A Spectacular week!

Well this week has been spectacular! I have worked extremely hard and I have seen many blessings! First I will talk about my new companion. His name is Elder Andrade from Curitiba Brazil. He almost has 6 months in the mission and we are a perfect companionship! We set really high goals and work hard to accomplish them. I have a strong feeling that if we get to stay together for some time, we will have alot of baptisms coming up!

Speaking of baptisms! We are planning on having two people get baptized this Sunday. One is an 8 year old boy named Joao. He is the child of a member but has a few fears of getting baptized so we have been teaching him a bit and preparing him. I am really excited to see him get baptised. His mom said that once he sees the coolerr baptismal font he will be so excited to get in that his fears will leave. haha.

Also we are using our faith and planning on baptising a boy named Diego. He is 14 years old. His younger sister was baptised last year and now he has a desire to be baptised too. Its really fun to teach him because I can see that through teaching him he has gotten closer to his sister.He is really shy and every time he prays he needs his sister to whisper in his ear haha. Its kinda funny but really cool too.

Sometimes we can learn more from children that they learn from us and our examples. My area has an 8 year old girl named Giovana. She was baptised just a month ago. This week we were at her house eating lunch. When we were giving the message, we asked the family if they had people for us to teach. Giovana told us that her friend who lives down the street wants to be baptised and we needed to teach her. I asked her if she would come with us to her friends house and invite her to church. She felt embarrassed but after practicing, she was ready!

We went to her house and I talked to the mother for a little bit about our church and set up an appointment to talk with them again. Than I told Giovana to invite her friend and she said, ``Do you want to come to church with me tomorrow and get baptised?  Haha. I had to explain that we wouldnt baptise her the second she walked in the door but I was really proud of Giovana. She put away her fears and relied on the Lord to help invite her best friend to church. How cool is that? Maybe we need to follow the example of this 8 year old girl and work harder to invite our friends and co-workers to church even if its hard to do.

On the 27th I have the opportunity to meet Elder Bednar! He will be coming to our mission. Also there will be a member of the Quorum of the Seventy, a member of the Area Presidency, and a member of the Seventy of the Area. Haha a bit confusing... but 4 people called by God to be leaders of the church. Im really excited to pull out the classic family tie! (and im nervous that Elder Bednar will say im not allowed to wear such an ugly tie haha). Im very excited for these opportunities to see him.

I hope everyone is doing good. Always remember to have the spirit and keep the commandments. This will bring much peace and happiness.

With love,
Elder Horst

Mom's note:  The ugly tie

Jeremy, our son in law and Lindsay's husband, served his mission in Bilbao Spain.  Before he left, his best friend gave him a really ugly tie (that he found at a thrift store) and said that Jeremy had to wear it to a very important event and have his photo taken that day, wearing the tie.  When Jeremy returned from his mission, he signed the inside of the tie, dated it and wrote the name of his mission.  He gave it to Jordan, Addison (who all did the same) and now Sean.  Next it will go to Jeremy's nephew Jordan  (who is 16)and then to his son Bridger (who is 7 l/2).  It is a fun tradition.  I will post the photo of Elder Sean Horst wearing the tie when he sends it to me, so you can see what it looks like :)