Monday, February 23 2015

this week was a crazy week! so on tuesday we had our district meeting and that was a lot of fun. then we just went out contacting and waited until we had to go to english class, and on our way to english class elder jouberts bike tire went flat so we had to walk our bikes to the church! english class went pretty good, same people show up the same time but its still a fun time. then when english class was over we could find a ride home so we had to walk home in the freezing cold! but it wasnt that bad i guess. it could have beeen hot. wednesday was a good day. we went out with the ZL's all day doing service for debbie. after that we went out and tried to find all teh less actives in our area because we finally got a branch roster and as we went out to look for them some of them havent lived there for as high as 5 years! so we are working pretty hard this week trying to find and contact all the less actives in our area. thusrday we went to debbies again to help scrape off all the paint on her trims so we can start painting the outside of her house. that took up most of the day and at 6 we went to danham springs for a special confrence we had with elder kopichke from the 70 and it was a lot of fun. he was a really funny guy. we spent the whole time talking about contacting and re-activating less active members so it got us all pretty pumped about what we are doing! friday was a pretty slow day. nothing much happened, plus cant really remember it anyways. saturday we went over to debbies with the ZL'S again because she wanted to make us some red beans and rice. so we went and ate some red beans and rice and we were going to paint but it looked like it ws going to rain so we just sanded some other parts to prep for painting and played darts for ever! but we did that all day. my shoulder is getting sore from all teh sanding!! sunday was a good day. went to church and like half the people in sacrament meeting were new people! it was a really neat meeting. we then went to our branch mission leaders house for dinner and had lots of rice and chicken! it was pretty good! i jsut cant wait to finally have some real cajun food one day! thats pretty much it! love you guys. thanks for all the prayers and support elder horrocks

Monday, February 16 2015

this week was a pretty fun week. not much really happened but elder joubert and i teach english classes on tuesdays and we had this family come and we told them a little bit about our missions and about our church and asked them if we could come by sometime and share a message with them and they said yes, so we set it for friday of that same week. wednesday was a pretty lame day. nothing much really happend, i honestly cant even remember it haha thursday was a fun day. we went witht the ZL'S to a service project with a lady that had her house flood so we spent most of the day cleaning out all the mold. she lived on the property of one of the biggest cotton plantations in BR and her house was right behind the plantation house and so we got to get a pretty cool story about that property and about what happened when the plantation was shut down and stuff. we are gonig back to her house on wednesday to help repaint the walls and everything. friday was a great day. we had ZTM and got to meet all the new people in the zone since transfers. elder joubert and i is the only surviving companionship in the zone so that is pretty cool! and after we went to the mall for lunch. then elder joubert and i went to the lesson with the family from english class. when we got there we just talked about ourselves and got to know them some more. theya re a family from mexico, they have 8 kids but six of them are still in mexico. but they are a really nice family and they said that if we ever need a ride anywere just call them! thats going to be nice because we dont have a car yet haha. we went out to lunch way to much this week haha. i am getting fat! thats pretty much the week! love you guys. talk to you later. love, elder horrocks

Monday, February 9, 1015

this week has been a pretty slow week. nothing really happend. we found out that our new area is just the south part of baton rouge so we are still in the same branch and district so we will still be able to see walter and alma each week but will no longer be able to say we have an investigator coming to church (at least for now). we had district meeting on friday to meet the new people in our district and it seems like its going to be a pretty fund district so im excited to see how these next 6 weeks go. hopefully next transfer we wil get a car! elder joubert and I are the only biking elders in the zone!! but saturday was a pretty cool day! elder joubert and i were talking about how we never have any money for food because we eat cereal for breakfast and pb&js for lunch and dinner! so we were walking to walmart to get some food and as we were walking in this couple asks us if we wanted something to eat and of course we said yes! so they took us to the subway in the walmart and bought us a footlong combo! that was a really neat experience! and suday was a nice day. we had fast and testimony meeting and we had the most people show up to church that week since i have been here so that was really cool. and last night elder drollinger told us that he and our branch president had a lesson with walter and alma and commited them to get married so our branch president is going to go and get their marriage liscense and the sisters are going to plan the wedding! it bums me out that that couldnt have happend last week but it is still a great experience to see that thy are proggressing instead of just dropping the missionaries. lets hope next week we can get some people in our area to invite us into dinner! but ive got a good feeling about this week. love you guys, love, elder horrocks

Tuesday, February 3 2015

this last half of the week was a total rollercoaster! so ill just skip straight to the parts that are important haha! so on saturday we all had the wonderful opportunity to hear from elder quinten l cook from the 12 and we also got to have elder bluth and elder halstrom come and talk as well! it was a very spiritual experience because we had all the missionaries in our mission here and so the chapel was filled and so we thought we wouldnt have to chance to shake his hand because it was going to be a pretty short meeting. but he came in and we all had the opportunity to shake his hand! when he started it was a really neat experience because he just talked for a few minutes and we had the rest of the time for a question and answer kind of thing and it was a really spiritual experience with a couple questions that were totally out of there and when they were asked no one was expecting an answer but they all gave such great answers to them but the thing that stuck out to me the most was when elder cook was bearing his testimony. usually when people say that they heard the holy ghost its jsut about like a still small voice but when elder cook bore his testimony he said quote "i know the voice of the lord" and the whole room just went blank. haha all the missionaries were shocked and you could definitely feel the spirit in that room. then we went to lunch as a district at five guys and that was really good. havent gone to five guys in forever! then on sunday elder cook came to our stake conference again and talked about how the world make even the most disgusting things look like a million buck on the outside and how we need to see things for what they actually are. but the best part about that day is that our one and only investigator walter and alma came and after they told us that they wanted to go see elder cook. so elder joubert and i were trying to push them up into the crowd to go and shake his hadn and our branch president comes up to us and we tell him about how they want to see elder cook and so we walks up to elder bluth and says "we have a family of investigators that want to shake hands" and so elder bluth gets elder cook and brings him over and walter, alma, and their 1 1/2 year old daughter rachel get to shake his hand! it was a really neat experience! and on monday we were all waiting for a phone call to see who is getting transfered and everone in my district but two peple are getting transfered! so elder joubert and i are going to a new home so i would wait to send out anyting (if youare) until i get the address of our new appartment. thanks for everything! lvoe you guys. elder horrocks