Happy One Year Mark!!!

Well this year has been a great one! Last week I sent an email about the things that I have learned over the past year. This past year truly has been the best year of my life. Even with all the difficulties, stresses, and hard work, I wouldnt trade it for anything in the world!

On the 24th I decided to have a little party to celebrate the special day. 6 missionaries lived in our appartment complex so we had a good group of people! I made brownies, bought a ton of ice cream and coke and made chocolate syrup to go with it. I also bought a candle for one year and a few cans of silly string just to get the house messy. it ended up being a really fun night! The other missionares loved the free food...

This week we have worked really hard and ended up getting five new investigators and three people came to church!!! We had a major road bump that really slowed things down but it was all okay in the end.

Saturday we had a fun service project. We went to a less actives house and cut down all the trees and wild bushes in her back yard. It was such a huge area and was alot of work but we got a good part of it done. When it was over we had a huge pile of wood. A few people wanted to burn it (which is normal to do in the backyard of a neighborhood here) and a few, including me, thought it would be a little dangerous to burn this much wood, espeicially cause the wind was really really strong. Well... we ended up burning it haha.

We were probably ten or fifteen feet away and the fire was extremely hot! IT was so high up!!! It started spreading to the neighbors yard and we were in a panic to run and put it out. hahaha...... it was a great experience. I really wanna be a forest fireman when I get home now cause it was was such a energy rush!!! Long story short, we burned all the wood without any problems!

Well, im running out of time writing today. I wish I could have written more about my area, but maybe next week. Thanks for all the support.

Love,

Elder Horst

Elder Horst's back was getting sore, so he added another mattress to his bed.

Pretty fancy bed side table!!!

This is Elder Horst's one year anniversary celebration he hosted.

It looks like a good time was had by all!!!  

Those two elders have an apartment on the next floor.  They are Elder Pires from Capetown, South Africa, and Elder Aramayo from Argentina.

Elder Henderson is from Wyoming, and Elder Aramayo from Argentina.  I don't recognize the other elder covered in silly string!  Ha ha!!

Elder Cox and Elder Horst are both from the same Stake in Rocklin :)

Elder Ferreira is from Brazil, he is Elder Horst's companion.

As the host, Elder Horst was responsible for the decorations :)