Hola Friends and Family
Wow what a crazy couple of days! So yes i am in
Tampico Mexico right now at the moment! Man it is HOT here! I though South
Carolina was hot! haha at least we got AC in our barracks haha! Everything is
going good though. So over the last few weeks have been a couple of mixed
emotions, all with leaving the MTC and arriving to Mexico, i know i will for
sure miss my district and what not in the MTC but i was ready to get outta that
place. It was a great experience. So our last testimony meeting was a good one!
A ton of picture taking and crying done by the hermanas in our disticto. It was
kinda sad to be leaving all them and what not. But on Monday morning we woke up
at 4 and carted our luggage to the travel office, where we ended up waiting to
leave at 5 thirty because the travel office was confused. So then we left to
the Salt lake airport and waited and got some last Cafe Rio before we hit
Mexico then our plane left at 10, then we flew to Houston, there i
got to talk to my family for a little which was good, I did not have much time
because i ran out of minutes, i even had to barrow some already from another
missionary. In Houstan we meet up with the other group and some of us had some
last minutes American Chineese food at Panda Express! Then off we were to
Mexico were it is always a laugh sitting next to Elder Anderson because he
hates planes! and at the smallest amount of turbulence he freaks hahah. So then
we arrived, right when we walked outside I felt like I was back south but worse
haha. Soo hot at all times hah. After we got past the security and the armed
soldiers that guard the airport, we met our Misson President and his APs they
were way cool. They drove us to the mission house, which was way nice. There we
had a amazing meal of something haha. Then we had a quick little meeting with
all the elders that arrived on our plane. All of them except me and Elder Stoor
are taller than 6'2 so everyone looked like giants. There were 12 of us shoved
into 1 tiny tiny house with no and only 6 beds so we had to get creative, there
is no AC here so it was way hot all night, but at least we had a fan for every
room. I remember last night i took a cold shower and came out and felt the same
way in the shower haha thats how humid it is here. Surprisingly I slept alright
until at the crack a dawn i heard it seemed like 20 roosters all decided to
start crowing at the exact same time. I swear every other person here has a pet
rooster, and everyone here does have a pet dog. So when we woke up. Me elders
Stoor and Smith Walked across the street to the Tampico Temple to have a
morning study. That was really nice. The Tampico Temple is very beautiful!
For sure the nicest building in Tampico. After we had some study time, we all
drove to the institute building where we went to meet our trainers and have a
couple classes. It was all Spanish, so....I didn't understand alot of it haha
but i got the jist of things, after, we had an amazing dinner back at the
mission home with everyone, then we all got assigned our companions and zones.
Elder Tipton played sweet hour of prayer and i played another hyme for everyone
after. They asked were i learned to play because they were impressed and i said
me madre, go mom hah. Im assigned to a zone right inside Tampcio. I’m so
excited! My companion is a little native elder who knows hardly any English so
its kind of hard. It was hard to say bye to my comps from the MTC especially
elder Tipton. He is such a great friend and missionary. After we all piled into
a couple cars it was cray cray! not Joke in the mission presidents van, we had
16 elders haha! The drivers here are kind of crazy, The taxies are allowed to run
red lights, and its free go on the roads cause there are like no cops. One
bummer is that i am not allowed to play any soccer, kinda sad about that. but
on P days we can go on the beach and play sand volley ball and play basket
ball. The houses here are unlike anything ive seen in america, is its super green
and tropical almost a jungle here. Ive seen Mexican soldiers everywhere with
their faces covered with mask
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