Frijoles Y Panqueques!

Hola Familia!

I´m here in BEAUTIFUL Guatemala City, trying my best to type on a spanish keyboard.... haha So this letter won´t be as long as the others! Lo siento!

We got here last Tuesday, and today is our first P-Day. Can I just tell you how awesome this is? Flying into the city was such an awesome experience, we flew in at night time, and we could see all of the lights of the city. I could see soccer fields, and all kinds of cool stuff from the air.

We got to the MTC and had some Pizza Hut ''Pizza,'' but it definitely wasn´t like the Pizza in America. The mission president here is such an amazing person, He has already taught me so much. I´m so thankful for him! Mom, his wife is a nurse, I just thought you should know that. If I ever need anything i´ll just go running to her don´t worry.

I got a new companion! I´m just switching from one Tongan to the next! Elder Misini is my companion, and he is an awesome person. Teaching and Learning have both been so much easier with him here in Guatemala. Elder Hautau has another pretty good companion, and I help him still every now and then. I´m pretty sure I told you about Elder Misini earlier, but he is half Tongan Half Maori, from New Zealand! Pretty awesome huh? We taught a lesson yesterday, and the native teacher said we were ''Fluent,'' haha I just laughed and said thanks. She asked how many years we had studied spanish in high school, and I said none! She didn´t believe me and I could hardly convince her otherwise. (I memorized the phrases so it made me look good :) )

Every morning I wake up, go up to the window in our room, and RIGHT outside our window is the Guatemalan Temple. Can you believe that? It´s just right there. There is a Shell station inbetween the temple and the MTC, and that's kinda funny, but it is such a cool thing to go to bed to and wake up to every day. I am so blessed, i´m not sure what I did to deserve all of this! We see cars driving around like crazy, peeling out constantly, and ladies walking with huge baskets on their heads down the street. It´s been such a cool experience.

I wasn´t smelling too hot after traveling the whole day in my suitcoat, and on the last flight into Guatemala, a nice lady came and sat next to me. I was SO embarrassed. haha Anyways, I found out she knew hardly any english, and I knew even less spanish! She lived in New York for 2 months 25 years ago, and that was all the english she knew. Well, with my 3 weeks of spanish and her 2 months of english, by some miracle we became friends. We talked the WHOLE flight, and next thing I knew I was teaching the first lesson... In spanish. Of course there was a whole lot of english mixed in, and and hand signals as well, but we understood each other! She said she lived 2 blocks from the church and had a book of mormon but had never read it. I bore testimony after teaching her, and said I know it´s true! I wouldn´t be on a mission if I didn´t know without a doubt it is true! At one point in the lesson she started saying ''It´s true.'' ''It´s True.'' It was amazing! She said she´d read the book of mormon, and I told her to tell the missionaries Hi for me when she talked to them. This was such a cool experience, I wish I could go into greater detail but I have 4 minutes left and I´m a little handicapped on this spanish keyboard.

Oh I need to tell you about the food. Frijoles(Beans) are a constant here, as is Rice. The second day we had beans and pancakes! haha It was so weird seeing those two things right next to eachother on the plate! It´s all good, I´ve loved the food here!

I am roommates with one of Christian´s friends from Soccer, His name is Elder Dineheart. Tell Christian about that for me!

I hope everything is going well. I LOVE it here. I´m about to go do a session in the GUATEMALA TEMPLE! Life is good! The beds are soft and everything is great!

Take care in the snow back in Utah, I´ve already got some sun on my face.

Time is up! Love you all so much, I miss you big time but I just LOVE it here! Thanks for everything.

See ya soon,

Elder Micah Melville

P.S. I´m so glad you got to see the picture of Jenny and I!

We got called on to teach sunday school on sunday... talk about intense. BUt way fun.