I'm in Mexico!

Hola! Im writing this from Mexico! Mexico is super sweet, the part that I
arrived to and am at is sooo nice. If you ever have the chance to go to
Merida, (or cancun) I highly recomend it.

Something really wierd tho that I didnt expect is EVERYONE drives really
really nice cars. like 2000-2009. and they are all spotless. another
crazy thing is they go very very very fast in their cars. the driving is
crazy. I got so car sick on the way back from the aiport. the speed limit
for a street in Layton or Syracuse might be 40, here its 60. we break if
we´re about to hit someone, here they speed up in the other direction. I
guess its working for them tho because It doesn´t seem like they get in to
many accidents.

So yeah my first area that I am serving in is Cancun! Nuts huh? It is
great so far. We have a new house, kinda new, super dirty tho. We dont
even have enough money to by a mop or anything to clean it out. Its two
rooms (probably for another companionship) and a bathroom. the toilet
doesnt have a cover! No idea how i´m not going to fall in. there is
nothing in it so far, and we dont have the money to buy things like mops,
brooms, or other stuff that we need. oh well.

I sleep in a hamaca! I love it, it took a while to get used to but once you
do its the best nights sleep. I always thought that you lay in it so that
your back is kind of bent, but that is not how we do it here! What I do is
I lay in it almost diagonal, and spread out. Its awsome because you get
rocked to sleep. ha ha ha.

Another cool thing is my first day I bathed myself with a bucket! ha ha,
filled it up with water, got a cup and just washed myself off. it felt
great, it was so refreshing! Just sang a little song.

The bus ride from Merida to Cancun was a long one, we left from like 3 and
got there about eight thirty.

I thought I was only going to get breakfast yesterday, but some really nice
kids brought over a taco to us last night. Their mom works at a taco stand
and they gave us some food. It was a great tender mercy. I was good for
not having much food that day but the Lord provided us some. It was great.

My mission president is a very very nice guy, probably one of the nicest
and most humble people I have ever met. I guess he started his own medicin
company in Mexico City.

When we first got here they gave us a talk on how we are going to get really
really sick, either from the water, parasites, or not drinking water. ha ha
ha, welcome to Mexico! gave us some suggestions on what to do when that
happens. mainly pray, repent, or tough it out. they say get a water, put
some salt and sugar in it and take little sips of that (trying to recreate
gatorade?)

It is so pretty here.

The food is honestly some of the best food ever, so far so good with that!
The two boys brought over some melon jugo (water melon juice) that was very
good!

My new companion is really nice and helps me out a ton! His name is Elder
Jaime (hi-meh) I am his first trainee so he calls me his firstborn :D ha
ha ha, he is great I love him.

so far so good! Hope everything is going well with you guys!

Spence will you please forward this to the rest of the family?

Love all of you!