Sunday adventure!

On Sunday I had quite the adventure. Everyone left me here in the morning and I decided to head off to find church. I was told that it was a 10 minute walk but it ended up being more like 45 minutes. I had left most of my stuff with my host family but I still had my computer, some food, and a ton of other stuff so that 45 minute walk seemed like forever. I only got lost once and only asked 3 people for help. Eventually I could see the steeple above the buildings and was so happy I took a picture of the chapel (like I´ve never seen one before). I went in and sat down by myself when about 10 minutes later a guy named Carlos came and sat by me. He was really nice. He carried my heavy backback around for me and introduced me to everyone. I met 3 other young single adults and had some instant friends. After church they invited me over to one of their apartments where we had lunch, sat around and talked, and played games. I truly am amazed by what the gospel of Jesus Christ does for people. Only in the church could you travel half way across the world to a place with a completely different culture, meet people, and instantly trust them and be their friend. I didn´t have anywhere to go until 8pm so I was grateful to have them to hang out with.

At 8 I met with my group from SUU (I hadn´t met any of them yet since I was on my mission while they were planning everything) and walked up to our school.

After that Taryn (my roommate) and I walked down to our host family´s house where we had dinner and unpacked. Its nice to have a closet again and not have to live out of a suitcase.

My host mom´s name is Mayte and she has a 4 year old daughter named Irene. They´re both adorable and very friendly. She´s an amazing cook as well so that makes it nice. I hope I don´t gain a lot of weight though. We´ll see...

Right now its Monday morning and I just took my level test to see which class I´ll be in while I´m here. I find out tomorrow. The questions seemed pretty easy but I didn´t know on some of them. I haven´t actually had a formal Spanish class since about 6th grade so I´m excited for the experience. Its a weird feeling to be a student again.