Written by Elder Brigham Rush,
in the Provo Missionary Training Center of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. He is assigned to the Nicaragua Managua North
Mission, speaking Spanish.Okay, week 3 was pretty eventful so get ready for an action packed email. So to start off the week, Elder Perry (the other white elder that got here the same time as me) got super sick and the nurse thought he had zika. Turns out he just drank some bad water and got some super nasty parasites. He was out of commission for about the entire week, but now he's doing a lot better.
The highlight of my week has to do with the
funny t-shirts I was talking about last week. So this whole time I've
been hoping to see a t-shirt from a high school I recognized or
something like that, but I saw something better. As I arrived at my bus
stop on our way to our area, I saw a man in a plain white basketball
jersey that I thought I recognized. Upon further inspection I look and
see the he's wearing a JUNIOR JAZZ rec league basketball jersey. Funniest
thing I've seen all week. Along with the herd of cows walking down the
street that I sent in my pictures.
Also, if you were
wondering, the game "nose goes" where you touch your nose so you don't
have to do something, is a world wide game. Everyone here knows what it
means and it's hilarious.
On another note, as you can imagine,
my area is a very humble place. Almost all the houses are just tin
walls and roof and a dirt floor. If you've ever seen "the Little Rascals"
just picture their club house, divide that by about a fourth in size,
and you have the houses here. Usually with cable tv though so that's
pretty cool. At least they know their priorities. Anyways, one night I
walked into this house, it was built very nicely, and the tin all lined
up well. The dirt floor was swept (I'm not sure how) and everything was
put away in its place. The first thing that came to my mind was "hmm,
this is a nice house". In that exact moment, I knew that I was getting
used to Nicaragua.
The last funny thing I want to talk about
is the stores here, specifically the advertisements. Every single house
has some special thing that they sell, and the way that they advertise
that thing is by taping a piece of paper on the door that say "Hay"
(which means there is) and then the thing after. My personal favorite is
when people are selling popsicles. The signs say "Hay Posicle". Yes,
spelled like that.
I want to finish with a story of a less
active member named Lucia. when we started visiting her, she though she
had cancer, had no job, and her husband left her and her daughter to be a
drunk on the street. Since then, she started going to church, found out
that she didn't have cancer, her husband came home one night and we
talked to him. He stopped drinking and smoking, and the next week they
both found jobs! Not taking any of the credit at all, but God truly is a
God of miracles. So I want to leave you with that! I'm sorry if I don't
email you back, we only can email for about an hour here so I try to put
as much as I can in here. If you were wondering, I still find some
fleas in the house, but the epidemic is pretty much over. I love all of
you! I hope you have a great week! (still no baptisms) :(
Go to church, it is very important.
- Elder Rush
Adventuring Through Central America (August 15, 2016)
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