Sunday, July 15, Day One...

Today has been very long.

We spent the whole day traveling. It's been crazy, but crazy in a good way.

We woke up at 4 am and left to church. At 6, we made a quick goodbye video for the Students service, and loaded a Young bus, pulling out of the church parking lot at 6:30.

We arrived at the airport and spent a couple hours checking everyone in and going through security. Then, we made a mad dash to a Wendy's inside the airport to grab food to tide us over until we could have a decent meal.

We then all got on the plane, and flew down to the Dallas airport and had an hour or so to eat an early dinner. Clay, Adam, Alex, Levi and I went to T.G. I. Friday. The food was really good, and we all had a blast talking and laughing.

After dinner, we met up with the group and boarded the plane for Guatemala. It was about three and a half hours long, but it was a nice flight. At the end, when we started to descend, we broke through the layer of clouds and were overlooking an amazing, beautiful view of Guatemala City. The lights were like stars in the dark night. Breathtaking...

We got off the plane and went through customs, which was a quick process. By then, we were all exhausted and ready to go to bed. Luckily, the team that flew through Miami joined us before too long, and we were able to board a big yellow school bus to ride to the seminary. It was a pretty quiet drive, thank goodness, because most of the chatterboxes were too tired to talk.

Looking out the windows on the way to the seminary, it didn't look like Guatemala needed much service. In fact, it looked a lot like downtown back at home. Big buildings and nice houses. After a few minutes, though, I figured out that we were in Zone 1, one of the nicer zones.

Wonder what Zone 18 has in store. Can't wait to start serving!!