Sept 23, 2013 Email

September 23,2013 This week has been CRAZY!!!!! So I get to Mexico and some security guards (because I had to take another flight from Mexico city to Oaxaca) threw away all the weights in the weight vest, because they said I could use them as weapons.. hahaha and then at that moment I went from thinking I was pretty good at Spanish to realizing I knew nothing, and that Mexicans talk so fast!!!!!! hahaha I bet you guys just imagine me standing there holding these weights as some Mexicans start yelling at me in Spanish.. I felt pretty stupid hahaha oh well it was probably for the better and hey I got them all the way to Mexico haha. Anyways my first day I get here I realize I had no idea what Mexico is like haha.  I and the other 22 missionaries get shoved into this run down hotel.. after this night I realized just how spoiled I was in the United States haha. So I get there, and we get thirsty, and go to turn on the sink wáter, and (I kid you not) straight yellow piss wáter comes out, and then we get notified that we all need to shower in this stuff, and that there is no hot wáter haha. Anyways so we start filtering wáter so we can drink wáter and since none of us have towels we shower in this stuff and then used one rag between the all of us haha. Yeah it sucked haha. Anyways the next day I meet my companion, and he knows almost no English which sucks haha. I really like him though he seems really cool! and he can teach lessons really well!!  Anyways since my área is 3 hours away, and my zone was going to the Oaxaca temple the next day, we sleep on these nasty mats on the floor of a companionship's house, and all I get to use is my single towell because they didn't tell me I needed sleeping stuff haha. Anyways I and my companion share this mat and we layed on our towells because the mats were so gross anyways we froze, got bit alive, and didn't even sleep. It was the worst night of my life hahaha, but anyways the next day I travelled to Huajuapan (Wahpen) which was three hours away, and I get there and I realize that what they said about Oaxaca being the poorest state in Mexico is true. There are people packed everywhere, and everyone is poor. It is really sad, and they are also all Catholic, and aren't very receptive to the góspel.. but we do still find people, and we already have two dates for baptism :) I am pumped!!! my dorm isnt too bad, and I'm starting to like it!! The only problems I have are the filthness because the walls have mold that you can't get rid of and the bugs... I hate them haha I didn't use to mind them, but now I hate them haha. I have killed so many stupid cockroaches the size of a small child I could die (that's a joke- they aren't that big but they are the biggest bug I have ever seen) I also hate the spiders, well actually only the ones that cause me to wake up with giant bites.. haha. The other 100 or so spiders that are in every corner of the ceiling that are all the biggest spiders I have ever seen!!!! but they leave us alone so we leave them alone too. Hmm I think thats all about my new life haha. I love it here, and I love serving the people and teaching the gospeL PS oh and I'm proud of Landon, and i love you all :) I only get 45 minutes to email...