What Up World,
Hello from Cerro Verde in the zone Fesitranh. This area is the bees knees. For real. Super sweet. There really isnt much to write as far as new stuff goes because I wrote last wednesday, but I will do my best. Basically, I love this area. It has been so cool and all the members are super awesome. It is a huge change for me because this area is like way rich relatively speaking, and I just came from the jungle basically. I pretty much just got here and we went right to work. We met a lot of the members and I already love them a ton. The kids here are so funny too. I dont know what it is, but kids just love me here and just want to talk talk talk talk all the time. A few of them speak english which has been hilarious too. This one girl speaks english and we were talking about America and she asked if I had ever been to Hollywood. I said no, but my old comp (Castro) was from Hollywood and she FREAKED out. She asked if he knew any "stars" and I said no, and she's like "Oh...thats ok. You are all stars from God because you are missionaries!" Like trying to make me feel better that he doesnt know any stars haha. She says the funniest stuff. The next day, she was asking me all about American music and saying everything she likes. She was listing all these artists and said One Direction, and then out of nowhere says "You couldnt be in One Direction. You are too muscular." 1. Look at my pictures, Im clearly not too muscular for anything, Im at the twig stage of my life haha. 2. It was the most random thing I have ever heard hahaha. She is awesome. We have a ton of baptisms lined up here
and had a baptism. It was the girlfriend of our ward mission leader and it was awesome. Something way funny happened there too. The ward mission leader speaks english but as a really thick accent and its sometimes hard to understand him. The day of the baptism, he asked me to tell Elder Ramos to "give a talk on the Holocaust" for the baptism. I was like what? Why would we ever talk about something like that right now? I could not figure it out so I asked him in spanish what in the world he was talking about and he was like "Holocaust...you know...espiritu santo?" He was trying to say Holy GHOST but it came out like Holocaust. Super weird haha. We pretty much spent this week just visiting with the members so I can get to know them, and we had a few lessons. On the way to one, Elder Ramos warned me that the sister of our investigator is a witch. Witchcraft is like really popular here, and Ive heard about it a ton but never encountered it. I was super pumped to go visit her and expected her to be green and wearing a black dress with a point hat. Ramos says that when they teach the investigator, the witch sister is in her room and there is smoke just coming out from under the crack of the door. Not like weed or cigarrete smoke. Witch smoke. So I went over there with my hopes as high as they could possibly be, and it wasnt anything like I thought. She was super nice and friendly and looked normal. Ironically, she was wearing a jackolantern shirt, so it is a definite possibility that she is a legit witch. But yeah, all is well here. A little about my comp now. He is from Mexico and has 19 months in the mission. It is annoying because I HAVE a much time as he has LEFT, and he never forgets to remind me of that haha. He is cool though. He doesnt speak english, so thats kind of weird for me. Im at a point now where I can speak spanish as much as I need to, so its not a big deal. But the problem is that Im so used to speaking english with my comps that I speak it to him all the time and he just looks at me with a blank stare until I realize im not speaking his language haha. Its funny. Our zone is way cool too. We have three brand spankin new gringos fresh out of the MTC and it is SO funny to me to hear them talk about the stuff they do. They freak out about all the stuff I freaked out about and now am used to. For example, they all are just blown away about how nonchalant the people breast feed here like I was, and now its just every day life haha. Its way funny because our zone is mostly latins, and they all talk to the new gringos in broken english as best as they can, but they talk to me in spanish. And if they ever cant get the gringos to understand, they ask me to come over and translate haha. Its crazy how much changes in 5 months. Anyyyyyyways, all is super cool here and Im loving life. Stay classy world!
and had a baptism. It was the girlfriend of our ward mission leader and it was awesome. Something way funny happened there too. The ward mission leader speaks english but as a really thick accent and its sometimes hard to understand him. The day of the baptism, he asked me to tell Elder Ramos to "give a talk on the Holocaust" for the baptism. I was like what? Why would we ever talk about something like that right now? I could not figure it out so I asked him in spanish what in the world he was talking about and he was like "Holocaust...you know...espiritu santo?" He was trying to say Holy GHOST but it came out like Holocaust. Super weird haha. We pretty much spent this week just visiting with the members so I can get to know them, and we had a few lessons. On the way to one, Elder Ramos warned me that the sister of our investigator is a witch. Witchcraft is like really popular here, and Ive heard about it a ton but never encountered it. I was super pumped to go visit her and expected her to be green and wearing a black dress with a point hat. Ramos says that when they teach the investigator, the witch sister is in her room and there is smoke just coming out from under the crack of the door. Not like weed or cigarrete smoke. Witch smoke. So I went over there with my hopes as high as they could possibly be, and it wasnt anything like I thought. She was super nice and friendly and looked normal. Ironically, she was wearing a jackolantern shirt, so it is a definite possibility that she is a legit witch. But yeah, all is well here. A little about my comp now. He is from Mexico and has 19 months in the mission. It is annoying because I HAVE a much time as he has LEFT, and he never forgets to remind me of that haha. He is cool though. He doesnt speak english, so thats kind of weird for me. Im at a point now where I can speak spanish as much as I need to, so its not a big deal. But the problem is that Im so used to speaking english with my comps that I speak it to him all the time and he just looks at me with a blank stare until I realize im not speaking his language haha. Its funny. Our zone is way cool too. We have three brand spankin new gringos fresh out of the MTC and it is SO funny to me to hear them talk about the stuff they do. They freak out about all the stuff I freaked out about and now am used to. For example, they all are just blown away about how nonchalant the people breast feed here like I was, and now its just every day life haha. Its way funny because our zone is mostly latins, and they all talk to the new gringos in broken english as best as they can, but they talk to me in spanish. And if they ever cant get the gringos to understand, they ask me to come over and translate haha. Its crazy how much changes in 5 months. Anyyyyyyways, all is super cool here and Im loving life. Stay classy world!
Elder Shuga
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