Our last email from Elder Griffin today.

Hey i got the package thank you so much! i don't think i saw it before just because it was a small slip in my mailbox. But yeah i got it! oh and i gotta go but i also wanted to let you know that me and my companion are the district leaders! we got assigned to it last Thursday so yeah that was cool too! love you thanks again! Elder Griffin

 Hey everybody! mom make sure your sending out these emails please and also if you didnt send the one from last week feel free to send that one too. Thanks! so everything here is going pretty good! havent really cried a whole lot haha i kinda got it all out on the plane i think. My companion is elder Emery and hes the funniest dude from michigan who is also going to my mission. My roomates are super funny as well and isaac is in my district! so we live right next to each other and have the exact same schedule so its awesome! we all get along great we all love getting on each others nerves but its a love hate thing haha. Its so weird to think ive only been here one week! it feels like a lifetime ago that ive seen my family and friends, and its weird how ive only known the people here a week but there like family to me. so our living quarters are pretty nice we have a good bathroom and 2 sets of bunk beds in our room that we sleep 4 to a room so thats not too bad. They keep everything here way nice too so thats a plus! as far as the food goes its just ok haha. I mean there are some days when its just terrible and i dont eat alot but then there are times where they serve chicken wings and i eat 5 plates full! but yeah dont worry about that im not starving or anything here haha. the water here is great because they either have alot of 20l bottles that you can fill up with that have been filtered or use the fountains here. they have their own private well seperate from mexico city so that water is fine it just tastes a little funky. i miss you all so much!! i think about you all every day and write about you in my journal every night. I hope everything is going good at home though. No one needs to worry about me im doing fine. It still hasnt kicked in that this isnt just a prolonged vacation haha. im worrying about you guys though! im keeping you in all of my prayers. my spanish is actually coming along pretty good! as long as someone talks to me at a slow rate rather than the normal speed that they talk at i can understand most of  what theyre saying! also were working on an investigator named fabian, who were pretty sure is already a member but hes one dang good actor. we had our fourth lesson with him last night and we asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he just said when? it was awesome! me and my companion couldnt believe it. I just hope the people in guadalajara are that easy haha. everyone let me know how your doing because im thinking about you all. this is gonna be a long two years but itll be worth it. Love Elder Griffin (p.s. still not used to that)

Kadens 'Elder Griffin's' first letter to us on his first day arriving at the Mexico MTC.

Your Missionary's mailing addres is:

Elder Griffin 

Departure date: 14/12/2015 [Branch 4 - District A]

Carretera Tenayuca-Chalmita #828

Colonia Zona Escolar, Gustavo A. Madero

07230 Mexico, Distrito Federal

Mexico

The estimated departure date for your missionary is [14/12/2015]. The use of the

above address on all correspondence will greatly faciliate delivery to your missionary

at the MTC. Please don't send packages.

So thats what they make us send. I made it to the MTC here! It was quite the process though since we had trouble getting alot of peoples tickets for the second flight and also it took forever to get through customs. I realized about an hour into my first flight that i had left my tie clip that said called to serve in one of the little bins at airport security, so that kinda bummed me out. Besides that im doing great! We just got done with dinner and they feed us great here! Burgers and fries and all sorts of sweets. It was one great meal considering how hungry and tired we were from the long day. I miss you guys already, I know it was just this morning i said goodbye but it seems like forever ago, this has easily been the longest day of my life haha. Thank you also for the letters you guys wrote for me. I got the chance to read them and they made me just lose it, im sure the guy on the plane next to me thought i was crazy for just crying for no reason. Well anyways i have to make this brief but i just wanted to let you know the hardest párt is behind me now! I wont be able to write you guys again until next thursday because thats when my p day is. I love you all so much. I miss you and i look forward already to seeing you in two. Love you guys. Elder Griffin.