What a freaking great week!!
We arrived at the airport on Tuesday and the most important thing is we meet André Iguadala
so that was sick, our flight got delayed so we ended up having to spend the next
day at the Provo MTC. We got to the Provo MTC at approx.3 am. So we were all
way dang tired. There were 13 of us in this group so 6 were in one room 6 in
another and me all by my lonesome in a room with 6 elder who spoke Japanese
only. Fantastic haha. I saw Elder Davis and Elder Selman in Provo that that was
a good time. And I saw a bunch of other elders that I knew from Herriman and Corner
so Provo was awesome. The next day we got on trax at 5 pm and headed to SLC
airport. We finally caught our plane to LAX and then proceeded to get on our
flight from LAX to Guatemala. That was a long day, we were traveling for 18
hour by plane bus and train. As we approached the great country of Guatemala we
hear the pilot come on and say that it was too stormy to land in Guatemala city
so we landed in El Salvador and we waited on the same stupid plane for 5 hours
and I was in the middle of two old Guatemalan women that slept on my shoulders
the entire ride haha. So that delay sucked we weren’t allowed off the plane
because that is against the law apparently. We finally got to the CCM at 1 pm
on Thursday. The kids in my district are all super sick. My comps name is E. O. he is from Tennessee and has a way thick southern accent. It’s hard
to understand him. I do most of the work with preparing lessons and I just tell
him what to say and when to say it because he is kind of clueless. I am by far
the tallest person in the CCM and everyone plays futbol but me..... But its alright
because I kick there buts at basketball. My comp has already talked to the
president everyday so I think something is way wrong but its the worst because
I always have to be with him so while the other kids are learning Española I
sit in the lobby and read preach my gospel. I’ve already read it 4 times that
is how long these meetings take. The temple is right across the street and it
is so pretty. We did the session in Spanish and it was way hard but way spiritual.
I am picking up Spanish quickly and I have the first vision baptismal
invitation and the missionary purpose in Español. All the Latinos love me
because they think I talk funny and they want to be on my basketball team. They
are honestly the nicest people ever and they are way fast. I love it here! Ill
be honest the food is gross and we spend as much time in the bano as we do in
the cafeteria. I know the church is true and I know that everything is possible
with God. Until next week!
Love Elder Peacock
PS. Elder Fishers alarm clock we off
in the airport and everyone thought it was a bomb so we had to go back through
TSA hahahaha I seriously cried, it was so funny.
PPS sorry I keep forgetting things
but hurricane Earl is hitting us and I have never seen more rain in my life.
The rain hurts so bad but it is so cool and pretty here.
I have more time so I will write some
more. We only have an hour so I made sure I replied to everyone. So like I said
the Latinos are cool but the Latino teachers are the scariest people I have
ever meet. This one teacher named Hermono Garcia is like 5 ft and he doesn’t
blink or smile. Its nuts, although I told him a joke and it made him laugh. So
apparently there is no sarcasm in Guatemala so knowing me I am having a hard
time with jokes because I unusually rely on sarcasm to get me through so only
the white kids think I am funny and the Latinos don’t get it but they laugh
anyway. Btw its so weird I will be writing English in my journal and I
slip into Español and start writing Spanish it is the weirdest thing. I’ve learned
more in 1 week than I did in 3 years in school so that’s awesome. There is a
kid who has been here for 3 weeks and he is from Cali and his name is Elder Peacock
too so we are buds. I will send picture as soon as I’m aloud to in the field
but none in the CCM but maybe I will try to send some pictures later on my
camera see if it works. but if not i will talk to you guys next week. I love
you guys so much. don’t worry about me because I am having the time of my life
here honestly the most fun of all time. The bread is so good here but we eat
beans and scrambled eggs and its soooooooooooooooooo nasty. I’ve gotten to know
stall 4 on the second floor pretty good though hahahaha
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