Monday, August 24 2015

well this week was such a werid week. first off sorry for the bvad spelling, im typing with ice cubes because my hands have frozen over. the library is so cold. its not even funny. main story for the week is that we had this feeling to go to the snowball shack to go and get some free snowballs (an investigator owns it) and when we got there the sisters were there talking aboiyut the priesthood with the investigator and after the end of the lesson we were able to give her a blessing to help her prepare for her baptism, which is on sunday! and since we dont have either a church building or a font we are doing the baptism at our group leaders swimming pool! life is great though. loving the mission. dont want to reach my year mark soon but its coming too fast!! i know that what im doing ins the true work, its the loreds work. there is no denying the blessings that i have seen teaching these people. i love them they are so nice, so humble. well the spanish people at least. well sorry but im so cold i cant type any more. love yall! ill send pics next week i promise!!

Monday, August 17 2015

this week has been a fast one! so last week for pday we went to this place right outside of the levy wall and we saw a bunch of gators yes i took pictures but i forgot to bring my camera to the library to send the pictures. and then after when we went home we made a bunch of deep fried food and my favorite out of the bunch was deep fried ice cream! it was delish! sorry for the short email just cant think of anything to say. im doing great, loving the mish! cant believe how fast time is flying. i feel like summer just barely started! now all the kids are going back to school! the heat is still burning nothing will ever change with that! i hope we get some pretty big rain storms here soon! need to cool things off! love yall. have a great week! elder horrocks

Monday, August 10 2015

this week was a pretty nice week, its still going by too fast. i dont know how to slow it down! this week one of our investigators got home from a trip to puerto rico for about 6 weeks so we got to see her on sunday which was nice. we had zone transfer meeting this week and i had a fun time hanging out with the zone! i made a new goal to take lots of pictures of the mission. thats one thing i wish i did when i started was take some pictures! so hopefully ill send like one picture a week at least because its pretty cool here and the history here is so rich its amazing. Some people dont like new orleans but i love it, i think that it is a great city! there is so much to do and the people here are all so nice! yeah there are some pretty scary places in the lower ninth ward (which is in my area). but as dangerous as it is i dont feel like im in danger. the people will let you in all the time and give you some water or some purple drank. you know youre in the south when you can always smell fried chicken in the air... well guys i doing great, not really much to say though. love yall. thanks for all the prayers, i can feel the love everyday. have a great week! elder horrocsk

Monday, August 3 2015

dang this week was a pretty fast week, the more on wednesday i have been out for 9 months. i cant even believe how fast time has been flying by! this week we had all our set appointments fall through. typical week of a spanish missionary, but we still were able to teach like 13 lessons this week so it was a pretty succesful week. this week i realized to never step on a ant hill and stay there. yup, i stood on a fire and hill at night and couldnt see them climb up me. and i couldnt feel them either. so when i started walking away they all bit me at the same time and i thought i was in The Mummy with those beatles that eat you alive before they mummyfye (literally have no clue how to spell that). it is pretty painful and i had to make sure they were all off of me before i got into the car! shout out to the less actives who we visit because they always have friends over and we get to teach them and get new investigators from them, that happend like 5 times this week so it was pretty awesome. As elder casillas says "less actives are just members who like to party too much" i dont know about english people but in the hispanic community it couldnt be said any better. well sorry this one is kind of going off in a rant but now i have to go. my companions keyboard doesnt work so he keeps nagging at me to leave! love yall! sorry i say dang so much. i try to stop but instead i say dang. elder horroclks!