Monday, January 26 2015

what a crazy week! so we started the week with district meeting and then i started exchanges with our DL elder casillas and that was a lot of fun! we went to the church tuesday night to teach english class and when we got done with it we went to our bikes and someone bought us some marshmellow mateys and put them on our bikes and it was awesome! tender mercy from the lord. love when things like that happen! and then on wednesday we went to LSU for a thing called free speech alley, its basically a place where you have a whiteboard with a question on it and we answer the question for people that come by and want to know what we believe. but it was a nice break away from spanish work because we were on LSU campus so it was really just a bunch of college kids! on thursday we ended exchanges and elder joubert and i did weekly planing, nothing really important happened that day. but we did have a dinner appointment with a member on the branch and that was cool. he has a really extensive collection of elephant statues, and a sweet collection of really small dictionaries! like some are as small as my thumb! friday was a crazy day though! we went to go to try and meet with rojer because we havent heard from him since our first lesson with him. so we go to his appartment and knock his door and while we are waiting the owner of the complex drives up and we thought he was going to tell us that he didnt want us tracting here or something like that and he told us that rojet wasnt there anymore because he was deported back to honduras!! how crazy! haha so i take back everything i said last week about him being so promising! because hes not even in the same country anymore! but saturday is the crazy part about this week! so if you didnt hear about it on the news (i hear it was some big nation wide thing) there was this thing that the governer of LA called for. its called the response and it was a big prayer thing at the pete maravich center at LSU. it was where everyone can come and like sit in on prayers and stuff. but anways we were asked to be ushers for it. so when we got there the guys asked us if we could take our name tags off and president hansen would not say yes to that. so long story short they kicked us off of the volunteer squad but let us stay for the activity thing. so we went in and watched for liek an hour and it was the weirdest thing. it was just a rock concert and every now and then there would be a prayer so president hansen said we should leave. so we all left and when we walked out of the building there were just thousands of protesters outside in the parking lots and everywhere! they had riot police and k9 units and everything! it was crazy! total chaos! and here is the crazy part, if we were to still be ushers then we were actually assinged to work in the parking lots and tell people where to park! and im sure if we did that we would have all been beat to death! crazy thing. major tender mercy right there! then we went to stake confrence that night. it was fun but next sunday we have elder cook from the 12 coming to give us a special devotional about missionary work so that is going to be exciting to hear from him! talk to you guys next week love, elder horrocks