I'm here!! So 6 of us left the mtc on Tuesday morning at 3:30 AM. We all went to bed around one so we only got like 2 and a half hours of sleep haha. I was so tired that whole day. We got to the airport at around 4:30. After we got all checked in we had about an hour before our flight was ready to board. So we walked around and got some breakfast. Flying was pretty fun actually! I don't remember when we flew to California because that was so long ago. It was about a 4 hour flight to Atlanta, then we had to board another flight right after that to go to Tampa. That flight was about an hour long. When we finally arrived there was two elders waiting for us. They then led us to our mission President and his wife. They were really nice! After we got our luggage and everything we went to the mission Presidents house. There we ate dinner and talked about a lot of things. I don't really remember because I was so tired haha. After that we went and stayed in a hotel for the night and Elder Morris gave me a hair cut. My hair is so short now! Haha I guess hats just how it goes. The next morning we woke up at 5:30and worked our for an hour. We do that every single morning here in the Tampa mission. except at 6. Then we went to the church and got our companions and our areas. I'm serving in the Hudson area (mission president did that on purpose) and my companion is Elder Nilson. He is a really hard working guy. He is a really awesome missionary and is a fun companion. We got all our stuff to the apartment and then went strait to work.
We first went to Miguel's house. He was baptized about a week ago. I guess my companion and him had planned a prank on me. My companion has been in this area for about 4 months. So we get there and Miguel asked if we wanted something to drink, we said okay. Then he comes out with two "beers" and says "beer!" I was so confused. Then all of a sudden my companion starts chugging it! I was like dude what are you doing?! And he's like, "take a drink or you'll offend him." Then I looked at the bottle and it said "Non alcoholic drink." then i caught on. We all laughed for a long time about that. Then we went tracting. we do a lot of that here. The very first house we went to my companion told me to take the lead. I was so nervous, but i said okay. I knocked and an old man answered the door. I asked him if he would like to hear a short message about Jesus Christ, then he slammed the door in my face haha. So my first door wasn't that successful. We knocked doors the rest of the night and got a couple of return appointments, but while we were knocking doors some cops pulled up and started asking us questions. we told them who we were and what we were doing. I guess someone called the cops on us haha! It was kinda funny. Not a day goes by out here that i don't hear at least two or three sirens. Its so much different than Utah. Then that night a set of Elders that live in our complex got threatened by someone. It was their downstairs neighbor. He pounded on the door and said if they didn't keep it down (they were in bed already btw, the guy was drunk) that he would kill them. so they live with us now haha. its really cramped but we manage. apartment G
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