That is what some people call America here. Super weird. AnywayS, this week was pretty swell. It was kind of hard as far as being with good ole Elder Ramos goes though. He is in the process of getting Dear Johned, so he is a tad bit delicate at the moment. I guess I will just get right in to the stories. Tuesday, the senior missionaries who come and deliver all the things we need came and gave medicine to all the people completing 6 months in the mission. It is some weird stuff called "Nodik" that we have to take every so often to rid our system of parasites if we have them. When they brought it out, all the missionaries who had taken it before FREAKED out like it was of the devil and said how horrible it was. The side effects are just barfing, diaharrea, and weird colored pee. Nifty! I took it though and nothing happened. Probably because I am a beacon of health. So that's cool. The weather here has been ridiculous. It is SO hot during the days, and then it rains like crazy at night. On Wednesday we were walking home and it started drizzling a little bit, and 30 seconds later it was POURING rain. Of course, it was the only day I forgot my umbrella. So we walked home in the pouring rain. That was a first for me. It was sweet actually. I don't know what it is about trying to race the weather home, but it cracks me up. So that was pretty funny. I felt like I killed it in teaching this week. My comp says I sound like a native when I speak in the lessons, so that is pretty cool. We are teaching this one lady who always has construction workers over while we are teaching. When we were teaching her on Thursday, the guys slowly creeped in so they could listen. It was way funny. They like didn't want us to see them, but we clearly did, so we invited them to sit in. They started drilling us with questions and trying to stump us, but we answered everything they had to ask and they were all stumped. It was super weird because I didn't know anything about the bible like a year ago and now I'm teaching it. The next day we had to do the SAME thing because this Evangelical lady was trying to tell us we were wrong on all these random points, but when we showed her (using her own Bible) that everything we were teaching was in the bible, she started to be more receptive. It was a pretty cool feeling. I had one of the weirdest appointments this week. We went and visited a lady that was a reference from the Relief Society president, and she was crazy wild. She is like 50 years old and SUPER nice, but she got weirder and weirder the more she talked. We walked in, and after 10 minutes she was talking about how in to yoga she was and how she follows this one guru from India. She gave us a book of his and proceeded to show us one of her moves. She stood up, but her hands together, crouched like half way down and started breathing super slow. It took everything I had to not laugh. It was seriously the funniest thing. After THAT, she said she had a vision while she was "meditating" of a white horsemen and a black horsemen. When she said white, she looked at me, and when she said black, she looked at Ramos. I was super in to it and was so excited to hear what she was going to say next. She then explained that the white one was Jesus and the black one was the devil. I looked at Ramos and whispered "I knew it..." and we almost lost it. She then said "We can also look at this vision from a different stand point." Keep in mind she never explained the Jesus/Devil stand point. "What are the two strongest forces in the world?" she asked us super dramatically, like a weirdo. I just said "I don't know..please tell me..." She then says "Cocaine and gasoline. That is what the two horsemen are. Cocaine and gasoline. Controlling the world." It seriously made NO sense. I just kept shaking my head like "yeah, I totally know where you are coming from" haha. It was seriously the weirdest thing. She talked about Sadaam Hussein and how his whole life is somewhere in the Bible, Korea wanting to bomb everyone, and a bunch of other stuff. Quite the interesting situation. I was seriously trying so hard not to laugh. I love being here haha. Anywaysssssssssssss, everything is going swell here. Just doing my missionary thang. I completed 6 months this past wednesday! I am pretty much at the end. What a great mission it has been. I will get you my flight plans soon so you can all prepare for my glorious return. Just kidding, I still have an entire sister missionary mission to serve. Sweet. Oh, and apparently it is some tradition to burn a tie when you complete 6 months, so I did that. I found some old tie that it was in our house and did it with that. I am not about to burn my own tie. That is ridiculous haha. Anywaysssssssss, thats it! Stay classy folks!
Elder Shuga
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