He also sent me a private email that said that he was appointed the District Leader on the first day and that it was a little stressful, but he's getting the hang of it. He also said it's always overcast there. Interesting. Sounds like he's hanging in there. Better than me anyway. 
Enjoy!Hello everyone!
Well. I´m here and I'm alive! My whole life people have told me how hard missions are, how spiritual they are, how fun they are, but no one ever told me how hilarious it is to be a missionary. We got to the CCM at about 3:30 in the morning and then it took us an hour to get all sorted out from there because the workers who were awake didn´t speak English, and we don´t speak Spanish. Ultimately we got to bed at around 4:30 (after we tried to sing Spanish hymns to pass the time). We woke up at 6:30 and started our day. All of it was in Spanish. Being a missionary is just hilarious because 98% of the time you literally have no idea what is going on or what is being said to you. Honestly I knew the Lord takes care of the missionaries, but seriously he must be putting in overtime because we are truly the most clueless kids and yet somehow all of us are alive and people still somehow get converted to the gospel.
Life at the CCM is hilarious. I have two teachers, Hermana Luna and Hermano Vasquez. Both of them are top notch. We set a goal as a class to have them teach 60% in Spanish and 40% in English. This is false. It is more like 90% spanish and 10% English. Our very first day we had to teach a lesson to our investigator Italo. If you are wondering how it went I suggest you grab a Spanish dictionary, study it for approx. 12 minutes, and then try to teach someone about the restoration in Spanish. Again, hilarious. Hahaha. The gift of tongues has to be real because somehow our investigator still understood what we were trying to teach.
We also get an hour of physical activity. This is easliy my favorite part of the day because practically everyone just plays soccer. They don´t play soccer well, but everyone plays soccer. It really is so fun and so funny because no one gives a hoot about the rules or skill or really even kicking it to someone on their team, but everyone is giving 110%. Again hilarious. The food here is also hilarious. I love it, but a lot of people hate it. We have rice and chicken literally everyday. I honestly am so impressed with how many ways there are to prepare chicken. They also always have tons of vegetables and fruits so I love it. I now understand, however, why so many missionaries get fat in the MTC. There are about four kids who actually eat the vegetables (myself included), everyone else literally eats about six rolls per meal! It is insane! Needless to say everyone here is constipated (besides me and the three other kids who know what fiber is).
My companion´s name is Elder Farnsworth from Mesa, Arizona. He is 6´4. Basically I spend half my time here trying to keep up with him because he literally walks up the stairs three steps at a time. The kids in my district are also way cool.
The weird thing about learning a new language is that you never understand what is being said, but you can still feel the spirit. We got to go do a session today at the Lima temple. Hilarious because they ran out of headsets so we had to do it in Spanish, and spiritual becasue you can still feel the truthfulness by the spirit. My favorite quote here is "When you are almost obedient, you almost receive the blessing". We talk a lot here about the importance of being exactly obedient. The Lord wants to bless you, but he can´t unless you do your part. Make sure you do your part.
Well, I love you all. I´m having a blast. I LOL at all times of the day. Missions are great!
Love,
Elder Meier
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