Monday, January 12 2015

this week was a pretty fun one. we always have district meeting on tuesday and at the last district meeting we all shared one tender mercy that we noticed this week, so me and elder joubert were sharing about that honduran family and about how promising the mother was and how we are going to kill the next lesson we had with her. but throught the tender mercies we all just kept thinking of more and more and what was supposed to be a 1 hour meeting went to 2 and a half hours! it was so much fun! lots of tender mercies this week. one of them was that we were all out of money so we couldnt buy groceries, so we asked the senior office elders when we get money back in our cards and they told us they didnt know. so then we were sitting at the apartment planning and the senior offic elders text us and ask if we are going to be home at five and we say yes. so five comes around and they call us and we walk out and they went and bought us groceries! it was so nice of them! they got us a roticery chicken and we ate that that night haha. but then we got money the next day so we felt kind of bad. so the next day we had the lesson with the honduran lady whos name is elsy. anywasy it was about 20 degrees and raining and extremely windy and she lived about 6 miles away. so it took us forever to ride our bikes all they way there! and when we got there we were soaking wet and freezzing and knocked on the door and a little girl answered and basically told us that elsy didnt want to meet with us! so we didnt want to go home because we had a lesson with walter in two hours so we decided to try and knock some doors. so we went around and knocked on some door and no one was there. so we saw this mexican couple drive up and go inside so we went and knocked on their door liek five minutes later and they turned off all the lights and went super quiet. so elder joubert was like "its the missionaries!" and like 30 seconds later they said who? then we said the missionaries of the church. they then opened the door and said they were eating so we couldnt come in. basically we walked in the freezing, blowing, rain for two hours with no luck! then we had our lesson with walter and we tought him about how families can be eternal and stuff but it was lame because his girlfriend alma did not come and join the lesson (if i didnt mention who alma was, she is a return missionary who is inactive now. and they have a kid) so it was just walter and their daughter rochelle. other than that it was a great lesson! then walter came to church again by himself on sunday which is good for him but then that means that there is something up with alma now. that is basically it. oh and tomorrow we have a big confrence because one of the members of the 70 is coming. his name is elder teh, its going to be pretty cool from what i have heard about it. talk to you next week. love you elder horrocks