I'm in Bolivia!

Oh my, I don´t even know where to start. I´ve already had many crazy times. It was so good to talk to you on the phone before I got on the plane. I am so glad I don´t have to do that again for fifteen more months. I still have jet lag a little bit pero estoy bien. So when we got to the airport in Bolivia it was like stepping into a sauna. It was so hot and muggy. I was instantly in love! The airport was playing 80´s music we joke and say we´ve gone back in time. Its amazing how much American music is here. I wasn´t expecting that at all. We met our mission president and his wife at the airport and the Elders who are serving here in this part of Bolivia. They brought us Subway. Everyone instantly spoke Spanish to us and the whole ride to our hotel was a learning experience for me. I felt like I got a ton of new vocablulary words from Hermana Calderon. She is so sweet and talkitive and she speaks really slow for us so we can understand. They let us go to our rooms and get some sleep or shower. I did both. Then they took us out to dinner. We had a chicken soup and then rice with three different kinds of meat. They had really good salad too. I love the food here! It is so different and yet similar to things I´ve eaten before so its not hard to get used to. That first night I slept like a rock because it is impossible to sleep well on a plane. But I got to do alot of contacting, well I talked to four people so I guess thats not really alot haha. They all came from different places it was crazy. One man I met on our first flight was from New York and he asked about how we decide where we serve our missions and he joked and asked if we just pull names of countries out of a hat ahaha. So I explained that we are called by God to serve through the leaders of the church. That was all we talked about as far as church topics go. He was very nice. I also met three different women on the flight to Peru. The plane was awesome. We could see where we were on a screen on the back of the seats in front of us. We also played games on them too. I beat Hermana Hernandez at Battleship, it was pretty great. Anyway I talked to a girl from Germany, a woman from the Netherlands, and a woman from India. It was so great. They all had very different backgrounds. I was able to give them passalong cards so they could look us up on the internet and contact missionaries in their areas. I loved talking with them, I was so relieved to know they all spoke English. The woman from the Netherlands speaks dutch, spanish, and english. Her husband is Bolivian, she met him in Bolivia when she was here for a school trip and fell in love and they have a son who was sitting on her lap for most of the flight. She speaks dutch to him and his dad speaks spanish to him. He was so cute, he tried to talk to me and his mom translated so I mostly used my hands alot when I communicated with him. So when we flew I honestly felt like I was on a rollercoaster on our first and last flight, we had major turbulance. But I loved every minute of it, even when I got nausiated. Our hotel is really nice, not by american standards but for Bolivia its probably better than most. We have warm water and we are served breakfast every morning. I still don´t know how I will send you pictures but I´ve taken alot. I get to meet my companion on Wednesday and tomorrow I´ll be contacting people on the street for the first time! I can´t believe I´m here and diving into this culture. It´s very different but nice. I liked going to church alot, the members were so nice to us some of the women did the touch cheeks and make a kissy noise thing with us. I´m not totally sure yet but I think my blow dryer is broken or my transformer. I hope its the blow dryer but I don´t really know. We got our first major rain storm yesterday. I loved it so much. The traffic here is totally nuts. I don´t know how people avoid accidents or hitting pedistrians all the time. The people here are fearless. I´m so grateful I won´t be driving. I like the buses, even though they are tiny. Its so windy here, I don´t think we´ve had even an hour of stillness outside. I´m feeling like doing my hair is pointless. I found out that I can e-mail Nanny and Bomp, will you tell them for me? I got all my legal stuff figured out today and I got my blood drawn, yeah I got my blood drawn in Bolivia. We had to go into a police station first and it was pretty intimidating but one of the men who worked there was so nice to us for the hour we had to wait to sign a few papers and get finger prints he talked to us which calmed me down alot. Supposedly I should be able to speak well within a couple months. I can´t wait, its hard to not know how to say anything. I can understand alot but I just struggle with making my own sentences. I´m glad the people I´ve talked to at least get the gist of what I´m trying to say. My companion is going to be a native from either here or one of the surrounding countries. I´m so grateful because I feel like I´ll learn alot faster that way. I love you all so much! My p day is on Mondays, I have to go now because I need to go and buy socks ahaha. My family is so wonderful, I love you with all my heart.