Monday, April 25 2016

wel this week was pretty uneventfull so i dont have much to write about. the baptism we have will be on sunday but only if the husband will be home for it. so we wont know until tuesdsay. but all is well here, im starting tto realize how close i actually am to going home and its getting pretty scary! im excited for skype on mothers day! thats coming up real quick so we have that to look forward to. thanks yall for all the lov and prayers! oh also today brother stanley got us rabbit and we ate some rabbit today and i couldnt help but think i was eating the cuteness!! love yall elder horrokcs

Monday, April 18 2016

well this week was a pretty good one! it still amazes me how fast time goes by each week! so there is a family who feeds us every sunday night and they have a guy who comes over each week whos name is grandpa bill. he is not a member of the church or their family. just a family friend. so we were talking to him last sunday about us doing some service for him. i have been dying for some service oportunities and we have had very little here in new iberia. so after a while he told us taht he needed his gutters cleaned out. so we scheduled for wednesday and i told him i would call him that morning. well it was raining that morning and when i called him he said no to the service but invited us to go to lunch with him. so we went out to lunch and the rain stopped and so we went over to his house and cleaned out his gutters. and boy was that fun! his guters were so dirty and gross! so after we got all the leaves out and the junk that was clogging it i got to use a preasure washer and wash out al the rest of the dirt and it was so much fun! and for the more spiritual side of the email i want to talk about the girls we are going to baptize! we went over on thursday and talked about the plan of salvation and after we went out and played some volleyball with them! it was so much fun that we decided to play some more on saturday. so we played some on saturday and then taught them the commandments and p;ayed a good game of "no rules" volleyball. anyways i cannot think of anymore things to say. hope yall have a good week! see yall later! elder horrocks

Monday, April 11 2016

hey yall! this week we had transfers and elder richardson and i survived another transfer! so we are together for one more transfer at least. he goes home next ransfer though so who knows? i might kill him off!! this week was a really busy week and we were exhausted all week! so on wednesday we went over to go see miss pat and when we went over that morning she told us that we were going to have a crawfish boil later htat night and that we need to come over later! so we went over later that night and ate some great crawfish and shrimp! it was probably the best ive had! usually the big ones are fat and messy but these ones that we had this night were nice and clean! and then saturday is the other day i want to talk about. we woke up that morning and i was wondering what im going to eat for breakfast that morning. so as i was warming something up in the microwave we got a call from our good friend miss pat! she told us that she was making us breakfast and so we went over and ate some pancakes with sausage, eggs, and grits! it wass the best breakfast ive had on the mish!! then later that day we went to this youth spiritual revival thing in one of the parks and elder richardson gagve a little speach to the people that were there! it was a lot of fun and im looking forward to going there again. we do it once a month. alright ell thats about it for this week! i hope yall know i love yall! thanks for all the prayers and blessings yall send my way! i would send pictures but i lost the charging chord to my camera and cant charge it right now. so i cant take pictures. hope yall have a good week! talk to you later!

Tuesday, April 6 2016

oh my goodness confrence was so good!! i honestly dont think i can say i had a favorite! during hollands talk when he first started he was going like "do you not know... and when he paused we all thought he was going to throw down and call everybody to repentance and stuff like that. then he goes on to tell us how much they love us! it was so funny! and then he said that he has two problems and we were like okay heres the throw down. and he said that he was between us and our ice cream! it was so funny! then we were really craving ice cream and when confrence ended brother stanley went over and opened the freezer and there was a bunch of blue bell ice cream!! it was so good! i would say brother stanley has to be the biggest blessing here in new iberia. that guy is the best man ever! one of the manliest men on the planet. he can do anything!! so for confrence brother stanley had us over to watch it with him and on saturday we went and got these huge sausage links and made some crazy hot dogs, and on sunday for the first time in SEVENTEEN!! (holy crap guys ive been out for seventeen months today!!) for the first time in seventeen months i had my first steak! and it was the best! we had steak, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, and alligator sausage for dinner and it was the best dinner ever man!! i ate so much i was about one sudden movement away from puking! this week was a long one due to the fact that everything i saw reminded me of my rc planes and cars in one way or the other! thats one of the things i miss the most thats for sure! i just want to do rc again! dang so we have this family that is being baptized on the 23 and they are awesome! its a family of 4 girls and they are so faithful and ready! the moms name is aurora and she was married to a member of the church for 9 months, then he pased away. but she is always telling us how much she loves the church because it reminds her of her husband and how nice he treated her! and her 3 daughters are like 14,11, and 8 and they are so fun! the oldest one was pretty shy at the begining but shes really opened up to us and now we even have our own secret handshakes. well thats about all i got for this week! love all yall! thanks for the love and all stuff yall do for me that i am unaware of because i am not there to witness it happen!! love yall!! see you in 7 months!