Survived First Week !

(Devin was online and typing a few paragraphs to us.  He had to go be quick because he, Elder Cooper and Pres. Jackson  were headed to Delhi for a tour of the Mission.)

Hey are you guys up?! I'm on for only 30 minutes because Pres Jackson is taking Elder Cooper and I to visit Delhi.

This first week has been hard, but today I realized something as I was pondering. 2 Nephi 31:19-20 are the scriptures that made me ponder about this. Instead of strait and narrow I replaced it with mission. Then where Heavenly Father is talking about eternal life I replaced it with "You will have success on you mission". That helped a lot! And dad thank you so much for the blessing you gave me before I left. I reread that blessing in my journal yesterday and I just started bawling because it hit home and gave me the comfort I needed to get through yesterday. Thanks :D

I took pictures that I wanted to send to you today but because of the computers we're on Elder Bunga told me to wait until later. Sorry :/    Before I go any further, HI MOM!!! HI DAD!!! I love you guys!!! hehe I've been stoked to email you and hear from you

Now that I've been here a week our apartment is really nice. Dirty because of 6 missionaries living together but it really is nice. I do a lot of cleaning because... well that's me. haha Actually some of the guys cook for us at night. I have my own breakfast of cereal, eggs, and a fruit. The rest of the day is hard to figure meals out. Like last night it was 10:30 by the time I could even think of making any dinner and I was so tired that I didn't eat. I'm not sure how to plan for those things. There are quite a few people that speak English and understand how to speak it well. However their accents are so thick it is very hard to understand. The rest of the people here speak Hindi and even in the lessons we teach Elder Bunga has to translate to from English to Hindi so that they understand what is being said. I've picked up on a few phrases/words but I feel lost a lot because of how often English is spoken here. The Church members are the ones that speak the best English.

All we have is a stove, microwave, and refrigerator. No oven.  I'm the only American in the apartment. There are 3 other Americans in our mission though. There used to be 4 more but because of visas they had to leave to Washington the day before Elder Cooper and I arrived.