Robby is in Mexico!!

Hola!

Oh my gosh, where do I begin... Ha so we arrived a week ago today in Mexico. It was so great to talk to you guys on Monday, I loved it so much, I´m excited for the next time! It is so different here. We arrived in Mexico and we were greeted by our President Sauceda, he is a really nice guy. We then drove to his house with the assistant presidents and went to his house in Guadalajara. We had dinner there and met his wife, who is way nice too. Dinner was great ha we had lasagna! But it still hadn´t really hit me yet that EVERYONE speaks Spanish ha. We stayed at the mission home over night, had a big meeting in the morning about our mission and then they told us where we were going and we left! It was so fast! 3 other Elders and myself left Guadalajara so I´m not in the city. 2 went to the same mission and one went to Colima which is way hot. I was told I was going to Ciudad Guzman. I took about an 2 hour bus ride by myself to the city. Movies were playing and it was so hard not to watch ha ha. Don´t worry I repented later for the parts I did watch(on accident). I then arrived in Ciudad Guzman´s bus station and I waited there for about 40 minutes for my companion to get there. I was talking to a guy and gave him some pass along cards when he came up to me. I live with 3 natives, including my companion. It is crazy ha, I have to speak Spanish all the time. Right when they picked me up I dropped my stuff off and went to work visiting investigators, members, and contacting. Every day here we have lunch with a member and it´s a huge lunch ha. I´m grateful for them for giving us their food. It´s so different here. A lot more poverty. I´m not in a nice part of Mexico. The insides of the houses are built out of cement and pretty dirty. But they are all so nice. We have a baptism date in a couple of weeks so that should be great! I´m not gonna lie, it all ready is the hardest thing I have all ready done and I´ve only been here a week. I don´t understand a lot that they say but I´m understanding more. Ï´m getting better. I have a lot of pictures that I want to send you! It stinks we only get like real mail here every 1.5 to 2 months. I don´t really like that but whatever. They just keep it at the mission home until zone conference or something. So email as much as you want. The food is pretty good! Different! Ha Saturday my companion and I went to have lunch and the member brought out this soup with huge pieces of corn, pork, and lettuce. It was so much I couldn´t finish. I felt bad ha. But we are cleaning of our plates and she asks if we want arroz con leche ha. I was like oh, i can´t! And she´s like just a little, so we did. I took one bite and almost lost it ha ha. And she gave us this drink that tasted like weeds blended with water ha ha. But for the most part it´s pretty good so far! The best thing i´ve had was a hamburguesa today ha ha, the closest thing to AMerican. Lots of corn tortillas! Every lunch! My companion is cool, his name is Elder Heronimo. He is great he helps me so much. There is one other American in our district named Elder Newman and he´s black so I´m the only white person in all of this city and around it ha ha. It was good to talk to an American though ha ha we talked a lot last night and it was good. Today I was having a pretty bad day, I just kept thinking that this stupid language is what´s frustrating me so much. If it was English I would be fine! I was pretty down. Then we had lunch, my hamburguesa, and I felt better for some reason ha ha. And I felt even more better when you wrote me that email mom, thank you so much for that, that all ready helped me so much. And same with your story too dad, thank you. I miss everything in America way bad. But I´m here to work and I´m excited! Chrissy don´t worry about not making it, I lost to like one of the biggest geaks in the school!! Ha and what matters for both of you is just that you have a fun time and make as many friends as you can. Well, I gotta head but it was good to talk to you guys and I miss you so much, hasta luego semana...

Elder McKell