1st Letter from San Diego

Hello,

I made it to San Diego, believe it or not! Well yesterday was quite the eventful day. I flew in to San Diego, where I met the Mission President and his wife. We went to lunch and I got a California Burrito and met a whole bunch of missionaries. In the evening we went to the mission home where the President lives and took a few pictures. We had a nice meal on the patio where the view is beautiful. I also learned a whole bunch of stuff about the mission and about San Diego! President and Sister Clayton are the sweetest people in the world. We got to know each other really well as we spent the evening together. Later that night my companion came over and picked me up and we headed to the apartment. When we got there I got my bed made and was ready for sleep. I had only got about 2 hours of sleep from the night before so I was dead tired.

When we woke up this morning we went and played some soccer at some field somewhere. After we came back we studied till 10 o clock and then cleaned, cause the apartment is disgusting!! Now I am here and then we are gonna go shopping for some supplies and food.

Tonight I have my first real investigator at 6:30, his name is Robert. We even have another one after that. Life is a lot different down here, so many Hispanics, Filipinos, Blacks and just about everyone. I am living in Bonita or National City, it's an OK place I guess...I am in for a different ball game down here. In the ward I am serving in, I guess there is a good number of Filipino's and some other kind of weird people haha(jk) I will be teaching in Tagalog sometimes and contacting as well. There is 4 elders living in the apartment and we have a washer and dryer. We don't have AC, we just have fans to keep us cool but at night it cools off and gets kinda cold. People here are ready to hear the gospel, the work is progressing and my focus is baptism. I am not really in the swing of things yet but it will come. I will take some pictures and then I will attach them and probably just send them through email.

It was so good to talk to you for a few minutes yesterday! Tell everyone I love them and everything is going good! My new companion is from Georgia and he is a NORMAL human being! So I am pretty excited about that haha. I can honestly say that I do miss the MTC..well actually not the MTC but my district and all the guys I met. We goofed off so much so I kinda miss that. Anyways let me know if you have any questions!! My P-day will be on Tuesday's. I love you all!!!! oh and all letter's and packages send to the mission home address. Welp until next time this is Elder Swenson! Paalam! Mahal ko lahat kayo! I love you all !!!!!!!!!!:)

Elder Swenson