Week 3 and a Mass Exorcism

Okay week happenings. 

So more or less this week has been better than last week. It feels like hardly any time has passed since last Pday, but then again at the same time it has felt like a whole month. Just I guess time is skewed as a missionary.

I don't remember much from Tuesday or Wednesday, just that we probably did the same old normal schedule as we usually do. Though on Thursday was a meeting for all of the new missionaries in the mission. So we went to the other stake center in the other zone in Managua, and I got to see the other members from my District who went to Nicaragua also. So it was really good, and it helped lift my spirits a lot. It was great getting to see the others and speak English! 

Most of the time it has been just normal, we have been visiting people, and teaching the gospel, and today we helped get some stuff ready for a wedding in 2 weeks. 

And alright it's story time!

Okay so on like every other corner are churches. They usually are just 1 big room, and usually have a small stage, with a keyboard, drums, microphone, etc. So there is one across the street from J's house,  I heard a lot of yelling through the speakers, and talking from the crowd. So I looked, and saw most of them standing with their arms up and forward, swaying back and forth chanting/singing, while the preacher was yelling at them individually. So this goes on for a while. And he is yelling at them in a near death metal voice. I ask J what happened/is happening, and he said thery're doing exorcisms for all of the sins of the people in the crowd. And that he's yelling at them like saying"Repent! Repent of your sins! Do it right now and be saved!!!" Individually to everyone, it was really strange.

So I told J (he knows both Spanish and English) I'll give you 5 dollars if you walk right in there and yell "HALLELUJAH!!!" right there during the group exorcism/yelling/chanting/singing. And he busted up laughing. He didn't do it though.  But it would have been too perfect.

Anyways that happened last night. Just another day in the life of a missionary.

Elder Vogt