first week

well im officially out... my p day is on mondays now... so you all
should just write me then... or when you read this.. my area is
awesome but ill wait and tell you about that in a bit... my last day
at the CCM was hard. i was saying bye to my two best-friends. elders
Shaw and Sederholm. there going to the shala mission... anyways they
loaded up the bus and we were on our way. it was really cool we had to
take a different road due to the rain and mud slides.. it was really
cool. it was about a 5 hour bus ride then he hit a stand still in the
road. thinking nothing of it we waited on the bus telling stories and
such. after about an hour some one told us that president marivilla
was waiting for us but we had to walk 1.5 miles to a gas station. i
was excited to get off the bus and went on our way. the road was
blocked in both directions an the bridge was closed to cars. we didn't
find out until later that it was a protest for better roads so they
cut off the main bridge to Retalhuleu. we got picked up and went to
the mission office were we had a dinner set out and we ate as they
gave us the low down on what was going to happen tomorrow with
recicing our trainers. eventually it was time for bed and they took us
to a hotel where we spent the night and ate breakfast. after the APs
picked us up and we were off to the mission home. was really cool they
had a slide show of all our pictures then a power point of who our
trainers and new comp would be. well i have a latino comp who knows a
little bit of english which has helped me alot. we were off to our
area. which is only 10 minutes from the mission office... we took a
tok tok. a three wheeled tricycle taxi. really interesting then loaded
up into a normal taxi and went to the apartment. ill send pictures
next week due to me forgetting my camera. anyways the apartment is one
of the best ones in the mission. but dont let that get your hopès up.
its trash pretty much. anyways i unloaded my bags here and there then
we were off for some introductions... the members here are really
nice. and it sucks being the only white person in a 5 mile radius. but
o well. people know about me now. well after a bunch of intros we had
to get ready for a baptism that was going down that night. we went to
the other missionaries apartment and picked up a tie for the bishop to
have for the baptism. we went out side and it was a down pour. we
opened the gate to the street and there was only about an inch left of
curb before it was over it... i had never seen such a thing in my
life. well we had to cross the street and get the the chapel. made it
across not to badly wet. well one street left and we were there. im
drenched at this point my umbrella wasn't doing much but its what
ever. we went on the count of three off to the gate to unlock it. well
i miss judged the side walk to street and had to much forward
momentum. before i knew it i was on the ground in about 4 to 5 inches
of water... got up and went into the chapel bathroom to dry off. they
have some good hand dryers here.. really cool. ad i made it to the
baptism fairly dry. really cool experience that i want to have more
of. this area is really hot but its winter. in 3 months it will be
summer and hot constantly. i really an not looking forward to that. im
having a good time.. we are teaching this family here and they are
awesome i feel like apart of the family. really cool and i look
forward to teaching them more... were trying to baptize them next
month. well thats all i have for this exciting week sorry if questions
are un answered and such... i love you all and hope you all watched
conference.. it was hard core! if you can call it that. love ya elder
crockett