St Thomas!

I MADE IT!!! I am so excited that I am finally here! The day of travel was the longest i have ever had. We started in SLC at 5 AM after staying up all night packing. then we flew to Dallas and had an 1 hr 1/2 layover. There we ate McDonald's for breakfast.  Then it was off to Miami. We had had a 2 hr layover there. We had dinner in a Cuban restaurant. So yummy! In the airport everywhere we turned there were people speaking Spanish. It made me so excited for the summer. then we headed off to St Thomas. When we arrived we got to walk down the cool stairs off of the plane onto the runway. We got in at 8pm and it was very dark outside. All we could see of the island was lights everywhere. We walked to get our bags and there were people welcoming us and offering rum shots. at first we thought it was like a fruit juice and a couple of us almost took it before we heard what it was. We went out side to look for our ride. We had many people asking us if we wanted to take a taxi. they were very persistent and had great accents. We waited and waited and waited for our ride. one hour went by then two. it even started raining at one point. finally we got ahold of someone at corporate in Utah and they got ahold of our regional manager. he totally thought that we were going to be coming in the next day. he told us that he was on his way. finally 3 hours after landing we arrived at our new apartment. there had been male interns living there before us that had left the same day. our manager was planning on cleaning the next day so needless to say. it was a mess! we arrived at around 11:30 pm and we cleaned til 3am. it is still a little dirty but at least now it is livable. We finally went to bed and woke up at 8 for church. the church is a cute little trailer that has little folding separators to make the different rooms. there are about 20 people in the branch and 4 missionaries. two elders and two sisters. They are a little branch but there are a few spanish speakers so they have made a spanish group that arrives after the english sacrament and has their classes and when our church is done they have their sacrament. the branch president said that they will need help with it so i hope to get a calling in the spanish group! I can't wait to go on splits with the sisters and feel like a missionary again! Maybe my Spanish will get better after all. After church we were so incredibly tired that all we wanted to do was sleep. We had to go pick up our rental car. and we had to put it in my name and on my card since the company hadn't set up an account for it yet. so i got to be the one to drive home on the wrong side of the road! it was super fun! It is crazy that turning right is the hard one to do now. When we got home i made some pink pancakes and then we all slept for 4 hours. it was a great day and it is beautiful here! I can't wait to go to work tomorrow for my first day of work!   and after hopefully get to go to the beach. The adventure will be great! 

Pictures... Our apartment... the entryway notice our prison doors :), our front room with a great sound system for watching movies and more prison bars, my room I sleep on the mattress on the floor it is super comfortable, our bathroom