Buenas,
I hope all is well in the states and you aren’t being attacked by North Korea or anything like that. Seeing that the Korea is about to freak out on the US on the front of every newspaper here makes me a little uneasy, so stay safe! Haha. I’ll start with Tuesday. Castro and I decided that we need to find a bunch more people to teach, so that’s what we did. We just went to a bunch of member’s houses, taught a little messages, and then asked for references. It went pretty well, but there really isn’t much else to say about it haha. We pretty much just did that all day so there isn’t many other stories. At night, we went to go eat at our cook’s restaurant. As we were walking up, there was this lady in the kitchen who would not. stop. staring at me. It was so weird. So when we walked up, I asked Alex (in English so that she couldn’t understand me. He lived in the states for a bit so he speaks English) who she was and why she kept staring at me. He says “She’s my cousin. When you were walking up, she asked who you were and said that you were sexy. Do you like her?” Ummmmmm. That’s awkward. But it doesn’t stop there. I told him sorry, but I don’t/cant like her because of this little mission thing I’m a part of right now and he goes “Wait, why not? Are you gay?” UMMMMMMMM. That’s even MORE awkward haha. I had to explain that no, as a matter of fact I’m NOT gay, I just don’t like your cousin who staring at me like she wants to kill me and wear my skin as a jacket haha. So crazy. After THAT, we went to a pulperia to get some snacks and all that fun stuff, and Castro decided to pay with a 500 lempira bill. It is the biggest domination bill they have here, so they always check it in the light like they do with money in the states. So he gives it to the lady, she checks it in the light, and then she pulls both ends to make sure its sturdy and something (I don’t know, she is crazy) and she rips it in half! Castro and I look at each other like “Did she really just do that?” and then she looks back at Castro like she wants him to pay with something else because now his money is void, seeing as it is freshly ripped in half hahaha. We said no, and she just had to deal with her mistake. It was so weird haha. That is pretty much it for Tuesday. Wednesday. Legit, this was probably my best day in the mission so far, as far as working and teaching goes. We decided to go contact a bunch of the references we got, and Castro wanted me to do all the teaching so that I could practice. So I did. I taught like everything and it went super super well. After each lesson, I was like “How did I do that?” I don’t really talk about the language because it’s just something I just do now at this point, but this day was crazy. I was speaking way more Spanish than I thought I knew how to speak haha. It was weird/cool. I was on fire, so that was cool. Learning a language is really weird though. Every time we are talking with people or teaching, I am sitting there like analyzing there speech, but the people talking aren’t thinking anything of it. For example, the other day I was like “Wow, that guy just used a past subjunctive adverbial clause without even trying.” Then I realize, they have no idea they are using advanced stuff, they are just talking haha its weird. So yeah, there is a little update on the language. Anyways, that is pretty much all we did all day. Oh, and something CRAZY happened. We came home from lunch and I went to go to the bathroom. While I was in there, I felt this crazy shaking roll thing like I was super dizzy or something. I looked over at our bucket we have in our shower, and all the water in there was shaking too. I walked out and asked Castro if he felt it and he said he didn’t feel anything. So naturally, I just assumed my cerebellum was out of order and I was on the verge of death, so we just continued on with the day. That night during a lesson, our investigator says “Oh! Did you guys feel the earthquake?!” I WAS IN A EARTHQUAKE!!!! How SICK is that? I FREAKED out when she asked me that because it meant that I DID feel something and I can now say I was in an earthquake. So awesome. The only downside is that when someone asks me “What were you doing when you felt the earthquake?!” I have to say I was in the bathroom…not as cool hahaha. I digress. We had a lesson with the Sosa family again and they are doing super well. When we first met them, the mom told us that she shut the Book of Mormon after reading the introduction because there was no way she was ever going to believe it. Then on Thursday, she kept talking about how awesome 3 Nephi 11 was and all this stuff. I saw a visible change in how she was acting and accepting us and just freaked out in happiness haha. It was awesome. So yeah, twas a pretty