Day #6 My first Sunday!

We are going to jump over the number five because my day one post was technically day one and two.. So here we are at day six! Almost a full week down. Today we got to go to stake conference. Only 14 of us wanted to go so we left an hour before church to walk with our neighbor Nicole to the bus stop. We didn't have to wait very long until a van stopped. These vans are little 12 passenger stick shift vans. We filled it up with our group, but we stopped many times and picked up more people. At one point in time we had 24 people crammed in that little van. It struggled to get up hills and I'm positive if we took a corner the wrong way the entire van would tip on its side. It was quite the adventure!
What a wonderful sight it was to behold when we pulled up to the chapel. I immediately felt safe and at peace, a feeling scarsly found walking the streets. The people were really nice and fairly welcoming. I imagine they will be more so when we go to our home ward next week as opposed to stake conference. Their whole stake is about the size of one of our wards, maybe two put together. From what I understood of the talks they were really good. It surprises me how much I actually got out of them. We sat in front of the missionaries. They are from Idaho and Utah so they seemed familiar faces. Pretty much the first Americans we have seen in days. It was refreshing to hear a little English, but also weird.. I'm proud I held myself together rather well emotionally today. Culture shock will not get the best of me! I will admit I almost cried out of happiness being at the church today.

Adventures of the day: Broken washing machine, fitting 24 people in a 12 passenger van, lighting the stove burner.. Yes it was an adventure.