Elder Draper - S1:E1 The Pilot

HOLA Fam and Friends!!!

This week has been one of the craziest best weeks ever! It's been only a week and a half but I already feel like a Mexican! For all of you soon to be missionaries I'm gonna give you some advice. Think about something you can do on the plane to your mission! I did not and it was a very long flight. Second you should know that you will get to work right away and you will not stop. EVER. Next everyone complains about the food here but honestly it's not that bad. Think of it as a better school lunch but one tip is eat a lot of the fruit. All the fruit is fresh and local. Probably some of the best i have ever had!

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ... for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth." Romans 1:16

Spanish ROCKS! Learning the language is one big task but dang I love it! I speak Spanish in all of my classes and you will definitely drown for a day or two but it is soooo fun to learn it! Life here is a little crazy. You will have to be somewhere every 15 minutes and it is a lot of work. Your schedule is jammed packed from 6:30-9:30. Lucky I haven't been homesick at all but a lot of people struggle with that here.

Little bit about my experience so far. The first day we got here was a fun day and we were lost for a little while but there is a lot of help here. After the first day, the schedule has been the same. We wake up and shower in the first 30 minutes, then personal study, breakfast, some more personal study, language study, class, lunch, class, language, grammer, personal study and then back to the room and go to bed. That's just about it other than some devotionals here and there.

Overall it has been a really good experience and I have loved it here! Little bit about the pictures. The picture out of the plane is over Mexico city, The wall is how they lock us in here, (parrots, parrots are everywhere here, its wild), the pic in front of the sign is me and my companion, then it's me and my companion and my roomates, and the panorama picture is what it looks like out of my class window!

Ciudad de Mexico, MX