Hellooooo
ladies and gentleman, welcome back to the The Pura Vida show staring Elder
Stott.
Haha how have
things been over in the states! I hear that Donald Trump and Bill Gates are
running for President?! Hahaha just a bunch of rich people trying to buy the presidency, man, this world is just getting crazier and
crazier.
So this week
was a normal week for me, but mom reminded me that a "normal" week
for me is crazy for you guys, so I'll make sure to give you the good stuff:
details and all haha.
So this week,
some family moved in with a family in my ward. They're Ticos but they speak
pretty darn good English. They all learned a bunch of slang and jokes. Get
this: there's a little kid (he's like 9) that challenged me in a "Yo
Mama" joke contest. And even though it's been like 10 years since I've
heard those, I defended my Mama well and I won. But I'll give it to him, he was
GOOD. He said that my Mama was so dumb that she tried to climb Mountain Dew and
that she had an appointment with Dr. Pepper. But I know, that my Mama is WAY
smarter than that ;) Haha
One of the
family members who I met actually lives here too. He speaks good English too
AND HE PLAY FOOTBALL HERE! I love talking about football with him and talking
NFL and NCAA! He wants me to come to a practice of his sometimes but I don't
think I can. But anyways, he's super legit.
Almost
everyday, we pass by this bar that's by our chapel. There's ALWAYS drunks
outside and they all (for some freakin reason) all try to hug me or speak in
English. One guy (and I die laughing every time) always says to me in English:
"God bless you every time" and it's hilarious. Well this week, I saw
him but I beat him and greeted him with a good ol' "God bless you
every time" and you bet your bottom dollar that he said it back - yeah
baby! haha
There's also
a guy from Limon (where there are a bunch of African Americans who speak a
language called patuah - English, Spanish, and french together) He likes to ask
me, "Everything is good?" haha and that was pretty funny too.
I've
"decided" to bring back "Animal of the Week". This week,
you guessed it, is mice! We have a good sized family of about 10 in our
house eating my corn drink - I was pretty ticked when I found one chillin
in the flippin bag. So we bought a glue trap that smells like Peanut Butter and
left it overnight. The next morning there were two mice trapped. My companion
(being the tough guy he is) folded the paper in two and STEPPED on the mice. It
was pretty gruesome. We bought another glue trap and the next morning when my
comp got up early, I knew that he was at it
again. He said we should eat them but I shot that down REAL quick haha.
Speaking of weird foods - I'm going to eat sea turtle eggs and snake here
pretty soon, so I'm pretty stoked for that!
So my
companion is going good! He's finally getting used to the mission life and
workload (trust me, it's a lot). He told me that he wants to lose weight
because he's pretty dang chunky. But he bought this big pan of a Tres Leches
cake and ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner haha - I just think to myself
"good luck with that!"
On Costa Rican Independence day, there was this super rare cloud phenomenon that everybody was freaked out about. Some people were saying it was the end of the world, or a sign from God. I got a cool picture of it. It was a cloud with a rainbow coming out of it. It's called cloud iridescence. SO COOL!!
I bought a
big thing of powdered Gatorade (I bet Dillon's jealous) that makes 9 gallons of
lemon lime Gatorade so I'm pretty stoked for that.
A guy that we
taught showed off all his pistols that he has as well as 30/30 ammo which is
illegal here!
Well that's
about all this week! Hope everyone will have a great week this week! Take care
and go out and serve someone!
Pura Vida
- Elder Stott
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