Monday, March 28 2016

well i guess i better start to type this email before we leave! this week was pretty slow. due to a couple medical accidents the work was short lived this week. my companion elder richardson had a severe allergic reaction to some fire ants, which put us in the hospital for like 27 hours! so elder richardson and i went over to a part member/less active house on sunday to check up on them and see how they are doing. anyways they started to remodel their backyard and its been forever since i did yard work so i asked if we could help out. so we go over to their house on tuesday to start helping and we just go and throw some dead grass into a giant pile. then we started to cut some of the live grass. (this isnt like lawn grass, its tall pampas grass) and as we are cutting the live grass we cut into 1- a wasp hive, and 2- a GIANT fire ant hill! anyways i had a big problem with them back in chalmette so i didnt want to deal with them again. (and kinda ran away screaming like a little girl...) yeah everyone was laughing at me. anyways, we just work through them. yeah we got bit but not as bad as we thought. but then sister neilson was like look at elder richardsons face! it was all swollen up and we started to make fun of him because he looked like will smith from hitch, then we look at his arms and his arms have like turned into one big hive!! so we take him to the urgent care down the street, and it just kept getting worse and worse! so he had to use his epi pen. haha and then when we pulled up to the instacare he ran into the building and everyone he saw he was begging them to help him. kinda reminded me of mom when she freaks out haha. it was funny but serious at the same time. so i was in charge of all the paperwork and the nurse who i was doing it with was like super mega pretty! so now elder richardson and the sisters always act like they are injured so they can say we need to go to instacare. haha. anyway, as we were there the nurses told us that he was getting worse so they called the ambulance and the ambulance came and picked us up and we went to the ER! it was so cool! i got to ride passanger of the ambulance! haha i was waving to all the people in traffic, so much fun! we got to the er and i did a lot of more paperwork and all that other stuff and just sat there as i waited for the okay to go in. okay well we were hoping we didnt have to stay the night but that was not the thing. we stayed the night and it was the worst! neither of us got any sleep because i was on a stupid couch and elder r had a whole lotta addrenaline and so that was that! we got around to the morning and by like 2 the doctors told us we were free to go! we are all good now and ive caught up on my sleep! so love yall and hope yall had a happy easter! elder horrocks

Monday, March 21 2016

i literally dont know where the time is going. it seems like mondays come and go in hte blink of an eye! this week we had a little easter activity at the church for the primary and so we were incharge of hiding the eggs. we had hundreds of them! i thought the kids were going to take forever to collect them all. but in only like 5 minutes flat they had them all cleaned out! even the ones i thought they werent going to be able to reach! some how they managed to get them!! and there was this little boy named abram, that kid is like my best friend man! we were hanging out after eatcing the candy and he gave me all of his candy! ha it was so funny he called himself the momma bird and i was the baby. sometimes he would put the candy in his mouth and then give it to me like he was a momma bird. dont worry, i didnt really eat them! then yesterday the sisters were in charge of teaching the children about missionaries and missionary work in primary and they gave them all ties and name tags to write their names on them and abram told the sisters that he wanted to be elder horrocks!! it was so cool! he reminds me jsut like max hudson man! one of the coolest kdis i know! also judd player sent me a package of some rootbeer milk!! that was the coolest package ive gotten on my mish! i totally forgot about those until like last week, i was thinking about it and how much i loved it and then like 3 days later i got a package from judd and he sent me 3 of them!! love yall so much!! easter is coming real close! please try to remember the real reason why we celebrate easter. im trying to recognize all the blessings of the atonement this week and i would like to ask all yall to do that as well. here is the link to a cool easter video that the church came out with. not sure if yall have seen it yet https://www.mormon.org/easter

Monday, March 14, 2016

well this week was crazy! it went by so fast! even though we got stuck in the rain a lot. dont worry we are okay! there was a lot of rain thats for sure!! although we are okay doesnt mean the town is, new iberia is notorious for flooding. and when it rains it doenst just pour. it floods. the main story for today is about the best family here in new iberia! the davis's. so we were over at their house on wednesday for dinner and we were playing a board game which involved me being in a staring contest, so while i was doing that one of the guys who was over there told me that if i really wanted to win i could use his glass eye. i kinda just laughed it off... then we were at diner and i asked if he actually had one. he did. he took it out. he let me hold it. it was so gross but so cool at the same time!!

Monday, March 7 2016

hey yall! well this week was a crazy one! elder richardson and i did a lot of work this week! we went out and did a lot of tracting! but like always i dont really know what to say!! we had a crawfish boil this week at miss pats house! that was really good. ive grown to love seafood while ive been out here! time is going by so fast! i cannot believe that its already march. sorry this email is pretty short! just letting yall know i love you and that the church is true and that the lord is always here for yall!! just be cool and dont stress about life!! just know taht the lord is here for yall no matter what you do!! elder horrocks