 years |
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| Mansion near the battlefield |
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| Halloween |
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| Dressed up like missionaries this year ;) hahaha |
Oct. 26th
What's up this week!!
So I'm really glad to hear that Mar and Wes are doing good in sports. So does that mean Volleyball won region this year?? I never got that update from anyone. I'm pumped for Weston and the boys to play Juab, it looks like some payback is in play! Let me know how that ends up. Go tear it up this week!
I got J.T's sweet pictures of the BYU game. Looks like he had some fun! I would love to go to a college football game or baseball game on my mish, it's hard to get permission though haha. Sounds like everything is good at home! Sorry you were feeling sick this week. I feel you! Haha it's the best huh? Tell Charlie and Kevin I said hi and to hit me up. I wanna know what's going on with the Utah life. Sounds like they're doing well also. That's so cool that Kevin was with Jud's cousins!! It is a small world after all
I heard that the sandals and other packages got here but I haven't been by the mission office to pick it up yet. So when I do go by I'll be sure to grab it.
So this week was great! Transfers is always a little bit hectic but seems to end up smoothly. So here we are! Sixth transfer in Madera and things are off to a really great start. I have definitely learned a lot of things from last transfer and feel that I am going to learn a ton this transfer. I wish I was able to stay longer with E. Guereca and Ordonez but I think I've told you about E. Benites. He was President's former assistant and now he's a Zone leader with me. We've been having a blast together. Can't complain about him, we're both really happy to be together. He's a little bit shocked because he had served in the white culture for 4 transfers and now he's back to hispanic culture. He says he feels like he left home off to his mission and that he's in some foreign country haha which is so true, his last areas were the richest areas in the mission. So I don't blame him for feeling the way he does.
We have a baptism for this upcoming Saturday so pray that all will go well! Her name is R. and she's ready as can be. You know how cool it would be to baptize on Halloween! That would be sweet! We just saw her today and there's only a few more other things to go over with her before she's baptized. She did tell us that she talked with her boss and they're thinking about moving her to work from 4 to 10 instead of 2 to 10. So that's good! Church starts at 1 so that will allow her to able to come to church for sacrament and the first hour or two. It's not official yet so we don't know if that will be her work hours. They're also thinking about having her start in the morning? We're not sure about that either. But anyway, pray that something with her work hours will work out. The rest of our investigators are coming in little by little. We have a guy named H. who's seriously thinking of quitting drinking and we've just been right there to help him at this time. He's been sober for about a week and a half now and he's resisted temptation from friends and has done an awesome job! His date is for the 8th of November. The C. family are coming in. We decided to take a new start with them and just start by teaching them family prayer and how it creates unity. Those kinds of things seems to capture their attention. So now were starting over from the basics and working our way up with them.
The others have struggled to keep commitments. The only thing we can continually do is bear solemn testimony of the Savior and promise them that he will change them. That he will provide all possibilities for them to keep the commandments. It's like Alma 37:17. So strengthening faith in Christ and then keeping commitments will always bring blessings, because God has always brought them to those who kept his commandments. Commitment=Repentance=Conversion. It's pretty simple.
We've been doing lots of different things to find. A lot of times we've tried to go and see less actives but it didn't work out. Probably because there's about 300 LA's and it's not very organized of which members are and are not active. Our sisters here in Madera are the best though! They made a list of all of them and we split it for all 3 companion ships in Madera to go and visit. About 80 names for each companionship... There's lots of work to be done!! So we're going out and finding through them and rescuing the less actives. We're struggling to get a spark going but it's going to turn up, I know it will.
Some awesome events have happened this week!! We went and did a service project for a reenactment of the civil war. Coolest just serve project ever! I got to meet Abe Lincoln and took a picture with him! I was stoked. I'll send you some pictures of it, but there were lots of things we did. There was about 3,000 kids who attended the reenactment and 5,000 who went to the battles this past Saturday. Wish we could have gone to watch them but we were to busy.
Hey so my time is running out but I hope you all have a great week! I never feel like I have enough time to tell all the things that happened during the week so I apologize if I missed something important. I'll send the pictures. Love ya!!
Love Elder Horrocks
Nov. 2nd
What a crazy week it's been! I've never been so tired in a long time and we still continue to go 100 mph it's fun! But wow sooooo tiring. I have about 30 minutes to write this letter so I'm going to be as quick and efficient as I can, it may be a little bit short. It sounds like everyone back home had a crazy week too. I'm bummed to hear about the football game it's a tough way to end. I remember playing against Stansbury my last game and I remember the picture of Wes and I when we played together. I can't believe that was 3 years ago! Now Weston has come to an end for his senior year. Basketball's right around the corner. So go show them what's up Wes! And Mar too! You got 3 years to have some fun so take advantage of it, it flies! I got your pics and stuff. They're awesome! What's fun is seeing those Neola boys all grown up. I remember seeing them when they were little babies haha that's nuts! I sure miss you all, and it sounds like everything turned out good this week.
You already got returning missionary information?? That's so not cool!!! How is that even possible? I still got 7 months or so left. I think they send those things a little too early.
So our week was very successful actually! R.'s baptism did go through! She did such an awesome job and she bared her testimony at the end too and it's always the best to see those moments in a person's life. To summarize her testimony she expressed how much she knew that this step was going to bless her children and herself. It was like another replica of U.'s baptism, great baptism! I forgot my camera to take pictures at her baptism. I don't know what it is about me forgetting pictures for important things but I always seem to do that! So I'm going to get them from my companion and pass them to you all.
My companion and I are doing great! We just make everything a blast. I can never really complain about my companions. We've been working hard and doing new things. Like I mentioned last week there's like 2 wards worth of less actives here in Madera! And we finally found if not all there information and it's been very revelatory of what needs to be done here in Madera. We've seen some big part time families that missionaries would die for! Lots and lots of baptisms. So there's work to be done and thus far we've seen some good things come of it. I'll keep you updated on how that all goes.
Our investigators don't have baptism dates yet but there's H., G. and her family, and a few others who could easily be baptized. I don't know if you all remember G. clear back from June and July but we found her again and she's ready to come back! She's awesome. H. has been sober from alcohol and so he's very prepared. We've had some awesome experiences with him. So there's so many people you can tell who are so prepared. Something that I want to share with you all is Elder Benites and I were just thinking about the people we're teaching and we just started talking and it's obvious that a lot of them just don't keep commitments. And that's the only way anyone is going to come closer to Jesus Christ. If you all read Alma 32 it talks about how we should plant a seed in our hearts and continue to nurture it, whether that seed be the Book of Mormon, prayer, etc. Well a lot of the mexican culture work in the fields cultivating and working to make fruit and all those things. And so lately we've been sharing this scripture with lots of people and it sticks out to them like a sore thumb. It's cool to see what you could do when you teach people to their needs and apply it to themselves! And so far investigators and members have been keeping more commitments! Great things are happening because of that.
Sorry this letter is so short. I'm going to try and be better at writing the next one next week. I'll think about what I need to share the night before or something. I feel bad because I feel there is so much more I could have shared. Have a great week family! Love ya!
Love
Elder Horrocks
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