Arrival

HHHEEEEEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!

       holy sheep creek im soooooo hot!! haha.
okay so monday morning we left the mtc on a bus, i took a picture of the guy who prayed for us before we left so we would have evidense of whos fault it was if we didnt make it:) so we barely barely made our flight from slc to atlanta, after eating at panda express we jumped on our 11 hour flight to argentina!! had some most not delicious food on the plane. landed into a spanish wonder land. we eveuntually got through these mean old ladies who had to look at our passports, and found our luggage after a bit, none was lost for any of us!! its a miracle, anyways. we found our guy alberto who put us on a bus across the huge city of buenos aires. got to our littler airport to fly to mendoza. the alberto guy told us to sit down. we got there at about 9am, he randomly returns at noon saying our flight doesnt leave till 4! oh yeah btw ive sweated out a small pool by this time.
  alberto buys us pizza cuz he has pesos and can communicate with people and we cant. i kind of feel like a mexican here, everyone stares at me and i cant understand what they are saying to me. at 2 we went to check in, passport problems happened, flight was canceled, waited 2 hours in line, got our passports to work, found out our flight left at 6pm, so we napped, then stood in line for an hour until the plane was ready, we finally left the smaller airport at 8, so yeah 11 hours in an airport, soooooo much fun!!!
   landed in mendoza, met president lindahl and his wife, ate amazing lasagna at their place, slept in a prison haha. seriously though, we were on like the third floor, almost like a tree house, it had ten beds smooshed into a bathroom sized room, surrounded by barbed wire. i heard dogs fighting all night long and kept imagining a giant spider landing on my face or cockroaches in my bed with me. survived it.
  woke up, took a weird shower, they use bedae thingys here, more like a bad day to me, cuz of no toilet paper means that they use them so yup its interesting all right! met my companion elder kammerman, he is a miltary type of guy, has neck and back and tendon and nose and migraine problems. oh and he has never had a girlfriend... haha but anyways. met him. went to our home, bought some food, i was mostly stunned still.
  things are rediculous here haha. there are these like canal things alongside all the roads that dead things fall in to. or garbage, and sometimes they have like a flowing river in them, most are about 3 ft deep others are 5 ft or so. they are everywhere!!
  we sleep in a closet that has a refridgerator and a cupboard and just enough room for a bed and a desk. it is just me and my trainer in our whole huge area. our area is called algarrobal. yup i cant say it either so dont be to intimidated.
  im pretty sure the only time i feel clean is the EXACT moment i step out of the shower, then i get dirty somehow again haha. we never know if there is going to be hot or cold water so its a guess everytime.
   also i havent stopped sweating at all. they eat lots of pasta here, and live soccer and swear alot, i think... i cant understand anyone at all haha. ive stepped into a wirlwind of spanish and keep gettin slapped by the stupid stick, that means i fall asleep or just zone out until i dont even notice what is happening around me haha, then i wake up so to speak, and see a lady breast feeding her kid in the middle of the street, totally not caring if people see at all. ive seen 3 bfeeders so far. also kids just starting to pee in the middle of the sidewalk, a guy who almost beat us up with a stick thing, doors slammed in my face, and yeah fun things all around. we had one lunch with a member family, we only have 25 active members in our branch, i watched them prepare the food with dirty hands and flys everywhere. we have to fight the flys off with a bat they are so big, some of them even carry around their own bats and travel in gangs, we try to avoid them. idk why i just said that, haha.
  i drank the water here right off to just get it over with, survived. i got sick one day from some food that i tried to cook haha, barely survived. so far we have been working and trying to find more people. from what ive heard is that the area i am in is the hardest one to baptize people in all of the mendoza mission, we got work to do!!
  did i say that it is kind of hot here? even in the shade im sheddin water. just swimmin in it. at night its hot to so the first night i just slept on my sheets without anything covering me. woke up with a good 30 mosquito bites on my arms legs and feet. so haha i sleep under the sheet, but the little poopers find my feet and hands and face somehow. im declaring war on them. they only come out at night, i think tonight is d-day for the little buggers.
  my trainer speaks english so thats good!! but he is really quiet most of the time so i have to ask him a few times whats going on. but its all good at least its in english.
  bus drivers think they are demolition derby racers. aka they are NUTS with a capital holy crap. dogs are everywhere, usually a few follow us around when we are prosilyting. the people here for the most part are really nice. i think i scared one off once cuz i was sitting down and they walked by so i shook their hand, but then i stood up and they looked straight up and said okay bye! in spanish though, and took off haha. its cool :) we are going to the zoo today and i might get some pictures. we played soccer with the zone today and all the latino misionaries are way good! i was goalie my first game, ten seconds after we started i was on my back and they had scored and won, im not sure still to this very second what happened in that amount of time, i might have tried something crazy and failed. sadly we were only playing to one point, so because of the gringo our team lost.
  in the midst of all the not so positive things there is some good, i made it here safe, aaaaaaaanndd well thats all i have so far but im sure itll get better!!!
  some things i know for sure.  i will never quit. there is no such thing as 'cant'. no matter how many flys mosquitos or dogs there are they wont stop me from mobbin things up. my new years resolution was only one thing, to live my life and my mission with NO regrets. i have none so far :)
  i love you all :) peace out!