Wednesday, April 25, 2012

First impressions....India

I loved that I got to call you guys :) :) Totally funny that I got you mom! (FYI this email is going to be sporadic I just reread it) India Ummm.... this is crazy!! It's cool, but wow! This is different. Flying with Elder Cooper was good, the flights were long (2 eight hour flights), New Delhi is massive, and I sure hope I adjust because this is different. My companion is Elder Bunga he's from Hyderbad, India. He's leaving in 12 weeks. I don't even know what to tell you. I really am bewildered at everything.
     I guess I'll begin with the plane rides. SLC to D was quick I slept the whole way. Though 20 minutes before we landed I woke up to a lady talking to us about her mission and she gave both Elder Cooper and I both 20 dollars each for our trip over to India. She's was super nice. Ohh Elder Cooper was in funk about not having any mountains to base direction on and also flippin out about the size of the high school football fields. I'll give some credit on the football field. Then D to LDN was good. It was a little crowded, but I made it. I read and slept a lot on that ride. Then the trip from LDN to IND was not so nice. I got a little air sick and had to take a pill from the airlines. I tried to sleep the whole time as we flew over here. New Delhi is massive. So many people, noisy (honking all the time), and dirty. Street dogs are everywhere. Soo this is weird and totally different. I think I'm just in shock over all of this because it's so different. I really hope to learn to love it here, otherwise I'm going to be miserable. I keep saying different.... please ask questions to help me explain things better :) There are 27 missionaries right now in our mission. Only 4 of them are American including Elder Cooper and me. There were actually 4 other Americans here  but because of visas they had to fly back to Washington after their year here in India. The driving is crazy and yet I'm not scared because it's just so normal for here I just go with it. Weird I know. I believe this is about the time whenever I will be emailing you guys. It'll be about 11-11:30 in the morning whenever I get on to do emailing. 11:30-12 at night your time.  I first have to write to Pres. Jackson each week but then I'm good to email you after. It also seems like I'll get an hour or so to email each week. I love you guys. I hope you know that and that I can feel comfortable here in India. I grew up in the Church and the US but this is an act of faith for me to Heavenly Father. I hope I can show my love for him and that he will comfort me during these first few days. I love you :) Elder Devin Bastian

No comments:

Post a Comment