Hey guys,
I hope y’all had a great week! This week was pretty crazy but mostly because of all the things that happened haha! So, on Friday we were having a huge activity talent show with the Stake. We all decide to have “Intercambios locos” that’s where everyone goes on exchanges with different people in the zone.
Then we could all get together and plan what to perform for the talent show! Well… on Friday morning as we were walking to the Arica Centro Church, a crazy homeless guy was sitting on the side of the road counting coins. Out of nowhere he sees us and starts screaming about how Joseph Smith isn’t a prophet and that he was actually a prophet.
I have been in Chile for quite a while now and I have dealt with my fair share of crazy homeless guys, so the best thing you can do is just keep walking. So I turn to the other 3 missionaries with me and tell them just don’t look back and keep walking, Well…. all the sudden we hear him cussing us out and his voice is getting closer and closer! So at this time I tell the other’s to cross the road and it’s a busy road! But we crossed it super fast. Then the shouting stopped, so we thought we were good, well… haha
The screaming starts again and Elder Lemon turns his head and yells “he’s running” and no joke this was like a scene out of the walking dead! So this dude is literally running at full speed towards us! We tried to lose him but it was no use!
He starts drunk yelling at us and that gave me enough time to get in the Church and lock the front gate with the Hermanas safe in the Church. The other Elders outside some how got away from the crazy dude too. So now he is screaming at the top of his lungs…”Ah ha! This is your Temple, I found it!” Referring to the church. Then he says, that he is the real prophet and that we need to let him in! He is also continuing to cuss us out with every swear word.
So we started calling all of the other missionaries not to come to the church just yet because of the crazy dude… but we we’re too late! He started chasing the Pukarani Elders but they ran around the church and that gave the others enough time to get into the church!
Just as we were closing the gate, we see the Pukarani Elders bookin it down the street to the gate like straight out of a movie with the crazy dude right behind them!
So we get everyone inside and start celebrating and the homeless guys makes it back around but this time with a huge chunk of concrete! He starts hammering on the metal gate with it and tried to hit one of the church windows.
We just decided to go into the church and hope, eventually, he would leave. Like 30 minutes go by and everyone is getting hungry so we elected 2 brave souls to go across the street to a cheap lunch place to buy everyone the food they want. I was one of those brave souls and my comp haha.
So we get to the food place and it’s literally in the straight hood of Arica! There are just a ton of Columbians and Venezuelans outside drinking and smoking weed but they are really super sick and love gringos!! So, we’re outside waiting for the food to get done when the crazy dude finds us and starts screaming again and starts trying to throw hands… then all the Columbians ganged up on him! And the restaurant owners brought us into their home and told us that the missionaries are always welcome!
An older lady who owns the house came over and started talking to as about how her sister was a member and actually served a mission! We got her number in the end and sent the referral to the Arica Centro Elders! Sorry that was a really long story haha but I hope yall had a great week!
Only 6 more weeks till im home! I’ll see yall soon!-Elder Ehrhart
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