He made it!!!!

August 15,2013

Wanna hear a joke?.... Mission prep!!! hahaha I thought a lot howd I{d start that first email!!  Well Im here! you would not beleive the flight!!! we got here at 1am! such a long flight it was pitch black and no one spoke english!! it took me 2 hrs to get through customs and than an hour long bus drive so all in all i went to bed at 4am, but the let us sleep in till 9, which was really considereate until you realized its so loud in this city it take you till 9 just to fall asleep:) showed up at the airport in salt lake and a lady asked what i was doing told her a mission and than I was able to bear my testimony with her and tell her about the gospel she was particulary fasinated by the fact i thought I held the prehisthood, but when I told her that because of my worthiness and the fact i was set apart I held the authority and power of god to act in his name and perform miracels well it was really cool! than on the flight talked with a 7 day adventisits where i was able to place 2 pass along cards the flight to peru though was extremeley long and boring counted 746 sheep! and still couldnt fall asleep!! finally got to customs no one spoke english and I was english I was really lost, with a good group of elders but still felt alone, until in line this guy was talking about footbal, well I turned around and said "football?" and he}s like no futbol and I laughed until he siad in englgihs "you like football" I said yes" and we talked about tim tebow and how he thought joe montanna was the best quarterback of all time!! it was defintley a blessing, than the guy in front of us scoffed kinda i turned around introduced myself..as elder grow ;) haha and i said you don{t like football he said no rugyb he was from austrialia than I really threw him a curve when I mentioned how i knew the all blacks!! we had a great conversation...in english!! than After the long bus drive through lima well yeah got to mtc everyone was asleep woke up tis morning ogt tags books bags haircut, still have yet to talk about immuniziations, but needed hangers, will have to pick them up on p day, ate a fruit this morning called griduton or something looked like a cross between pomegranite and fish egg hahah tasted like um grapes.. kinda... not really hahah lima is perfect weather right now reminds me of the texas beach nice breeze 60 degrees humidity is pretty low to when its colder so its way nice! city looks like something off of bourne supremacy the third one mixed with downtown la and some ogden, and yeah its pretty sketchy, driving thorugh our part looks like bunch of grafiti cereal boxes standing up with dogs everywhere and scary people standing in the streets hahaha the mtc.. is surrounded by a 12 foot high concrete wall and barbed wire with steel gates hahah either to keep people out... or us in ,) hahah but it goes well doing great and yeah,... can{t speak a lik of anthing but found out how to slay " who whoa whoa slow down and don{t yell at me" hahah should come in handy ;) my companion is elder macdonald from arizona really nice guy so far getting along, hows dad? hows mom?kodi, kelsee jacie tell me can{t wait to hear!! got my name tags!!! so great hip hurts little from flight shower was cold but luggage made it, met mission president at aiport really nice tell kodi can put any of this on blog were living in cloud down here fog constantly, computer on timer for email so feeling under pressure or under the gun just to even send this, consider it a blessing that i can even type this fast alth0ough its a spanish keyboard which yes is different so spelling puncatation might be off well i think thats all if have to say so love you all very very much and i can{t wait to see you.. well in 2 years.. hasnt really sunk in yet though feels like a vaction at this point, until you know ill be in meetings all day where they do nothing but speak spanish adios!! i really have nothing more to say but don{t wat to say goodbye, um woke up to birds chirping this morning that was nice rrom smal 6 of us only 100 of us here though kinda small place type to you soon!!! love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!