The way the country har! That how the country lookin. So the
election in this country is not a small thing. This place is so busy and jammed
packed all the time now it's hard to go anywhere. The country's election is
tomorrow the 10th of October. They have a ton of different candidates and
they all have campaign rallies at different times and people just lose their
minds. In the states we mainly have two parties that win each year, but here
they have about 30 different parties that go at it. Of course there are some
main ones that are more likely to win, but I don't really know any of them so
to me they all can win. It makes a lot of people really busy though so it's
more difficult to find people at home now.
Anyways! Besides that this week went well. We're busy as
usual. Thursday we had our zone conference and it was really nice. We talked a
lot about working with members and how to work with stake and ward leaders. I
never really realized before how little I was doing to help the church
progress. I'll have to do better when I get back.
On Friday, the Sinkor zone was asked to stay in their
apartments because of a campaign rally that was supposed to be crazy. So we
stayed in the apartment the whole day. It felt really weird because I've made
that a point on my mission to never spend the whole day in the apartment. It
has only happened once when I got really sick one morning and didn't even go to
church. This was the second time. I just feel guilty when I'm in the apartment.
Not bad though I got to rest :)
Saturday was nuts. Saturday was the last day that people
would be allowed to have any kind of election campaign or anything like that so
everyone was out. The traffic was really bad, but we weren't really affected
for most of the day. However, on our way home we hit some trouble. Walking back
to our apartment there is one of the major party's headquarters there and
everyone and their dog was there. It was completely stopped traffic. There are
two lanes on each side but it basically just looked like there were cars on all
four lanes facing each other in a dead stop. We weren't really supposed to be
there but we had to get back. Luckily it was also pouring rain so we got soaked
in addition to our crazy adventure. When we got in front of the headquarters
there were people all over on the street chanting and yelling and police cars
everywhere. We were just walking in between cars and trucks and buses on the road
because no one could move. We walked in between two huge trucks and got so wet!
Luckily my scriptures were okay. Looking back it was kind of cool but at the
moment I was feeling bad that we were in the situation. I didn't really think
that anything would happen to us, but we shouldn't find ourselves in places
like that so it was unfortunate but probably unavoidable. We made it back
safely and I'm alive and well.
Well that was the craziness that happened this week. One
woman said that she was stuck in the traffic until 3 am. She still came to
church because she said she had promised us but she went home early because she
was tired. Can't blame her.
I'm doing great though! Can't complain. Love you all. :)
Elder Bush
