First Letter From Mexico!!

Hola! Well its been a crazy few days but i have finally made it to mexico! So to start off i woke up at 2:30 am to take a shower and get ready to leave at 3 30, when im coming back from my shower i hear the door shut and no body was in there so all of us were locked out with no keys and no clothes, just our towels.... ahh man i was kinda mad again because it was the same elder that made me mad before!! haha but all is well an other elder ran back and got a key for us from the main desk. Then our plan took off for houston and when we got to houston it was a down pore! like there was a inch of water! and i had no idea that houston was so green i thought it was all desert haha tell you what i know about the world! but since it was raining so hard our flight got delayed 4 hours.... so because of the delay we missed our connecting flight to obregon. so we had to stay the night in mexico city! which was pretty cool. when we got to mexico city we stayed into the airport for 5 hours waiting and getting our boarding passes for the next day! and my first meal in mexico was.... Subway haha it was pretty good not the same but still good! Then from the air port we drove to the temple, but let me tell you the drivers in mexico city are the craziest ive seen haha our driver was just saying ooo muy loco policia but then he peels out and gets up to 80mph and weaving in between cars haha i couldn't stop laughing!! that was a happy but very scary moment haha 

  

so we stayed the night in some dorms on the temple grounds. and so now its tuesday and we have til 6pm when our flight leaves to obregon. so we went through the visitors center because the temple is closed for renovation... so kinda sad but it was still way awesome, the temple is so beautifu! man and my first mexican food was this crescent role packed with potatoes and spicy peppers ( so i struggled eating that haha) but there was this other one that had pineapples, ham and cheese so that was muy bueno! i liked that one alot! and the orange soda is very good here also! 

now in the airport to obregon we are about to board onto the plane when we realize that we are missing a elder!!! Elder Vargason was left behind in mexico city! i don't think he was able to get through security for some reason.... but i don't know what happened to him still.... so that was kinda scary... but we made it to Obregon at 7:30pm and the first thing i saw when i got out of the terminal is army man... or policia.. i was kinda scared haha at first but esta bien..we got to stay the night in a best western called san jorge so i felt right at home haha but the room was very nice, like the best i've had so far on my mission ANd the Breakfast i got to eat at the hotel was just fruit and toast but there was one fruit that i ate that literally to me it tasted like dog poop( you know when you run over fresh dog poop with a lawn mower? that is what is tasted like!!!  O my i was gagging on the second one haha ) but  then i got to meet my mission president and his wife! they are sooo cool and nice! they barely speak english but nobody speaks english here sooo...  but they are very nice. and he told me im the tallest missionary in the mission at 6 3.

One thing i've learned so far of the culture here is when you hand shake the president you hand shake then hug on the left shoulder then hand shake again... haha i dont know why but it is the way it is! then today i got to meet my new companion! he is pretty tall for a hispanic, around 5 9.  and he likes to play video games, sports. He is way cool i love him already! Today for my first day in the field we got to our area which is in Obregon but its on the out skirts, it is a town called esperanza? Its a pretty poor place but i love it already haha its soo cool to see the people and the houses and how small they are and how little they have.. i almost feel like i belong here... haha but i havent had a full day out in the heat so i guess we will see how i handle thattomorrow!! haha and the bugs here man, they nats and mosquitoes just dont stop flying in our faces! i keep swatting and swatting but then i look over at my companion and the investigator and they are just taking it with a here and there swat! i was just thinking how on earth are you not feeling them in your eyes and ears and face!! man haha but all is well here in Obregon! i Love the work so far but ill send pictures of my house and the town next time!! 

Spiritual moment of this few days is got to be talking with my mission president! he is so spiritually strong and i could just feel the spirit so strongly when he was speaking to me in spanish even tho i couldnt under stand the spirit was comforting my and testifying to me! 

so i love all of you gracias por todo ustedes tienen done para mi! te ama mucho!

Love, Elder Horlacher 

Speaking to Elder Horlacher

 Trevor called us at 6:00am from Salt Lake City on his way to Texas.

He told us a funny story that happened to him this morning:

He said that the 4 elders that were traveling with him this morning all went together to shower and there was another elder still in the room sleeping, so none of them took their keys with them. When they got back to the room (in their towels) the elder was gone and they were locked out of their room. They were stuck outside in the hall for 30 minutes in their towels. He said, it was funny now when he was telling us, but it was NOT funny during the time.

We all got the chance to talk to him.

Cambria and Jeff came over early in the morning to be part of it!!!

Pictures from Elder Horlacher-MTC

 Trevor saw Jaden for the last time while moving out of the West MTC to the Main MTC.

They will not see each other for 2 years.

 They so LOVE each other and will both be amazing missionaries teaching the gospel

in the same language, but different countries.

 Trevor played soccer with Elder Adam Kemp at Snow Canyon High School

 This was when Trevor's district was moving from the West MTC to the Main MTC.

I thought this was a cool picture, Good job Elder Horlacher for capturing that.

 "Selfie" Mode in class

 Trevor's district with their Sister Teacher

 Trevor and Elder Walker with their teacher

 Elder Horlacher pointing to his mission by the INFAMOUS MTC BOARD!!!

 Trevor's hand compared to his teachers hand. HUMUNGOUS

 Sunday night devotional - Media Representative of the church

 This was Trevor's actual weight leaving the MTC!!!!!!

Week 5 in the MTC-Elder Walker

Hola todos personas! como estan? 

