Tuesday, April 28 2015

yesterday we woke up to tornado warnings and purple skies with clouds circling over our heads! from about 9 am to 11 we were in the biggest storm ive ever been in in my entire life!! there was so much water it wasnt even funny! im sure we got more water in those 2 hours than utah gets all year! plus our power went out and we heard that it isnt coming back on until saturday! so we might go and live with the ZL's for the week. because we will have no food! but other than the torrential rain storms this has been a pretty good week! we taught some investigators that are pretty close to baptism and they were all great lessons! its really starting to heat up here. i am not excited for the summer. well i real,ly cant think of anything else. but there is a video of the storm that i was in blowing a train of the rails so here is the link to that! http://www.weather.com/news/news/train-off-bridge-near-new-orleans i love you guys! thanks for all the support! icant wait to see you on mothers day elder horrocks

Monday, April 20 2015

this week i really one have one thing to report on was a guy that we met in the street on thursday! he is the brother in law of ray and we had a really good lesson with him as well! we ent to go see ray but he wasnt home and his brother in law was there so he asked us what the word of th day was and so we told him that the word of the day is restoration! so then we went on to teach him about the restoration and our minds were constantly being blown because he was so smart! i cant believe the things coming out of this mans mouth! he was teaching us the restoration!! so we were talking about priesthood and when we told him that the priesthood has been restored and asked him to be baptized he told us he has been waiting to get into the water his whole life! so we are now teaching him and ray together and we have a 2v2 basketball game lined up at the stake center so we can give them a tour of the church! also i was on exchanges this week with elder drollinger and one night we were at an investigators house, she was making us some sort of mozzerella cheese stick but there was one big difference. they were 10 times better! but the thing is you can only get them from venezuala! and after we ate about 3/4 of the box (about 50 in the box in total) she told us that it cost a whopping $100 to get them!!! so after she told us that we got really full! apparentley she really liked us! haha but she did come to church yesterday and she really enjoyed it! oh one more thing! we were at sams club eating some pizza and this guy came up to us and we started talking about eternity. he gave us a crqazy analogy of eternity. he said "imagine you are a dove in New York city, God tells you to fly to the beach on the west coast and bring one grain of sand. you fly to california grab one grain of sand and fly back. he then tells you to do that until you have brought every single grain of sand from the west coast to the east coast. and when you are done with that you will only begin to even scratch the start of eternity." well thats about it! love you guys. thanks for all the love and support. elder horrocks

Monday, April 13 2015

this week was not the most productive week but i still feel like it was succesfull. we had a lot of return apointments lined up but they all fell through to next week so hopefully they dont drop us next week! im doing real good here though. im loving it here in louisiana! but the weather is starting to get to me, its already like 90 degrees on the average day! this week we went to a members house and we cut down the amazon rain forest! there were so many plants and stuff that we needed to remove! i cut down a tree with an axe. that has always been on my bucket list and since we arent allowed to use chainsaws i got to cut it down with an axe! one of the funnest things ive done on the mish so far! i love doing service its a lot of fun!! plus iit is a great workout and i need it!! well i guess this was a pretty lame week because i cant thnk of anything else.. love yall elder horrocks

Monday, April 6 2015

this was one of the craziest weeks on my mission! so on monday we went to walmart and on our way in we had to translate for some people who were trying to sell their car to some latinos, that was fun! tuesday we had like 6 lessons planed and english class so we were realy bisy that day! we had a new investigator who seems to be really promising! wednesday we taught like another 6 lessons! and we also went and taught ray the plan of salvation! well we tried... spent 2 hours on the first paragraph! ray askes a lot of questions! but we got a date for him! hes getting baptized on may 2nd! thursday we just went out and tried to talk to everyone we could see! we talked to a lot of people and our throats were so sore! friday i was on exchanges with the zone leaders so we went out and i had the chance to do some english work! i like spanish work more, the people dont really like to go into deep doctrine. the highlight of the week was saturday though! we went to volunteer for the color run! and since its based in salt lake city all the workers their were either return missionaries or just plain members so we got to spend like the whole day hanging out with them! we were in charge of throwing the glitter so by the end of the whole thing we were all covered! we looked like the tin man! ill send pics next week when i get them. this week we taught 16 lessons! thats a record in the area that i am in at the moment!! this was a good week! love yall!! have a great week! elder horrocks