good day. Thursday. We had divisions, so our district leader came to our area and Castro went to a different area. I have been feeling kind of weird lately because I keep being the only one who knows our area, so it feels like I’m training kind of. It is a weird feeling because it feels like yesterday I was just holding Zura’s hand as he showed me around Honduras haha. Anyways, we decided to visit Christopher again. He is the kid who told us he wanted to get baptized, went to church, and then started hiding from us after we talked to his mom. So we went over there and got to talk with both him and his mom. It is a really frustrating situation for me because the mom is just scared of change, and Christopher is just scared of his mom. When we got there, we were talking with Christopher while his mom was in the other room, and he told us he still wanted to be baptized. Then his mom came out, we were all talking, and she goes “Christopher doesn’t even want to be baptized anymore, right Christopher?!” And he just nods his head. Are you serious?? RIDICULOUS. This is when the more “direct” side of Elder Shuga had to come out haha. I kind of just laid down the whole situation for the mom and she was starting to realize that she was just stifling her son. She started getting more level headed and seeing where we were coming from, and then her little 2 year old daughter walks in the living room and poops on the floor. What? PLOT TWIST. This kid seriously just walked right in, stopped, grunted, and a terd fell out of her pants. The district leader and I just looked at each other like “where do we go from here…” hahaha. Probably one of the weirdest things that has happened to me during a lesson. It is kind of hard to bring the lesson back around to what we were talking about when the mom has to deal with this little kid pooping in the living room. So yeah, that happened haha. The mom is so set on the fact that Christopher needs to stay in her church (Catholic) because it is where he belongs. No one in the family is active, it is just a tradition. I am all for people sticking to their beliefs, but she is saying they need to stick to beliefs they don’t even have. It doesn’t make any sense haha. But anyways, after that, we just had a few more lessons and then English class. We have the English class in the church, and while it was going on, there was a blackout. It was PITCH black. Not cool. When we got outside, it was super cloudy, so outside was pitch black too. We have a rule in the mission that if there is a blackout, we have to go straight home, so that’s what we did. It is kind of annoying because it just ends our night right away, but I would rather go home early than be murdered on a dark night in Honduras haha. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday kind of just blurred together. I don’t really have anything great to tell about either of them. We just kept teaching and doing our thing. We visited Hermana Marta (the really sick one) and her situation is just getting worse and worse. Her husband, who got baptized the week after her, got hit by a car last week. He is wayyyy beat up and had to get surgery on his shoulder. It is costing them like 15,000 limps, which is enough to bankrupt pretty much anyone in my area. Super sad. And then Hermana Marta was walking from the chair she sits in all day to her bed, and she fell because her husband wasn’t there to help her walk. So her face is all beat up too. It is seriously so depressing going over there because it seems like so many bad things are happening to them. So yeah, pray for them. I don’t have much else to write, but I don’t want to end this email on a sad note like that, so I’m sitting here wracking my brain trying to think of something funny haha. OH! I’ll talk about Elder Castro. He is way cool and I love him, but he is kind of a weirdo sometimes haha. He has a very odd sense of humor. Actually, I think he doesn’t even mean to be funny most of the time, but what he says cracks me up haha. I will give some examples. We were doing our planning and he was talking about questions we could ask people while we were out contacting that could help us get references. He says “I don’t know man, you just have to be creative. For example, you could say ‘Hi, do you know anyone who hates our church that we could go talk to? Or is there anyone that YOU hate that you want to send us to and we will go talk to them?’” I don’t know why, but that craaaacked me up haha. Oh, and he asked to see a picture of Kim, so I showed him one and he said “She looks like a fun, energetic woman” and walked away. Who says that? Hahaha. So yeah, there you go. Now we aren’t all super sad. I don’t have any pictures this week, but I think I will next week. Stay classy world!
