Culture Shock

hola!! i made it safe!! it was way cool to see all the elders as we waited at the gate! it was a lot of fun talking with everyone! tell james randall that i sat next to the girl he told me about, that was going to virginia! she was way cool!! i was bummed! i met a lot of people going to virginia, and they were all so nice and friendly!! no one from utah was going to texas, but we met up with another flight in dallas where i finally met someone going to texas! he is from LA and he is way cool! we both got the change on calls so it was cool to talk to him and what he thought about it! on the flight to mexico i sat next to a kid from virginia which was reallly cool!! he was the only one from his high school to go on a mission!! i thought that was crazy! well now the part where you guys all laugh! so we got to mexico and had to walk forever to get to the customs part, and once we got there we had to fill out all this paper work, and none of the workers spoke english!! it was a bit of a test! then when we finally got through that we picked up our bags and had to go through another check point where dogs sniffed us... that was awkward! finally after all the security we met the president of the mtc, and a few of his workers.....yeah none spoke english... took us an hour to get everyone checked off with them as we stood around sweating to death! but we finally got to these buses where we had to pack ourselves in!! haha it got pretty intense!! we took a half hour drive to get to the mtc where we went through the city.....totally different from sandy!!! haha graffitti everywhere!!!!! like every three feet!!! and everything is falling apart and yeah it was crazy! all the elders kinda sat in silence as we all were checking out the guys trying to sell us things from the street! mexico city is SO FREAKING HUGE!!!!!!!!!! i was blown away as i saw it from the plane!!! it just went on forever!!! its massive!!! so we pulled up to the mtc and saw all the barbed wire.....seriously looks like a prison!! no joke!! we got off the bus checked in got our dorm rooms, which are seriously ridiculously small... i can jump from one side of the room to another....and im white.... anyway there are six to a dorm room and split into three seperate rooms. i havent met anyone in my room yet. we all went straight to dinner after dropping our bags off. first night food....costco pizza!!!!! so stoked hahaha but then there was this weird pudding.... dont really know how to explain it haha well thats about it for the night! i took some pictures dont know how to send any to you guys....but no big deal. ill talk to you guys soon!! i love you guys and cant wait to hear how all is going!!

love,

Elder Anderson

p.s. i look sweet with a name tag!!!