Hola Familia!
Well, I'm in Illinois now! It so weird to be out of the MTC now, my mind can't really comprehend it all yet but I know I'll adjust. My new companion is Hna. Gailey, She's from San Diego, CA and has been out for almost a year. Her spanish is good so she'll be able to help me out. I'm serving in Carpenterville which is by Elgin. I'm in a spanish branch and there is a set of Elders serving in the same branch. They're working really hard to make it a ward. My companion says there are a lot of Hispanics in the area so that should be good for my Spanish. Most of them are from Mexico and the runner up is people from Guatemala! So that's cool. My companion says that we get fed A LOT here and that I might gain weight...so hopefully not haha. I'll also need to start building up more of a tolerance for spicy food. I don't know much else about the area yet since I've only been here for like 2 hours. My apartment is really small and smells a little bit like cigarette smoke. We also have a car, which is nice, so I wont have to buy a bike at this point. Plus there are two bikes in the apartment anyway. I got my bedding just now but I still need to find boots and a coat. It's not too much of a rush though it's actually been pretty warm today and yesterday. So I might wait until next week to get them when I can think better haha. I live pretty close to a Target, Wal-mart, and a mall so it shouldn't be too much trouble.
Yesterday was pretty neat. After we got to the airport we met President and Sister Doll and the assistants. They took all our stuff and then we took the L-train into Chicago for a little bit of "fear-busting". The challenge was to give away a Book of Mormon. I didn't give mine away but my fist contact was in Spanish! It was hard to understand him due to my lack of comprehension and the noisy train but it went well. He seemed interested in what I had to say and I taught him a little bit about the church. When we got to Chicago we went and ate deep-dish pizza for lunch at "Pizzeria Oro" (I think). It was good! Then we went on a walking tour around Chicago which was really cool. I came in with 16 other missionaries so we must have looked pretty interesting walking around in a huge group. After the tour we took the train to Downers Grove where the mission office and home are. We went to the office first, which, amusingly, is right by a Hooters. We had about an hour of orientation stuff then we went to the mission home, had dinner, and more orientation stuff. We spent the night there too. This morning we had breakfast then went over to the Naperville stake center to meet our trainers.
It was good to talk to you guys yesterday, even if only for a little bit. Oh and the computers at the Library here give us an hour so you can send me e-mails and I'll have time to read them. Also, It's faster if you send letters directly to my apartment rather than to the mission office so i'll give you my current address;
562 Lincoln Ave
West Dundee, IL 60118
You'll just have to be careful around transfer time in case I get moved. I think theres an option on dearelder where you can put in a different address than the mission office, so do that. If in doubt of transfers though just send it to the mission office. and if other people ask for my address its probably safer for them to send it to the mission office so they don't have to worry about keeping track of where I am. Oh, can you take my MTC address off of Facebook so people don't send me anything there? thanks.
Overall, it's really exciting and I think i'm really going to like the area. My old companion, Hna. Maughan got sent to the border of Illinois and Wisconsin in like farm area so I'm sure she had more of a drive than I did, It's weird that I'm not going to be with her anymore. Oh tell Kevin Happy Birthday!! 12 years old I can't believe it. Super exciting. Well I hope this week goes well for everyone, talk to you again next week!
Love,
Hna. West
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