Week 4 Guatemala

I´m
in guatemala! its a really cool country and everything is so diferent,
the traffic laws here are a joke, and the cops sit in the back of
trucks with shotguns on their laps. All of food at the CCM is
wonderful but its also dangerous, if you eat the wrong thing you will
end up in the bathroom for quite some time, my companion is elder
Keele, he alright we get along pretty well. the plane ride over was
really long with a 3 hour hang time in L.A. we got to call home for a
bit but payphones swallow a lot of quarters so i didnt get to talk for
as long as i would like.  There are 6 people per room here and in mine
there are only 2 americans and only 1 of the latinos speaks a little
english so i dont understand alot of what is going on here all in all
i love it though its a very pretty country and i wish i wasnt stuck
inside so i could see more of it anyway hasta la vista!

Week 2

This week has been good all the jitters from the first week are gone and im very comfortable, however they will soon send me to the Guatemala MTC and im sure my comfort zone will be shattered.  but thats fine ill adjust and im sure my spanish will improve a lot.  I will be leaving on the 8th on a flight for LAX  where I will board another flight for Guatemala City, im traveling with 6 other elders, including Elder Cook, who are all going to the Quetzaltenango Mission.  For whatever reason they appointed me travel leader, which means im in charge of the group for the entire trip....obviously they dont make the wisest choices here at the MTC.  Anyway its all good here the rules are strict but they're not really bad once you get used to them.

                              

                                                                Hasta Luego!

Week 1

Its been only a couple of days since i was last able to use the computer but i figure ill update because itll be till next p day (wednesday) when i get the chance, things are getting a lot better since sunday and im starting to get into the swing of things, there were several speakers that kinda put things in perpective for me and its a lot easier now, still hard but easier, yesterday we got to hear a talk by Elder Russell M. Nelson which was amazing, we didnt know who the speaker was until he walked into the room, it was really cool cause i was only three rows back and pretty much center he was amazing. anyway im outa time so hasta luego!

My First Days at the MTC

well the first few days here are goining well althought its very hard to keep up, mi companero es elder cook who we met at the brick oven, we are the only missionaries in our district to go to quetzaltenango although there is one going to guatemal city sur, anyway they have us on a short leash and we only have 30 minutes to email.

Please update my blog with the following:

Hola from the MTC! i am missing everyone, but i guess they assign us new friends here. its a hectic place to be but I am trying to keep my head above water, my companion is elder cook, he's a great guy who keeps me on task as i have always had a hard time paying attention to anything as you all know. the return sevice is i keep us pointed in the right direction when we are walking between buildings as he would end up walking around in the parking lot without me, no sense of direction! I have to get my parents to post this because we have only half an hour to read and send emails and we have no access to blogs. I have gotten very little sleep because my body hasnt adjusted to going to bed at 10:30 and waking up at 6:30, i have tried to stay awake though all my classes but ive not totally suceeded, hopefully i will adjust to the lifestyle and not end up a sobbing mass on the floor. I've been here for 3 days and already they expect us to teach an investigator in spanish we failed miserably but i suppose everybody else did too. anywho I'll try to udate again in a week and i can only email family so sorry there wont be a blast email this week