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Pilsen

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 Sorry I haven't sent an email for a while. Every pday has been busy. This email is just going to be stories because the work was really slow and stories are more fun to read anyways.      The first story is that we were on a combi (mini Peru bus thing) and there was a guy that was really drunk and while he was trying to get off, he tripped over a bucket and laid in the funniest position I've seen for a really long time. Then when he finally got up, he walked out of the combi without paying and stumbled into the forest for some reason.       One day we were sitting on a curb and these 2 little girls started punching and making fun of us because they thought we were tourists or something. We left to go find a combi and somehow, they were there too and they kept trying to push us into traffic, so that was fun.      Last night my companion was trying to find a taxi for today and a drunk guy walked up to me and talked to me for ...

Cambios y borrachos

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  This last week we had transfers and I'm in Cusco now!! Everyone says Puno is the worst part of the mission, but I miss it a little haha. The city of Cusco is huge and just on a mountain, so all the streets are super steep and some of the houses are...really fun to get to.       The first day I got to my sector which is called Santiago, we were walking down a street and a drunk guy screamed at us that we were a cult from Utah and so we smiled and waved at him. Not even 2 minutes later a drunk lady tripped over a bucket and laid on the floor laughing while we passed her.        A couple days ago a guy walked up to us at the church and his eyes were super bloodshot and he said "quien es José smith" (who is joseph smith) in a super aggressive sounding voice and so we told him he was a prophet and he told us that we were exactly right and that we are angels sent from God. He then told us that he's an inactive member and he wants to c...