First P-Day in Mexico

We finally heard from David on Monday, his first p-day in Mexico. David has been assigned to the La Paz, Baja California Sur are of the mission. Here is how David describes the weather he was greeted with:

"DUDE! Look up the weather here! It's CRAZY!!! I'm in La Paz, Baja California Sur. The very first day, yeah, umm, a hurricane. It rained for about an hour, totally horizontal, harder than I've EVER seen before. About ten times more rain and windier here than I've ever seen, even on our trip home from Virginia. Look up pictures of Sri Lanka, and that's about what it looks like. All the streets become rivers and the water is AT LEAST a foot deep, usually deeper. It's pretty sweet :) It's rained every day except today and is WAY hot, but I wouldn't have it any other way,. All my paper stuff I carry is ruined, except my scriptures. They turned out fine, hmmmm ;)"

Of his arrival in Mexico David wrote:

"Well, the first day was NUTS! We got to the mission home, after shoving 6 of us and the president and his wife and ALL of our luggage and backpacks into a little luxus SUV, it was pretty crazy. But it was cool because the first thing we saw when we stepped out of the airport doors was a pick up truck with a 50 cal mounted in the bed and driven and operated by dudes in camo and with black ski masks. Just like the technicals in Black Hawk Down. It was pretty sweet :) They were the drug police and I guess if they get a report of anything suspicious drug wise, they don't ask any questions. They'll just fill a house with lead if the dogs smell cocaine. Hehe, We could learn a few things from these people ;) But we got to the house and did a little orientation with the president and his wife and the secretaries, then I wrote to you and then we went to the mission home where Elder Cope and I had to reduce our total weight (One back pack and a bag) to 25 kilos. Dad might know this, but that's just a little more than 50 pounds of stuff. If you remember, All in all, after the books I got in the MTC, I have about 125 pounds worth of stuff. Yeah. . . Kinda crazy :)" David was flying to Baja for his first area and the small plane had a weight restriction, that's why he had to reduce his luggage - everything he couldn't take with him was left at the mission home.

David was able to email home during p-day and most, if not all, missionaries use an myldsmail.net account given to them at the MTC. Well, even thought David sent his email at 11:58 PM we didn't actually receive it until about 8:30PM. Probably a huge amount of email going out all over the world all at the same time.

Sorry, no pictures to post - he needs to find the right cord to hook up the computer and camera to send them.