Rough Week

Hey mom! Things are good here. Nothing too crazy. The weather kinda sucks, I hate it. It is so hot. I am in a biking area so I am in the heat all the time. I'm getting pretty tan cuz of it haha. My area is Beaumont central. I have the ghetto part, the avenues and south park. There's a ton of hispanics and black people. I hardly see white people haha. I'm in one of the roughest parts of the mission. It gets really sketchy and we will see prostitutes walking around and people selling drugs. Its rough.

Not going to lie, first week was really tough. I got here and I feel like I can't understand anything. My Spanish hit a wall and I don't know whats going on. I'm really frustrated and hating the language right now.

My companion, Elder Tukuafu, is pretty cool.

Keep me in your prayers though because I'm having a hard time right now..

My apartment is nasty. When we got here there was dead cockroaches all over and dead lizards. There's stains everywhere and its gross.

Here's some pics from the email that was sent out after Elder Fraley arrived at the mission home on the 3rd: 

Your Missionary has arrived safely to T.H.E. Mission! Upon arrival we met your missionary at the airport.  They went to the Kingwood Church, had lunch and focused on training and interviews were conducted by President Drake.  Then they met their new companion and were transported to their area of service. They are now out diligently searching for our Heavenly Father's children and doing the work of the Lord. Thank you for sending your daughters and sons to us, they have added great strength to our small army here in the Texas Houston East Mission. We love them and are so grateful to have them with us.