To Mom: well this week was a pretty good week. it seems like the harder you try the less work that gets done. this week we were being pretty lazy and almost broke our record high of lessons in a week. i dont understand how last week we were so dilligent and hard working and this week we were exhausted and almost doubled the lesson count from last week! i honestly cant really thnk of anything to say this week. everything is going alright, no real problems that people need to worry about. i have started to stutter when i speak so i dont know what to think about that. its pretty weird and sometimes it gets pretty bad and its pretty stressful. but otherwise im doing great! we made some sugar cookies this week! they were delicious but i dont think they will ever be as good as yours. if there is one thing i miss more than anything its moms cooking!! the weather has been pretty nice here. it rained for the first time yesterday for like this whole month!! so the humidity hasnt been bad at all! well i got my razor back and now it is super sharp! well i think ive rambled off long enough. love you mom! elder horrocks ps i really want to go to disneyland again! To Dad: i just had the greatest idea for a car shop. i was wondering what you thought about it. its something along the lines of an oil change and a shave. so its just like any regular car shop but while you are waiting for your oil to be changed or other various work that is needed on your vehicle there is a complimentary shave in the little "barber shop" that is on the showroom. i think that would be pretty apealing to the male comunity. i myslef would love to do that! love you dad. i miss you and mom so much. i cannot believe how blind i have been the 19 years growing up with yall and not seeing how much you guys actually took care of me. i will forever be in your guys' debt!!

Monday, September 21 2015

this week was a pretty normal week. l love our investigators. theya re literally the coolest people in the entire world! usually we get to see them like twice maybe even 3 times a week but this week was pretty slow. we got to see them only like once. they are all so receptive to the gospel. and they really like elder caldwell and i. so they listen to us as we struggle our way through spanish. this week for pday we went to the french market, its just a cool place with some interesting stores. anyways there is this place called pepper palace and it has the worlds hottest hot sauce and one of the sisters in our area, sister hunter, and i did the "challenge". what you do is take just a little, and i mean little, bit of the sauce on a spoon and eat it. i had like a micro dot and it was so hot. my mouth was on fire!! it was so hot it made my hands go numb!! i did get the package and let me tell you, everyone is so jealous!! i sent the razor in to get it professionaly sharpened so i can shave with it! well there isnt much left to say, nothing too crazy happened this week. we had specialized training on friday and that lasted for 7 hours!!oh man i almost forgot the biggest news!! the group that we attend wsa just made into a branch yesterday!! it was so cool! love yall. thanks for all yall do for me!! elder horrocsk

Tuesday, September 8 2015

well this was one crazy week that ranged from pulling pranks on missionaries to having a funeral for our pet cockroach. so to start off this week ill talk about transfers. we got a new missionary in the quad (if yall didnt know we live with 2 english elders) his name is elder wilson and he actually went to bingham with me. hes a real cool guy. so the sisters and us (my comp and i) decided to pull a prank on the nedw guy, he just stared his mission. so what we did was had the sisters go to goodwill and get a uniform for the local highschool and act like seniors in highschool. so when elder wilson was unpacking we heard a knock on the door and i asked him if he would go answer the door for his first "door aproach" and he went and answered the door and the sisters were there in the school uniforms without their nametags so they look like normal girls and asked if collin and chad were home. he said yes, then they asked if they were ready for the date and elder caldwell and i yelled downstairs saying that we are just getting ready. so we put on normal clothes and get ready. and right before we leave we ask elder wilson to take a picture of us for our "date" and then we told him to tell our ward mission leader that we will not be able to make it to the meeting that night. so we leave and after a couple minutes, i call our group leader and describe to him the prank that we just pulled and had him call the english elders claiming to be one of the girls father and that if they dont return home in the next 30 minutes hes going to call the cops. (now keep in mind we didnt tell any of the english elders what the prank was going to be so we hoped that elder strand would 1.realize that it was our sisters and just pretend to freak out and 2. not tell elder wilson that they are the sisters.) so after brother farrell called the english elders the english elders call us and i answer the phone and say "make this quick we are about to go into the movies" and elder wilson was like "there was this very mean guy who just called us and told us that if his daughters dont get home in 30 minutes hes going to call the cops" and after he said that i just hung up on hhim! so we then change and make our way to correlation meeting with our ward mission leader and we get there early so we could beat the english elders and when they walked in and saw us in our missionary attire elder wilsons face went bright red! it wsa so funny! id like to say that it was a pretty funny prank. alright so thursday was a pretty long day, we have a less active member who just got kicked out of her sisters house so elder caldwell and i helped her move out of her house and into her new one all day long. and it was so so so hot and if it wasnt hot it was a major downpour and we were freezing! so we spent all the day moving the stuff into our little toyota corolla to and from the other houses. needless to say it was a strange day. so we got home and were exhausted and freezing because we were soaked to the bone and our apt was like -60 degrees. so the sisters made us some chicken noodle soup to help us get warm! it was a very kind gesture for a hard day! so then on friday night we had a funeral for out pet cockroach. yup i caught it and fed it nothing but coca cola for 4 weeks straight. and then it died so i put on a funeral service for it. it was a pretty succesful night i think. we cremated it, but i spilt candle wax inside the pan where we burned it so i lost the ashes. her name was whitney houston. not much really happened on saturday but on last saturday we did a day of service to "celebrate" the 10th anniversary of katrina. it was pretty fun we just did a lot of gardening and i got a pretty bad sunburn. and not much else happened, yesterday i got tazed on the knuckle! one of the sisters in our district has a taser and she tried to tase me but i blocked it and got it on my knuckle! well thats about it. love yall. thanks for all the love and stuff that you do for me. elder horrocks

Tuesday, September 1 2015

well to start off those pictures i sent was one of our less actives sons 8th birthday party. we were driving down the road and saw that there was a big bounce house in front of their house so we decided to go see what was going on and sure enough it was manuels birthday party. so manuel is the litte boy and the two girls are kailey and ashley. the daughters of another one of our investigators who comes to karens (the less active) so we can teach them both at the same time. funny thing. they are both actually named karen! not much really happened this week. it was sister hunters birthday yesterday so we had a little party for that. that was pretty fun. makes birthdays kid of fun for the mission! this was a pretty average week. nothing really happened so not much to say. last night we went to walmart and saw one of our investigators and got to help her find all the stuff she needed so that was a pretty cool thing i guess. thanks for all the prayers and stuff that yall do for me! love yall! elder horrocks