What up world!
Just another week of doing my missionary thing. I cant say how much I love this area enough times. Its so chill and awesome. Its great. We just did a bunch of teaching this week and looking for people to baptize for the coming month. We are teaching the sister of Mabel, the girl who got baptized last week. For anyone confused, yes there are black people here and yes they are awesome. They are called Garifunas and they came from somewhere at sometime and I know nothing about their history, all I know is that its awesome haha. Its kind of weird though because I have grown up knowing black people my entire life and never once have I met a black person who speaks spanish. Whats crazy is that these people speak spanish, and sometimes their OWN language, called Garifuna. Its so awesome and complicated. Im trying to learn it. Im going to come back trilingual, but one of the languages will be one nobody in america knows. How useful! But yeah, we are doing that. We are also teaching this one guy Mario. He is seriously SO funny. I laugh at like everything he says. The only time he is serious is when we are teaching him, but outside of that he seriously kills me. He is going to be baptized this Saturday and its going to be awesome. The whole ward loves him so its probably going to be packed. The members here are seriously so cool and they all really like me, or at least thats what they tell me to my face. Who knows for sure haha. I introduced myself during sacrament meeting last Sunday and when I told them my name, which is SO hard for everyone to pronounce, I said it was like "lechuga" or "pechuga", which means lettuce and chicken breast. They all got quite the kick out of that and allllllways remind me of how I made that joke. Every time I see a member, they are like "Hey...remember that Sunday when you said your name was like lechuga or pechuga? Good times..." And Im just like yeah, it was last week, I was there haha. Speaking of members being cool, they alwayyyys want to feed us. I dont know if I have talked about baleadas, but they are like the national food here. They are just flour tortillas folded in half with beans, cheese, and whatever kind of stuff you want like eggs for example. One day, we went to this baleada shop in our area for a little snack if you will, and they gave us the BIGGEST baleadas these american eyes have ever seen. They were seriouly like foot long tortillas. I only ate one and was so full. Anyways, a couple hours after that, we went to a members house that we had plans to eat dinner with, but she forgot we were coming and felt soooo bad. Shes like "oh I'll go get baleadas! Is three ok?" And we just assumed she was going to go the place closest to her house, which sells normal ones, so we said thats all good. Cut to her coming back with three gigantor baleadas and telling us to dig in. I could only get through 2 and Ramos only made it through 1.5. It really was a trial. She just laughed at us haha. Other than that, this week was pretty chill. My clothes are being washed in a washer now instead of outside with a washboard, and are being dried in a dryer instead of hung up on clothesline. I feel like a king. I have 2 more funny stories and then thats it. We have a cook and she gives us super good food every day, and here you just have to eat whatever they give you. For whatever reason, this week she was a big fan of giving us tomatoes. For anyone who knows anything about me, I loathe tomatoes with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. But I ate them. And they werent even that gross. And I didnt even cry. People say you change a lot on your mission, and I now have a strong testimony of that. I eat tomatoes now if Im forced to and I dont even gag. I think that makes me an adult. Or at least less of a little girl. Last funny story. There is this little 4 year old girl who is SO funny here and is always cracking me up. She is the little sister of the girl who made the One Direction comment. We were talking after church one day and she and her sister were telling me how I am like their older brother. Then the little 4 year old butts in and says "But if you ever say any bad words, Ill hit you in the mouth." What? It was so randomly hilarious. Its not like she has ever heard a bad word come out of my mouth, she was just making sure I knew the consequence if I ever decided to go rogue. It was so funny haha. Anyways, thats about it. Stay classy world!
Elder Shuga
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