My
dearest family,
I'm glad you all had
another good week. It's good to hear that you're all doing stuff as a family.
:) Hearing about the family coming together and more about Dily makes me miss
you all so much. I look forward to those pictures and more news. :)
This week was a little
rough. We tried to be obedient as possible, but we had some pretty big
pitfalls. We had one investigator with a baptismal date, but he changed his
mind the day before and said that he wanted to think about it more. Bummer...
Also, I don't know if you remember me telling you about the investigator from
Luisiana, but she and her husband were having trouble with their marriage.
Well, it finally hit the fan and she's leaving him. Basically, we probably
won't see her anymore, but at least Luis is still interested in receiving
lessons from us. On the bright side, we have an investigator named Monse who is
progressing really well. She said that she knows the Book of Mormon is true and
wants to be baptized. We planned for her to come to church, but when we went to
get her, they were sleeping or something. So we went to church, but Elder Duran
went on splits for a sec with a young man from the ward and went to get her
during the second hour. Basically, she got to attend the last our of church
(Relief Society) and she seemed to really like it. The only thing standing in
the way of her baptism now is the fact that she's not married to the boyfriend
she's living with. Also, he doesn't really want to get married, probably
because he's only nineteen. I'm hoping that things will work out with them.
Either they need to get married or she needs to move out. :/ I guess we'll see
what happens.
As a companionship we
are doing much better. We're being more obedient (though at times we're not
perfect :/) and we're trying to work hard. I've been taking a little bit more
of an active role in things and it's been going ok. I help with the schedule
and I speak more in lessons. The only reason I still don't do a ton is because
I still have trouble understanding everyone. I can only understand about every
other person and then I only understand about half of what they say. Sometimes
there are Mexicans that are really patient with me and speak slowly and clearly
for me. Other times they basically ignore me. The way I'm thinking right now is
that this is the hard time. Once I can speak the language better and get used
to how things work here things will be a little better.
I want to let you all
know how important this Gospel is to me. I don't know if you fasted this last
fast Sunday or if you have family home evening, but I would encourage you to do
these things so that you may obtain the blessings that they bring. Also, I
haven't heard how the reading has been going lately. I hope it's still going
strong. Write me a little bit about what you all read and what you think about
it. Personally, I've made a goal to read the Bible through front to back
because I've never done that before. Right now I'm in 1st Kings and it's
actually really interesting. I'm coming to love the Bible almost as much as I
love the BOM. I'd also recommend reading Jesus the Christ. That book helped me
a lot with understanding Christ and the New Testament. But... I digress... This
Church really is the same church that Jesus Christ Himself established on the
earth. I know that if we endure to the end, we can return to live with our
family in Heavenly Father's presence.
I love you all and
hope that if you are facing any challenges in your life that you'll turn to the
Lord. Remember: Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto
you. This church is true! I love you!
-Elder Sean Horrock'
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