¡Hola Mama! I’m sorry my first email when I got here was
super short. I wanted to say more but didn’t want to get in trouble. And sorry
for not emailing last week, I didn’t know that we wouldn’t be able to. Any who,
my flight was good. I slept a little bit on the plane but not a lot. There was
a ton of missionaries on my flight. After we got to the airport, we went to an
area to wait for buses to come pick us up in groups of I think 26. Two buses came
and picked up everyone except for me and 3 sister missionaries; and for some
reason the guy who was organizing transportation, couldn’t find a shuttle for
us for a long time so we sat and waited and talked in the airport for I swear 2
hours. Don’t worry, I got their emails haha.
Holy smokes though, traffic here is nuts! People here just
kinda do what they want while driving. They hardly use blinkers, they run red
lights, people (both adults and kids) try to sell things to you in the street
while you are stopped at a light, they cut each other off to merge, yeah haha.
It’s nuts but it’s cool too.
After we made it to the CCM we got our tags, and figured out
who are comps are, got pizza for dinner and then went to a devotional, which they
do every Tuesday. After the devotional we had to take our luggage to our casas
and that freaking sucked. It was like a half mile away and my stuff is so heavy
I had to keep stopping to rest because my arms were killing me. I fell behind
because I kept stopping and no one offered to help me until I was like 100 feet
away from my casa. I was so grateful to those elders who helped me that last
bit.
That same night no one really knew what stuff we needed to
get out of our bags and we didn’t want to unload it all since we would be
leaving in 6 weeks. I just unloaded my biggest bag and a few things from my
other bags and put them into a closet thing I have and put the rest of my
luggage under my bed. The first couple of days I was feeling a little home sick
and then was good until Conference because of the videos and pictures they were
showing of Utah. Conference was super awesome though! I took lots of good noted
and only fell asleep a few times haha. Thank you for working on my rubber band
ball!
Because of how much stuff we did each day during my first
week like going to orientations and starting Spanish classes, it felt like a
month went by. On Thursday we had to start teaching a pretend investigator IN
SPANISH! It’s been rough for me since I haven’t taken any Spanish but it’s also
been good! I’ve learned a lot like how to say a basic prayer and bear my
testimony and other stuff too. It feels like I’m being blasted in the face with
a fire hose full of Spanish, but at the same time I’m not super overwhelmed and
I know that is because of Padre Celestial! I have a lot to say but my mind is
all over the place so if I don’t say something you want to know just ask. We
are going to the temple today at 11 so I have till about 10:40 my time. I think
I will be able to get back on later today after we get back to email again for
a quick minute.
We got assigned to a district the second day we were here
and one of my roommates got assigned to be the DL. So in my district there are
6 Elders and 2 Hermanas. Elder Davis, who is the DL, is from Mesa Arizona and
he knows and has hung out with the Romney Family. His companion is Elder Martin
from Pittsburgh and he only has 2 knuckles in some of his fingers. My companion
is Elder Wilhelmsen from Idaho. Us 4 are all in the same room. The other elders
are in a different room. Their names are Elder Christopherson from Fresno
California, he has a stutter but he is awesome and actually doesn’t stutter
when he sings! His companion is Elder Goddard from Alpine, Utah and he blew
himself up when he was 14 so he has lots of burn marks on his body and he is
also going to be serving in Osorno! I told him Shawn is there so I hope they
meet! There’s one other elder who isn’t in my district that is going to Osorno
too. His name is Elder Gillespie. The 2 hermanas in my district are from Utah
as well and they are pretty cool. Hermana Ballard is from Riverton and Hermana
Larsen is from Springville. Our casa has 5 rooms and we all get along great.
Two of the rooms have Latinos in them and they are seriously so funny! We say a
casa prayer every night together.
Before I forget to tell you, there are a couple of sites
that you can go onto to send me letters and packages here in the CCM. One is
DearElder.com and the other is missionarypackagemx.com. Also, I love my golf pants
and the other pants you got me. My suit pants though are so tight I kind of
dread the days I have to wear it. A thread on the inside on the jacket sleeve
came out too so I have to try and fix it.
Also will you send me pics from the night I got set apart
with friends and family and ask Mikala to send me the ones of her and I too? Mine got deleted off my camera. I have
taken some other pictures but I don’t have time to send them to you right now
so I will definitely get back on later to send to the pics I have and a
spiritual thought too. Also sorry for misspelled words and bad punctuation. I’m
trying to type as fast as I can to reply to as many people as I can. Plus the
keyboards here are a little different too haha. Anyways talk to you in a while.
P.S. please send me Shawn’s
email
PPS my pday will be Friday next week
PPPS if you do send me packages here, as much as I would
love it don’t send me lots of sugar. Send me food and snacks haha, I don’t want
to get fat haha.
I love you Mama!!
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| Pictures courtesy of the Mexico MTC. This was their group getting ready to watch conference. |
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