Im doing great here in the MTC!! Its been a pretty jam packed week full of spiritual experiences! So to start off we got our flight plans this week!!!That was pretty exciting! We fly out of SLC at 7am, to Houston, Texas. In Houston we have a 1 hour layover, then fly to Mexico City, in MC we have a 4 hour layover.... that ought to be fun trying to talk to people and find out where we need to go! then from MC we fly back up to Obregon! we'll arrive around 7pm. so nothing too bad but still a good travel:) 

    

Next thing that happened is General Conference! Can I just say WOW!!!... General conference was amazing here in the MTC. I feel like every talk could apply to us missionaries! I know there was some talks about parenting but still it makes me appreciative of my parents and how I want to be great a parent too! haha I loved hearing from all the apostles and our prophet! but also with the conference we had a devotional that sunday night as well. the speaker was a tongan that played for BYU when they won the national championship and then went and played pro! I think his name was Vai something? I cant remember because he told us not to take notes haha but he mostly shared experiences of him sharing the gospel with people.. it was so cool because not all of them were a success, but he still tried! so what I learned from him is to ALWAYS speak to people, and be PROUD of being a member of this gospel, I want to challenge all of you to talk to a non member or just a random person about the gospel. Just talk to them then see what you can talk about to bring the gospel into play with them, whether it be families, plan of salvation, another testament of jesus christ( book of mormon) haha just introduce them to the knowledge of our church. it will bless your life tremendously.

Next is my comp. has been pretty sick lately so yesterday we were talking with our teacher and he told him to get a blessing. So he asked me if I would be willing.. and I said ABSOLUTELY! even tho inside I was pretty scared.. but when it came to it we gathered in a back room. then it ended up that i annointed the oil and Elder Funk gave the blessing. It was so amazing experience feeling the power that we had, its like I felt it go through my body to my hands into Elder Walker! it was so amazing I almost started crying but I held it in haha then in the temple today i felt so much love.. its amazing. its sad to think that im not going to go through the temple for another two years... but its all good! i'll be bringing people to the temple! even better!  

Well I just want you all to know how grateful I am for all of you and the role you've played in my life! I love all of you! stay close to the spirit, and repent daily! Enjoy this gospel and God will bless you, he wants to bless you, he loves you so much! 

Love, Elder Horlacher

 Elder Hill that I played against for years in Soccer,

he played for Cedar.

 Elder Draper who I played football and soccer with when 

I was a child

 Elder Chase Jenkins one of my closest friends from high school,

he left yesterday for Argentina.

 Elder Thor Katoa, we GO WAY BACK, from 3 years old.

We've played against each other in football for years.

So excited to be on the same team right now, The Lord's Team!!!

 Coach Puriri's (My Rugby Coach) Nephew

Watching General Conference in the MTC!!!

 Eating in the cafeteria with my district

 Just a funny picture that makes my day when I walk by it in the halls of the MTC.

 Elder Lorenco, I love this little guy, he left yesterday!!!

 I played against this guy in the Rugby Championship game, #12 from East. 

He totally came up to me and remembered me from the game.

He's serving in Bakersfield, Spanish speaking

oo look at the thing i found in the trash!! it was so awesome I kept it haha!!! I hope one day!!!!

4th Week in the MTC-Elder Walker

Hello! (Hola now for me) 

I just want to say that I love you all and that its all going great here!! So last Tuesdays devotional was Russell M. Nelson spoke to us! He was a great speaker, he spoke on being a great missionary. He talked straight to me it felt like! We made eye contact like 7 times! UNMISTAKABLE eye contact! haha lets just hope that we get to hear another apostle speak to us tonight. but um... nothing other than that is that cool this week.. ooo wait i got to teach David Archuletta for the member TRC! That was pretty cool and exciting! I kinda went in nervous because we found out in advance that it was him, but in the end it went great, he didn't talk very much but that's alright because we still got to teach him! and instead of teaching our teachers we now teach our district so everybody is a investigator to someone else! So I get the chance to be an investigator for Elder Wiedmier and Bauer, its amazing! It is so much fun to ask the questions then feel the spirit testify to me what they are saying is true! It's amazing the spirit we feel here everyday we are so blessed here! and the spirit helps with my spanish every day! But it is coming really slow for me... like also for TRC progressive investigator  we are teaching a guy that is sooooo hard to understand! I'm like lost in the whole lesson! All I taught in that lesson was I told the first vision! haha it gave me a taste of Mexico.... crazy.

But what our district did this week with a challenge is Elder Pansegrau wanted to try drinking 15 caprisuns in 15 minutes, he drank the 15 in 7 minutes then on the 16th one for fun, he puked haha this is what we do for fun now on our free time haha all we can do is eat our treats we have to help us gain weight.

Well I just want you all know that I love you and am very grateful for all your examples in my life! Thank you for everything you've done for me! I also want you all to know that i know this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ, and that Jesus Christ does live! he is our Savior and our Redeemer and through him we can repent, and return to live with our Father in Heaven, and live with our families forever! How blessed are we to have a brother that will do that for us! Man I love this Gospel!!! and I love all of you sooo much and miss you cada dia. Hope all is well back there because its all good here, and in 2 weeks this time I'll be in Mexico! 

Love, Elder Horlacher

 Elder Horlacher with Elder Katoa 

 Not sure what this picture is, I'm thinking it's in the MTC somewhere.

Elder Horlacher and Elder Pansegrau (One of his favorite missionaries)