Monday, November 30 2015

well this week was transfer week! elder glauser went home this transfer, and im here in chalmette for another 6 weeks. i love the area but im getting real tired of it pretty quick. my new companion is elder brosnahan, he has only been out for 1 transfer more than me. also elder wilson got a new companion and it is elder lehrs trainee!! i was so excited when president anounced it i jumped with joy in the middle of the chapell at transfer meeting!! it was kind of embarassing but i was too excited i couldnt control myself! thanksgiving was a lot of fun! we had 4 meal appointments! there was so much food! so much good food though. i think i gained about 1 million pounds on thursday! everything is going good here! sorry but i just dont have the motivation to write a big long letter today. love yall so much! thanks for everything!! elder horrocks

dang well this week was crazy! i honestly cannot think of anything to say but one sotry so here we go. elder glauser and i go tracting and we run into this lady named carmin. when we knocked on her door we introduce ourselves as missionaries for the church and she just says oh my goodness this is amazing. i was litterally on my knees in my bedroom praying when yall knocked on the door. apparently she has been going through some really tough times in her life and its amazing how the lord directed us to her. literally the best time to knock on the door was that time!its been pretty weird because all week we were going around telling people that we were both leaving and now im not leaving and everyone is going to be like "youre still here" yup. oh dang one more thing! we went to this crazy bible study at our neighbors howse and it was super blasphemous. but everyone there was super nice and inviting so we will probably go next week because we were invited back and it would give us a good name! plus we dont ever have anyting to do thursday nights! love yall!! thanks for all the letters and packages!!... elder horrocks!

dang well this was a crazy week. i took a lot of pics this week! alright well to start off. i dont even know where to begin! i have a lot so say but im worried i will forget it all!! anyways here we go. start it off we went on exchanges for the last time this transfer! elder peterson came to chalmette with me and we went to go check up on shelley because she didnt come to church! turns out she had the flu! so that sucks. it was a fun exchange though! elder peterson is so funny! alright ive figured out what im going to say! so on thursday elder glauser and i went to go and teach a young couple named cenia and juan, they are from honduras. so little back story about them, we tried teaching them the restoration and juan could not understand that the piresthood wasnt a human being but the power of god so we got real stressed out and kinda just left. anyways we went over another time and asked him what the priesthood was and he explained it to us perfectly! so we went over on thursday to teach the plan of salvation and while we were teaching it cenia had to go to the store to buy something before it closed. so we were teaching juan the plan of salvation and it was going well. so cenia got home and when she got back we asked juan to explain the plan to her and he explained it PERFECTLY!! he taught her better than we taught him!! it was awesome! alright this one is pretty funny. so we went to go see one of out less actives saida and when we pulled up there was a guy who was passed out drunk on her neighbors lawn and so we asked her about it and she said that was just some random guy! so after the lesson we walked to the car and he was still there but the neighbor had mowed the lawn while we were there and he mowed the lawn around the passed out guy! ha it was pretty funny!! one more thing. so yesterday elder glauser and i got a call from our investigator carmen saying that he children were kidnapped and we needed to go over and help translate for the police. so we got there and waited for the police. so the officer was a brand new guy, only been a cop for like a year! anyways, long story short he had a detective come over and the detective asked a bunch of questions, she said her ex husbands brother was the one who kidnapped the children (who happens to live next door) <-- yeah thats important. the detective asked if she has called the guy and she said she couldnt due to a restraining order. alright anyways they go over to the unlces house and knock on the door and the kids were inside... it was super awkward for all of us. ha well thats about all my brain can handle for today! sorry if its all over the place! love yall so much! thanks for all the prayers and crap yall do for me!! elder horrocks

dang now this was a crazy week! so this transfer i hav been working really hard on following the promptings of the spirit in the work to find the people that have been prepared by the LORD. and let me tell you this week was nothing but miracles!! so on tuesday elder glauser and i decided to go and try and find some more spanish people here in chalmette (most of our work is done in eastern new orleans) so we were driving down the road and we pass this trailer park and we both had a strong feeling to go down the road and knock some doors down there. we knocked the whole street and no luck! the only person who answered the door worshiped lucifer so we had no luck with that guy... so we were walking back to the car and as we were walking we ran into this lady. her name is shelly. and she is the coolest person i have ever met. she is technically from the US but she moved to mexico when she was 5. she was baptized when she was 11 and then her father forced her into a really hard life. anyways thats not important. we start to conversate and she has so much faith. she is the coolest lady in the entire world!! anyways as we were talking to her a missionary lady from the jehovas witness came over to talk to her so we sat down in a lesson with them! it was pretty interesting. i learned a lot about their church and made me realize how true our church is! it was nothing but a testimony builder! anyways after the lady left shelly looks at us and asks if we remember this, she then starts to sing book of mormon stories and does the dance moves to go with it! it was so funny! we were then talking about halloween and she showed us her costume, she got 2 prison jump suits and gave them to us! elder glauser and i had quite the fun with them this week. dang so we are teaching this lady from honduras, her name is carmin. she is so awesome! i love her! last week we invited her to be baptized and shes like thats what i want! so she came to church on sunday and that was really nice. she showed up a little late and so we were getting down because we thought she wasnt going to show up. then she walks in!! anyways we went over last night to teach her the plan of salvation and when we started talking about the 5 points of the gospel we got to baptism and she asked us when can she be baptized! so we commited her to the 21st of november!! well thats all for me this week! love you guys! thanks for all the prayers and various stuff that yall do for me!! elder horrocks

well this was such a fast week! i literally cannot believe how fast time is going. speaking of which i have officailly been a set apart missionary for 1 whole year! i hit my year out mark on the 5th. thats a thursday for all yall who are lazy. time is going by so fast i dont really know what to do with it! i went on an exchange this week with my man elder bean! oh on tuesday none of us had any money for food after district meeting so the bennions (they are a senior couple in our district) took us all to sams club and we all had pizza and crap like that! we saw a lady with like 9 inch fingernails and my first thought was that "My mom would be so jealous of this lady" anyways as the story unfolds i had weird eye contact with her as she was buying her pizza and she came up to me and asked me what we are from. told her we were the missionaries and then without any hesitation i asked her if her nails were real. they are. anyways yes, i asked her if she could scratch my back. it was great. wonderfull. that was the one thing that i needed and i got it. anyways we got pictures ill send one. not really anything else to say. im really bad at remembering what happened throught the week so i cannot really report. there was a lot of rain this week. halloween was alright, didnt get much candy. we went to the wards trunk or treat activity and we showed up 30 mins before it ended so we didnt really get much. plus we were fasting so we could enjoy any of the chili from the chili cookoff. love yall. thanks for the prayers and stuff yall do for me!