I hope all is well in the states and you aren’t being attacked by North Korea or anything like that. Seeing that the Korea is about to freak out on the US on the front of every newspaper here makes me a little uneasy, so stay safe! Haha. I’ll start with Tuesday. Castro and I decided that we need to find a bunch more people to teach, so that’s what we did. We just went to a bunch of member’s houses, taught a little messages, and then asked for references. It went pretty well, but there really isn’t much else to say about it haha. We pretty much just did that all day so there isn’t many other stories. At night, we went to go eat at our cook’s restaurant. As we were walking up, there was this lady in the kitchen who would not. stop. staring at me. It was so weird. So when we walked up, I asked Alex (in English so that she couldn’t understand me. He lived in the states for a bit so he speaks English) who she was and why she kept staring at me. He says “She’s my cousin. When you were walking up, she asked who you were and said that you were sexy. Do you like her?” Ummmmmm. That’s awkward. But it doesn’t stop there. I told him sorry, but I don’t/cant like her because of this little mission thing I’m a part of right now and he goes “Wait, why not? Are you gay?” UMMMMMMMM. That’s even MORE awkward haha. I had to explain that no, as a matter of fact I’m NOT gay, I just don’t like your cousin who staring at me like she wants to kill me and wear my skin as a jacket haha. So crazy. After THAT, we went to a pulperia to get some snacks and all that fun stuff, and Castro decided to pay with a 500 lempira bill. It is the biggest domination bill they have here, so they always check it in the light like they do with money in the states. So he gives it to the lady, she checks it in the light, and then she pulls both ends to make sure its sturdy and something (I don’t know, she is crazy) and she rips it in half! Castro and I look at each other like “Did she really just do that?” and then she looks back at Castro like she wants him to pay with something else because now his money is void, seeing as it is freshly ripped in half hahaha. We said no, and she just had to deal with her mistake. It was so weird haha. That is pretty much it for Tuesday. Wednesday. Legit, this was probably my best day in the mission so far, as far as working and teaching goes. We decided to go contact a bunch of the references we got, and Castro wanted me to do all the teaching so that I could practice. So I did. I taught like everything and it went super super well. After each lesson, I was like “How did I do that?” I don’t really talk about the language because it’s just something I just do now at this point, but this day was crazy. I was speaking way more Spanish than I thought I knew how to speak haha. It was weird/cool. I was on fire, so that was cool. Learning a language is really weird though. Every time we are talking with people or teaching, I am sitting there like analyzing there speech, but the people talking aren’t thinking anything of it. For example, the other day I was like “Wow, that guy just used a past subjunctive adverbial clause without even trying.” Then I realize, they have no idea they are using advanced stuff, they are just talking haha its weird. So yeah, there is a little update on the language. Anyways, that is pretty much all we did all day. Oh, and something CRAZY happened. We came home from lunch and I went to go to the bathroom. While I was in there, I felt this crazy shaking roll thing like I was super dizzy or something. I looked over at our bucket we have in our shower, and all the water in there was shaking too. I walked out and asked Castro if he felt it and he said he didn’t feel anything. So naturally, I just assumed my cerebellum was out of order and I was on the verge of death, so we just continued on with the day. That night during a lesson, our investigator says “Oh! Did you guys feel the earthquake?!” I WAS IN A EARTHQUAKE!!!! How SICK is that? I FREAKED out when she asked me that because it meant that I DID feel something and I can now say I was in an earthquake. So awesome. The only downside is that when someone asks me “What were you doing when you felt the earthquake?!” I have to say I was in the bathroom…not as cool hahaha. I digress. We had a lesson with the Sosa family again and they are doing super well. When we first met them, the mom told us that she shut the Book of Mormon after reading the introduction because there was no way she was ever going to believe it. Then on Thursday, she kept talking about how awesome 3 Nephi 11 was and all this stuff. I saw a visible change in how she was acting and accepting us and just freaked out in happiness haha. It was awesome. So yeah, twas a pretty good day. Thursday. We had