Elder Shuga here. I really need a solid way to start these letters. Maybe next time. Yet another week gone by here in the good ole Cerro Verde. I'm pretty sure we walked roughly 1000 miles this week. Twas ridiculous. We have investigators in like every section of our gigantic area, so we have to go all over the place. It is quite the good problem to have though. As far as cool, interesting, radical stories go, I don't have many haha. We have just been teaching a bunch, I've been training Merlos like a mother bird teaches her young to fly, and all is well. We found some awesome new people this week that seem super interested in what we have to say, so that's been pretty cool. There has been this 3 day evangelical concert on the main street in our area, and it is seriously so crazy interesting. SO many people show up every night, and because it's on main street, we have passed through a bunch of times. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb. But I loved it haha. I have never felt so out of place in my life, with all those people looking at us like weird outsiders haha. I take that back, I went to some mormon youth things with Kim before I got baptized where all the guys looked at me like that, and that was pretty weird for a young catholic lad like myself to have to go thorough, but I'm pretty sure it was just because I was with Kim and they weren't haha. It was seriously so funny though. Merlos felt super weird and just wanted to get through the crowd as fast as humanly possible, but I was just soaking in all the awkwardness coming from these people. They were going crazy dancing to their worship rock music, and like trying to rub it in our faces that they were worshiping or something haha I don't know, it was all just so weird haha. They would get louder as we walked by just to show how much they loved God or something, and we are just like yeah we get it, you love God. You show it by dancing like crazies while your church band is in town, and we show it by walking around your entire freaking town 9 hours a day teaching everyone you know the gospel, but to each their own haha. I really don't understand what motivates these people here to literally scream at the top of their lungs in "praises" and dancing like crazy people until they pass out. I've studied quite a bit here, and have yet to find anything in the scriptures like "And Jesus said unto them, let there be rock. And it came to pass that they partied like it was 1999". Its nowhere in doctrine or anything, they just like to party haha. Good times. Oh, one last crazy story. We went with the bishop and his wife to their neighbors house to teach this family. The husband of the family hadn't been feeling well, so we decided to just give a short message instead of a whole lesson. We were finishing up and the bishop was giving his testimony, and the husband gags, his cheeks puff out to their limit, and I'm just like "uh oh. Please don't barf on my bible" because he was holding it haha. He throws it on his wife's lap and sprints to the bathroom where he proceeds to vomit like its going out of style. It was seriously so crazy haha. Merlos and I just sat there, but the bishop and the two ladies started doing what all these people to do here, which is diagnose him and decide what he needs to do. According to them, he needed to drink lime juice or something to kill whatever demon was inside of him and a bunch of other stuff. The bishop says what he had was probably some certain type of sickness, but he couldn't think of the name, and his wife says "explosive vomiting?" like trying to help him out, and I LOST it. I busted out laughing, and they all just looked at me. I thought she was kidding with that answer, but I guess not hahaha. I tried to play it off like I was coughing or something, but it's hard to make hysterical laughter look like a cough haha. I felt bad, but it was seriously such a funny response to me for some reason. Sue me haha. He is all better now, for those of you who are worried. So yeah, those are pretty much the highlights! Evangelical lollapalooza and barf stories...what more could you ask for? The answer is nothing. You're welcome haha. Stay classy!
Elder Shuga
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