Como estan?? (how are you all?)

  This was just for fun... This was our last district picture together at the temple taken from Sister Mills camera, I think they´re hilarious enjoy :)

I've had sick babies so I apologize for taking so long to post Alex's letter.  He's awesome (as usual)!!  I also got to talk to him today!!!!  I was so excited to hear his voice that I started to cry and forgot everything that I wanted to ask and say!!!  Luckily my Mom, Carmen, Marleigh, and Lexi were here to visit also ;)  Next time I'm going to write all my questions and make notes of everything I want to say so I don't forget :)  He's soooooo excited to get to Fresno!!  He said that he and Elder Nye talked to a man while they were on the plane and placed a B.O.M with him.  He said that they used their awesome teamwork and did great!! He doesn't know what part of the mission he'll be in yet but he said he'd let me know as soon as he could.  I will also post his addresses and they will always be available on the right side of the blog ;)

He also wanted me to tell the football team how much he loves them and to remember that they are examples to everyone and have a lot of people looking up to and watching them.  He hopes they learn a valuable lesson in character and serving others ;)

Enjoy the letter...........

Como estan?? (how are you all?)

Well my week in a nut shell isn´t nearly as crazy as yours but as usual we always have different things every week. This week was the slowest/fastest week of our lives. The reason I say that is because we are so close to the mission and it is tomorrow!! But it´s slow because we are so anxious to get out and serve! This week we taught really well. Yesterday was Elder Nye´s and I last lesson. And we did way awesome! In our lesson we truly felt the spirit. We taught an investigator named Hangel about the word of wisdom and he said we did awesome. Looking back at how we first started teaching, we´ve come a long long ways. Teaching is kind of like just being the persons friend and loving them with all your heart, and the way you love them is you invite them to Christ. Oh and we also taught our district about the apostacy this past Sunday, it was really good.

This week was of course our last week in the MTC. I can honestly say it feels like the weirdest feeling packing up my bags and leaving what was my home for six months. In these past six weeks I have made so many friends and it´s a bitter sweet taste to leave them to serve the Lord. Especially our district, I´ve come so close to them. It's amazing that the Gospel can bring so many together. We all just love each other to death. Ha and as of right now our entire district has left me and Elder Nye hanging out to dry. Right now it´s just been me and him these last couple days. It´s awkward when you look around the classroom and see just us two, it´s kind of funny though. But now it´s our time tomorrow and I can´t wait :) I´m gonna miss this place so much and it brings me tears thinking about it. But I feel ready for Fresno!

So on the mission: I will leave Mexico MTC at 4 in the morning :P and our plane leaves at 7:30 am. We go early so we don´t have any problems especially here in Mexcio City Airport, it gets congested. But then I´ll arive in Dallas at about 10:10 is the expected time, and we have an 1 hour and 40 minute overlay so we would be leaving at 11:50 (so in Utah it´ll be from 9:10 to 10:50). So I´m going to hurry and find my next plane and call you guys as soon as I can. With the time I have I´ll probley just call you and Dad and so if you can invite everyone in the family to come around when I call. After that I´ll leave to Fresno and arrive at approximately 1:15 and then get picked up, have lunch, and stay at the mission home that night :) which I don´t know where that is, I'm sure it´s the presidents house. But if I don´t get a chance to call you in Dallas, hopefully I will in Fresno, and if not there, then I promise there will be a time when I will :) But cross your fingers and keep praying!

That´s not good to hear about the football team. All I can say for them is, even though we make mistakes, don´t shy away from them. Be willing to change, and to be different. Be a positive influence for others, because they are one of the greatest examples to the school. Don´t be content, and don´t complain. Things like this are only to make you become better people, but you have to be willing to change. I love the heck out of them :) tell them to keep their heads up and keep working hard.

And also I don´t know alot about Judge game. But I wish them the best of luck this week if they play. It should be a dedication to win homecoming always, especially for those seniors!

I love hearing about the good stories back home! Haha they crack me up everytime! Keep those coming. Sounds like J.T. is a little rampant around the house. Tell him I love him and that brother Alex says be nice the sister Charleigh :).

Weston and Marleigh are doing good with sports and school it sounds like. I´m glad to hear about how well they are doing. I´ll try and write back to them and tell them I´m proud of them and i love them :) by the way I guess Marleigh´s team is so good that other teams don´t even show up? HAHA yup that´s how it´s done

I got Jonah´s letter tell him thanks! Tell everyone else back in Roosy town I´d love to hear from them as well. I can´t wait to hear from Gary and Patrick if I get the chance.

Well before I end I just want to say I can´t wait to talk to you guys! It´ll be crazy getting to hear your voices. I love you all. And a thought I want to share from a devotional we watched this week from Elder Richard G. Scott, and this stuck out to me like a sore thumb. "The Lord has called you to succeed, not to fail." I thought about that and thought wow the Lord expects so much of us but we are called of him to be successful. Of course we have to put forth effort and work hard. But we weren´t put on earth to fail. We don´t do all the things we do now to fail, because God see´s greatness in all of us.

Love you all!! Hasta Luego

Elder Horrocks a.k.a Reverand

This was just for fun... This was our last district picture together at the temple taken from Sister Mills camera, I think they´re hilarious enjoy :)