divisions, so our district leader came to our area and Castro went to a different area. I have been feeling kind of weird lately because I keep being the only one who knows our area, so it feels like I’m training kind of. It is a weird feeling because it feels like yesterday I was just holding Zura’s hand as he showed me around Honduras haha. Anyways, we decided to visit Christopher again. He is the kid who told us he wanted to get baptized, went to church, and then started hiding from us after we talked to his mom. So we went over there and got to talk with both him and his mom. It is a really frustrating situation for me because the mom is just scared of change, and Christopher is just scared of his mom. When we got there, we were talking with Christopher while his mom was in the other room, and he told us he still wanted to be baptized. Then his mom came out, we were all talking, and she goes “Christopher doesn’t even want to be baptized anymore, right Christopher?!” And he just nods his head. Are you serious?? RIDICULOUS. This is when the more “direct” side of Elder Shuga had to come out haha. I kind of just laid down the whole situation for the mom and she was starting to realize that she was just stifling her son. She started getting more level headed and seeing where we were coming from, and then her little 2 year old daughter walks in the living room and poops on the floor. What? PLOT TWIST. This kid seriously just walked right in, stopped, grunted, and a terd fell out of her pants. The district leader and I just looked at each other like “where do we go from here…” hahaha. Probably one of the weirdest things that has happened to me during a lesson. It is kind of hard to bring the lesson back around to what we were talking about when the mom has to deal with this little kid pooping in the living room. So yeah, that happened haha. The mom is so set on the fact that Christopher needs to stay in her church (Catholic) because it is where he belongs. No one in the family is active, it is just a tradition. I am all for people sticking to their beliefs, but she is saying they need to stick to beliefs they don’t even have. It doesn’t make any sense haha. But anyways, after that, we just had a few more lessons and then English class. We have the English class in the church, and while it was going on, there was a blackout. It was PITCH black. Not cool. When we got outside, it was super cloudy, so outside was pitch black too. We have a rule in the mission that if there is a blackout, we have to go straight home, so that’s what we did. It is kind of annoying because it just ends our night right away, but I would rather go home early than be murdered on a dark night in Honduras haha. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday kind of just blurred together. I don’t really have anything great to tell about either of them. We just kept teaching and doing our thing. We visited Hermana Marta (the really sick one) and her situation is just getting worse and worse. Her husband, who got baptized the week after her, got hit by a car last week. He is wayyyy beat up and had to get surgery on his shoulder. It is costing them like 15,000 limps, which is enough to bankrupt pretty much anyone in my area. Super sad. And then Hermana Marta was walking from the chair she sits in all day to her bed, and she fell because her husband wasn’t there to help her walk. So her face is all beat up too. It is seriously so depressing going over there because it seems like so many bad things are happening to them. So yeah, pray for them. I don’t have much else to write, but I don’t want to end this email on a sad note like that, so I’m sitting here wracking my brain trying to think of something funny haha. OH! I’ll talk about Elder Castro. He is way cool and I love him, but he is kind of a weirdo sometimes haha. He has a very odd sense of humor. Actually, I think he doesn’t even mean to be funny most of the time, but what he says cracks me up haha. I will give some examples. We were doing our planning and he was talking about questions we could ask people while we were out contacting that could help us get references. He says “I don’t know man, you just have to be creative. For example, you could say ‘Hi, do you know anyone who hates our church that we could go talk to? Or is there anyone that YOU hate that you want to send us to and we will go talk to them?’” I don’t know why, but that craaaacked me up haha. Oh, and he asked to see a picture of Kim, so I showed him one and he said “She looks like a fun, energetic woman” and walked away. Who says that? Hahaha. So yeah, there you go. Now we aren’t all super sad. I don’t have any pictures this week, but I think I will next week. Stay classy world!
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