Flight to Mexico

We took off early from the Salt Lake City Airport. We took a short trip to Denver, Colorado where we waited a few hours then boarded a plane to San Antonio, Texas. There we picked up our Visas and after waiting several more hours we flew onto Mexico City. We arrived at Mexico City just as the sun was going down. After going through customs we found two elders from the Mission Home sent to greet us and take us back to the Mission Home. We loaded all our stuff and us (There were six of us with all our luggage plus the two mission home elders) into an old beatup Volkswagen Van and had a hair raising drive back to the Mission Home.

At the Mission Home we discovered that President Whetten, out Mission President was out of town and the only missionaries at the mission home were the two elders who came and got us at the airport. We were very hungry but didn't get much to eat. All of my companions were told to take there stuff out of the van except for me. I was told that I would be going to my new area that evening. After being in the mission home only about an hour, I was taken to my new area which was right near by the mission home. There I met Elder Smead my first Senior Companion.

Although, I didn't stay long in the mission home, I got to see it lots during the next few months because it was right in our area. I wasn't interviewed by the President Whetten until several months had passed. But I guess it didn't matter because I saw him lots at church and at the mission home. I spend five months in my first area. I had three companions during this time.

Dad