It's been a wonderful experience so far out here in the field. But it's also been very packed with things to do haha. I don't have a lot of time right now so I have to make this kind of short.
The MTC here is called CCM since it stands for the name in Spanish. The city is wonderful and it's huge!!! I'll try to send pictures later when I get everything figured out. My first companion, Elder Xanthos, is actually from Portland Oregon!!! We got along really quick! The food is great and of course it's very different than the States. I already got a new full experience on the drive from the airport to the CCM. There were a lot of stray dogs and there were natives just standing in the middle of the road holding baskets of fruit trying to sell them. The space between them and the cars only had like half a foot or less! And the roads are going in every direction. So that's pretty crazy. The training center is an old school campus and it's actually really nice. The gates and walls surrounding the CCM are covered in massive barbed wire and spikes so we're pretty protected. I think the Provo training center is more like a really large building with other buildings too but here at the Mexico training center, i'ts more flat and spread out. So there's a lot of walking. The language is coming along and I'm able to understand quite a bit. It's a lot easier to understand than speak it. As the schedule and responsibilities go, it's very packed. I was called to be district leader on day two so it's been even more chaotic for a little over a week. But my missionaries are pretty obedient so that makes things easier haha. The CCM feels like a small community where everything is great, well organized, and peaceful. And then looking outside the walls, you can see how much of a difference the city has. There are constantly sirens going and random explosions, that I think are fireworks, They're definitely not gun shots. But they aren't loud enough to keep me up at night and plus my casa is close to the middle of the area anyway and not close to the wall.
I love you all,
-Elder Markham
Here are some pictures of the flight in! There are also pics of the smaller part of the city outside of the walls, at night and during the day. Also a pic of the kinds of food I get to have. There's also my companion and I! And a picture of where my casa is. In that same picture there is this shelf like thing with water supplies. That's our drinking water, we can't get any out of sinks since it's not clean to drink. There aren't water fountains anywhere either. It took a while to get used to the water but now it tastes normal.
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