Tuesday, May 31 2016

well i dont have much time to talk this week because of the holiday and all that stuff. but just wanted to share a story for yall! elder richardson and i were sitting at a buffet on saturday when we get a call from our mission president. and usually we think what we did wrong because president usually doesnt call unless youre in trouble. so we answer the phone and started to ask us questions about how the sisters in our area are doing and all that stuff. so long story short he tells us that he is going to emergency transfer them out of the area and so a couple hours later the sisters called us and told us they were leaving and a couple hours after that it was just us!! and here is the worst part! the sisters were supposed to give a talk in chruch on sunday and since they left before elder richardson and i were now incharge of doing it! it was the worst! usually i dont mind talking but this one was a very broad topic so i couldnt pin point what i wanted to talk about so i just wrote a couple of bullet points and end up talking about how we need to keep a chirst centered family for about 30 minutes! it was actually a pretty cool experience! well thats all i can talk about this week! sorry i didnt have time! love yall! elder horrocks! p.s. some letters would be real cool to see in a mailbox sometime!! love yall!

Monday, May 23 2016

well this week i ran my first district meeting and it was so akward! i couldt really think of what i had to do so we all just like went with the flow. i know i said last week that this email would be better but i cant really think of anything that happened this week. it was a pretty slow week. but one cool thing was we were doing our laundry at bro stanleys house and he took us out to the port of iberia where he works and we got to see some boats that have big giant jacks and when you want to park the boat the jacks will go down into the water and jack the boat out of the water! and if elder richardson sends me his pictures i will send them well yall. i dont kno whwat else to say other than i love yall! its crazy how fast this month is going by. by the time we all realize it i will be home!! its crazy! love yall! elder horrokcs

Tuesday, May 17 2016

alright so this week was a very fast week! as well as all the other weeks this transfer!! so we had transfers this week and elder richardson and i will be staying together for one more transfer! which means i will be killing him off! also other news about this transfer, i got the call to be a district leader! im pretty nervous abouut how to do it, you would think i would have gotten the hang of things like this right? well the thing about missions is that when you finally figure out what you are doing it is time for you to go home! well i ran out of time to write this iemail but i sure do love yall! thanks yall so much for all the prays and crap! ill be sure to write better next week and send pictures and stuff!! love yall! elder horrcks

Monday, May 9 2016

well not really much to say but how much i love yall! and i appreciate all yall do for me! talked to you yesterday so not much to say. you guys rock! and i cant wait to be apart of the family again! talk to yall next week!\ elder horrocks

Monday, May 2 2016

dang yall this week was INSANE!!!! first off we had some great dinner at the davis's! they are the coolest family ive met on my entire mission! they are from vernal and actually know grandma and grandpa! and then on wednesday it was raining pretty hard snd we had service planned with one of our investigators and when we called to cancel we asked us if we wanted to go to a seafood restaurant! and it was so good! alright now time to start with the real deal! so as most of yall know we were supposed to have a baptism this past week. well we did! it was the lomas family, a family of five and we had the craziest experience ever! so like most of yall know the whether down here has been pretty bad. it has rained a lot and the new iberia area is prone to flooding. anyways we were supposed to have our district leader (elder joubert) come up from laffayette to interview the family and when we woke up on saturday the clouds were looking pretty crazy. anywasys. it started to rain harder than ive ever seen rain in my entire life! it was worse than the tornado we went through last year! so withing about 30 minutes the streets in the area were flooded up to our knees! since we were away from our apartment at the time we were stranded on a island in the parking lot of a auto shop and we had to park the car and walk to our apartment! anyways, we had to postpone the interview until later that night,so we waited until 6 for the DL to come up and do the interview and as we were doing the interviews we were planning on just the girls getting dunked rather than the father as well but he told us that he wanted to be dunked as well!! it was such a cool experience! so we got the interviews done and we had someone who didnt really pass the interview so she needed to be interviewed by our mission president the next day! so we wake up sunday morning to the exact same rain! but luckily our mission president showed up to church safely! so as he was doing the interview we stared to go fill up the font and when we went to look at it it was full of poopy sewage water!! and it was filling up still! there was a break in the pipes and the water was comiing up out of the drain!! so we called the laffayette building and told them to start to fill up their font because we are coming down! so we got to laffayette and i had the wonderful opportunity to perform the ordinance to the father the oldest daughter and the middle daughter and it was such an awesome experience! and then we did the confirmations and it was so crazy confirming someone and giving them the holy ghost! and in spanish as well!!well thats about all i got for yall this week! im so excited to skype next week!! my church gets out at 12:30 here and i will be home to skype at like 1ish. ill be able to text yall and let yall know what time ill be on for sure. love yall! thanks for all the prayers and stuff!! especially for the lomas family! keep praying for them! the father alex is struggling finding a job right now. love elder horrocks! ps my address is still 1001 e dale st apt #1010 new iberia, LA 70560.